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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
Barclay, Donald A. – 2000
This book, while necessarily concerning itself with computer technology, approaches technology as a tool for providing public-service and helps librarians and others effectively manage public-access computers. The book is organized to progress from more technological to more managerial topics. The first chapter--which answers the question, "What…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Information Services, Information Systems
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
Download full textTaylor, Robert S. – 1974
Libraries are part of a larger information infrastructure which must be understood before planning professional education for librarianship. Research is needed in three areas: (1) options within overall library objectives, (2) information needs of different user audiences, and (3) technological and economic descriptions of information systems.…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Science, Information Services, Information Systems
Woodsworth, Anne; Williams, James F., II – 1993
The purpose of this book is to identify and describe the most important factors that must be considered in making decisions about the optimal ways to provide access to information: the best ways to use the humans, machines, and intangible resources known as information, especially at the organizational level. It provides a framework for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
