ilość książek w kategorii: 6775
The Academic Library Director: Reflections on a Position in Transition
ISBN: 9780789003201 / Angielski / Twarda / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addresses the changing nature of work and new demands being placed on academic library directors, with chapters by seasoned professionals on their strategies for career and library success. Considers the challenges of leading an academic library though transition periods, reports on a survey of library directors, identifies criteria for recruiting
Addresses the changing nature of work and new demands being placed on academic library directors, with chapters by seasoned professionals on their str...
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701,59 zł |
Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities
ISBN: 9780789003683 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities is a one-of-a-kind guide on the procedures, approaches, and principles needed to make sound decisions in acquiring materials in various areas of the humanities. It gives you an inside look at managerial concerns in documentary delivery, changing budgetary needs, and fluctuations in journal prices and helps you address many of the important questions in acquisitions and collection development within both traditional and technological environments.As contributing author Dennis Dillon puts it, the ultimate goal of humanities...
Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities is a one-of-a-kind guide on the procedures, approaches, and principles needed to make sound ...
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441,69 zł |
Serials Cataloging at the Turn of the Century
ISBN: 9780789003737 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fourteen contributions discuss serials cataloguing in terms of the demand for the position during the past 15 years and increasing expectations for candidates, applications of AACR2 and CONSER, the trend towards outsourcing, the cataloguing of Internet materials, European practices, the multiple-version problem, and bibliographic control of serials
Fourteen contributions discuss serials cataloguing in terms of the demand for the position during the past 15 years and increasing expectations for ca...
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452,09 zł |
Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library
ISBN: 9780789003850 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide to balancing traditional collection issues with electronic access and document delivery demands. It helps librarians find solutions and approaches for dealing with changes occurring in interlibrary loan, regional consortia, commercial vendor relations, and ownership versus access.
A guide to balancing traditional collection issues with electronic access and document delivery demands. It helps librarians find solutions and approa...
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493,66 zł |
Medical Library Downsizing : Administrative, Professional, and Personal Strategies for Coping with Change
ISBN: 9780789004130 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schott (library director, West Virginia University-Charleston) explores corporate downsizing and other company-wide events in this training manual designed to help medical librarians prepare for changes that put salaries and jobs at risk. He describes the typical patterns for downsizing, budget cuts, mergers, or pension buyouts. While focused on he
Schott (library director, West Virginia University-Charleston) explores corporate downsizing and other company-wide events in this training manual des...
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452,09 zł |
Management of Library and Archival Security: From the Outside Looking in
ISBN: 9780789005199 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers insights from a former FBI agent, a preservation specialist, and an archivist to provide information about safeguarding library and archive collections against theft (inventory standards, insurance, recovery plans, user records, internal audits), environmental conditions (temperature control, building design, reformatting deteriorating mater
Offers insights from a former FBI agent, a preservation specialist, and an archivist to provide information about safeguarding library and archive col...
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701,59 zł |
Going Digital: Strategies for Access, Preservation, and Conversion of Collections to a Digital Format
ISBN: 9780789005212 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Co-published simultaneously as Collection Management, v.22, nos.3/4 1998. Presents 22 contributions selected from the published proceedings of five symposiums sponsored by the Research Libraries Group of Mountain View, California, between 1993 and 1995. Topics include the advantages and disadvantages of microfilm and digital conversion; how to cho
Co-published simultaneously as Collection Management, v.22, nos.3/4 1998. Presents 22 contributions selected from the published proceedings of five sy...
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452,09 zł |
Public Library Collection Development in the Information Age
ISBN: 9780789005281 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public Library Collection Development in the Information Age discusses the increasing amounts of information that are used in collection development. Case studies, interviews, and research are the basis for this book's suggestions to improve your collection methods without straining your library's budget. It will help you acquire the most useful materials while sharing information with collaborating libraries to offer patrons the latest and largest variety of resources. Discussing a topic that is scarcely addressed in collection literature, this book explores ways in which one informational...
Public Library Collection Development in the Information Age discusses the increasing amounts of information that are used in collection development. ...
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259,80 zł |
Oclc 1967:1997 : Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information
ISBN: 9780789005366 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In OCLC 1967--1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information, you'll see how libraries, librarians, and librarianship have changed dramatically since the late sixties, when OCLC was founded as a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization. You'll also see how far information professionals have come in their common crusade to provide access to the ever-expanding body of information worldwide. OCLC 1967--1997 gives you both a look back and a look forward across thirty years of continuous technological change as OCLC grows from an Ohio network of...
In OCLC 1967--1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information, you'll see how libraries, librarians, and librarianship have changed...
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701,59 zł |
Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views
ISBN: 9780789005403 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Design and maintain document delivery services that are ideal for academic patrons
In Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views, you'll visit four university library systems to discover the considerations and challenges each library faced in bringing document delivery to its clientele. This book examines the questions about document delivery that are most pressing in the profession of library science. Despite their own unique experiences, you'll find common practices among all four--including planning, implementation of service, and evaluation of either user satisfaction and/or... Design and maintain document delivery services that are ideal for academic patrons
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452,09 zł |
Information Technology Planning
ISBN: 9780789006691 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information Technology Planning provides librarians and electronic resource planners with innovative suggestions and strategies for creating the digital library for the twenty-first century. Full of information on technological advances and resource assessment, this book explores the best ways to make your library accessible to users and discusses user-centered decision-making techniques. With Information Technology Planning, you ll choose the appropriate electronic resources for your library to best serve the needs of your patrons.Examining electronic resource redesigning and...
Information Technology Planning provides librarians and electronic resource planners with innovative suggestions and strategies for creating the digit...
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675,61 zł |
Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet
ISBN: 9780789006776 / Angielski / Twarda / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet reveals emerging trends in selecting, acquiring, and accessing electronic journals to help you use and understand these resources for the benefit of your patrons. This book stresses the need for librarians to understand copyright and contract laws, the complexity of the Internet business environment, and the need for constant training in order to take full advantage of electronic information. From Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet, you?ll find proven methods, collection development procedures, and problem-solving techniques that will keep you...
Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet reveals emerging trends in selecting, acquiring, and accessing electronic journals to help you use and unders...
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27,17 zł |
Gifts and Exchanges: Problems, Frustrations, . . . and Triumphs
ISBN: 9780789006783 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book explores the many questions challenging librarians who work with gifts and exchanges (G&E) as part of their daily responsibilities. Too often, because of shrinking library budgets, library gifts are considered burdensome and unprofitable drains on both financial and personnel resources. However, Gifts and Exchanges: Problems, Frustrations, . . . and Triumphs gives you solutions that will allow you to embrace your library s gifts as rewards. In this book, you will discover the latest ways of disposing unwanted materials, planning and holding book sales and auctions, and...
This important book explores the many questions challenging librarians who work with gifts and exchanges (G&E) as part of their daily responsibilities...
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675,61 zł |
Government Information Collections in the Networked Environment: New Issues and Models
ISBN: 9780789006806 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This insightful book explores the challenging issues related to effective access to government information.Amidst all the chaos of today's dynamic information transition period, the only constants related to government information are change and inconsistency, yet with Government Information Collections in the Networked Environment: New Issues and Models, you will defeat the challenging issues and take advantage of the opportunities that networked government information collections have to offer. This valuable book gives you a fresh opportunity to rethink collecting activities and...
This insightful book explores the challenging issues related to effective access to government information.Amidst all the chaos of today's d...
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675,61 zł |
The Internet and Acquisitions: Sources and Resources for Development
ISBN: 9780789006875 / Angielski / Twarda / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Upgrade your library's acquisitions methods using The Internet and Acquisitions: Sources and Resources for Development. The methods and suggestions in this bookwill help you learn to place orders for books and findinformation on needed topics of collection development on the Internet with ease. From this book, you will learn how to increase the efficiency of your replacement copy searches by reducing your dependency on used book dealers. Theinformation contained in The Internet and Acquisitions will help you to enhance and enlarge your library's repertoire of access points to better serve...
Upgrade your library's acquisitions methods using The Internet and Acquisitions: Sources and Resources for Development. The methods and suggestions in...
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368,94 zł |
Managing Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Library: Principles and Issues for Administrators
ISBN: 9780789006929 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winston (library management and reference services, Rutgers U.) presents 12 papers which address such diversity issues as affirmative action, career development of minorities in library science profession, and scholarship solutions to increase diversity in libraries. While focusing on the United States, diversification efforts in Australia, Canada,
Winston (library management and reference services, Rutgers U.) presents 12 papers which address such diversity issues as affirmative action, career d...
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701,59 zł |
Acquiring Online Management Reports
ISBN: 9780789006981 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Save time and money for your library with these current and easy suggestions Acquiring Online Management Reports offers state-of-the-art information for acquisitions librarians involved in selecting management reports of all types, from fund accounting to decision support systems to usage tracking. Compiling management reports has always been a responsibility of acquisitions librarians. These days, computerized reporting systems have become powerful tools in managing libraries, but they are useful only when the results are accurate, significant, and relevant. Acquiring...
Save time and money for your library with these current and easy suggestions Acquiring Online Management Reports offers state-of-the-art inf...
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431,30 zł |
Scholarship, Research Libraries, and Global Publishing
ISBN: 9780789007544 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover how to meet the challenges of increasing your library's international publications through digital networks and large shared resource networks with other research libraries Scholarship, Research Libraries, and Global Publishing reveals a four-year study conducted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) that shows a tremendous decrease in US and Canadian ARL libraries'international publication acquisitions in a time when North American universities are becoming increasingly global and need to maintain collections of foreign articles. This intense study reflects these...
Discover how to meet the challenges of increasing your library's international publications through digital networks and large shared resource network...
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649,62 zł |
Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios
ISBN: 9780789007698 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An unparalleled overview of current design considerations for your digital library Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios is a balanced overview of public services, collection development, administration, and systems support, for digital libraries, with advice on adopting the latest technologies that appear on the scene. As a professional in the library and information science field, you will benefit from this special issue that serves as an overview of selected directions, trends, possibilities, limitations, enhancements, design...
An unparalleled overview of current design considerations for your digital library Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Consid...
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452,09 zł |
Collection Development in a Digital Environment: Shifting Priorities
ISBN: 9780789007940 / Angielski / Twarda / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents eight papers that were presented at the 1998 U. of Oklahoma Libraries Conference, Challenges of Collection Development: Digital Information, Internet and Print Materials. Papers discuss such topics as the leading role of libraries in promoting technological development in academia, the ethical dilemmas of library collection development,
Presents eight papers that were presented at the 1998 U. of Oklahoma Libraries Conference, Challenges of Collection Development: Digital Information, ...
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311,77 zł |