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Schuyler, Michael – Computers in Libraries, 1997
Discusses libraries' uses of filters to prevent access to objectionable sites on the Internet. Highlights include the American Library Association's resolution against filters as a violation of First Amendment rights; patron's use of terminals for e-mail or games; using filters for collection management; and listservs and online resources…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Games, Electronic Mail, Information Management
Lancaster, F. W.; Sandore, Beth – 1997
This books deals with the logical intersection of technology and management in the context of libraries and other information centers. It is divided into the following sections: Effects of Technology on the Institution and its Management; Effects of Technology on Services and Users; and Special Issues in the Management of Technology. Chapters are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Document Delivery, Higher Education, Information Management
Francisco-Revilla, Luis; Shipman, Frank; Furuta, Richard; Karadkar, Unmil; Arora, Avital – 2001
Increasingly, digital libraries are being defined as collection pointers to World Wide Web-based resources rather than collections that hold the resources themselves. Maintaining these collections is challenging due to distributed document ownership and high fluidity. Typically a collection's maintainer has to assess the relevance of changes with…
Descriptors: Change, Computer System Design, Electronic Libraries, Information Management
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MacEwan, Bonnie; Geffner, Mira – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1996
Describes the development of an electronic journal collection placed on the Internet by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Topics include publisher approval, archiving and preservation, World Wide Web home page design, cataloging standardization, and staffing. Concludes with a discussion on the future of the resource and the…
Descriptors: Archives, Cataloging, Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing
Hall, Hazel; Russell, Aileen – 1996
Traditional information services provision relies on the planned and logical building of a collection to meet current and future user information needs. This is achieved through the acquisition and discarding of material, which might ideally be based on a regularly reviewed collection development policy statement. The evolution of collection…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Corporate Libraries, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Breaks, Michael – 1999
This paper discusses the management of library collections of electronic information resources within the classical theoretical framework of collection development and management. The first section provides an overview of electronic information resources, including bibliographic databases, electronic journals, journal aggregation services, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Electronic Journals