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By Maureen Sullivan
December 15, 2021
This book, first published in 1991, presents a variety of insightful perspectives on how proper human resources management strategies can provide library staff members at all levels with the skills needed for libraries of the future. The shift of the concept of management from control to ...
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By Tony Stankus
December 15, 2021
This book, first published in 1999, analyses the convergence of financial, technical, and public policy considerations that turned what seemed like science fiction twenty years ago into a library fact of life today. It shows that while electronic publication greatly speeds issuance of important ...
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By Cynthia Steinke
December 15, 2021
This book, first published in 1990, analyses the variety of ways in which libraries extend their resources to users beyond the physical walls of their organization. Librarians discuss the concept of the library as more than just a place - since its holdings can now appear on the screen of users’ ...
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By Sul H. Lee
December 15, 2021
This book, first published in 2002, examines how the transition to electronic resources in academic libraries has impacted traditional collection development policies and practices. Nine acclaimed librarians present their perspectives on the growing trend toward digital materials acquisition that ...
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By Sul H. Lee
December 15, 2021
This book, first published in 1996, analyses the most important and relevant collection development and networking issues facing the library community today. It explores the relationship between electronic resources, resource sharing, and collection development from the perspectives of librarians, ...
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By M. Sandra Wood, Ellen Brassil Horak, Bonnie Snow
December 15, 2021
This book, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive and detailed look at online biomedical database searching by end users. Experts fully assess the numerous implications of end user searching and synthesize a wide variety of views and successful practices. By examining the types of users,...
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By Ellis Mount
December 15, 2021
This book, first published in 1990, analyses how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies in the sciences, describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching in a sci-tech organization, examines how the scientists at a major industrial ...
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By Wilson Luquire
December 15, 2021
In this thought-provoking collection, first published in 1985, of the published proceedings of the library networking symposium, ‘From Our Past: Toward 2000’, network administrators describe the origin, history, and progress of their organizations. From these useful histories, important issues ...
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By Christine Roysdon, Howard D. White
December 15, 2021
This book, first published in 1989, introduces readers to expert systems applications in many areas of library and information science, and presents design and implementation issues encountered by librarians who have developed early systems to address the library reference function. Systems for ...
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By Ruth A. Fraley, Bill Katz
December 15, 2021
The library budget, a topic of primary importance to the reference librarian, is thoroughly examined in this book, first published in 1988. Experts offer insightful suggestions for reference librarians to understand and take responsibility for budget issues, directly and indirectly. They address ...
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By Murray S. Martin
December 15, 2021
This book, first published in 1983, stresses the need for libraries to weed out expenditures which do not contribute to their basic role - the collection and organization of information - when planning where and when to spend money. It illustrates how priorities and goals must change in accordance ...
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By Gisela M. Webb
December 15, 2021
In this book, first published in 1989, educators, library administrators, and human resources managers will find helpful insights into the vital role they can play in attracting pro-active people to the profession, changing current library structures and staffing patterns to meet emerging ...