Library Automation in Transitional Societies
Lessons from Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2000
468 pages
978-0-19-535104-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of papers from a 1997 conference that attempted to assess the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's efforts to modernize Eastern European libraries after the fall of communism. Looking primarily at Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, the international panel of contributors cover library automation, library policy, and management strategy.
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Lessons from Eastern Europe
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I. Library Policy and the State
- 1. Library Automation: Fortunes and Miseries in Poland
- 2. Developing National Information Infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe: The Content-versus-Conduit Debate
- 3. A Coordinator's View of the Impact of Policy on the Financing and the Managing of Library Automation
- 4. Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe: Basic Dilemmas
- 5. The Changes in the Functions of University Libraries and of Educational Policy in Poland After 1989
- 6. In Search of an Optimum Model of Development
- PART II. Case Histories
- 7. Automation and Academic Libraries in Hungary: Theory and Practice in a Period of New Challenges
- 8. Automation in the National Library in Warsaw: From an In-House System to INNOPAC
- 9. The Retrospective Conversion of the Catalog in the Library of the American Studies Center, Warsaw University
- 10. CASLIN, Priorities of the Czech National Library, and Government Policy on Information and Libraries
- 11. Cooperation, Consortia, Compatibility, Connectivity: The Case of CASLIN
- 12. Some Problems with Library Automation in the KOLIN Library Consortium
- 13. Realization of the CASLIN Project in the Slovak National Library and Its Impact on the Automation of Libraries in Slovakia
- 14. The Aleph Implementation at the National Library of the Czech Republic
- PART III. Cataloging, Authority Control, Retroconversion, Subject Headings, Search, and Union Catalogues
- 15. A Retrospective Conversion: The Case of Debrecen
- 16. The Retrospective Conversion in Czech Libraries
- 17. The Implementation of an Automated System at the University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia
- 18. Cataloging Standards in Czech Libraries
- 19. Evolution of Authority File Work in Poland
- 20. The Union Catalog: Different Library Systems, Different Solutions
- 21. New Possibilities for Information Retrieval
- 22. Why, and How to, Translate a Subject Heading System: Authority Control Provides a Solution
- 23. Integrating Internet Resources into the Library Catalog
- 24. Knowledge and Information Processing
- 25. The Dissemination and Archival Storage of Old Materials as Electronic Documents
- 26. The Automation of Special Collections: General Issues
- PART IV. Management Issues
- 27. The Sequencing of Automation in Central and East European Research Libraries
- 28. Managing Delays: The Micropolitics of Time in the Czech and Slovak Automation Projects
- 29. The Kraków Project: Problems of Management
- 30. Staffing Patterns for Academic Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the CIS Countries
- 31. Staff Preparation for Automation
- 32. Interactions Between Library Automation and Staff and Patron Training
- 33. The Special Role of the Hungarian National Library in the Formation and Management of Consortia
- 34. The Human Aspects of Library Automation
- 35. The Contribution of Integrated Library Services to the Ensuring of Quality Services
