Technical Services: Today and Tommorrow - Hardcover

Gorman, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563085909 ISBN 13: 9781563085901

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 1998

Synopsis

Focusing on one of the most fundamental areas of librarianship, Gorman and a host of distinguished contributors examine the current state of the field of technical services and offer their views on its future. The book is divided into four sections: acquisitions, bibliographic control, automation, and administration. Within these sections individual chapters address specific aspects of the field (e.g., serials acquisitions, descriptive cataloging, circulation services). The text has been thoroughly updated, with some chapters entirely rewritten and others replaced. Specialized chapters on book gathering plans, preservation, and Slavic technical services have been dropped from this edition and a chapter on global standardization has been added. Offering a stimulating diversity of voices and perspectives, this landmark work is a major contribution to the area of technical services in the tradition of Tauber's Technical Services in Libraries (Columbia University Press, 1954). Valuable as supplementary

About this title

About the Author:

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MICHAEL GORMAN is Dean of Library Services, Henry Madden Library at California State University in Fresno. He has received ALA's Melvil Dewey Medal.

Review:

"Reviews of previous edition: I highly recommend Technical Services Today and Tomorrow for academic libraries, and for library and information science collections."-Journal of Academic Librarianship

"This revised collection of essays is timely....Would serve as a primer for library school students."-Library Management

"Recommended for students contemplating an academic library career and for those librarians who teach librarianship."-Library Journal

?This revised collection of essays is timely....Would serve as a primer for library school students.?-Library Management

?Recommended for students contemplating an academic library career and for those librarians who teach librarianship.?-Library Journal

?Reviews of previous edition: I highly recommend Technical Services Today and Tomorrow for academic libraries, and for library and information science collections.?-Journal of Academic Librarianship

About this edition

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1563085909
• ISBN 13: 9781563085901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 213