Virtually Yours: Models for Managing Electronic Resources and Services

By Reference and User Services Association

Electronic resources such as CD-ROMs, online reference services, audio and video products, and others have been a boon to libraries, giving them a variety of options when it comes to providing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838907539
• ISBN13: 9780838907535
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: American Library Association
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Par ou, la bibliotheque?

Dans les bibliotheques on a toujours besoin de l'argent, des bibliothecaires, et des clients. Et les bibliothecaires, ce sont des pionniers..traditionnels! Savez-vous qu'a cause d'eux, et des citoyens genereux, toute chose electronique de la Bibliotheque du Congres est a la portee des internautes. Maintenant, sur des rayons des bibliotheques, a cote des livres, il y a des cassettes, des cd-roms, des videos, toute chose electronique. Maintenant, sur des tables, a cote des livres, il y a des ordinateurs. Mais plus ca change electroniquement, plus c'est la meme chose!

Hey, Where's My Library?

Selecting, processing and making available audio and video products, CD-ROM, and online reference are not traditional librarian jobs. But the digitized traditional library has different concerns. The virtual library still needs collection and public service librarians, catalogers, and information processing experts. It also needs the corporate sector, funding agencies, and information producers and providers: the Library of Congress digitized historical collections on limited Congressional funds and huge private fundraising. Librarians have a pioneering tradition: barcodes before grocery stores; book sorting and shelving robots in Europe; cooperative cataloging and indexing for decades; the ILL code in the 1930s; and self-checkout. So they can handle the traditional acquisition of property and the digital acquisition of rights while plugging away at storing, finding and getting out information. Peggy Johnson and Bonnie MacEwan see to it that libraries will be VIRTUALLY YOURS whether you are librarian, staff or user. The book joins up with Pat Ensor's THE CYBRARIAN'S MANUAL, Joan Giesecke's PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR LIBRARY MANAGERS, Robert S. Want's LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ONLINE, and Anne Woodsworth's PATTERNS AND OPTIONS FOR MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON CAMPUS.