Catalogación de monografías impresas

Los catálogos permiten representar el universo bibliográfico que las unidades de información ponen al alcance de sus usuarios, y facilitan la recuperación de la Información registrada en respuesta a necesidades concretas de información. Su construcción es una de las tareas fundamentales de las bibliotecas. Esta ...

Biblioteca pública y desarrollo económico

En los últimos años, se ha desarrollado un debate cada vez más intenso sobre el nuevo modelo de biblioteca pública que requiere la sociedad contemporánea. Tanto en los foros internacionales como nacionales, se viene intentando definir la función de la biblioteca pública en la Sociedad ...

Gestión de información

dimensiones e implementación para el éxito organizacional

Toda organización maneja información. La información la recorre de un lado a otro, haciendo realidad su razón de ser en función de la satisfacción de sus objetivos y metas. Si bien información y conocimiento constituyen los dos pilares vitales que sustentan el trabajo de cualquier ...

Gutenberg 2.0

le futur du livre: six siècles après Gutenberg une nouvelle révolution va changer votre façon de lire...

Le livre va vivre sa 2ème révolution après celle de Gutenberg, il y a plus de 500 ans. Le livre est un objet qui n'a cessé de connaître des évolutions au fil des millénaires. Il va, durant cette première décennie du XXIe siècle, connaître ...

Digital rights management

a librarian's guide to technology and practice

This book provides an overview of the current landscape in digital rights management (DRM), including: an overview of terminology and issues facing libraries, plus an overview of the technology (including standards and off-the-shelf products). It discusses the role and implications of DRM for existing library ...

The evaluation of Worldwide digital reference services in libraries

This book outlines and evaluates the current status of the digital reference service in libraries worldwide. The book is based on an international collaborative project between two groups from German and Chinese institutions, during which digital reference services provided by nearly 200 libraries all over ...

Emerging technologies for academic libraries in the Digital Age

This book is written to promote academic strategic management and envision future innovations for academic library resources, services and instructions in the digital age. It provides academic executives, consultants, instructors, IT specialists, librarians, LIS students, managers, trainers and other professionals with the latest information for ...

Research and advanced technology for digital libraries

10th European Conference, EDCL 2006, Alicante Spain, September 17-22, 2006.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2006, held in Alicante, Spain in September 2006. The 36 revised full papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 18 demo papers and 15 ...

The human side of reference and information services in academic libraries

adding value in the digital world

Summary: This book answers the questions: how do academic libraries provide value-added reference and information services in a digital age? It provides best practices from a global perspective. The book starts at the information needs and info-seeking behaviours of university students and faculty. Then it ...

The whole digital library handbook

Essential facts, advice, lists, documents, guidelines, lore, wit, and wisdom: Along with fun and irreverence, it's what readers have come to expect from the "Whole Library" series. In a one-volume compendium that's by turns encyclopedic, useful, and engaging, this latest entry provides an ...

E-Journal invasion

a cataloguer's guide to survival

Written by a practitioner, this book explores the changing nature of cataloging in the aftermath of e-journal invasion. It traces the development of the issue by examining changes in AACR2 and CONSER rules, focusing on the revision of AACR2, Chapter 12, and emergence of the ...

Institutions of reading

the social life of libraries inthe United States

Tracing the evolution of the library as a modern institution from the late eighteenth century to the digital era, this book explores the diverse practices by which Americans have shared reading matter for instruction, edification, and pleasure. Writing from a rich variety of perspectives, the ...

Building Web-scale libraries

libraries, networks and services

Libraries are entering a second phase of their networked life. In the first they thought about how to connect their services to the network. However, now that the network has reconfigured behaviours and structures in significant ways, a new set of issues needs to be ...

Theorizing digital cultural heritage

a critical discourse

This book features theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in interpretation and representation of cultural heritage. In "Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage", experts offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by ...

Information users and usability in the Digital Age

Information users and usability constitute the main building blocks of today's electronic information world. This important new text is the first to give a holistic overview of all of the necessary issues relating to information users and the usability of information services in the ...

The pursuit of knowledge

speeches and papers of Richard C. Atkinson

Richard C. Atkinson's tenure as president of the University of California (1995-2003) reflected the major issues facing California itself: the state's emergence as the world's leading knowledge-based economy and the rapid expansion and increased diversity of its population. As this selection of ...

Youth services and public libraries

"Youth Services and Public Libraries" offers strategies to match the information needs and wants of children and young adults in public libraries and translates these into knowledge for providing relevant services. The latest trends in service provision are covered within the context of appropriate management ...

Copyright for archivists and records managers

As an archivist or records manager, it is essential to keep up to date with the complexities of copyright legislation, and "Copyright for Archivists and Records Managers" will prove an invaluable tool in enabling you to do so. What is copyright? Who owns it and ...

Providing effective library services for research

Researchers rely on libraries to provide the information they need; equally, supporting research is a fundamental reason for libraries' existence. This book is first to explore the crucial relationship between libraries and researchers, focusing on developing and managing effective library services to support research and ...

Going the distance

library instruction for remote users

As more and more students are completing their higher or further education without ever setting foot on the main campus, information professionals must now find new and innovative ways to serve virtual and remote library users. They need to support academics, students and researchers by ...