The virtual reference desk

Creating a reference future

Online chat, text messaging, RSS feeds - we never imagined that these technologies would impact on information services in the ways they have, and we can only begin to imagine the greater changes that tomorrow will bring in the world of the virtual reference library. This ...

Pautas de accesibilidad web para bibliotecas

El número de usuarios con accesso a Internet ha aumentado de manera exponencial. Sin embargo, las innovaciones y avances tecnológicos plantean oportunidades y también amenazas, dentro de las cuales se identifica la denominada brecha digital, esto es, el espacio social, técnico y político que distancia ...

Digital libraries

integrating content and systems

Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with a ...

Archiving websites

a practical guide for information management professionals

The world wide web is arguably the most important, and certainly the largest and most ubiquitous, cultural and commercial information resource in existence. The requirements to actively preserve selected parts of it, and the attendant problems of archiving such a vast and ephemeral entity, are ...

Reference and information services in the 21st century

an introduction

Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century is the most current introduction to reference work available. Part One covers the essentials # selecting and evaluating material, interviewing enquirers, instructing users, and assessing services. The authors effectively synthesize the growing need for electronic resources with the ...

Libraries and Google

Nineteen contributed articles detail the turmoil as librarians, academics, and students try to sort out the facts from the hype about Google (and Google Scholar in particular)--its usurping of traditional library activities, its limitations, and its potential. The subject is evolving rapidly, so the ...

Open source database driven web development

a guide for information professionals

The Author: Isaac Hunter Dunlap is an experienced web developer who has created numerous database driven applications with Open Source technology. He is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Information Systems at Western Illinois University Libraries. Summary: Almost every organization seeks a simple means of managing ...

Catalogación de recursos electrónicos

En los últimos años se ha ido afianzando la comunicación académica y científica en formato electrónico. Ello ha supuesto tanto la proliferación de versiones electrónicas de revistas académicas y profesionales, de actas de congresos, informes, etcétera, como la publicación de recursos que se originan directamente ...

Biblioteca pública, Sociedad de la Información y brecha digital

El 7 de marzo de 1876 en Estados Unidos de Norteamerica se presento la patente de un nuevo aparato tecnologico que prometia ser de gran beneficio para la humanidad: el telefono. No obstante, 130 años despues, en el año 2006, mas de la mitad de ...

Impacto tecnológico y arquitectura en bibliotecas

Las bibliotecas y los centros de documentación están en evolución constante, bajo el efecto de las emergentes nuevas tecnologías y modalidades de aprendizaje. ¿Cómo concebir la biblioteca del futuro? ¿ Qué papel desempeñará en el ambiente escolar, en el sistema educativo y en la sociedad en ...

wikis

tools for information work and collaboration

Wikis as information sources, as a form of publishing, and as tools for collaboration, are discussed in this book. The applications of wikis in library and information services, education and business are explored, with examples. The book begins with an overview of wikis, in the ...

Enabling end users

information skills training

Summary: Suggests ways of offering end user education or training through personal tuition in libraries. It examines issues about who needs end user education and training, what they might need and how it can be delivered. Guidance on planning and running individual, group and workshop ...

The future of the book in the Digital Age

Summary: With contributions from some of the world's leading authorities, this publication considers the future of the book in the digital age. As more books are published than ever before, this timely publication addresses a range of critically important themes relating to the book ...

Handbook of electronic and digital acquisitions

Ch. 1 Acquisitions and copyright by Doris Van Kampen Ch. 2 Copyright and fair use : electronic reserves by Linda Neyer Ch. 3 Evaluating databases for acquisitions and collection development by Audrey Powers Ch. 4 Collection development strategies for online aggregated databases by Susan McMullen and ...

Building a successful archival programme

a practical approach

Summary: This book provides information on best practices and solutions in order to successfully establish an archival programme; it uses a practical approach, without the use of technical or theoretical jargon. This book serves as a companion text in a theoretical archival course. The book ...

Building bridges

collaboration within and beyond the academic library

Summary: Intended for academic libraries, this book covers all aspects of collaboration. Technology has increased the need for, and the ability to, collaborate at work; the first part of the book contains a discussion of: the basic hows and whys of collaboration; building an environment ...

Putting content online

a practical guide for libraries

Summary: This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property ...

Pautas de accesibilidad en la Web para bibliotecas

El número de usuarios con acceso a internet ha aumentado de manera exponencial. Sin embargo, las innovaciones y avances tecnológico plantean oportunidades y también amenazas, dentro de las cuales se identifica la denominada brecha digital, esto es, el espacio social, técnico y político que distancia ...

Ethical decision making for digital libraries

Summary: Examines the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in digital libraries, and the codes of conduct, professional guidelines and ethics resources used in resolving them. Begins with an overview of classical and applied ethics, then reviews the codes of conduct of professional information societies ...

Digital libraries integrating content and systems

Summary: Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with ...