University libraries strive to provide information resources in both print and non-print formats. Library managers and administrators need to strike a balance between access and security of the resources. This paper examines a number of published literatures on library security, in particular, the different incidences of theft and mutilation as they relate to print collections in university lib...

Lori Mestre is Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champign, e-mail: [email protected]; Lisa Baures is Public Services Librarian/College of Education Liaison at Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, e-mail: [email protected]; Mona Niedbala is Education & Curriculum Materials Librarian at University of Rhode Island, e-mail: [email protected]...

if archival centers organize archival resources on the basis of safe and global archivalstandards, then they will be useful for scholars. bibliographic relations are important and essential in organizing and managing of archives. these relations are predicted for books in libraries by unimarc and iranmarc. so, current research has studied on capabilities of unimarc and iranmarc for management o...

In current library practice, trained human experts usually carry out document cataloguing and indexing based on a manual approach. With the explosive growth in the number of electronic documents available on the Internet and digital libraries, it is increasingly difficult for library practitioners to categorize both electronic documents and traditional library materials using just a manual appr...

1. Centre of Technical Calculations, which provides service in terms of designing, modernisation and development of the network, internet service and manages University WWW service. 2. Department of Information Systems in Management, which is responsible service of computer systems working for central administration: HR and salary system, materials management and financial-accounting system. 3....

Digitization has immense potential to store, preserve, disseminate and redistribute cultural materials, if the materials are captured in a bit stream format so as to enable to access through network for learning and understanding the history and culture of a civic society. Generally these materials are stored in museums or in libraries, but they can be spread over the globe and with the spread ...

AMERICAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES and labor unions began their institutional development during the nineteenth century as communities developed and prospered across the nation. Both institutions had strong democratic ideals and a firm commitment to free, quality education for all Americans, and so the historical roots of these institutions intertwined. Public libraries strive to serve the special needs...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to examine the contributions of Estelle Brodman, PhD, to the early application of computing technologies in health sciences libraries. METHODS A review of the literature, oral histories, and materials contained in the archives of the Bernard Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine was conducted. RESULTS While the early co...

As the largest library in China, the National Library of China (NLC) has spent more than 20 years in automating its processes, and has not yet had an integrated library management system, lagging behind libraries of developed countries and also other major libraries in China. In the 1980s and 1990s the NLC made slow progress; reasons for lack of success in the past include the inadequacy of bud...

The medical students of Obafemi Awolowo University were assessed for general use of library and for their information seeking behavior. The objectives of the study were to evaluate students’ perception of the demands for locating clinical information; to determine if they sought current information and sources most often used for their current information. Five hundred medical students comprisi...