ANINCREASINGLY COMPLEX ARRAY OF ELECTRONIC OBJECTS is challenging conventional categories and distinctions central to library organization. Extraordinary efforts are being made to integrate these hybrids and new forms into traditional library systems and to recreate the stability of the print environment. This article is an attempt to explore some of the conceptual and theoretical issues raised...

A collection of routines calculating neutron scattering and absorption cross sections on the basis of crystal structure descriptions is presented and implemented into the new and reusable nxs program library. An example program providing a graphical user interface to the nxs functions is created to demonstrate their usage. The flexibility of the library and the possibilities for multiple areas ...

This paper presents the significant function of the Chinese National Agricultural Library (CNAL) in the agricultural sci-tech innovation system in China, analyses the development of collection and service in the CNAL, explores the challenge towards sustain and develop information services for the agricultural sci-tech research and innovation, at last proposes the strategy for sci-tech document ...

During the past few years, Patron Driven Acquisition, or PDA, has become the catchword at library conferences, increasingly promoted by some as the answer to shrinking budgets and the new normal for developing library col‐ lections. On one level, the debate over PDA is just an extension of the old question of just in time versus just in case collecting; however, technological developments have ...

OBJECTIVES The current study evaluates the results of a previously reported method for creating a core medical electronic journal collection for a new medical school library, validates the core collection created specifically to meet the needs of the new school, and identifies strategies for making cost-effective e-journal selection decisions. METHODS Usage data were extracted for four e-jour...

INTRODUCTION Due to the development of technologies, communications, databases and information resource varieties in today's information age, our various social, economic, cultural and political needs cannot be fulfilled by relying merely on past knowledge and skills as done previously. Information literacy (IL) as a set of necessary skills for all of us is an effective way of treating new tech...