In the last 20 yearn, information science and technology have revolutionized the way researchers use the literature. We have described how many of the newer information systems have radically transformed the retrieval of bibliographic information. Indeed, it is safe to say that the ancient problem of “bibliographic control” has been solved. 1 Citation indexing, keyword indexing, and online acce...

Libraries are service organizations that store data and function as main information resource centers for various users (Hernon and Altman, 1998; Hernon and Calvert, 2005; Huang, 2007; Raza and Nath, 2007). Traditionally, users go to the library for services, such as borrowing/returning books, accessing the reference directory, availing of interlibrary loans and document delivery, and browsing ...

It has become unimaginable to provide information – particularly scientific information – without e-books. They have become part of today’s combination of media, which includes printed books and journals, e-journals, e-books, and databases. When e-books first appeared on the market, librarians very quickly formulated their key requirements. The most important requirement is functionality: it mu...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In any cooperative database the participants contribute their data for their own as well as the benefit of the other members, usually with incentives from the database administrators. A South African library network company (LIBNET) provided a networked service to participating libraries. Member benefits included conversion of their catalogues into machine-readable form, signi...

ABSTPACT The growth and proliferation .of machine-,readable data bases have created a need to consider the nature of recent developments, the impact of those' developments on library and information services, and their relationship with'the National. Commission on Library and Information Science (NCLIS) program. Data bases' many contain, information in a variety of forms, maybe produced by gove...

The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to provide the reader with a guide to relevant research in the area of Gestalt therapy, techniques, and methods. The majority of the references are journal articles written within the last 5 years or documents easily obtained through interlibrary loans from local libraries. These references were compiled both through a manual search of 26 different ...

Krista M. Soria is an Analyst in the Office of Institutional Research, Jan Fransen is Service Lead: Researcher and Discovery Systems, and Shane Nackerud is Technology Lead, Library Initiatives, all at the University of Minnesota; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. ©2017 Krista M. Soria, Jan Fransen, and Shane Nackerud, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.or...