Product Description: Fast-changing technology has turned academic libraries into gateways - to electronic resources both within and beyond library walls. This volume features photographs, bibliographies, and practical, hands-on tools that will guide the reader through the process of planning and building an academic library space for the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This essential guide covers everything on library automation from computer hardware and networking to automated cataloging systems, technical services functions, and computer-based reference services. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: An introduction to computer-related technologies in library applications, with advice on functions that are capable of being automated. and discussion of the problems and opportunities faced by libraries confronted with new technology.

Product Description: Librarians develop myths to explain themselves to society and to generate support for their profession. Since the last quarter of the 19th century, the prevailing myth has been the myth of the library as place. Confronted with social change, librarians are searching for a new myth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Constant developments in information technology are creating fundamental changes in librarianship. This book challenges the uncritical acceptance of these changes caused by technology. The volume begins by explaining the importance of a critical approach to information technology in librarianship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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