The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Reference Service and Bibliographic Instruction

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Edited by Gary M. Pitkin

ISBN: 0-313-29365-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29365-8

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192 pages, figures

Greenwood Press

Publication: 9/30/1995

List Price: $107.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

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Library & Information Science » Library & Information Science (General)

Series Title: Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science

Series Number: 87

Reviews:

For those familiar with these issues, it is a good book to have in hand when making the case for expenditures and changes in a library services to non-libary administrators.
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Description: Information technologies are having a profound impact on the ways libraries are providing traditional services. This book identifies emerging technologies and assesses their impact on two distinct yet interdependent entities, library service and library education. While other publications identify technologies and speculate on applications, this volume focuses on the impacts of information technology on several aspects of librarianship. The book first delineates emerging technologies and their impact on reference services and bibliographic instruction. It then discusses the resultant restructuring of reference services and the relationship between librarians and patrons. Bibliographic instruction is presented as a new paradigm based on the imperative that no faculty member should teach and no student should graduate without being fully information literate. The work also discusses staffing, organization, and financial support, and the structural and political placement of the library within the parent organization.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Identifying Emerging Technologies by George Machovec
Implications of New and Emerging Technologies on Reference Service by Johannah Sherrer
Implications for Bibliographic Instruction by Harvey Sager
The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Library Clientele by John C. Tyson
People, Organizations, and Information Technology: Facing the Millennium by Delmus E. Williams
Preparing for the Technological Future by Charles B. Lowry
Impact on the Library School Curriculum and Methods of Teaching by Thomas D. Walker
Information Transfer, Information Technology, and the New Information Professional by Herbert K. Achleitner
Impact on the International Development of Librarianship by Charles Wm. Conaway
Index

LC Card Number: 95-3802

LCC Class: Z711

Dewey Class: 025.5


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