Cataloging

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• This book offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education, and training of cataloging librarians. Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill have... Lees meer

Closing an Era

Richard Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• The importance of records in modern society is explored by re-examining some of the historical antecedents for critical functions in the modern record... Lees meer

Public Administration and Decision-Aiding Software

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• This contributed volume offers a summary of the latest ideas and applications concerning decision making software, as applied to administrative decisi... Lees meer

The Politics of Public Librarianship

David Shavit

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• Public librarians do not usually see themselves as politicians. However, as decision-makers in an institutional setting, affected by a variety of pres... Lees meer

A New Path

Roland Conrad Person

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• Roland Person's A New Path is a fine comprehensive study of such libraries based . . . on an examination of the perceptions of those involved in their... Lees meer

The Information World of Retired Women

Elfreda A Chatman

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• Using the profiles of women living in a retirement community, the author explores the information and social worlds of aging women. The focus of the s... Lees meer

Applied Informetrics for Information Retrieval Research

Dietmar Wolfram

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• The intersection of informetrics and information retrieval (IR) research provides valuable insights for IR system modeling, design, and evaluation. Th... Lees meer

Management Theory and Library Education.

Sajjad Ur Rehman

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• From the expanding classical horizons of Mahler, Satie and Debussy to the revolutions in electronic music inaugurated by Stockhausen and Cage; from th... Lees meer

Banned in the Media

Herbert Foerstel

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• From colonial times to the present, the media in America has been subject to censorship challenges and regulations. This comprehensive reference guide... Lees meer

Financing Information Services

Peter Spyers-Duran, Thomas Mann

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• Will American academic and research libraries be able to cope with the current technological, economic, and organizational issues that are bringing ab... Lees meer

The Academic Library Director

Joanne R Euster

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• The analysis of the management activities and effectiveness of the academic library director in Joanne Euster's The Academic Library Director is a fin... Lees meer

Hypertext and the Technology of Conversation

Susan Heinrichs Gray

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management | nr. 31
• This book explores the usefulness of looking at very small aspects of human behavior in order to understand computer-human interaction difficulties wi... Lees meer

Automating Literacy

Linda Main, Char Whitaker

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• This volume is a how-to guide to the use of computers in library-based adult literacy programs. Since the commitment to literacy training has become a... Lees meer

Recruiting, Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• Librarians entering the profession often shun the prospect of becoming catalogers because they perceive public service responsibilities as more reward... Lees meer

Vocabulary Control and Search Strategies in Online Searching

Alice Y Chamis, Alice Yanosko Chamis

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• Databases and public access catalogs are being used extensively by the public and the academic and business communities as major sources of informatio... Lees meer

Libraries in Prisons

William J Coyle

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management | nr. 15
• This is the first book-length study of prison libraries to provide a comprehensive overview of their history and to analyze their development in terms... Lees meer

Information Seeking and Subject Representation

Birger Hjorland

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management | nr. 34
• Information science has for a long time been drawing on the knowledge produced in psychology and related fields. This is reasonable, for the central i... Lees meer

Requiem for the Card Catalog

Daniel Gore, Joseph Kimbrough, Peter Spyers-Duran

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• Requiem for the Card Catalog helps sort out the problems and possibilities inherent in applying modern technology to the heart of the traditional libr... Lees meer

Subject Access to Visual Resources Collections

Karen Markey Drabenstott, Karen Markey

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• Searching through a resource collection for a particular type of visual image yields little more than frustration if the user lacks the knowledge of t... Lees meer

Recruiting, Educating, and Training Librarians for Collection Development

Sheila S. Intner, Peggy Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• At a time of shrinking budgets and increasing demands, libraries are facing problems in meeting their needs for new collection development specialists... Lees meer

Full Text Databases

Carol Tenopir, Jung Soon Ro

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management | nr. 21
• . . . a surprisingly useful and largely readable effort. It presents in textbook style an introduction to the creation, use, and evaluation of online ... Lees meer

Insider's Guide to Library Automation

John W. Head, Gerard B. McCabe

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• Libraries are becoming increasingly automated. Many libraries have already become automated, and librarians have had to confront a new set of problems... Lees meer

The Alienated Librarian

Marcia J Nauratil, Karl Nauratil

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• The Alienated Llibrarian is a thoughtful, thorough analysis of the proletarianization of professional work throughout history. . . . What this book do... Lees meer

The Role of the Academic Reference Librarian

Jo B Whitlatch

• Hardcover | Engels | New Directions in Information Management
• This volume examining key factors related to successful reference service practices provides librarians with an important and significantly different ... Lees meer