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Legal Information: what it is and where to find itby Peter Clinch
Europa Publications 2000; US$ 36.00The guide clearly and concisely shows how to source legal information, and how to deal with legal databases and the need-it-now demands of the marketplace. more...
The Maturation Of Assessment In Academic Librariesby Colleen Cook
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 199.00Libraries are facing significant challenges that have profound implications for their modus operandi. Chief among the challenges are the proliferation of new technologies for delivering library services, the plethora of projects vying for scarce resources, and increasingly demanding constituencies with diverse needs and expectations. more...
Emerging Roles Of Health Sciences Librarians Part 2by Jean P. Shipman; Sarah Barbara Watstein
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00Health sciences librarians no longer only find themselves staffing reference desks or building collections. Their activities range from being active participants in health care teams to providing training to the general public. Emerging roles are surfacing in all arenas served by health sciences libraries: educational, clinical, research and administration. more...
Societal Marketing In 2002 And Beyondby Pierre McDonagh; Clifford J. Shultz II
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 199.00About the Guest Editor G. Tomas M. Hult is Director of the International Business Center (e-mail: hult@msu.edu; www.globaledge.org) and Associate Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management in the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. more...
Library Automation in Transitional Societiesby Andrew Lass; Richard Quandt
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 111.00This is a collection of papers from a 1997 conference that attempted to assess the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's efforts to modernize Eastern European libraries after the fall of communism. more...
Emerging roles of health sciences librariansby Jean P. Shipman; Sarah Barbara Watstein
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 199.00Health sciences librarians no longer find themselves only staffing reference desks or building collections. Their activities range from being active participants in health-care teams to providing training to the general public. Emerging roles are surfacing in all arenas served by health sciences libraries: educational, clinical, research, and administration. Librarians are meeting new skill demands by re-educating both on the job and through traditional coursework. New types of positions are being explored and new partnerships with health-care colleagues are being forged. This article highlights the reasons why these new opportunities exist and provides references to articles contained within this journal issue. more...
Metadata and Semantics for Digital Libraries and Information Centresby David Raitt
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 199.00In 2005, a group of scholars decided to start a conference series related to metadata as a concrete research and inquiry discipline, called MTSR (Metadata and Semantics Research conference). The first conference took place completely online in 2005, and the second is being organized as a hybrid (part physical, part on-line) event by the Ionian Academy of Corfu (Ionian University) that will take place in 2007. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners that share a common interest in metadata, its representation, its semantics and its diverse applications. The contents of this e-book gather together papers selected for further expansion from the first conference and others coming from both an open call and regular... more...
100 More Library Lifesaversby Pamela S. Bacon
Greenwood Publishing Group 2003; US$ 45.00Writing for librarians working in elementary, intermediate, and high school settings, the author offers advice and activities in the form of 100 "lifesavers." The "lifesavers" are organized into ten "survival strategies," which cover such topics as distance learning, dealing with standards, improvin more...
Change Management in Academic Libraries 1by Steve O'Connor
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 199.00Papers in this e-book are selected from the excellent conference held in Hong Kong titled Academic Librarian; dinosaur or Phoenix? The conference was organized by and held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in April 2007. The title of the conference was drawn from a paper written some years earlier by Colin Steele who was, at that time, the University Librarian at the Australian National University in Canberra. As the conference literature indicated: the basic premise: 'a library service and its future are only as assured as the people offering that service'. The conference will examine the challenges and opportunities faced by academic library personnel in an ever faster moving and constantly changing academic... more...
Defining Relevancyby Janet McNeil Hurlbert
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 45.00Twenty plus academic library managers offer studies, models, and documentation, in addition to sound advice on how to plan strategically for greatest effect across the campus. more...









