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Technical Services Management, 1965-1990
Gain an in-depth understanding of changes in technical services that have taken place over a quarter century and look at future trends and changes that may occur. Technical Services Management surveys and analyzes technical services in libraries from 1965 to 1990, a formative period and one of great change in library operations. The book also identifies trends that continue to impact technical services operations in libraries today. Readers gain a comprehensive knowledge of where the field has been and where it is now to help them plan and prepare more effectively for the future.Most chapters are historical, combined with a firm grasp of the present and a glimpse or more at the future. They ...
Beyond the Search Engine
Focusing on the user experience of online search, this book explores the complex design at play and the ways social media platforms, websites, and other online interfaces have been created to provide information. Author Liese Zahabi addresses three key questions. How do users perceive search engines and what is their understanding of how they work? What are the various user interface designs, contemporary and historical, that have created access points to search, and how do these interfaces affect each other and a user’s search process? What do these designs and products say about our priorities and our relationships with information and other people? This book weaves archival and contempo...
Usage and Usability Assessment
This report offers a survey of the methods that are being deployed at leading digital libraries to assess the use and usability of their online collections and services. Focusing on 24 Digital Library Federation member libraries, the study's author, Distinguished DLF Fellow Denise Troll Covey, conducted numerous interviews with library professionals who are engaged in assessment. The report describes the application, strengths, and weaknesses of assessment techniques that include surveys, focus groups, user protocols, and transaction log analysis. Covey's work is also an essential methodological guidebook. For each method that she covers, she is careful to supply a definition, explain why and how libraries use the method, what they do with the results, and what problems they encounter. The report includes an extensive bibliography on more detailed methodological information, and descriptions of assessment instruments that have proved particularly effective.
Using the World Wide Web and Creating Home Pages
Explains a variety of Web concepts in a practical manner, with an emphasis on the Web for libraries. Discusses the process of planning for and implementing a library/community, including an overview of the basics of the Web in simple, non-technical language; basic technical information needed to select and budget for an Internet connection that will support the Web; an explanation of how to train staff and patrons and encourage them to become Web-savvy; an outline of the planning process; how to design Web sites; and a primer of basic HTML text and graphic tags.
Finding Government Information on the Internet
Presents a guide to government information on the Internet in three sections: topics, discussing access to government information; tools, showing how to use the internet ; and treasures, highlighting resources.
NASIG 2001
Presentations and workshops from a May 2001 conference address digital licensing issues, journal licensing, negotiation, and accessibility issues, and give tips on dealing with difficult customers and employees and increasing library effectiveness. Some topics discussed include licensing electronic resources, redefining the serial and the licensing environment, and providing access to journals in aggregator databases. Scheiberg is affiliated with the RAND Corporation Library. Neville is a library systems analyst in product engineering in the private sector. This work has been co-published simultaneously as The Serials Librarian, vol. 42, nos. 1/2 and 3/4, 2002. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction
A biographical encyclopedia of American and British Christian-themed writers from World War II to the present, covering acclaimed literary works and popular evangelical fiction. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction: From C.S. Lewis to Left Behind spans the entire breadth of Christian-themed British and American writing from World War II to the present—well-known and less familiar authors, acclaimed literary novels, and popular writing in a variety of genres (mysteries, thrillers, romances), works that explore matters of faith, works that challenge orthodoxy and church practices, and works wholly written by and for devout evangelicals. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fictio...
Implementing an Automated Circulation System
Provides a guide to installing an automated library circulation system. This work details the whole process from the role of a project manager to working with system hardware/software, converting records, documentation, staff training and evaluation.
Making the Most of New Technology
Technological change often appears to be bombarding us fast and furiously from every newspaper and news magazine. Headlines and lead stories tout new machines, new home delivery systems, virtual reality, multi-media, Internet, 3DO, CD-ROM, CDR and WORM. Yet in this rapidly expanding technological world, many libraries have less and less money to meet more and more demands for service. This book should help libraries to carefully plant their acquisition of new technology and offer essential service without wasting scarce resources. Imhoff describes some of the changes coming to our world that will affect libraries and information delivery and provides coping tools and an in-depth look at factors that will cause change and require technological planning. She also explores possible roles libraries could choose to play in the future and explains how technologies might be involved. The book includes an idea analysis worksheet that fosters efficient planning for technology changes and improvement of service to the client group.
