Robert J. Carande

Automation in Library Reference Services

A Handbook

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The future of reference librarianship as a viable and essential part of the library depends on developing a proactive, participatory, and hands-on approach to automation. This book pulls together the most important elements of change likely to influence library information services and explains them clearly. It covers both the conceptual context and practical real-life implementations of current automation in reference services. The automation technologies include OPACs, CD-ROM, international networks, expert systems, natural language processing, and virtual reality. In addition to helping people find information, reference librarians also perform another service: the comprehension and understanding of the operative connections between and route to information. It necessitates an unrelenting exploration and immersion within the world information matrix to maintain currency and knowledge. The author shows how reference librarians have in the past and will in the future take a leading role in adapting automation to reference services.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780313278372
• ISBN-10: 0313278377
• Artikelnr.: 25566573

Autorenporträt

ROBERT J. CARANDE is Head of the Science Division at San Diego State University Library. An authority on artificial intelligence and information technology resources, his previous publications include Automation in Library Reference Services (Greenwood, 1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction The OPAC Concept Online Searching CD-ROMs Networks
Expert Systems Natural Language Interfaces Reference Competence and
Programming Languages Object Orientation Virtual Reality Index to Recent
Computer-based Reference Services