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Automated Information Retrieval in Libraries - A Management Handbook (Hardcover)
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Automated Information Retrieval in Libraries - A Management Handbook (Hardcover)
Series: Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection
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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.
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