Current Technologies in the Library: An Informal Overview (Professional Librarian Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Crawford, Walt

Crawford, Walter

Social Sciences

G.K. Hall & Company

Examines USMARC formats and discusses the changes and developments in USMARC standards, including format integration

Marc for Library Use: Understanding Integrated Usmarc (Professional Librarian Series)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

G.K. Hall

Examines USMARC formats and discusses the changes and developments in USMARC standards, including format integration

Technical Standards: An Introduction for Librarians (Professional Librarian Series)

Technical Standards: An Introduction for Librarians (Professional Library Series)

The Online Catalog Book: Essays and Examples (Professional Librarian Series)

Future Libraries offers an authoritative counter argument to the technolust of technovandals, as the authors describe the worst of the virtualists. Far from being technophobic, Crawford and Gorman are respected authors and leaders in library automation. They find much of the virtual library vision to be virtual nonsense and devastating to the cultural mission of libraries.
In place of futuristic dreaming and madness, they show how libraries can embrace advanced technologies while retaining their role as service-oriented repositories of all formats of organized information and knowledge―a role that compliments the values that community library buildings and user-friendly librarians deliver best. The authors target the electronic publishing industry, among others, and fantasies associated with it; offer a "survival guide to the serials crisis;" and analyze the economics of collections and access. A bibliography is included.

Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality

Gorman, Michael

Computers & Technology

ALA Editions

If you are ready to take the next step in expanding your professional development, are willing to acknowledge your own authentic style, and have some information to impart to your colleagues, then let renowned library writer and speaker Walt Crawford give you a head start on your writing career.
Proceeding matter-of-factly, he dissects what it really takes to write for library colleagues, countering traditional "received wisdom," while questioning the "powers that be."
You'll learn:
<ul>
<li>Ways to build confidence in what you have to say and nix writer's block</li>
<li>How to make your mark by retaining your unique personality in articles and speeches </li>
<li>The pro's insights for dealing with the basics of copyright and contract clauses</li>
<li>Who are all those gatekeepers―referees for journals, editors, publishers </li>
<li>How to work with them to get published―and when to go out on your own</li>
<li>When to say no to Power Point in your presentations</li>
</ul>
Whether you're on a tenure track and want your articles to offer more pleasure than pain, or just have something to share with colleagues, these suggestions will guide you in making both your writing and speaking inform, explain, illuminate, synthesize, reveal, and entertain your audience.

First Have Something to Say: Writing for the Library Profession

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