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Direct linkAshraf, Tariq, Ed.; Sharma, Jaideep, Ed.; Gulati, Puja Anand, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2010
The increasing prevalence of digital information systems and technologies compels libraries across the globe to update systems and provide users with a digital experience outside the confines of the structural library, providing useful benefits to the user while creating new areas of concern such as digital information preservation.…
Descriptors: Preservation, Copyrights, Information Systems, Electronic Libraries
Download full textPitkin, Gary M. – 1975
After updating and revising the manual serials record in June 1973, the serials department of the Kearney State College Library was automated. The functions automated were: (1) citation of index and abstract services, (2) binding notification, (3) indication of publication frequency, (4) compilation of subject lists, and (5) holding statements…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Oriented Programs, Information Systems, Libraries
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. – 2000
The Library of Congress asked the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies to conduct a study to provide strategic advice concerning the information technology path that the Library of Congress should traverse over the coming decade. The Committee on an Information Technology Strategy for the Library of…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Information Systems, Information Technology, Library Administration
Josey, E. J., Ed. – 1975
The 25 essays written for this compilation focus on a variety of initiatives undertaken by librarians, information scientists, and educators to give increased service with diminished funding. They show librarians responding to a changed environment through creating new organizational patterns, making use of new technologies, and participating…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Educational Development, Higher Education
Bilal, Dania – 2002
This updated and expanded second edition offers the latest findings and practices for library automation in the 21st century. With a practical, systematic approach, the book covers the entire spectrum of steps and activities involved in the automation process. Although this text does not prescribe a specific system or approach, it offers detailed…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Information Systems, Information Technology, Library Administration
Harum, Susan, Ed.; Twidale, Michael, Ed. – 2000
This clinic's goal was to address questions arising during the process of transition from theory and research development to deployed useful and usable (and used) digital library systems. The idea was to use the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and entering its final year, as a detailed…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Systems
Salton, Gerard – 1975
This book provides an introduction to automated information services: collection, analysis, classification, storage, retrieval, transmission, and dissemination. An introductory chapter is followed by an overview of mechanized processes for acquisitions, cataloging, and circulation. Automatic indexing and abstracting methods are covered, followed…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cataloging, Cost Effectiveness, Indexing
Schwartz, Charles A., Ed. – 1997
This book is a collection of 19 essays and case studies about the challenges libraries face today. It assesses a broad range of opportunities and achievements, and emphasizes both theory and practice. The essays are divided into six sections: (1) Introduction--"Restructuring Academic Libraries: Adjusting to Technological Change" (Charles…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Change, Electronic Libraries
Tennant, Roy, Ed. – 2002
This book presents examples of how libraries are using XML (eXtensible Markup Language) to solve problems, expand services, and improve systems. Part I contains papers on using XML in library catalog records: "Updating MARC Records with XMLMARC" (Kevin S. Clarke, Stanford University) and "Searching and Retrieving XML Records via the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Databases, Electronic Libraries
Bruce, Elizabeth W. – North Dakota Library Notes, 1974
The current trend in biomedical information systems is to decentralization. Starting with the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965, various plans of organization have been tried for improving the national diffusion of medical information. In 1968 the John Crerar Library became the Midwest Regional Medical Library, serving as an intermediary…
Descriptors: Consortia, Decentralization, Diffusion, Information Networks
Taylor, Gerry M., Ed. – 1974
A description of computer procedures applied to an emerging university's book purchasing program is presented. The analysis includes a description of the system applied, the software employed, the precataloging routines involved, and both a preliminary cost analysis and current costs. Internal flow charting is included for both the in-library…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Computer Programs, Computers
Voigt, Melvin J. – 1975
Major themes in library science for 1975 are discussed in depth in a collection of nine writings by ten prominent library figures from the United States, Spain, and France. The articles are titled: (1) international information systems; (2) national planning for library and information services; (3) statistics that describe libraries and library…
Descriptors: Audiodisc Recordings, Audiotape Recordings, Audiovisual Aids, College Libraries
Oettinger, Anthony G. – 1976
A study on information technology and public policy examined relationships among information providers and their clients in order to determine the economic, institutional, and technological factors that are key in deciding how people get the information they need. The research project was conducted to help the National Commission on Libraries and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Decentralization, Information Centers
Bopp, Richard E., Ed.; Smith, Linda C., Ed. – 2001
Like the first two editions, this third edition is designed primarily to provide the beginning student of library and information science with an overview both of the concepts and processes behind today's reference services and of the most important sources consulted in answering common types of reference questions. The first 12 chapters deal with…
Descriptors: Information Services, Information Sources, Information Systems, Libraries
Slater, Frank, Ed. – 1973
Twenty papers were selected from the Technical Program of the First Mid-Year Regional Conference of the American Society for Information Science, held at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio in May 1972. The papers cover a range of subjects related to the general theme of cost reduction in libraries and information centers. Following an…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cataloging, Computers, Costs
