The Cybrarian's Manual 2

While still providing librarians with cyberspace toolkit information so that the technology can be cutting edge rather than bleeding edge, the Director of Library Services at the U. of Houston revamps the 1997 manual with 35 papers venturing beyond the purely technical to examine some embedded social and management issues. "On the lighter side...and a small child shall lead them" balances discussions of such topics as Internet networks, web-based markup languages, cyber-citing, and security issues. Includes a list of spelled-out acronyms and initialisms. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This broadened version of a 1997 original attempts to provide up-to-date information in new articles as well as information that could be considered timeless. Among the topics covered are networks and the Internet; markup languages for the Web; how to customize one's setup for multimedia presentations; metadata and other identifiers for Web documents; collecting electronic resources, including e-journals; and virtual reality. One section provides "cybrarians" with the knowledge needed to avoid being trapped by the "technology of the month." The final section considers lighter sides of the overall topic in such papers as a study of Rupert Giles, the librarian in TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and another on that library-lit perennial, how to deal with negative stereotypes of librarians. Edward Swanson
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