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This helpful guidebook makes it easy for librarians to select the
most appropriate periodical or serial for their proposed articles.
A subject index with cross references ensures quick access to the
alphabetically listed titles. The Guide to Publishing Opportunities
for Librarians provides the following comprehensive information for
each publication listed: bibliographic entry name and address of
editor to whom manuscripts should besubmitted names of indexing and
abstracting services which include the publication editorial
aim/policy scope and content intended audience manuscript style
requirements acceptance rate review procedures for submitted
articles Both novice and experienced authors will be able to
quickly select the most appropriate periodical or serial for
proposed articles from a wide variety of publications. In addition
to the more familiar organs of national library associations,
societies, and library schools, the guide also includes regional
publications, newsletters, bulletins, scholarly journals,
interdisciplinary and general periodicals, subject-specific
publications, and electronic journals. Public, academic, special,
and school librarians, as well as other information specialists
seeking to publish in the library science field, will find the
Guide to Publishing Opportunities for Librarians a valuable tool
for promoting professional development.
Here is the first introductory guide to all aspects of providing
legislative reference services. Unlike special libraries which deal
with one specific discipline, legislative reference bureaus must
deal with a full spectrum of subject areas and meet the unique
needs of elected and appointed officials and their staffs. This
guide helps librarians find the best current resources and services
to answer the varied demands for information typical of legislative
reference libraries. Legislative Reference Services and Sources
facilitates the work of legislative librarians and makes them
confident so that they can supply legislators and their staffs with
the information needed to effectively examine, draft, or enact
legislation of benefit to the public.No other book on the market
provides such a comprehensive overview of legislative reference
services. Author Kathleen Low acquaints librarians with over 100
sources useful in responding to information requests from
legislators. A wide range of valuable topics are covered that will
help legislative reference librarians meet the information demands
of legislators and lawmakers including: an overview of essential
reference services needed by legislators and their staffs specific
protocols and forms of etiquette to observe when promoting services
to elected and appointed officials over 100 frequently consulted
titles in legislative references the usefulness of online resources
how to recognize special services and sensitivity warranted by
patrons and the services and responses to expect in
returnLegislative Reference Services and Sources addresses the
legislative reference services commonly provided, promotion of
services, the librarian/client relationship, client expectations,
the ethics of responding to certain requests, and the core
resources used in legislative reference requests. It is an
invaluable tool for beginning level legislative librarians, public
services librarians, and state and federal agency librarians who
need an introduction to this unique type of information service.
Everything you need to know about Bibliometrics in a convenient,
easy-to-use, mini-encyclopedia of terms and phrases Bibliometrics,
the application of mathematical and statistical techniques to the
study of publishing and professional communication, is a helpful
science to master in many fields. The Dictionary of Bibliometrics
contains 225 non-technical definitions of key terms and phrases
that will aid all who deal with this science. Each entry is briefly
defined in everyday language with simple numerical examples and is
followed by sample references that direct the reader to more
detailed information about the entry. This is the only source with
a substantial collection of bibliometric terms located in one
comprehensive, easy-to-use book.Librarians who use bibliometrics to
evaluate their collections, information scientists who study the
theoretical aspects of bibliometrics, and subject specialists who
use bibliometrics to study communication in their respective fields
will save time by finding hundreds of definitions in this
one-of-a-kind volume. Some of the topics covered in the Dictionary
of Bibliometrics include: descriptions and examples of Bradford's
law, Lotka's law, and Zipf's law various aspects of citation
analysis application of bibliometrics to the study of communication
in the physical and natural sciences reports of journal analyses
accounts of several ways to study the obsolescence or disuse of
articles in a given subject fieldThis tool will serve anyone
working or interested in the fields of publishing and professional
communication. Included in the text are suggested sources of
further information and an index of personal names. The Dictionary
of Bibliometrics is a valuable, handy resource that you'll refer to
again and again
This book, first published in 1990, examines in detail 12 serials
departments, both large and small, that experts have selected as
representative examples of notable serials departments. The
departments have in common a general reputation in the serials
field as being good operations, in the sense of providing optimum
services to their users despite the challenges of current-day
problems in financial planning and collection re-evaluation and
shaping. The examples offered serve mainly to suggest what works
well in the serials operation today. Despite the lack of space
devoted to the good serials department or the often crisis-oriented
approach to serials problems that is occasionally emphasized in the
literature, the 'good serials operation' undeniably exists and
always has. Certain serials departments receive the utmost praise
from librarian colleagues and faculty/student users alike. This
authoritative volume shows that good serials librarianship remains
what it has always been - a means of providing serials and the
information in them to an ever-widening audience of readers and
researchers. Economic changes may alter the pattern of serials
department services, but they do not alter the real and ultimate
goals of the serials department.
This full-length scholarly study, first published in 1981, is
devoted to a specific consideration of the sex magazine in the
library and the inherent problems and issues attending its
controversial presence.
This book, first published in 1982, explores all major aspects of
automated serials control. It examines major working serials
control systems in the United States and Canada, describes their
operations, and evaluates their successes and shortcomings.
This book, first published in 1986, contains the invaluable and
enlightening perspectives of an international roster of experts on
the state-of-the-art of serials librarianship and the indications
for the future of the profession.
This full-length scholarly study, first published in 1981, is
devoted to a specific consideration of the sex magazine in the
library and the inherent problems and issues attending its
controversial presence.
This book, first published in 1990, examines in detail 12 serials
departments, both large and small, that experts have selected as
representative examples of notable serials departments. The
departments have in common a general reputation in the serials
field as being good operations, in the sense of providing optimum
services to their users despite the challenges of current-day
problems in financial planning and collection re-evaluation and
shaping. The examples offered serve mainly to suggest what works
well in the serials operation today. Despite the lack of space
devoted to the good serials department or the often crisis-oriented
approach to serials problems that is occasionally emphasized in the
literature, the 'good serials operation' undeniably exists and
always has. Certain serials departments receive the utmost praise
from librarian colleagues and faculty/student users alike. This
authoritative volume shows that good serials librarianship remains
what it has always been - a means of providing serials and the
information in them to an ever-widening audience of readers and
researchers. Economic changes may alter the pattern of serials
department services, but they do not alter the real and ultimate
goals of the serials department.
This book, first published in 1982, explores all major aspects of
automated serials control. It examines major working serials
control systems in the United States and Canada, describes their
operations, and evaluates their successes and shortcomings.
This book, first published in 1986, contains the invaluable and
enlightening perspectives of an international roster of experts on
the state-of-the-art of serials librarianship and the indications
for the future of the profession.
Learn a practical new approach to some long-standing and
significant problems that librarians are continually called upon to
address, such as: Is the library reaching its target audience? What
do shifts in use patterns reflect? How often can users be expected
to visit the library on the average? Can users be identified by
category by the way they use the library?Author Charles D. Emery
takes a close look at some methods which can be used to answer
these questions accurately. Using the analogy of repeat buying,
which has been shown to follow consistent and regular patterns
across a wide range of consumers, brands, products, time periods,
and other conditions, Mr. Emery applies the same concepts of
research to the investigation and analysis of library use. There
are remarkable similarities between library borrowing and consumer
purchasing patterns. Thus, not only does the consumer purchasing
model provide us with a means of investigating and predicting
library user behavior, but it furnishes an appropriate mechanism
for the more sophisticated analysis of that behavior through the
application of marketing concepts such as product mix and brand
switching.By drawing the comparison between library borrowing and
consumer purchasing, Mr. Emery has identified what library
administrators have hitherto lacked: a readily accessible corpus of
theory and practical example upon which to base a coherent and
cumulative body of research into the behavior of library users. The
results will be useful as input to planning and distribution of
resources in matters of budgets, services hours, personnel, and
programming.
An anthology of library humor by the director of the mythical
Molesworth Institute, Norman Stevens, this book is sure to provide
librarians with many hours of amusement. This collection is full of
Stevens'most memorable papers describing the odd kinds of research
conducted by the Institute, such as a sophisticated study of the
disappearance of umbrellas in libraries, a computer analysis of
library postcards, and a "precostretrieval" scheme to accelerate
the disintegration of book pages while saving the letters in them.
Archives of Library Research from the Molesworth Institute is also
well-stocked with unforgettable one-liners, such as the author's
"plan to solve a major space problem for libraries by microfilming
all Braille books."The imaginary Molesworth Institute has taken on
a life of its own since its story first appeared in the ALA
Bulletin in 1963. Stevens writes mostly for fun and entertainment,
but also to stress the point that librarians should take a less
serious view of their work. After all, as Stevens points out in
this anthology, "The library world, like the real world, [is]
impossible to understand on a rational basis." Now librarians can
enjoy the convenience of having Stevens'most treasured
papers--spanning over two decades--all in one very funny book.
Here is a practical volume that focuses on the major security
problems for libraries, archives, and museums. Written by a
respected librarian and security consultant, Protecting Your
Collection provides provides a thorough review of the procedures
for protecting library, art, and archival collections against
losses from theft, fire, flooding, and mutilation. Author Slade
Gandert includes fascinating interviews with librarians, rare book
dealers, archivists, detectives, and security professionals to find
out who steals from institutional collections--how they do it and
why they do it. Each chapter features case studies of intriguing
security leaks in the institutional system and describes their
outcome. This important book is beneficial reading for library
staff and administrators.
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