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Collaboration in International and Comparative Librarianship
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Susmita Chakraborty (North Bengal University, India), Anup Kumar Das (Jawaharlal National University, India)
Copyright © 2014.
With the introduction of the Bologna Process, the emphasis on the importance of international librarianship and its activity between governmental or non-governmental...
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Library Collection Development for Professional Programs: Trends and Best Practices
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Sara Holder (McGill University, Canada)
Copyright © 2013.
Collection development, the process used by librarians to choose items for a particular library or section of a library, can be time-consuming and difficult due to t...
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Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape
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Jesus Tramullas (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Piedad Garrido (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Copyright © 2013.
The advent of computers in libraries made library automation a hot topic in the 1980s and 1990s, but this focus has dropped off over time, leaving much library autom...
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Public Law Librarianship: Objectives, Challenges, and Solutions
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Laurie Selwyn (Law Librarian [Ret.], USA), Virginia Eldridge (Grayson County, Texas Law Library, USA)
Copyright © 2013.
While there are common misconceptions regarding the definition of a public law library, it can be defined as a government mandated library which provides the public...
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Advancing Library Education: Technological Innovation and Instructional Design
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Ari Sigal (Catawba Valley Community College, USA)
Copyright © 2013.
As learning moves into a more innovative and technological environment, it becomes increasingly important that library education continues to adapt and understand th...
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E-Reference Context and Discoverability in Libraries: Issues and Concepts
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Sue Polanka (Wright State University, USA)
Copyright © 2012.
Without question, reference collections have changed. We are in the midst of a paradigm shift where publishers are focusing on a future with electronic content and f...
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Remote Access Technologies for Library Collections: Tools for Library Users and Managers
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Diane M. Fulkerson (University of South Florida Polytechnic Library, USA)
Copyright © 2012.
The growth of the Internet over the past 20 years has caused a fundamental shift in the way library materials are accessed.Remote Access Technologies for Library Col...
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Planning and Implementing Resource Discovery Tools in Academic Libraries
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Mary Pagliero Popp (Indiana University, USA), Diane Dallis (Indiana University, USA)
Copyright © 2012.
“Resource discovery” has many meanings, and it is now being defined as library research software that allows a library user to search multiple Web-based resources si...
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Author Cocitation Analysis: Quantitative Methods for Mapping the Intellectual Structure of an Academic Discipline
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Sean B. Eom (Southeast Missouri State University, USA)
Copyright © 2009.
Over the past 80 years, the way that citation frequency was counted and analyzed changed dramatically from the early manual transcribing and statistical computation...
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Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Research and Practice
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Holly Yu (California State University, Los Angeles, USA), Scott Breivold (California State University, Los Angeles, USA)
Copyright © 2008.
A pronounced move from print subscriptions to electronic resources in all types of libraries has fundamentally impacted the library and its users. With the influx of...
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Content and Workflow Management for Library Websites: Case Studies
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Holly Yu (California State University, Los Angeles, USA)
Copyright © 2005.
Using database-driven web pages or web content management (WCM) systems to manage increasingly diverse web content and to streamline workflows is a commonly practice...
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World Libraries on the Information Superhighway: Preparing for the Challenges of the New Millennium
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John Carlo Bertot, Patricia Diamond Fletcher
Copyright © 2000.
Currently, little is known about library experience and success in providing Internet-based services to library patrons. Some studies conducted in the United States...
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