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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences
Digitisation has been a hot topic in newspaper librarianship for
some years now; it came as a godsend for many bulky and
space-consuming collections. The major part of this volume
comprises the papers given at the international conference on
newspaper digitisation held at the University of Utah, Salt Lake
City (May 2006) and presents the state of the art, including
experiences from current British and North American projects. This
material is complemented by presentations from the World Library
and Information Congress in Seoul (August 2006), focusing on the
East Asian Newspaper situation.
Following the pattern of the first volume, the second volume of
Libraries in the early 21st century: An international perspective
extends the range of countries covered. Each chapter covers a
different country and describes the modern history, development of
libraries and library technology. The careful selection of
countries achieves good representation of professional library work
on all continents. This two-volume work represents an excellent
contribution to international librarianship and allows comparative
studies both at graduate and professional level.
The library profession has changed rapidly in the wake of advanced
technologies. Once regarded as the gatekeepers of information found
in books, today s library professionals are shifting from a
traditional center of attention to a new focus on all areas of
information studies. Technology and Professional Identify of
Librarians: The Making of the Cybrarian brings into focus both the
positive and negative aspects that technology places on the
professional identity of librarians. Highlighting the new methods
involved in data management, communication, and Library Information
education and research; this book is a necessary means for
librarians, students, and researchers to obtain an up to date
understanding of what it means to maintain relevancy in the
information age."
This is the new edition of the first consolidated ISBD that was
published in 2007. The first years of usage have led to interesting
and useful corrections and additions. Many cataloguers and
practitioners worldwide will welcome this updated first class tool,
which is useful and applicable for descriptions of bibliographic
resources in any type of catalogue.
An international collaboration between IFLA, the UNESCO Institute
of Statistics and the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) has developed standards for new library
indicators for the twenty-first century. The existing international
library statistics were developed nearly 40 years ago. This book
presents the first results using the new statistics, and look
forward to the next steps. It also contains other initiatives and
developments in the fields of library statistics, benchmarking and
indicators.
The changes brought about by the World Wide Web and the explosion
of electronic media have called into question many of the
assumptions on which national bibliographies have been founded. The
need was growing of a route map to navigate through unchartes
territories. After a preparation period of several years, IFLAAs
Bibliography Section endorsed this large set of guidelines. They
seek to help national bibliographic agencies improve their
bibliographic services. Many examples and references are included.
This new edition of Impact of Information on Society takes account
of a number of new developments affecting information's impact on
our lives. It also incorporates lessons to be learnt from prominent
events. For example, a 'UK Freedom of Information Act', forecast in
the 1st edition, is now law and so updating is necessary. The
growing significance of knowledge management today requires a
closer look at this field and clarification of its relation to
information management. The first edition has been reviewed
critically and sections have been amplified and rearranged, with
new material being added where necessary. To mention just a few
points: since the 1st edition, there have been amendments to
copyright, data protection legislation and human rights
legislation. The consequences of the enormous and growing level of
use of the Internet, eMail and mobile phones (including text
messaging) also requires reassessment.
Libraries all over the world have to deal with fast growing numbers
of digital materials that need to be safeguarded. Publications in
digital form, online or on CD, digitised images, and born-digital
objects need to be preserved and kept accessible. Safeguarding
digital heritage is a major issue, especially for national
libraries, because of their legal task of preserving the national
heritage of a country. This volume describes the state of the art
of digital repositories, preservation strategies and current
projects in the national libraries of Australia, Austria, Canada,
China, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.
The UNIMARC Authorities Format was designed in the early 1990s to
allow the creation of authority and reference records for the
management of controlled access points in a bibliographic database.
Incorporated in this work is relevant information from other IFLA
working groups and from UNIMARC users. It is published under the
auspices of the IFLA Cataloguing Section. This is the 3rd,
completely updated and enlarged edition.
The main purpose of this book is to sum up the vital and highly
topical research issue of knowledge representation on the Web and
to discuss novel solutions by combining benefits of folksonomies
and Web 2.0 approaches with ontologies and semantic technologies.
The book contains an overview of knowledge representation
approaches in past, present and future, introduction to ontologies,
Web indexing and in first case the novel approaches of developing
ontologies. combines aspects of knowledge representation for both
the Semantic Web (ontologies) and the Web 2.0 (folksonomies).
Currently there is no monographic book which provides a combined
overview over these topics. focus on the topic of using knowledge
representation methods for document indexing purposes. For this
purpose, considerations from classical librarian interests in
knowledge representation (thesauri, classification schemes etc.)
are included, which are not part of most other books which have a
stronger background in computer science.
This professional book presents the history, controversy, and
negotiations that have resulted in worldwide agreement on a set of
principles that will underlie the cataloguing practices for the
digital age. The Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
(ICP) provides the fundamental principles, objectives, and basic
rules for cataloguing throughout the world among the world's rule
makers and national cataloguing experts. These principles will be
useful for all types of institutions and organizations that deal
with bibliographic resources.
This collection is a multi-faceted examination of all things
library: it features a staggering range of books by some of the
field's leading experts. It is a truly comprehensive, in-depth look
at all aspects of library life, from specialist collections to
budgets; IT systems to collection management; information brokers
to end-users; and much more besides.
Explores the techniques that assist users in obtaining information
by harnessing other users' expert knowledge or search experience.
This book represents an important part of the extension and
expansion of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.
It contains an analysis of attributes of various entities that are
the centre of focus for authority data (persons, families,
corporate bodies, works, expressions, manifestations, items,
concepts, objects, events, and places), the name by which these
entities are known, and the controlled access points created by
cataloguers for them. The conceptual model describes the attributes
of these entities and the relationships between them.
The papers brought together in this highly actual book are grouped
around three themes. Not only the physical and digital preservation
of newspapers are treated, but also the service and access models
that are currently under development; examples are provided, with a
focus on Southeast Asia. Moreover the dynamism of online newspapers
is discussed. This volume contains cutting-edge information which
is indispensable for the modern newspaper librarian. Also
researchers, educators and journalists may benefit from the
introduction to current aspects of the important medium.
In Web 2.0 users not only make heavy use of Col-laborative
Information Services in order to create, publish and share digital
information resources - what is more, they index and represent
these re-sources via own keywords, so-called tags. The sum of this
user-generated metadata of a Collaborative Information Service is
also called Folksonomy. In contrast to professionally created and
highly struc-tured metadata, e.g. subject headings, thesauri,
clas-sification systems or ontologies, which are applied in
libraries, corporate information architectures or commercial
databases and which were developed according to defined standards,
tags can be freely chosen by users and attached to any information
resource. As one type of metadata Folksonomies provide access to
information resources and serve users as retrieval tool in order to
retrieve own re-sources as well as to find data of other users. The
book delivers insights into typical applications of Folksonomies,
especially within Collaborative Information Services, and discusses
the strengths and weaknesses of Folksonomies as tools of knowl-edge
representation and information retrieval. More-over, it aims at
providing conceptual considerations for solving problems of
Folksonomies and presents how established methods of knowledge
representa-tion and models of information retrieval can
successfully be transferred to them.
Conservation research in libraries is a rapidly growing field. This
book places analysis within its context in conservation and
provides examples of how this expensive resource can be used.
Through a series of case studies, it describes major analytical
procedures, including visualization, molecular, elemental and
separation techniques as well as chemical tests. It is thus a
suitable reference work for library conservators and curators.
Please note: Despite careful production of our books, sometimes
mistakes happen. Unfortunately, the authorship for some chapters
wasn't correct in the original publication. Chapter 5 was written
by Andrew Beeby and David Howell as co-author, chapter 6 by Kelly
Domoney and David Howell as co-author, and chapter 9 is authored by
Anita Quye. This will be corrected. We apologize for the mistake.
This new edition of The Dictionary of the Book adds more than 700
new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary
and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial
and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new
reality. The definitive glossary of the book covers all the terms
needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the
materials they are made of, and how they are described in the
bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key
term-more than 2,000-that could be used in booksellers' catalogs,
library records, and collectors' descriptions of their holdings is
represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers
all areas of book knowledge, including: The book as physical object
Typeface terminology Paper terminology Printing Book collecting
Cataloging Book design Bibliography as a discipline,
bibliographies, and bibliographical description Physical Condition
and how to describe it Calligraphy Language of manuscripts Writing
implements Librarianship Legal issues Parts of a book Book
condition terminology Pricing of books Buying and selling Auctions
Items one will see an antiquarian book fairs Preservation and
conservation issues, and the notion of restoration Key figures,
presses / publishers, and libraries in the history of books Book
collecting clubs and societies How to read and decipher new and old
dealers' catalogs And much more The Dictionary also contains an
extensive bibliography-more than 1,000 key readings in the book
world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose
meaning has shifted over the centuries. More than 200 images
accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for
understanding the terms described.
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