Author: Cynthia Steinke
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: libraries, amp, technology, science, future, tech, sci
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1993-04-26
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 156024447X
ISBN-13: 9781560244479

What will future sci-tech libraries be like? Who will be the key players? In this insightful volume, leaders in sci-tech librarianship reflect on their years in the profession and predict how the sci-tech library will look ten years from now. Sci-Tech Libraries of the Future takes a close look at the present revolution in the communication of scientific information and how technology has transformed the process of knowledge delivery and acquisitions. It prepares libraries to react to new channels of scholarly communication that in the future may challenge the viability of the research library.

Authors:Luisa Alvite, Leticia Barrionuevo,
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Keywords: libraries, academic, users, services
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2010-08-31
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 1843345951
ISBN-13: 9781843345954

Here’s a 21st Century look at the quality and evolution of academic library services. Alvite and Barrionuevo revisit academic library services, looking at new ones ushered in by technology and the challenge of enhancing traditional ones: catalogs, repositories and digital collections, virtual reference services, information literacy, 2.0 tools, etc. Topics covered include: quality and evolution of academic library service; the history and evolution of services for users in academic libraries; learning and researching in the digital age; who uses academic libraries in this ce

Author: Tom McNulty
Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries
Keywords: libraries, disability, friendly, creation, practical, campus, accessible, guide
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 1999-07
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 083898035X
ISBN-13: 9780838980354

Author: Cynthia Steinke
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: libraries, science, technology, amp, tech, information, access, sci, instructions
Number of Pages: 137
Published: 1994-05-04
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1560246669
ISBN-13: 9781560246664

This helpful guide describes instructional service programs at nine sci-tech libraries to illustrate ideas and methods that work. The continued proliferation of information resources and exploding advances in technology have brought dramatic changes to the role of the reference/instruction librarian. These librarians are striving to develop services that focus on strategies and critical thinking, ensure interactive instruction at various levels of user skill, involve faculty and computer center staff, and provide easy-to-use techniques that are self-directed and lead to success. Instruction fo

Author: Tony Stankus
Publisher: CRC
Keywords: libraries, scientific, amp, technology, faces, adding, sci, tech, biographies, scientists
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1992-01-27
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 1560242140
ISBN-13: 9781560242147

Here is an invaluable guide to fascinating biographies of scientists from a wide variety of scientific fields. As fewer students in the United States choose to pursue graduate studies or careers in science, Biographies of Scientists for Sci-Tech Librarians is an essential tool for inspiring individual students to follow any leanings toward science they already have. The books selected for his highly descriptive bibliography helps librarians shatter readers’stereotypes of scientists as monomaniacal and uninteresting people by providing interesting and provocative titles to capture the interes

Authors:Deborah A. Robertson, American Library Association,
Publisher: ALA Editions
Keywords: libraries, culture, communities, linking, cultural, programming
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0838935516
ISBN-13: 9780838935514

For a library to fulfill its mission to provide community engagement and cultural dialogue, then diverse, excellent cultural programming is the key. This authoritative resource outlines all the steps. For a library to fulfill its mission to provide community engagement and cultural dialogue, then diverse, excellent cultural programming is the key. In Cultural Programming for Libraries, the director of ALA’s Public Programs Office shares time-tested strategies and practical, inspiring samples from first-rate programs across the country. Librarians, staff, and volunteers will find the prac

Author: William Y. Arm
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: digital, libraries, publishing, electronic
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0262511274
ISBN-13: 9780262511278

These days we seem to be creating information faster than we can store it, but the near future is looking bright. Cornell professor William Y. Arms offers a program for that future in Digital Libraries, a synthesis of library and computer sciences that presents the history and current developments in each field with special emphasis on their interactions. Since the book necessarily must appeal to a broad spectrum of professionals, any given reader will find some parts elementary, but Arms clearly maps the common ground and much of the text will appeal to all. Chapters covering the basics of i