OCLC, a Decade of Development, 1967-1977
Author: Kathleen Lynn Maciuszko
Publisher: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780872874077
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Author: Kathleen Lynn Maciuszko
Publisher: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780872874077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: K. Wayne Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1317948483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn OCLC 1967--1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information, you'll see how libraries, librarians, and librarianship have changed dramatically since the late sixties, when OCLC was founded as a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization. You'll also see how far information professionals have come in their common crusade to provide access to the ever-expanding body of information worldwide. OCLC 1967--1997 gives you both a look back and a look forward across thirty years of continuous technological change as OCLC grows from an Ohio network of 54 academic libraries to a global network of 26,000 libraries in 65 countries. Eighteen experienced authors give you a panoramic overview and specific insight into OCLC as both a membership organization and a provider of computer services. You'll see how libraries and librarians have an institutionalized voice for libraries in OCLC’s strategic directions. And, you'll better understand how the shared commitment of OCLC members to the ideals of research, scholarship, and education has created a unique library resource--WorldCat--which has become the most consulted database in higher education. Specifically, you'll read about: the changing tasks of cataloging, from automatic processing of print materials to the new challenges of electronic metadata the revolution in reference services and resource sharing OCLC in Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America today's leading-edge electronic libraries--GALILEO and the CIC VEL research at OCLC the new electronic scholarship OCLC 1967--1997 is for library professionals in libraries of all types. It is a definitive guidebook to today's OCLC and to all those who are helping their libraries and staffs deal with the challenges and opportunities of the Information Age.
Author: Trudi Bellardo Hahn
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781573870627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 25 contributions to this volume, largely reprinted from recent special issues of three information science journals devoted to historical topics, address an array of topics including Paul Otlet and his successors; techniques, tools, and systems; organizations and individuals; theoretical issues; and literature. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: United States. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Library and Information Services Division
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 606
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henryk Sawoniak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 1284
ISBN-13: 3110975068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael M. Widdersheim
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-05-22
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 3111014142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the public sphere, how is it best described, and what role does it play in modern life? These questions have attracted considerable attention within library and information science circles over several decades, especially regarding public libraries. Circulation of Power contributes to this discussion by proposing a new research framework and new methods for analyzing public sphere communication. Using extensive data gathered from an urban public library infrastructure, this historical case study demonstrates how public sphere communication shaped the infrastructure’s development over time, producing both changes and continuities across the case’s nine periods. Two new conceptual tools—circuits and decisions cycles—form the study’s research framework, and a new explanatory theory—RLCr, or "Releaser," theory—accounts for why the infrastructure developed as it did. Consideration of competing theories reveals that public sphere communication remains the best explanation for infrastructural development. This book’s meticulous historical narrative of the greater Pittsburgh case, supplemented by its groundbreaking theory and innovative mixed methods design, is of interest to practitioners, academics, and general readers alike.
Author: Bohdan S. Wynar
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780872874954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne Woodsworth
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2013-06-26
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1781904804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 36 of Advances in Librarianship seeks to provide a broad review of the factors that lead to mergers and other alliances, the methods used to ensure effective and successful collaborations, and descriptions of the factors which contributed to less successful efforts at consolidation.
Author: Christine L. Borgman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003-01-24
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780262250283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWill the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communication equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier to use? What are the trade-offs between tailoring information systems to user communities and standardizing them to interconnect with systems designed for other communities, cultures, and languages? This book takes a close look at these and other questions of technology, behavior, and policy surrounding the GII. Topics covered include the design and use of digital libraries; behavioral and institutional aspects of electronic publishing; the evolving role of libraries; the life cycle of creating, using, and seeking information; and the adoption and adaptation of information technologies. The book takes a human-centered perspective, focusing on how well the GII fits into the daily lives of the people it is supposed to benefit. Taking a unique holistic approach to information access, the book draws on research and practice in computer science, communications, library and information science, information policy, business, economics, law, political science, sociology, history, education, and archival and museum studies. It explores both domestic and international issues. The author's own empirical research is complemented by extensive literature reviews and analyses.
Author: Charles Grosch
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2020-07-24
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1000148181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an historical perspective of the past 25 years of computers in libraries, profileing currently available processing systems according to their size and platform. The short- and long-term future of information technology in libraries.;College or university bookstores may order five or more copies at a special student price which is available from Marcel Dekker upon request.