Bücher der Reihe Routledge Library Editions: Library and Information Science

This book, first published in 1991, addresses the relationship between acquisitions librarians and the jobbers with whom they work. Various issues are explored to establish the most efficient methods of selecting a vendor, the way to gain expertise in evaluating the system, and the best ways to reach a successful relationship.

This book, first published in 1986, is a comprehensive review of American library cooperative development programs at the regional, state-wide, interstate, and national levels. The contributors offer thoughtful assessments of the challenges of effectively implementing programs and analyse the successes and limitations of these programs.

This book, first published in 1982, offers an examination of the special nature of biochemistry collections. It focuses on the production, control, and use of the literature ¿ diverse in nature, and analysed here by specialist contributors.

This book, first published in 1991, is an invaluable guide to biographies of scientists from a wide variety of scientific fields. These biographies are unique in that they explore the whole personality of the scientist, giving students a glimpse at the variety and drama of the lives beyond the well-known.

This book, first published in 1987, brings together from a variety of sources analysis on the major issues involved in the collection of scientific journals. It examines the rationale for journal choices, journals and tenure, journals and budgeting, and the elements of a good journal.

This book, first published in 1990, analyses how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies, describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching, and examines how scientists at a major industrial research organization searched online using an information center.

In this book, first published in 1983, experts in US national, state, and regional network associations provide stimulating discussions of their experiences, problems, and successes. This volume is based on the symposium, 'Networking: Where From Here?'.

In this collection, first published in 1985, of the published proceedings of the library networking symposium, 'From Our Past: Toward 2000', network administrators describe the origin, history, and progress of their organizations. From these histories, important issues about the future of state, regional, and national networks arise.

This book, first published in 1988, discusses the use and handling of newspapers in libraries and information centres. Librarians have contributed chapters on bibliographical and physical control of newspapers, working with them in a variety of settings, and international, educational, and technical aspects of using and handling them.

This book, first published in 1993, features the perspectives of library practitioners as well as other higher education professionals on using innovative management techniques. The book includes practical discussions of Total Quality Management, team management, gender differences, managing an older work force, and educational needs.

This book, first published in 1989, explores the human resources implications of the changing mission of libraries; the challenges faced by public services; the need to reallocate, reclassify, and retain existing staff; and the increasingly important role that human resources specialists play in libraries in transition.

This book, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive and detailed look at online biomedical database searching by end users. Experts fully assess the numerous implications of end user searching and synthesize a wide variety of views and successful practices.

This book, first published in 1987, expertly addresses the impact of automation on the profession of librarianship in terms of its practitioners, standards, and underlying philosophy. In clear and understandable language, it focuses on the important decision of the location of the computer - at the library site or a remote centre.

In this book, first published in 1989, practicing librarians share their hands-on experience with implementing various types of acquisitions systems and address planning considerations, the blurring of roles between acquisitions and cataloguing, staffing implications, and electronic record transmission.

This full-length scholarly study, first published in 1981, is devoted to a specific consideration of the sex magazine in the library and the inherent problems and issues attending its controversial presence.

In this book, first published in 1992, science librarians analyse small liberal arts college science libraries. They describe their efforts to defend expensive science collections in the face of tight budgets, to oversee areas from astronomy through zoology, and to compete with the humanities and social studies for library shelf space.

This book, first published in 1989, is a comprehensive look at PaULS, the Pennsylvania Union List of Serials. It collects previously published articles recording the development and implementation of PaULS; new articles representing updated perspectives; the PaULS procedure manual; and an annotated bibliography.

This book, first published in 1990, focuses on specific types of training for librarians. Authorities explain pioneering programs in California and Maryland which deal with teaching basic reference tools to beginning librarians and paraprofessionals.

This book, first published in 1991, explores the changing roles of reference services and offers advice and practical ideas to guide librarians through the increasingly tangled maze of duties being thrust upon the reference staff.

The library budget, a topic of primary importance to the reference librarian, is thoroughly examined in this book, first published in 1988. Experts offer insightful suggestions for reference librarians to understand and take responsibility for budget issues, directly and indirectly.

This book, first published in 1985, examines issues such as the discussion of goals and rationales for charging for online searches, conflicts between reference and other library departments, how to provide quality service and who is best suited to provide it.

This book, first published in 1988, examines serials publishing. By exploring the relationships among the librarian, publisher, and vendor, it builds a better understanding of these positions. Discussions include the economics of journal publishing and the challenge of cataloguing computer files.

This book, first published in 1995, describes how automation is changing the face of acquisitions as librarians know it and making the future uncertain yet exciting. It documents how libraries have increasingly moved to powerful, second-generation interfaceable or integrated systems that can control all aspects of library operations.

This book, first published in 1986, discusses reference personnel concerns and problems and offers suggestions to administration and management for improving reference personnel performance and staff development.

This book, first published in 1987, is an appraisal of the international librarianship scene and the reference service function. Experts discuss how international reference services can be improved to facilitate true exchange of information around the world.

This book, first published in 1988, looks at the relationship between public policy and information and reports ways in which libraries respond to the need for public policy information. Chapters provide perspectives from a variety of library settings with different user groups who, in turn, have different information needs.

This book, first published in 1987, provides important information on reference publishing, including valuable guidelines on evaluating publications and sources. The articles contained here are all written by leading experts in the field.

The contradictory yet complementary relationship between libraries and information brokers is examined in this volume, first published in 1988. Librarians discuss the impact of brokers on reference services, the competence of brokers, abuse of library services by brokers, and whether libraries should provide competing fee-based services.

In this comprehensive volume on the reference process in archives, first published in 1986, experts offer a wealth of ideas on making both the reference archivist's and the user's tasks more exciting and enjoyable.

This book, first published in 1997, gives an overview of how the Internet is used in academic libraries, with a focus on the dual role librarians serve as instructors and researchers. It includes concise summaries, keyword listings, and up-to-date bibliographies for each chapter.