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Advances in Librarianship (Hardcover)
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Advances in Librarianship (Hardcover)
Series: Advances in Librarianship
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As in the previous volume, the predominant theme of Volume 26 of
Advances in Librarianship is the advance of technology in
libraries. This volume focuses, in eight of its ten papers, on how
libraries have been changed by electronic communication of
information and knowledge. From the approach of SPARC (the
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) that is
creating new scholarship venues electronically, to an in-depth
treatment of the limitations of the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act for electronic publishing, the volume examines how technology
is affecting libraries. Use of technology has resulted in new
collaboration and cooperation by libraries and museums in the USA
in providing electronic access to the American cultural heritage
and technology has allowed a similar approach in Sweden for
combining services of all libraries to offer electronic access to
their cultural resources. Another technology paper presents a
comprehensive examination of steps required to involve Humanities
faculty and the Library collaboratively in producing, distributing,
and accessing scholarship in machine-readable form. Two more
technology papers by authors from the de fact American national
library, the Library of Congress (LC), examine issues of importance
to libraries in the Digital Age. The first paper from LC looks at
the development of MARC 21 in providing electronic access to
collections, and how it is being increasingly used internationally.
Finally, the second paper describes the newest experiment in
reference taking place at LC, the Collaborative Digital Reference
Service (CDRS) that brings reference and information services to
patrons via the Internet wherever they live.
Thisvolume not only covers digital trends but also looks at issues
of significance to librarians today in the areas of reference and
management in its last three papers. The first reference paper
concerns public service and surveys, in an extensive article, how
reference departments in libraries have responded to reference
queries during the past century and how this process has been
improved and refined. The management paper is a comprehensive
bibliometric study of management literature showing how research in
this area affected library publications and practices. This paper
can be of great use to anyone looking for the core articles on
managing organizations and libraries. The last paper examines in
detail the advantages and disadvantages of proposed 24/7 reference
services, which are possible in part due to the electronic
revolution but also raise philosophical issues about reference
service.
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