Technology Transfer: The Role of the Sci-Tech Librarian

ISBN-13: 9780367370053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str.

Cynthia Steinke

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Developing Information Systems for Technology Transfer: An Example from Tribology Ann P. Bishop and Marshall B. Peterson  2. Emerging Roles for Academic Librarians in the Technology Transfer Process Mary Pensyl  3. American Libraries and Domestic Technology Transfer David L. Woods  4. Technology Transfer at NASA: A Librarian's View Ronald L. Buchan  5. The Role of the Information Intermediary in the Diffusion of Aerospace Knowledge Thomas E. Pinelli, John M. Kennedy and Rebecca O. Barclay  6. The Role of Libraries in Technology Transfer for Agriculture Kathleen C. Hayes  7. The Public Library: A Key to Technology Transfer Cheryl Engel  8. Supernova 1987A: A Case Study of the Flow of Information in the Literature of Astronomy and Physics Virgil Diodato