Library and information sciences / Museology

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.

A Practical Guide to Dewey Decimal Classification is a hands-on introduction to the world's most frequently used classification system.

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

Marketing the 21st century library and information organization to its new age customers using Web 2.

This book contains a plethora of different viewpoints and research results from all over the world, bringing them together to provide a global perspective on the various issues that comprise "e;open access"e;.

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.

This is the new edition of the first consolidated ISBD that was published in 2007.

This volume comprises contributions of three conferences, on legal deposit in a digital environment, on web harvesting and archiving as well as newspapers in the geographical context of the Mediterranean.

The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and reception.

Scientific communication depends primarily on publishing in journals.

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

This book provides a single-volume introduction to the principles, strategies and practices currently applied by librarians and recordkeeping professionals to the critical issue of preservation of digital information.

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

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

The volume gathers twenty original essays by experts of American memory studies from the United States and Europe.

In recent years the library community has seen a renewed interest in library architecture and design.

Initiatives at a cross-cultural level, where libraries, museums and archives work together in creating digital libraries, and making their cultural heritage collections available online, are emerging.

Education for all can be more effectively provided through the services, programmes and activities of the school library tailored to the needs of the school community.

Verlag und Buchhandel zwischen Hyperinflation und Weltwirtschaftskrise, zwischen Republikgründung und schleichendem Verlust der Demokratie - Band 2 der Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19.

This book brings together innovative research that examines respectively climate change, agricultural production, environmental impacts, food security, nutrition and human health issues with regard to international policies as well as sustainable development goals.

Traditional Mediterranean fruits (i.

This book provides up-to-date knowledge on the role of water and fat soluble vitamins in the prevention of human diseases.