Planning Facilities for Sci-Tech Libraries

Planning Facilities for Sci-Tech Libraries
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000758931

This book, first published in 1983, presents some useful guidelines for librarians contemplating planning sci-tech library facilities, along with a number of reports on actual examples of such projects, representing a variety of sci-tech library types.

Innovations in Planning Facilities for Sci-Tech Libraries

Innovations in Planning Facilities for Sci-Tech Libraries
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000757609

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.

Planning Facilities for Sci-tech Libraries

Planning Facilities for Sci-tech Libraries
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 121
Release: 1983
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780866562379

Here are some useful guidelines for librarians contemplating planning sci-tech library facilities, along with a number of reports on actual examples of such projects, representing a variety of sci-tech libraries.

Sci-Tech Libraries Serving Societies and Institutions

Sci-Tech Libraries Serving Societies and Institutions
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780866566186

Here is a readable book on the important role played by libraries and information centers which serve sci-tech societies, associations, and institutions.

Fee-Based Services in Sci-Tech Libraries

Fee-Based Services in Sci-Tech Libraries
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317951328

This timely and important book explores how fee-based services have developed in various types of sci-tech libraries. The authoritative contributors focus on the current changing financial aspects of the sci-tech library operation and clarify for the reader how these changes have brought about conditions in which traditional methods of funding are no longer adequate. What new options are open and how they are best being applied in today’s sci-tech libraries is fully and clearly explained and illustrated. Topics explored include cost allocation and cost recovery, fees for computer searching, and the relationship between sci-tech libraries and serials agents.

Patent and Trademark Information

Patent and Trademark Information
Author: Virginia Ann Baldwin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113637907X

Discover new techniques for researching patents and trademarks! Patent and Trademark Information: Uses and Perspectives addresses an essential yet undervalued and often underused class of scientific and technical information. Library staff, information specialists, corporation heads and administrators, inventors, school faculty, scientists, engineers, and engineering, science and library students will gain valuable insight on historical research, practical applications, and the availability and accessibility of patenting authorities. This book focuses on methods for searching international patents and trademark information for patrons of the library using the Internet, databases, and other sources. This book contains tips and nuts-and-bolts advice from experienced librarians who either practice in patent and trademark depository libraries or are experts in researching patents for library patrons. Their advice will help you navigate decision points and search paths for locating patent and trademark information from state, federal, and international sources. Special features include tables and figures, as well as bibliographies that provide extensive resources for locating additional information. The first half of the book is dedicated to issues involving patents, including: disseminating enemy technical information during World War II basic novelty patent searching in seven steps using patent information for historical genealogical research esp@cenet®Europe’s network of patent databases regional patent systemsa challenge for the international searcher patent data for technology assessmentapplications, patent databases, and retrieval methods The second half of Patent and Trademark Information guides you in searching out trademarks, company and owner names, and databases. An entire chapter is dedicated to searching for trademark and/or company names for each of the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. Another chapter investigates five free international Web-based patent sites.

Digital Libraries

Digital Libraries
Author: David Stern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134730683

An unparalleled overview of current design considerations for your digital library! Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios is a balanced overview of public services, collection development, administration, and systems support, for digital libraries, with advice on adopting the latest technologies that appear on the scene. As a professional in the library and information science field, you will benefit from this special issue that serves as an overview of selected directions, trends, possibilities, limitations, enhancements, design principals, and ongoing projects for integrated library and information systems. In Digital Libraries, you will discover the latest ideas and research on digitizing and distributing online library material, including information on: organization and administration of new digital library facilities collection development in digital libraries technological infrastructures for seamlessly integrated computer databases over the Internet XML and other new standards for displaying data on the web interface design issues in the search environment object oriented interfaces and improved searching possibilities a brief history of patents on the internet Digital Libraries is a working reference for your digital library-specific problems. Split into three related sections: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios, Digital Libraries addresses the many complexities and new issues that have evolved with the development of digital libraries and their future technologies. You will gain a thorough understanding of the public service and design considerations that are necessary to take your digital library into the 21st century.

Information And The Professional Scientist And Engineer

Information And The Professional Scientist And Engineer
Author: Julie Hallmark
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136414002

Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in sci-tech librarianship! Information and the Professional Scientist and Engineer examines how electronic resources have affected the ways engineers and scientists seek, use, and communicate information vital to their research and development needs. Information specialists working in academic, corporate, government, and organization libraries discuss the changes in user behavior as academics in science and engineering fields rely more and more on the Internet and online journals. The book provides unique insight into the specific educational needs of college and university students as librarians and department faculty determine appropriate instruction for science and engineering classes. Information and the Professional Scientist and Engineer addresses the distinctions among various science and engineering fields, types of libraries, communities of users, and users within a field or discipline. Within these discussions, librarians also examine the differences between commercial and academic databases, and between personal or group subscriptions to database services, print, and online journals. The book also addresses Geographic Information Systems users through a study of the interconnection among disciplines associated with GIS. Information and the Professional Scientist and Engineer includes bibliographies that provide valuable information resources, reviews of pertinent web sites, tables, figures, and interviews while addressing: the information-seeking behavior of chemists, geologists, pharmacists, botanists, and zoologists the case for an engineering knowledge community online bibliographic sources in hydrology a practical guide to finding physical properties of chemicals new reference works in science and technology new age e-journals, indexes, and services Information and the Professional Scientist and Engineer is a unique resource for librarians and other information specialists, science and engineering faculty and students, and academic administrators.