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An Information Revolution for Small Enterprise in Africa
ILO Publications 2002; US$ 5.00Details the work undertaken by the ILOs InFocus Programme on Boosting Employment through Small Enterprise Development (SEED) to collaborate with the commercial radio media to enhance information provision, communication and respresentation for micro and small enterprises in Africa. more...
Handbook on the International Exchange of Publications
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 105.00Since publication of the previous (fourth) edition of this handbook by UNESCO in 1978, drastic technological progress and very important changes in the political-economic sphere have taken place, with great impact on library work. The international exchange of publications continues to be an important mode of collection building and is practiced by... more...
IFLA Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 70.00Existing 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... more...
UNIMARC & Friends: Charting the New Landscape of Library Standards
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 119.00With the expansion of the World Wide Web during the last decade, libraries and their standards face an ever-complex environment, with new types, genres and forms of information resources. Changing information network structures and the emergence of new retrieval methods all play their roles. A three day conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March... more...
UNIMARC Manual
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 189.00The third edition succeeds the fifth update of second edition. One of the main features has been the adoption of new and revised international standards, notably the International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations, the ISBN 13 and the linking ISSN. New fields have been added for recording the Persistent Record Identifier.... more...
The Impact of Digital Technology on Contemporary and Historic Newspapers
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00The papers brought together in this highly actual book are grouped around three themes. Not only the physical and digital preservation of newspapers are treated, but also the service and access models that are currently under development; examples are provided, with a focus on Southeast Asia. Moreover the dynamism of online newspapers is discussed.... more...
IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code, 4
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 210.00This is the latest report in a process towards International Cataloguing Principles that began in 2003 and will continue through 2007. Through the series of meetings represented by each volume the reader will be able to track the development and consultation taking place throughout the different parts of the world that will culminate with the creation... more...
IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code, 3
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 133.00This is the latest report in a process towards International Cataloguing Principles that began in 2003 and will continue through 2007. Through the series of meetings represented by each volume the reader will be able to track the development and consultation taking place throughout the different parts of the world that will culminate with the creation... more...
UNIMARC Manual
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 147.00The UNIMARC Authorities Format was designed in the early 1990s to allow the creation of authority and reference records for the management of controlled access points in a bibliographic database. Incorporated in this work is relevant information from other IFLA working groups and from UNIMARC users. It is published under the auspices of the IFLA Cataloguing... more...
Magic Search
ALA Editions 2009; US$ 38.00No other work explores the LCSH subdivisions is such detail or with such commitment, making this book vital to every Reference Desk. more...









