Downsizing in Academic Libraries

The Canadian Experience

The 1990s provided many challenges for Canadian academic library managers. Financial cutbacks at the federal and provincial levels quickly trickled down to universities and their libraries, and administrators were forced to learn how to manage with shrinking budgets. Ethel Auster and Shauna Taylor's Downsizing ...

Managing information services

This sophisticated primer draws together in an accessible form the principles of management as they need to be understood by library and information professionals. Written by a practising library manager and a management academic, the text introduces and applies the latest management concepts to library ...

La librería como negocio

economía y administración

Las librerías suelen ser un negocio de muy baja rentabilidad y de muy altas exigencias, tanto culturales como financieras. Las librerías son una tienda en la que se expende mercancía, pero son mucho más que eso: son centros de servicio en los que se orienta ...

Globalisation, information and libraries

implications of the World Trade Organization's GATS and TRIPS Agreements

This book provides an overview of the World Trade Organisation; in particular, it focuses on two of the agreements being developed at the WTO, which are due to be strengthened in 2005, and are likely to have significant implications for libraries and information: the General ...

Cen anos da Biblioteca América (1904-2004) = Cien años de la Biblioteca de América (1904-2004)

Clasificación Decimal Universal (CDU)

edición de bolsillo

Cibermetría

nuevas técnicas de estudio aplicables al Web

Del texto al Hipertexto

las bibliotecas universitarias ante el reto de la digitalización

Bibliotecas virtuales para las ciencias sociales

Identificación y conservación de fotografías

El título de esta obra sugiere dos conceptos. La identificación para conocer concretamente ante cuál de los múltiples procedimientos que englobamos bajo el nombre de fotografía nos encontramos, ya que no es lo mismo un daguerrotipo que un platinotipo, una diapositiva o un archivo digital ...

IFLA cataloguing principles

steps towards an international cataloguing code : report from the 1st IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code, Frankfurt, 2003

The goal of the #1st IFLA Meeting of Experts on the International Cataloguing Code, Frankfurt 2003# was to increase the ability to share cataloguing information worldwide by promoting standards for the content of bibliographic records and authority records used in library catalogues. In this report ...

Practical copyright for information professionals

the CILIP handbook

Are you worried about recent changes in copyright law? This guide, written by a copyright expert, de-mystifies the complicated law of copyright and related rights. The author provides commonsense, practical guidance on respecting and keeping on the right side of the copyright law in your ...

Teaching information skills

theory and practice

Teaching information skills is now a crucial part of most librarians# jobs, but very few have been formally trained in how to teach. This practical text will show the reader how implement vital teaching skills in their role as librarian. The book covers both the ...

Intellectual property lisences and technology transfer

a practical guide to the new European licencing regime

law governing the enforceability of intellectual property licences in Europe. Agreements which contain the grant of a licence by one party to another of intellectual property rights are subject to European competition (anti-trust) laws. In particular, many agreements containing licences of patent rights and rights ...

Libraries as places

buildings for the 21st century : proceedings of the Thirteenth Seminar of the IFLA 's Library Buildings and Equipment Section together with IFLA's Public Libraries Section, Paris, France, 28 July - 1 August 2003

This book contains the Proceedings of the 13th Seminar of IFLA's Library Buildings and Equipment Section, which was this time co-organised with IFLA's Public Libraries Section. The event took place as one of the satellite meetings of the World Library and Information Congress ...

The strategic management of technology

a guide for library and information services

Aimed at professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about the management of technology in a strategic context. The book is written against a backdrop of the complete transformation of LIS over the last twenty years as a result of technology. The ...

Metadata for information management and retrieval

for information management and retrieval

What is metadata and what do I need to know about it? These are two key questions for the information professional operating in the digital age as more and more information resources are available in electronic format. This is a thought-provoking introduction to metadata written ...

Los portales bibliotecarios

Este libro dibuja las líneas principales para la elaboración del proyecto informativo público en línea de la biblioteca. En el contexto de la sociedad de la información, la biblioteca debe enfocarse conceptualmente como una biblioteca híbrida, donde se produce una constante evolución tecnológica y una ...

Building and electronic resource collection

a practica guide

All information and library professionals involved with collection development are currently confronting the challenge of how to make informed decisions in the face of the bewildering array of electronic resources available. This practical book addresses this situation by guiding the information professional step-by-step through building ...

Contenidos.eu

las nuevas tecnologías de la información ante la diversidad cultural y lingüística de Europa

Las nuevas tecnologías están produciendo un cambio en la correlación de fuerzas de los tradicionales agentes y mercados de la comunicación y la cultura. En la Unión Europea, las empresas y las instituciones comunitarias deben desempeñar un papel muy activo en la creación de un ...