Digital libraries and the challenges of digital humanities

One of the major challenges facing librarians and curators of digital repositories are the innovative 'born digital' documents created by scholars in the humanities. These documents range from the parsed corpora created by linguists to traditional reference information presented in electronic databases, to rich, multi-media ...

Digital libraries and the challenges of digital humanities

Summary: One of the major challenges facing librarians and curators of digital repositories are the innovative 'born digital' documents created by scholars in the humanities. These documents range from the parsed corpora created by linguists to traditional reference information presented in electronic databases, to rich ...

The digital challenge for libraries

understanding the culture and technology of total information

Public and university libraries are at a crossroads, hard-pressed by competition from Internet search engines, declining budgets and changes in popular culture. Libraries must respond aggressively. Otherwise they will be marginalized by the impact of digital technology on their traditional customer base. Author Ralph Blanchard ...

Guía metodológica para la implantación de una biblioteca digital universitaria

La provisión de contenidos a texto completo es un tema de candente actualidad, que afecta a la realidad cotidiana de muchos centros de información, pero también a usuarios que quieren conseguir que su información sea accesible. Esta Guía metodológica para la implantación de una biblioteca ...

An introduction to library and information work

The expanded CILIP Framework of Qualifications, with its introduction of Certified Membership for staff in paraprofessional roles, reflects the continuing need for a textbook to replace earlier editions as the standard work for paraprofessional library and information staff and for the introductory year of professional ...

Multiculturalidad en la biblioteca

Cómo pueden servir las bibliotecas públicas a las poblaciones multiculturales

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 ...