The International Yearbook of Library and Information Management (IYLIM) is a thematic annual publication covering the field of library science and information management worldwide. Each volume includes chapters covering current issues, emerging debates and trends, and models of best practice and likely future developments, contributed by an internationally respected panel of researchers, practitioners and academics. Volume 2 focuses on information services in a rapidly changing electronic environment. The book is divided into five substantive chapters comprising a mix of research-based, practice-based and reflective scholarly studies of worldwide application and interest. The International Yearbook is essential reading for information professionals wishing to keep up-to-date with recent developments in library science and information management on a global basis.
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The Yearbook is intended as essential reading for librarians and other information professionals; it is based on research, practice, and reflection. As challenging scholarly reading for practitioners, it should be included in every academic library. * Collection Building * ...this Yearbook displays the unity of purpose, consistency and broad, complementary coverage which one hopes for in a Yearbook...In short, Library Association Publishings's new International Yearbook belongs in every serious professional collection. * Australian Academic & Research Libraries * ... International Yearbook... offers sufficient food for thought and stimulation to address the problematic issues that may arise in the future...well researched...excellently edited...highly recommended for anybody interested in keeping up with developments in the field of collection management. * The Electronic Library * This is an excellent book, full of well-researched, scholarly chapters written by international leaders in the field of collection management...If you are looking for a well-rounded volume that provides a good survey of the issues around which collection management defines itself, then this is the source for you...Bravo to this inaugural compilation! * Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services *
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Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 159 mm
Dicke: 26 mm
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978-0-8108-4236-6 (9780810842366)
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G.E. Gorman is Professor of Library and Information Management at the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He has published extensively in the field of library and information work and he is a regular contributor to scholarly and professional journals.
Part 1 Part 1 The Evolution of Information Services Chapter 2 1 Only connect...a survey of reference services-past, present and furture Part 3 Part 2 Information Services in Different Types of Libraries Chapter 4 2 The Impact of the internet on public libraries Chapter 5 3 Information behaviour in the electronic age Chapter 6 4 Youth services in an electronic environment Chapter 7 5 Organizational development in Denmark's Electronic Research Library Part 8 Part 3 The Delivery of Information Services Chapter 9 6 Information retrieval in the electronic environment Chapter 10 7 Information standards: the invisible foundation of electronic information delivery Chapter 11 8 Research on library services for distance learning: an international perspective Chapter 12 9 Copyright implications for document delivery Part 13 Part 4 Information Literacy - a Key Service Chapter 14 10 Internet training: precursor to information literacy Chapter 15 11 The transition of traditional bibliographic instruction to information literacy Chapter 16 12 Mainstreaming the library: new models for integrating information literacy Part 17 Part 5 The Measurement of Information Services Chapter 18 13 Measurement and evaluation of electronic information services Chapter 19 14 Monitoring the e-turnstile: developing digital library user profiles Chapter 20 Index
