Collection Management in Sci-Tech Libraries

Collection Management in Sci-Tech Libraries
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000757994

This book, first published in 1989, covers all aspects of sci-tech collection management. It analyses the planning, careful use of budgets and wise selections required to build a suitable collection.

Role of Standards in Sci-Tech Libraries

Role of Standards in Sci-Tech Libraries
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317765761

Required reading for any librarian who has been asked to identify standards and specifications, this unique new book highlights the importance of standards in many sci-tech libraries. Collections of standards in sci-tech libraries encompass a great variety--from the most narrow subject fields, to those covering many, and from collections of American standards only, to those with an international array. Role of Standards in Sci-Tech Libraries addresses the need for standards in libraries and provides crucial guidelines for developing standards collections. The first chapter describes the operation and collections of the ideal service that could be established to serve those needing stadards and to promote the use and collection of standards. A helpful list of foreign and domestic organizations that issue standards is included. Successive chapters explore the role of standards in different types of libraries--a public library’s science and technology department, a corporate library, an academic library, and the library of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The final chapter addresses the role of Information Handling Services (IHS), a commercial source of all types of standards, discusses the range of standards services, and explains how information is acquired.

Serving End-users in Sci-tech Libraries

Serving End-users in Sci-tech Libraries
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1984
Genre: End-user computing
ISBN: 9780866563277

Learn about the various ways in which sci-tech libraries are meeting the needs of end-users in this era of fast-growing technical literature and increasingly complex tools and products used for the retrieval of information.

Sci-Tech Library Networks Within Organizations

Sci-Tech Library Networks Within Organizations
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780866567473

This fascinating volume offers thorough descriptions of sci-tech library networks in which their members have a common sponsorship or ownership. Library networks exist in such great quantity and diversity now, that it is not difficult to identify many types of them. Corporate library networks--AT&T, Xerox, and General Electric--and federal government networks--NASA and FEDLINE--are the focus here, as the authors present the history, development, and activities of these networks. A library network for health sciences libraries that use OCLC is also scrutinized.

End-user Training for Sci-tech Databases

End-user Training for Sci-tech Databases
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1990
Genre: CD-ROMs
ISBN: 9780866569637

Learn how sci-tech libraries are encouraging and training end-users to do their own online searching of sci-tech databases. In sci-tech disciplines, efforts to increase collegiate end-user training and on-the-job training in searching are more prevalent in many colleges and business/government organizations. This timely book includes information on how to train end-users to search with both natural language and controlled vocabularies in the sciences, describes a planning assessment for implementing end-user searching in a sci-tech organization, examines how the scientists at a major industrial research organization have begun to do more online searching with the encouragement of the information center, and explores the proactive role that medical libraries have taken in training health care professionals to search MEDLINE.

Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries

Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries
Author: Rita Pellen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317955463

Catch up with the many innovations now affecting sci/tech libraries! The twenty-four chapters in Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries discuss the creation of digital collections, e-repositories, personalized Web environments, and discipline-specific Web sites for students and researchers. The book also explores the use of new technologies to improve document delivery and service provision as well as demonstrations of leadership by science librarians who are willing to take risks, adapt to change, control costs, and collaborate with colleagues. Here is just a fraction of the fascinating cases and important concepts highlighted in Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries: the Drexel University Library’s transition from print to an electronic-only journal collection the benefits of adopting a just-in-time (purchase on demand) rather than a just-in-case acquisitions policy IntelliDoc—how it has raised the standard for document delivery worldwide and increased international recognition of CISTI how California State University, Sacramento, merged its science library into its central reference department—an examination of the two-year merging process the creation of branch libraries focused on electronic information—an engineering library at Kansas State University and an agriculture library at the University of Manitoba the impact of electronic information upon undergraduate science education literacy competencies in the sciences—and their implications for library instruction how the MIT libraries created and developed the Reference Vision system that now guides all of their new reference services the impact of learning communities upon library services recent additions that enhance the usefulness of the IEEE Xplore online delivery system Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries will bring you up-to-date on the latest developments, sharpen your awareness of new concepts and techniques in sci/tech librarianship, and help your library stay abreast of important changes in this ever-evolving field. Make it a part of your professional reference collection today!

Relation of Sci-tech Information to Environmental Studies

Relation of Sci-tech Information to Environmental Studies
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1990
Genre: Environmental impact analysis
ISBN: 9780866569880

Illustrates the nature and use of sci-tech information in relation to the environment. Sci-tech librarians, government researchers, and compilers and editors of noted indexing/abstracting services describe the efforts of their organizations to compile, maintain, and disseminate the large body of sci-tech information devoted to environmental concerns. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sci-tech Archives and Manuscript Collections

Sci-tech Archives and Manuscript Collections
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1989
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780866569507

Here is a fascinating book that describes selected collections of sci-tech archives and manuscripts. Librarians will gain valuable information on the ways in which sci-tech archival material is being handled and preserved in various institutions and organizations. Sci-Tech Archives and Manuscript Collections is a helpful guide that also describes ways in which these often unique and irreplaceable materials are organized so they can be searched and used. Corporate, academic, and governmental organizations are represented, and some attention is given to the international scene. Topics include a description of the American Museum of Natural History collection, a survey of archival materials at zoos and aquariums, a description of the efforts of the American Institute of Physics Center for History of Physics to develop the international Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences.

Electronic Resources and Services in Sci-Tech Libraries

Electronic Resources and Services in Sci-Tech Libraries
Author: Mary Schlembach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317718844

“Advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” --Arthur C. Clarke This well-researched book makes sense of the new advances in electronic services and resources available to science and technology libraries. It will familiarize you with the latest collection development, reference service, and information service technologies. Inside you’ll find case studies, examples of successful implementations of emerging information technologies, helpful tables and figures, screen shots, and more! In addition to bringing you up to date on the latest trends in the area, Electronic Resources and Services in Sci-Tech Libraries will provide you with essential background information on these important technologies. With Electronic Resources and Services in Sci-Tech Libraries, you’ll learn: how the University of Arizona Libraries access remote electronic resources how journal articles containing complex mathematics are published on the Web--including the latest developments in MathML, PDF, OpenMath, and more how the e-resource registry approach can be integrated with existing custom Web-based services how to use user-centered criteria to evaluate electronic journals how to use e-prints (electronic preprints) to break the stranglehold that journal publishers have over science libraries how to get the most from electronic reserves-with tips and techniques for implementing an e-reserves service, negotiating copyright issues, and more how to implement a successful current awareness services program how the next generation of library portals will impact sci-tech libraries and much more!