Books in the Routledge Library Editions: Library and Information Science series

This book, first published in 1989, is a comprehensive look at PaULS, the Pennsylvania Union List of Serials. It collects previously published articles recording the development and implementation of PaULS; new articles representing updated perspectives; the PaULS procedure manual; and an annotated bibliography.

This book, first published in 1997, gives an overview of how the Internet is used in academic libraries, with a focus on the dual role librarians serve as instructors and researchers. It includes concise summaries, keyword listings, and up-to-date bibliographies for each chapter.

This book, first published in 1987, provides important information on reference publishing, including valuable guidelines on evaluating publications and sources. The articles contained here are all written by leading experts in the field.

This book, first published in 1987, is an appraisal of the international librarianship scene and the reference service function. Experts discuss how international reference services can be improved to facilitate true exchange of information around the world.

This book, first published in 1986, discusses reference personnel concerns and problems and offers suggestions to administration and management for improving reference personnel performance and staff development.

This book, first published in 1995, describes how automation is changing the face of acquisitions as librarians know it and making the future uncertain yet exciting. It documents how libraries have increasingly moved to powerful, second-generation interfaceable or integrated systems that can control all aspects of library operations.

This book, first published in 1988, examines serials publishing. By exploring the relationships among the librarian, publisher, and vendor, it builds a better understanding of these positions. Discussions include the economics of journal publishing and the challenge of cataloguing computer files.

The library budget, a topic of primary importance to the reference librarian, is thoroughly examined in this book, first published in 1988. Experts offer insightful suggestions for reference librarians to understand and take responsibility for budget issues, directly and indirectly.

This book, first published in 1991, explores the changing roles of reference services and offers advice and practical ideas to guide librarians through the increasingly tangled maze of duties being thrust upon the reference staff.

This book, first published in 1990, focuses on specific types of training for librarians. Authorities explain pioneering programs in California and Maryland which deal with teaching basic reference tools to beginning librarians and paraprofessionals.

This book, first published in 1990, analyses how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies, describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching, and examines how scientists at a major industrial research organization searched online using an information center.

This book, first published in 1987, brings together from a variety of sources analysis on the major issues involved in the collection of scientific journals. It examines the rationale for journal choices, journals and tenure, journals and budgeting, and the elements of a good journal.

This book, first published in 1991, is an invaluable guide to biographies of scientists from a wide variety of scientific fields. These biographies are unique in that they explore the whole personality of the scientist, giving students a glimpse at the variety and drama of the lives beyond the well-known.

This book, first published in 1992, establishes a theoretical base for access services while also suggesting connections between theory and practice. It re-examines previous writings in this area, presents new experimental designs and results, creates contemporary organizational solutions, and adopts innovative techniques.

This book, first published in 1990, analyses the variety of ways in which libraries extend their resources to users beyond their physical walls. Librarians discuss the concept of the library as more than just a place but rather as a force that electronically links users directly with both local and remote sources of information.

This book, first published in 1992, predicts how the sci-tech library will look in ten years. It takes a close look at the revolution in the communication of scientific information and how technology has transformed the process of knowledge delivery and acquisitions.

This book, first published in 1988, is a guide to the USMARC Format for Holdings and Locations. Leading librarians offer information on the development of the format, the significant impact it has already had on libraries, as well as discussions about how difficult issues of interpretation have been handled.

This book, first published in 1995, addresses the key issue of libraries and interdependence. It explores the critical questions for making resource-sharing work, with particular emphasis on interlibrary loan. Cooperative collection development, economic decision models, consortial arrangements, and technology possibilities are explored.

This book, first published in 1992, explores the issue of library assessment methods and the impact of accountability on the delivery of reference services. It analyses a wealth of assessment methods that librarians use to collect data and create standards that are practical and useful in accounting for reference services.

This book, first published in 1991, examines the actual costs of operating an acquisitions department. It discusses the costs involved in pre-order searching; implementing an integrated online system; automating serials acquisitions; supporting personnel; organizing payment operations; and processing invoices.

This book, first published in 1986, describes the weeding process in libraries. Factors affecting the weeding of materials - lack of space, a desire to place materials in a more suitable library, changing goals of the library - are explored. Discussions concerning the choices for the disposal of items are insightful and innovative.

This book, first published in 1989, examines the problems and benefits of installing a ready-made computer system in a sci-tech library. These turnkey systems provide a means for obtaining the network for a lower cost than a new system designed by a consultant. These papers analyse their benefits and problems in a variety of situations.

This book, first published in 1986, is a practical resource to planning science and technology libraries. Librarians who have been through the process offer guidelines, an awareness of problems to anticipate, and solutions to them.

This book, first published in 1984, examines the process of building suitable collections for sci-tech libraries. Sci-tech collections present unique challenges, and expert writers assess these difficulties and provide a guide to solutions to the problems inherent in building these collections.