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This inspiring book addresses a topic that is far too often ignored
or disregarded by sci-tech librarians: Exactly how do scientists
and engineers really discover, select, and use the countless
information and communications resources available to them when
conducting research? The answer to this question should be a major
influence on the way information specialists develop information
systems in their libraries. Unfortunately, many librarians are not
as familiar with the work, information needs, and communicating
behavior of the research worker. Information Seeking and
Communications Behavior of Scientists and Engineers looks at this
question from several perspectives to give an overall view of how
to best serve the needs of the scientific community.This book is an
encouragement and a challenge to sci-tech librarians to make an
ever greater effort to understand the work of their users, the
differing information channels and sources they employ, and thus
tailor the library's systems and services to best support their
information-seeking behavior.
What will future sci-tech libraries be like? Who will be the key
players? In this insightful volume, first published in 1992,
leaders in sci-tech librarianship reflect on their years in the
profession and predict how the sci-tech library will look in ten
years. It takes a close look at the revolution in the communication
of scientific information and how technology has transformed the
process of knowledge delivery and acquisitions. It prepares
libraries to react to new channels of scholarly communication that
in the future may challenge the viability of the research library.
Most importantly, it emphasizes how the rapid pace of change in
science, communication, and computers has pushed libraries to
aggressively seek to become central to the knowledge formation and
transfer process - just to survive. These provocative chapters
reveal how sci-tech librarians need to work with scientists and
engineers to understand their changing information needs and to
participate in the planning and development of new information
systems. This book examines all areas of the scientific process
that will be affected by change: the way research is conducted,
communicated, transferred, stored, and delivered. The changes
discussed in this book encompass researchers, librarians,
information managers, publishers, and users. Some of the important
topics discussed include an in-depth analysis of the information
needs of science and engineering and how to best develop the
electronic means to meet them; leadership challenges in the future
electronic, computer, or virtual library; concern over the quality
of information services for scientists delivered by non-scientist
librarians; a ten-year prediction for sci-tech librarians and
sci-tech publishers; the science library building of the future;
the impact of increasingly interdisciplinary scientific research;
and the effect of federal policy on sci-tech libraries.
As automation and competitiveness between companies and countries
grows, the need for the speedy research and delivery of information
is becoming greater than ever before. Defining technology transfer
as 'the process of getting technical knowledge, ideas, services,
inventions, and products from their origin to wherever they can be
put to practical use', this book, first published in 1991, explores
the role of the information specialist in the technology transfer
process. It brings together discussions from information mediaries
associated with federal information centres, academic research
institutions, and a large metropolitan public library. Agencies and
organizations at the federal, state, and local level that are
involved in and responsible for technology transfer programs are
described in a who's who section of the volume, and the system for
the distribution of information at NASA is covered in detail, this
being considered by some to be the birthplace of the technology
transfer concept. The various regional NASA Industrial Application
Centers are also identified, and the numerous print and online
services available are noted as well. Other topics covered include
the use of technology transfer in agricultural programs to improve
U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace and how the large
public library can promote technology transfer by acting as
important centres for information transfer and research.
What will future sci-tech libraries be like? Who will be the key
players? In this insightful volume, first published in 1992,
leaders in sci-tech librarianship reflect on their years in the
profession and predict how the sci-tech library will look in ten
years. It takes a close look at the revolution in the communication
of scientific information and how technology has transformed the
process of knowledge delivery and acquisitions. It prepares
libraries to react to new channels of scholarly communication that
in the future may challenge the viability of the research library.
Most importantly, it emphasizes how the rapid pace of change in
science, communication, and computers has pushed libraries to
aggressively seek to become central to the knowledge formation and
transfer process - just to survive. These provocative chapters
reveal how sci-tech librarians need to work with scientists and
engineers to understand their changing information needs and to
participate in the planning and development of new information
systems. This book examines all areas of the scientific process
that will be affected by change: the way research is conducted,
communicated, transferred, stored, and delivered. The changes
discussed in this book encompass researchers, librarians,
information managers, publishers, and users. Some of the important
topics discussed include an in-depth analysis of the information
needs of science and engineering and how to best develop the
electronic means to meet them; leadership challenges in the future
electronic, computer, or virtual library; concern over the quality
of information services for scientists delivered by non-scientist
librarians; a ten-year prediction for sci-tech librarians and
sci-tech publishers; the science library building of the future;
the impact of increasingly interdisciplinary scientific research;
and the effect of federal policy on sci-tech libraries.
As automation and competitiveness between companies and countries
grows, the need for the speedy research and delivery of information
is becoming greater than ever before. Defining technology transfer
as 'the process of getting technical knowledge, ideas, services,
inventions, and products from their origin to wherever they can be
put to practical use', this book, first published in 1991, explores
the role of the information specialist in the technology transfer
process. It brings together discussions from information mediaries
associated with federal information centres, academic research
institutions, and a large metropolitan public library. Agencies and
organizations at the federal, state, and local level that are
involved in and responsible for technology transfer programs are
described in a who's who section of the volume, and the system for
the distribution of information at NASA is covered in detail, this
being considered by some to be the birthplace of the technology
transfer concept. The various regional NASA Industrial Application
Centers are also identified, and the numerous print and online
services available are noted as well. Other topics covered include
the use of technology transfer in agricultural programs to improve
U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace and how the large
public library can promote technology transfer by acting as
important centres for information transfer and research.
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