... metadata, and evaluates these in the light of professional description. The book ends with “Further reading” and a comprehensive list of metadata standards covering archival description, cataloguing, indexing and abstracting, schemas, vocabularies, classification, and encoding and transmission standards...

...Stuart Hannabuss Professionalism in library and information work assumes the awareness and application of ethical standards. Dealing with information products and services implicates practitioners in ethical as well as legal issues, although detailed instances of ethical dilemmas are all too few...

...A. Anaba Alemna The issue of standards has always been uppermost in the minds of librarians, and has also received considerable professional attention. Examines the concept of standards for school libraries in Ghana and their functional applicability. Discusses the standards within the framework...

...′ Charter is taken. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Local government Quality Standards LIBRARY MANAGEMENT QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT PART 2 Beryl Morris To many people, quality, excellence and local government are mutually exclusive. Every week, the newspapers carry stories of local...

... of quality in local authorities will be described in a subsequent article. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Local government Quality Standards VOLUME 12 NUMBER 3 1991 QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT PART 1 Beryl Morris "Quality and Excellence" was the title of a For any campaign to work...