Online Community Information: Creating a Nexus at Your Library

By Joan C. Durrance

Librarians are key players in bringing communities together. With the help of the Internet, they are in a position to revolutionize the way users access information and come together as a result.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838908233
• ISBN13: 9780838908235
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: American Library Association
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

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Setting up and managing an Internet community network

The collaboration of Joan C. Durrance (Professor, University of Michigan School of Information) and Karen E. Pettigrew (Assistant Professor, Information School of the University of Washington), Online Community Information: Creating A Nexus At Your Library is dedicated to helping librarians better serve the needs of their patrons in the 21st century. Individual chapters clearly spell out effective methods for setting up and managing an Internet community network that is useful, functional and practical. Online Community Information is especially recommended for librarians who want to their academic, community, corporate, or governmental library to be the best it can be in this modern information age of cyberspace, computerized data banks, and the World Wide Web.