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Emerging Patterns of Collection Development in Expanding Resource Sharing, Electronic Information, and Network Environment presents readers with the most important and relevant collection development and networking issues facing the library community today. Presented to encourage librarians and students to continue investigation and discussion of these critical issues, this book explores the relationship between electronic resources, resource sharing, and collection… More >>
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Turn the Net’s info revolution into a do-it-yourself business. Having a passion for uncovering obscure Net data? Turn your passion into a rewarding career with the Third Edition of The Information Broker’s Handbook, by Sue Rugge and Alfred Glossbrenner. The world’s leading information broker, Rugge shares her research and business secrets alike-showing you how to get started brokering information, stay successful and grow as you do. It’s all here-guidelines for sett… More >>
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This book coherently documents the results and experiences of a major digital library pilot effort, the MeDoc project (Multimedia Electronic Documents). This two-year project was initiated by the German Informatics Society (GI) and involved authors, publishers, librarians, and computer science departments. The prototype distributed digital library system developed during the initiative was operated in a nationwide trial for several months. The book presents the tech… More >>
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