...Johan Bollen © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Digital libraries Education USA Deanna B. Marcum's Development of Digital Libraries – An American Perspective collects a total of 22 lectures on the subject of the development of digital libraries by prominent library, education...

...Tamara Eisenschitz © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Intellectual property USA Copyright Library management This is a slim little book, 170 pages on intellectual property rights (IPRs) for libraries. It looked promising, particularly with the “digital age” in the title. One...

...Sheila S. Intner Public libraries USA This is a timely book, addressing a variety of issues besetting public libraries as the twenty‐first century progresses from an unfathomable future full of unknown but compelling problems (remember when we lost sleep over Y2K?) to ordinary present‐day...

...   £12.95 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Public libraries USA This concise and lavishly illustrated popular history of the New York Public Library and its collections is the first work of its type on this topic. There is a single index to both subjects and illustrations and a short list...

...John Feather © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Preservation Archives USA This collection of 18 original papers on preservation is designed to give a current, practically oriented, overview of the field; in the editors’ words (p. xiv), it is an “up‐to‐date survey of key issues...