Library, archive and information management

This unique volume gives a truly international overview over the modern history and development of libraries and library technology in selected countries of the world.

The scope of this volume will encompass a collection of research papers related to indexing and retrieval of online non-text information.

The purpose of authority control is to ensure consistency in representing a value - a name of a person, a place name, or a term or code representing a subject - in the elements used as access points in information retrieval.

Scientific communication depends primarily on publishing in journals.

This is the latest edition of Elizabeth Moys' classic reference work for law librarians.

About 40 percent of the books academic libraries purchase in traditional ways never circulate and another 40 percent circulate fewer than three times.

Since the publication of the 2nd edition additional countries especially in Asia have become more prominent in industry.

Dealing with information is one of the vital skills in the 21st century.

This volume contains the proceedings of a special conference held in Florence, August 2009.

Die vorliegenden Bände bieten mit ihren annotierten Verzeichnissen erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über die deutschsprachigen Handschriften-Bestände des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit in den wichtigsten Archiven der Slowakischen Republik.

Der Bautyp Bibliotheken unterlag in den letzten zehn Jahren einem enormen Wandel.

This book examines the following factors: sponsorship of research, control of the dissemination of research, effects of dominant research paradigms, financial interests of authors, publishers, and editors, role of new technologies (for example, Web 2.