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IFLA Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displaysby Wolfgang P. Schmid; Eckhard Eggers
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 61.00Existing Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) demonstrate differences in the range and complexity of their functional features, terminology, and help facilities. While many libraries already have OPACs, there is a need to bring together, in the form of guidelines or recommendations, a corpus of good practice to assist libraries in designing or re-designing the displays for their OPACs, taking into consideration the needs of users. The audience for these guidelines is librarians charged with customizing OPAC software and vendors and producers of this software. The guidelines are mainly designed for general libraries with collections of resources in the humanities, the social sciences, and the pure and applied sciences. The guidelines are... more...
Medieval Warfareby Everett Crosby
Garland Science 2000; US$ 125.00This unique bibliography of medieval warfare, is the most comprehensive available. Containing many thousands of references it is the perfect research tool. more...
Bibliography of Female Economic Thought up to 1940by Kirsten Madden; Janet Seiz; Michele Pujol
Routledge 2004; US$ 330.00The history of female economic thought is expanding rapidly, but as yet, no one has made a bibligraphic collection generally available. This new book with a comprehensive editorial introduction fills this gap. more...
Thesaurus Construction and Useby Jean Aitchison; Alan Gilchrist; David Bawden
Europa Publications 2000; US$ 112.00A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. more...
Finding Information in Science, Technology and Medicineby Jill Lambert; Peter A. Lambert
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 85.00A practical guide to the basic structure of STM information, describing in simple terms, with examples, how to locate what you need. more...
Libraries, the Internet and Scholarshipby Charles F. Thomas
Marcel Dekker Inc 2002; US$ 129.95This title analyzes contemporary trends and tools that affect how information is created, stored, discovered and used in a progressive technological environment. It presents a framework for librarians to provide an efficient community of learning for their evolving clientele. more...
Cataloging and Classification for Library Technicians, Second Editionby Mary L. Kao
Haworth Press 2001; US$ 39.95More than basic instructions on how to do library classification, this classic work is a how-to handbook covering all aspects of a library technician's job. Cataloging and Classification for Library Technicians, Second Edition, gives step-by-step instructions for all aspects of cataloging and classification of library materials (book and non-book), emphasizing copy cataloging but also discussing original cataloging. more...
Introduction to Technical Services for Library Techniciansby Mary L. Kao
Haworth Press 2001; US$ 34.95For library technicians working in technical services and students in library technology programs, Introduction to Technical Services for Library Technicians is a practical, how-to-do-it text that shows how to perform the behind-the-scenes tasks the job requires. This essential volume comes complete with a suggested reading list, helpful charts and tables, a look at trends and issues to consider, and review questions at the end of each chapter. more...
Understanding Digital Librariesby Michael Lesk
Elsevier 2004; US$ 65.95This fully revised and updated second edition of Understanding Digital Libraries focuses on the challenges faced by both librarians and computer scientists in a field that has been dramatically altered by the growth of the Web. At every turn, the goal is practical: to show you how things you might need to do are already being done, or how they can be done. The first part of the book is devoted to technology and examines issues such as varying media requirements, indexing and classification, networks and distribution, and presentation. The second part of the book is concerned with the human contexts in which digital libraries function. Here you?ll find specific and useful information on usability, preservation, scientific applications, and... more...
Open Source Softwareby Scott P. Muir; Mark Leggott
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00Describes what is happening in the many OSS applications that have been or are still undergoing development in the university library environment, particularly Canadian. more...









