The Reference Collection : From the Shelf to the Web

ISBN-13: 9780789028402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 310 str.

William J. Frost

Opis

How important is the World Wide Web to information retrieval and communication? Important enough that information professionals have seen students exit from their libraries en masse when Internet service was lost. Internet providers dominate the indexing and abstracting of periodical articles as major publishers now offer nearly all of their reference titles in digital form. Libraries spend increasing amounts of funding on electronic reference materials, and librarians devote an increasing amount of time to assisting in their use. The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web is an essential guide to collection development for electronic materials in academic and public libraries.

Spis treści

• Introduction (William J. Frost)
  
• Getting it Right—The Evolution of Reference Collections (Margaret Landesman)
  
• Out of the Stack and into the Net: International Perspectives on Academic Reference Resources (Gaynor Austen and Carolyn Young)
  
• Electronic vs. Print Reference Sources in Public Library Collections (Jeanne Holba Puacz)
  
• Digital versus Print: The Current State of Reference Affairs in School Libraries (D. Jackson Maxwell)
  
• Reference Publishing in the Age of Also (John M. Morse)
  
• From the Womb to the Web: Library Assignments and the New Generation (Necia Parker-Gibson)
  
• Cyberplagiarism and the Library: Issues and Solutions (Jennifer Sharkey and F. Bartow Culp)
  
• Structures and Choices for Ready Reference Web Sites (Steven W. Sowards)
  
• Federated Search Tools: The Next Step in the Quest for One-Stop-Shopping (Steve C. Boss and Michael L. Nelson)
  
• Internet Reference Sources in the Humanities (Dennis Dillon)
  
• Science Reference on the Internet (Lori Bronars)
  
• Medical Reference Sources on the Internet: An Evolving Information Forum and Marketplace (Gary A. McMillan)
  
• Web-Based Reference Resources for the Social Sciences (Brian Quinn)
  
• Briefcases and Databases: Web-Based Reference Sources for Business Librarians and Their Client Communities (Gail M. Golderman and Bruce Connolly)
  
• Internet Reference Sources in Education (Linda C. Weber)
  
• 100 Best Free Internet Web Sites: A Selected List (Lori Morse)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

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