... Library automation Library services Libraries Libraries play an important role in providing access to information, organizing it, and helping users to find the information they need. One of the main activities of libraries is the reference service, when librarians help users to find an information...

...Niels Ole Pors J.   Webb , P.   Gannon‐Leary and M.   Bent . Providing Effective Library Services for Research . London : Facet Publishing   2007 . 278 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐85604‐6 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Research libraries Information...

...Kerstin Jorna He agrees with “many people [who] claim that technological developments will ensure that international barriers come tumbling down. Information can be transferred so easily that the concept of a ‘national’ library service will soon become meaningless”. “The globalization...

... labeled “information services” are, in fact, the computer department. Library management Library services Academic libraries Information systems © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Larry   Hardesty . Books Bytes and Bridges: Libraries and Computer Centers in Academic...

... Information services Library services The Internet has been around for a long time and libraries even longer. Discussion about the impact of one on the other has gone the rounds and, for some time now, information professionals have been putting things into practice, or have been wanting to do so...

... --> Public libraries Library services The title indicates that the book is a revision of an earlier work, Planning for Results: A Library Transformation Process, 1998. The earlier work was divided into a guidebook and a how‐to‐do‐it manual. According to the foreword in the new edition...

... --> Information services Library management Library services The International Yearbook of Library and Information Management is a new idea from Library Association Publishing. Each volume takes an overall theme and has a series of contributed chapters by experts in that field. This 400‐page book...

...Ian M. Johnson © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Librarians Library services These two academics, both with many years international experience of library work, have brought together what their publisher claims is a well edited collage of experiences in the transfer of library technical...

... Limited 2002 --> Librarians Library services Continuing professional development The title of the book is partly misleading because the study focuses on library professionals, not information professionals in general. The book employs international perspectives for analysing existing...

...”’). This is an easy to read, practical, knowledgeable and amusing account of life during library construction, with the most important advice being to keep your sense of humour. The staff of the Williamsburg Regional Library appear to have done so. Description follows of all library service aspects giving useful...

... of Lifelong Learning . Wetherby : Library and Information Commission   2000 . 105 pp. , ISBN: 19023 9415 1   £12 (Library and Information Commission research Report 31) © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Learning Public libraries Library users Library services Some of the study’s...

...)   2001 . 209 pp. , ISBN: ISBN: 1 57387 110 9   $39.50 ($31.60 to ASIST members) © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Library services Library management Statistics To rephrase the old joke: “There are three kinds of information workers: those who can count and those who cannot”. Many people...

... . Library Trends: Assessing Digital Library Services Vol. 49 No. 2 . 2000 . , ISBN: ISSN: 0024 2594 ...

...Peter Brophy Margaret   Kinnell , Liangzhi   Yu and Claire   Creaser . Library and Information Statistics Unit Occasional Paper 26. Public Library Services for Visually Impaired People . Loughborough : Library and Information Statistics Unit Department of Information...

... and Information Commission   2000 . , ISBN: 1 902394 46 1   £12.00 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Library users Library services Disabled people While the survey does reveal that there is good practice to be found, it also shows up alarming gaps and suggests that there is a “postcode lottery...

... Library services Library users The main theme of this book is that the impact of technology is, or should be, to enhance libraries, not replace them; there are enduring values that must be upheld. The author does not help his case in the early pages by listing several factors that he claims to have...

... or nonbook formats. This book is highly recommended. References Goodson , C . (2001), Providing Library Services for Distance Education Students: A How‐to‐do‐it Manual , Neal‐Schuman , New York, NY . Slade , A.L . and Kascus , M.A . (2000), Library Services for Open...

... . Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings (3rd ed.) . Chicago, IL and London : ALA   1999 . 887 + xxx pp. , ISBN: 0 8389 0747 4   $155.00 ($139.00 to ALA members) © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Academic libraries Library services Buildings No one asked to review a book...

... is of a technical nature. There is some work on developing policies and strategies for managing digital resources. However, not all management issues or users’ needs are being addressed. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Library services Collection management Digital mapping Journal of Documentation, Vol. 57...

... philosophical discussions with the practice of information and library science. Information Mathematics Library services DRETSKE S SEMANTIC INFORMATION THEORY AND METATHEORIES IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE ELLEN BONNEVIE eb@db.dk Department of Information Studies The Royal School of Library...