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The contradictory yet complementary relationship between libraries
and information brokers is examined in this volume, first published
in 1988. Since its escalation in the 1960s, information brokering
has challenged the role of the library in society. Librarians
discuss their concerns about information brokers - the impact of
brokers on reference services, the competence of brokers, abuse of
library services by brokers, and whether libraries should provide
competing fee-based services. Brokers share their own view as
'entrepreneurs', providing background, offering advice, and
explaining the risks involved in their business. This lively, often
controversial discussion offers suggestions for improving relations
between libraries and information brokers, while continuing to
serve the public well.
The library budget, a topic of primary importance to the reference
librarian, is thoroughly examined in this book, first published in
1988. Experts offer insightful suggestions for reference librarians
to understand and take responsibility for budget issues, directly
and indirectly. They address the ability to explain the budget -
which actually entails explaining the collection, the services, and
the process in place for managing the fiscal resources - a
necessary skill for any reference librarian faced with looming
budget cuts. Providing quality services on a limited budget is also
explored. The contributors provide helpful essays on convincing the
parent agency to provide adequate support, setting goals and
priorities, generating revenue, and more.
In this book, first published in 1989, practicing librarians share
their hands-on experience with implementing various types of
acquisitions systems and address planning considerations, the
blurring of roles between acquisitions and cataloguing, staffing
implications, electronic record transmission, and specialized
functions of automated acquisitions systems. These librarians
reveal what they wish they knew when they began to implement their
systems, as well as what went right - and wrong - along the way.
Acquisitions librarians, systems librarians, and any professionals
planning for an automated acquisitions system in their libraries
will not want the miss the underlying excitement expressed by
contributors as they re-evaluate acquisitions work and redefine the
role of the acquisitions librarian as a result of automated
acquisitions systems.
This book, first published in 1987, provides important information
on reference publishing, including valuable guidelines on
evaluating publications and sources. The articles contained here
are all written by leading experts in the field.
This book, first published in 1988, looks at the relationship
between public policy and information and reports ways in which
libraries respond to the need for public policy information.
Chapters provide perspectives from a variety of library settings
with different user groups who, in turn, have different information
needs. This volume will stimulate you to examine the adequacy of
your own reference services and to a greater appreciation of the
dynamic relationship between public policy and information
services.
This book, first published in 1986, discusses reference personnel
concerns and problems and offers suggestions to administration and
management for improving reference personnel performance and staff
development.
This book, first published in 1985, examines issues such as the
discussion of goals and rationales for charging for online
searches, conflicts between reference and other library
departments, how to provide quality service and who is best suited
to provide it.
This book, first published in 1991, explores the changing roles of
reference services and offers advice and practical ideas to guide
librarians through the increasingly tangled maze of duties being
thrust upon the reference staff. Although the everyday work of the
reference librarian is often taken for granted, these insightful
chapters illuminate the essential service performed by the
reference librarians as they facilitate access to information for a
wide variety of users. Furthermore, this book helps reference
librarians face the future by examining the technological and
service developments that will challenge their profession. It
addresses unique reference problems such as making use of the
telephone as an information gathering tool, selecting reference
material for the interdisciplinary field of Health, Physical
Education, and Recreation (HPER), and helping non-law students with
legal research. Topics related to information systems are examined
such as the limitations of end-user online services, and an
evaluation of the Library of Congress Information system.
Authoritative contributors make recommendations on how to design
services to coordinate with the new technology and how to change
librarians' roles so they can assist people in using these systems.
This book, first published in 1990, addresses the concerns of
librarians that they must be informed and educated in order to
excel in their work. It focuses on specific types of training for
librarians. Authorities explain pioneering programs in California
and Maryland which deal with teaching basic reference tools to
beginning librarians and paraprofessionals. They also discuss the
role of multitype networks in continuing education as the most cost
and time efficient means available today, and the use of
self-directed contract learning as a method that requires long-term
planning and rewards in contrast to the immediate results of a
short-term plan of education. The management perspective of
continuing education is also included. Working library directors
offer their observations on sound, inspirational approaches to
continuing education. They also examine the critical role
department heads play as mentor to beginning reference librarians.
This book, first published in 1989, discusses the maintenance of a
quality collection within a budget while still making necessary
cuts and savings. As the purchasing power of the materials budget
declines, effectively managing the allocation of the materials
budget and the development of the collections becomes more and more
of a challenge. In The Acquisitions Budget, practicing acquisitions
librarians - representing almost all types and sizes of libraries -
address their daily problems and share innovative and effective
methods for dealing with a shrinking budget. These authoritative
contributors, who have many years of practical problems solving
experience, also offer useful tips on how to influence
administrators, faculty, students - anyone who has even partial
control over allocating the budget.
This book, first published in 1991, addresses the sometimes
troublesome relationships between acquisitions librarians and the
jobbers with whom they work. Various issues are explored to
establish the most efficient and satisfactory methods of selecting
a vendor, the way to gain expertise in evaluating the system, and
the best ways to reach a successful relationship with the vendor
and the public served by the library.
From cave paintings to computers, this overview of the history of
books and communication is written for the layperson and student.
It provides clear information on how books shaped and reflected
major social, political, and literary developments. As a general
guide, it moves from the earliest writing in the Middle East and
Egypt to Greece, Rome, and early Christian contributions to book
production and literacy. Major sections discuss publishing during
the Middle Ages and how the invention of printing drastically
changed and improved the distribution of knowledge. Later chapters
take the reader from the age of encyclopedias in the seventeenth
century to the great technological advances of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. For those who wish to pursue specific areas in
the history of the book in greater detail, there are three parts
devoted to additional reading with descriptive, critical
annotations: general histories and bibliographies, scribes and
printers, and printing to the modern period. Extensive notes and
documentation will lead to additional sources.
This collection of scholarly articles traces the history of book
illustration from its first notion in cave art to the early 20th
century. It is arranged chronologically with the first section
covering the beginning of illustration; the second moves from the
illuminated manuscript to the advent of printing; the third and
fourth takes the reader from the earliest woodcut illustrations to
the beginning of the 20th century; and the final part is concerned
with children's books. An annotated bibliography follows which will
lead the reader to additional delights and discoveries. The
contributors are distinguished art historians as well as well known
anthropologists, members of Classics and English departments,
librarians, historians, and educators. The contributions have been
chosen to cover areas, points, or ideas not generally covered in
the basic histories of illustration. Other criteria for inclusion
have been the readable style of the author, offering of new
insights into the subject, and current reporting on the field. All
the articles chosen are in English. Black and white illustrations
are provided to support the authors' presentations.
This book, first published in 1991, explores the changing roles of
reference services and offers advice and practical ideas to guide
librarians through the increasingly tangled maze of duties being
thrust upon the reference staff. Although the everyday work of the
reference librarian is often taken for granted, these insightful
chapters illuminate the essential service performed by the
reference librarians as they facilitate access to information for a
wide variety of users. Furthermore, this book helps reference
librarians face the future by examining the technological and
service developments that will challenge their profession. It
addresses unique reference problems such as making use of the
telephone as an information gathering tool, selecting reference
material for the interdisciplinary field of Health, Physical
Education, and Recreation (HPER), and helping non-law students with
legal research. Topics related to information systems are examined
such as the limitations of end-user online services, and an
evaluation of the Library of Congress Information system.
Authoritative contributors make recommendations on how to design
services to coordinate with the new technology and how to change
librarians' roles so they can assist people in using these systems.
This book, first published in 1990, addresses the concerns of
librarians that they must be informed and educated in order to
excel in their work. It focuses on specific types of training for
librarians. Authorities explain pioneering programs in California
and Maryland which deal with teaching basic reference tools to
beginning librarians and paraprofessionals. They also discuss the
role of multitype networks in continuing education as the most cost
and time efficient means available today, and the use of
self-directed contract learning as a method that requires long-term
planning and rewards in contrast to the immediate results of a
short-term plan of education. The management perspective of
continuing education is also included. Working library directors
offer their observations on sound, inspirational approaches to
continuing education. They also examine the critical role
department heads play as mentor to beginning reference librarians.
This book, first published in 1987, provides important information
on reference publishing, including valuable guidelines on
evaluating publications and sources. The articles contained here
are all written by leading experts in the field.
This book, first published in 1986, discusses reference personnel
concerns and problems and offers suggestions to administration and
management for improving reference personnel performance and staff
development.
In this book, first published in 1989, practicing librarians share
their hands-on experience with implementing various types of
acquisitions systems and address planning considerations, the
blurring of roles between acquisitions and cataloguing, staffing
implications, electronic record transmission, and specialized
functions of automated acquisitions systems. These librarians
reveal what they wish they knew when they began to implement their
systems, as well as what went right - and wrong - along the way.
Acquisitions librarians, systems librarians, and any professionals
planning for an automated acquisitions system in their libraries
will not want the miss the underlying excitement expressed by
contributors as they re-evaluate acquisitions work and redefine the
role of the acquisitions librarian as a result of automated
acquisitions systems.
This book, first published in 1988, looks at the relationship
between public policy and information and reports ways in which
libraries respond to the need for public policy information.
Chapters provide perspectives from a variety of library settings
with different user groups who, in turn, have different information
needs. This volume will stimulate you to examine the adequacy of
your own reference services and to a greater appreciation of the
dynamic relationship between public policy and information
services.
This book, first published in 1985, examines issues such as the
discussion of goals and rationales for charging for online
searches, conflicts between reference and other library
departments, how to provide quality service and who is best suited
to provide it.
The contradictory yet complementary relationship between libraries
and information brokers is examined in this volume, first published
in 1988. Since its escalation in the 1960s, information brokering
has challenged the role of the library in society. Librarians
discuss their concerns about information brokers - the impact of
brokers on reference services, the competence of brokers, abuse of
library services by brokers, and whether libraries should provide
competing fee-based services. Brokers share their own view as
'entrepreneurs', providing background, offering advice, and
explaining the risks involved in their business. This lively, often
controversial discussion offers suggestions for improving relations
between libraries and information brokers, while continuing to
serve the public well.
This book, first published in 1989, discusses the maintenance of a
quality collection within a budget while still making necessary
cuts and savings. As the purchasing power of the materials budget
declines, effectively managing the allocation of the materials
budget and the development of the collections becomes more and more
of a challenge. In The Acquisitions Budget, practicing acquisitions
librarians - representing almost all types and sizes of libraries -
address their daily problems and share innovative and effective
methods for dealing with a shrinking budget. These authoritative
contributors, who have many years of practical problems solving
experience, also offer useful tips on how to influence
administrators, faculty, students - anyone who has even partial
control over allocating the budget.
This book, first published in 1987, is a stimulating and
informative appraisal of the international librarianship scene and
the reference service function. Experts discuss how international
reference services can be improved to facilitate true exchange of
information around the world. They look squarely at problems and
provide answers to a host of pertinent questions, such as
information counselling and policies, reference services and global
awareness, integrating a central reference international studies
program, and more.
This provocative new book will help you design and implement the
most effective library user education possible--one that builds on
basic library use skills through a progressively sophisticated
program that is fully integrated into course curriculum at all
levels, from the freshman year to graduation and beyond. By
exploring major issues underlying the integration of library use
skills and research methodologies into the general education
curriculum, contributors raise important questions, offer creative
ideas, and provide insight into the many improvements made in
library instruction in the past few years. Following an
introduction by Patricia Breivik, a recognized national authority
on libraries and general education, contributors representing two-
and four-year institutions and research universities discuss such
issues as the relationship between high school and college
programs, research skills instruction in a remote access
environment, the use of microcomputers and end user searching
programs to promote critical thinking, and the improved
relationship between librarians and faculty. In addition to
articles on library instruction geared towards question analysis,
information generation by field, structure of published knowledge
and dissemination of a discipline's literature, chapters identify
cooperative efforts needed among school, public, special, academic
libraries and other information agencies, computer center
personnel, and online database vendors. Bibliographic instruction
librarians who are active participants in planning and
administering library user education programs will find this volume
to be essential for building and developing stronger, more
integrated programs.
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