This guide focuses on the implementation and management of second-generation automated library systems. It advances knowledge of the field by describing the migration path of library automated systems. Specifically, the book is intended to give practical directions in procuring a replacement library automated system. As such, the text reviews new approaches to library automation which rely on knowledge gained over the past two decades. In charting the procurement process, the book indicates how to migrate the library's database. It discusses state-of-the-art technology such as scanning and imaging devices, and provides descriptions and analyses of telecommunications and networking technology and issues.

This book is intended as an automation planning guide for librarians and library administrators. The book expands the subject to include special, public and academic libraries and takes into account the experience of those libraries which have already automated and are now considering migration to more powerful automated library systems. Special attention is given to integrated library systems and to innovative and still-emerging technologies which complement these systems. No other text exists that is written at a level that acknowledges the increased sophistication of librarians with automation.

Computerized database searching is a common phenomenon in libraries today. Everyone does it, but not everyone does it well, especially when so many options for computerized searching are available. This is not a book about how to search; rather, it is a book about how to integrate computerized database searching into the fabric of library operations. Managers of automated information retrieval services will find practical advice and suggestions for managing an integrated service. Library management will find this book useful for understanding how the various components of automated information retrieval can work together and will find useful suggestions for planning for the future. The first chapter details how to make the options work together, how locally-loaded databases and CD-ROM databases impact on traditional mediated searches, and how end-users affect the librarian-as-search-analyst role. Managing and budgeting for an integrated service are covered in detail in chapters of interest to library managers planning to institute or expand a search service or to managers of existing search services. The special problems of library staff who serve as search analysts, and the special problems of end-users and how they interact with, and how they understand the concept of database searching are discussed in sections dealing with the human side of working with automated information retrieval. The author discusses the hardware and software of searching and the effect of the continuing rapid development of technology on the budget and the future role of libraries. Selected bibliographies direct readers to case studies and articles examining practical experiences of various libraries.

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization is designed to help administrators meet the challenges of running organizations in an ambiguous climate. It leads with a paper that uses innovation theory and a communications model to track how LIS practitioners acquire the theoretical base required to undergird their efforts. This theoretical piece is followed by a very personal view of what knowledge one must acquire to succeed as a leader of libraries, offering a more practical view of how administrators develop. Then comes a set of papers that address very real problems - performance assessment and its impact, the question of whether it is profitable for communities to completely outsource public library operations, and then three separate articles that look at career paths for public and academic librarians and the retention of those people by organizations. On a different tack, another contributor looks at how libraries communicate with their clients while cutting journals to insure consumer confidence in the decision-making process of the library; subsequently developing a model for joint decision-making that should be of interest to our community. The final paper leaves the realm of the library and examines how public and private organizations in the United Kingdom manage information as an asset and how that affects their performance in the marketplace.
As in past volume, this edition of ALAO includes an eclectic collection of strong papers that convey the results of kind of research that managers need. mixing theory with a good dose of pragmaticism. The result should add value to the literature.
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*Addresses theoretical and practical issues administrators face in ambiguous environments
*An eclectic collection of papers that reflect the myriad challenges library administrators face everyday

Based on the highly acclaimed reviews of American Reference Books Annual, RRB features only those resources that have been recommended for purchase by small and medium-sized academic, public, or school libraries. Written by over 200 subject specialists, the reviews will help librarians quickly identify the best, most affordable, and most appropriate new reference materials in any given field. All reviewer comments-both positive and negative-have been retained, since even recommended works may be weak in one respect or another. If your budget precludes ARBA, this tool will provide you with the necessary information needed for your collection development needs.

Features 530 critical reviews of reference books, CD-ROMs, and websites from the years 2006-2009 written by academic, public, and school librarians or professionals in the field. The reviews are selected based on their appropriateness for school libraries, small college libraries, or small public libraries (i.e., lower priced, highest quality, etc.), and feature a coded letter (i.e., C, P, S) indicating which type of library it is recommended for. The reviews are pulled from "ARBA" 2009.

Explores the techniques that assist users in obtaining information by harnessing other users' expert knowledge or search experience.

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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.

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.

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization offers papers of interest to practitioners and researchers in the library community throughout the world.. All of the papers in one way or another address the tension between what researchers can deliver, what they define as reputable knowledge, and what library practitioners need to know "to get the job done." While these papers differ from each other by problem, scale, methodology and theory, one question "What can science tell us about practice?" unites them all. These papers include a discussion of the principles that underlie collection development, two papers that critically examine the relation between distance learning and on site library service and two more papers that use the notion of sense making to look at what the terms leadership and public space mean when we talk about libraries.

The last three papers address a series of pragmatic issues anyone who works within a library can identify with, namely, "what does it mean to "market" a library," "how can we define "value" in relation to what goes on in a library and create "value" for our communities," and, finally, "What constitutes and impedes 'success" for library professionals?," especially if those who are minority women.

These papers, taken together, raise the issues of how well we understand, researchers and practitioners alike, the institutions we study, manage and work within. What we in the profession often regard as common sense and "good practice" may not really be either. In short, these papers point to a number of issues, ones we often do not even acknowledge, that researchers need to help practitioners address if science is to makea difference in how librarians understand and manage the institutions they work within.

This revision of Burgess's critically acclaimed guide to reference works in the fascinating genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror thoroughly maps the territory of reference works, covering all major (and some minor) information sources published in the field starting in the 1950s and well into 2001. Annotations are lengthy, detailed, and evaluative, often comparing works to other similar titles. Approximately 160 of the 700 annotations are new to this edition; 50-100 others have been extensively revised. Fan publications, serials, periodicals with reference value and nongenre materials of interest to science fiction researchers are reviewed in addition to such standard tools as bibliographies, encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and indexes. Major online resources and printed guides to the Internet have been added on a selective basis. The book also features core collection lists for academic, public, and personal research libraries. Aimed at librarians in academic and large public libraries.

Hundreds of new horror titles are described and organized according to reading preferences in this new volume of Fonseca and PulliaM's award-winning readers' advisory guide. Focusing on titles published in the last decade, along with a few older classics, the authors cover more than a dozen popular subgenres of horror fiction, including vampires and werewolves, techno-horror, ghosts and haunted houses, and small town horror. Lively annotations and commentary help you find the right book for your most demanding horror fans. More than 500 annotations are new to this edition.

Hundreds of new horror titles are described and organized according to reading preferences in this new volume of Fonseca and PulliaM's award-winning readers' advisory guide. Focusing on titles published since 2002 and broadly accessible to library users, along with a few older classics, the authors cover more than a dozen popular subgenres of horror fiction, including vampires and werewolves, techno-horror, ghosts and haunted houses, and small town horror. Lively annotations and commentary help you find the right book for your most demanding horror fans. More than 500 annotations are new to this edition.

Background information on current trends, the history, and appeals of the genre are also offered, along with lists of pertinent resources.

The motivational assessment tools may be used in several ways:

As a teaching tool to help your students learn valuable information literacy skills

As a decision support tool for deciding which web sites are appropriate for teaching your objectives

As a research tool for conducting practical research comparing the motivational effectiveness of various sites

As a design tool for creating a web site that will attract visitors and motivate them to remain in the web site

Small and Arnone provide ideas, lesson plans, and examples for offering in-service workshops to practitioners, as well as lesson plans and related materials for student instruction. Overhead transparency masters and handouts are included. What web resources will you use in your instruction? Be sure to examine their motivational potential first "

The case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were handwritten, thus contributing to the comparative history of libraries. They focus on examples ranging from the seventh to the seventeenth century emanating from the Muslim World, East Asia, Byzantium and Western Europe. Accumulation and preservation are the key motivations for the development of libraries. Rulers, scholars and men of religion were clearly dedicated to collecting books and sought to protect these fragile objects against the various hazards that threatened their survival. Many of these treasured books are long gone, but there remain hosts of evidence enabling one to reconstruct the collections to which they belonged, found in ancient buildings, literary accounts, archival documentation and, most crucially, catalogues. With such material at hand or, in some cases, the manuscripts of a certain library which have come down to us, it is possible to reflect on the nature of these libraries of the past, the interests of their owners, and their role in the intellectual history of the manuscript age.

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.

How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians' sources. For reasons that will be explained later, the history of science in Asia has been taken as a framework. However, the issue addressed is general in scope. It emerged from reflections on a problem that may seem common to historians: why, among the huge mass of written documents available to historians, some have been well studied while others have been dismissed or ignored? The question of historical sources and their (unequal) use in historiography is not new. Which documents have been used and favored as historical sources by historians has been a key historiographical issue that has occupied a large space in the historical production of the last four decades, in France at least.

Volume 35 presents the final stage in the development of an international set of principles that will guide the development of cataloguing codes worldwide. It is the report of the fifth and final meeting of the IME ICC. The series of meetings began in 2003. This volume contains information in English, French, and Portuguese where possible. The draft Statement of International Cataloguing Principles included here reflects the votes of agreement from all participants of the IME ICC1-5 for cataloguing codes worldwide. Le rapport de la cinquieme et derniere reunion IME ICC constitue le volume 35 de la collection "IFLA Series on bibliographic Control". La serie de rencontres, commencee en 2003, s'est achevee par l'elaboration d'un ensemble de principes internationaux qui vont guider le developpement des regles de catalogage a travers le monde. Ce volume contient des textes en anglais, en francais et en portugais qui rendent compte des travaux de la communaute des experts en catalogage de l'Afrique sub-saharienne. La version de travail de la Declaration des principes internationaux de catalogage ci-incluse est celle approuvee par les participants des rencontres IME ICC 1-5 [2003-2007].

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Models of Science Dynamics aims to capture the structure and evolution of science, the emerging arena in which scholars, science and the communication of science become themselves the basic objects of research. In order to capture the essence of phenomena as diverse as the structure of co-authorship networks or the evolution of citation diffusion patterns, such models can be represented by conceptual models based on historical and ethnographic observations, mathematical descriptions of measurable phenomena, or computational algorithms. Despite its evident importance, the mathematical modeling of science still lacks a unifying framework and a comprehensive study of the topic. This volume fills this gap, reviewing and describing major threads in the mathematical modeling of science dynamics for a wider academic and professional audience. The model classes presented cover stochastic and statistical models, system-dynamics approaches, agent-based simulations, population-dynamics models, and complex-network models. The book comprises an introduction and a foundational chapter that defines and operationalizes terminology used in the study of science, as well as a review chapter that discusses the history of mathematical approaches to modeling science from an algorithmic-historiography perspective. It concludes with a survey of remaining challenges for future science models and their relevance for science and science policy."

Through carefully selected books, journals and multi-media resources, Lynne and Herman Sutter provide teachers and librarians with a broad collection of subjects to guide a student's research and broaden a child's interest base. Each subject, or Pathfinder, is followed by lists of bibliographies of reference, non-fiction and fiction books, and multi-media resources, including Internet sites, CD-ROMs, and video recordings. Using these lists as a starting point, a variety of resources can be brought together for in-depth studies of favorite subjects. The Sutters also describe different research approaches, including The Big6 Skills Approach, an information problem-solving process. Four appendices include books on research methods and teaching library skills, Web sites, creative citations and children's magazines and their web sites.

A must for the elementary teacher and librarian "

This book contains 20 themes that relate directly to literature, social studies, science, math, art, and music curriculum. Each theme recommends activities and books for further study. 14 focus picture books include summaries of books and ideas and suggestions for cross-curriculum activities. 25 author studies give biographic information on well-known picture book authors and illustrators, as well as overviews of their work and summaries of their books.

Would you like to optimize the impact of library services in your school? Be proactive and make educational partnerships happen In this essential guide, Farmer presents techniques, guidelines, and examples for growing and nurturing educational relationships. By exploring the issue of partnerships, as well as current educational challenges and their impact on the roles of school community members, Farmer shows how to deal with contemporary educational goals and gaps. She then discusses the benefits and costs of educational partnerships. Included are detailed models of partnership plans that work. The entire school community needs to work collaboratively in order to meet the educational challenges of the 21st century. You can be the leader with this book

Convey the magic found in fantasy literature. Enhance your skills in working with and presenting the often overlooked genre of fantasy. This valuable resource offers specific guidelines and examples to help teachers and librarians promote fantasy literature to students and to use fantasy in their lesson plans and programs. It also provides an in-depth view of the background, purposes, sources, and uses of children's and young adult fantasy literature.

Practical ideas for lesson plans and program suggestions

Ready-to-use booktalks and display ideas

Up-to-date Internet resources included

Extensive annotated bibliography for collection development

A wonderful resource of new literature ideas for teachers and librarians "

This volume presents contributions to a workshop held by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) on the subject of creating and using digital library, museum and archive collections for learning and teaching purposes.