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ISBN 9781573871617 (1-57387-161-3, 1573871613)

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The Accidental Systems Librarian

by Rachel Singer Gordon

ISBN 1573871613 (1-57387-161-3)
Softcover, Information Today Inc

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Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, 2002 Revision: 2003 Update

ISBN 0838935362 (0-8389-3536-2)
Hardcover, Amer Library Assn

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ISBN 9780838934852 (0-8389-3485-4, 0838934854)

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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

by American Library Association, Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Aacr, Michael Gorman, Paul W. Winkler

ISBN 0838934854 (0-8389-3485-4)
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AACR2 is one of the most used cataloguing systems in the world, and these amendments are an update to the 1988 revision. This latest set of revisions to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules has been approved by the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR. The code plus these amendments are the standard in use and are available to those who already have the main AACR2 text or as a separate entity. Anyone requiring this comprehensive, up-to-date version of the code will want to buy the amendments for incorporation into their existing copy of AACR2. The amendments have been designed so that they can be easily inserted into bound copies or loose-leaf binder. [via]

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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

by Michael Gorman, Paul W. Winkler

ISBN 0838933467 (0-8389-3346-7)
Hardcover, American Library Association

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ISBN 9780838933602 (0-8389-3360-2, 0838933602)

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules: 1988 Revision/With Amendments 1993

by Paul W. Winkler, Gorman, Michael & Winkler, Paul

ISBN 0838933602 (0-8389-3360-2)
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ISBN 9780838934869 (0-8389-3486-2, 0838934862)

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 1998

by American Library Association, Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Aacr, Michael Gorman, Paul W. Winkler

ISBN 0838934862 (0-8389-3486-2)
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules: 1998 Revision

ISBN 0838935214 (0-8389-3521-4)
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ISBN 9780838935460 (0-8389-3546-X, 083893546X)

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Anglo-american Cataloguing Rules 2002 Revision: 2004 Update (Update Pages Only)

by Canadian Library Association, The American Library Association, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Great Britain)

ISBN 083893546X (0-8389-3546-X)
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2002

ISBN 0838935303 (0-8389-3530-3)
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2002: Binder

by The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

ISBN 083893529X (0-8389-3529-X)
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Being Analog: Creating Tomorrow's Libraries

by Walt Crawford

ISBN 0838907547 (0-8389-0754-7)
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The Bibliographic Record and Information Technology

by Ronald Hagler

ISBN 0838905544 (0-8389-0554-4)
Hardcover, Amer Library Assn

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Developing Library and Information Center Collections

by G. Edward Evans

ISBN 1563081873 (1-56308-187-3)
Softcover, Libraries Unlimited Inc

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This new work addresses the challenges of electronic publishing and puts issues of collection development into perspective, providing a broad understanding of the collection development process. The book covers all phases of collection development-from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice) to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, and censorship and intellectual freedom.

This work addresses the challenges of electronic publishing and puts issues of collection development into perspective, providing students and practitioners of library and information science with a broad understanding of the collection development process. The book covers all phases of collection development-from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice) to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, and censorship and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been expanded and updated with new material and reading lists. In addition, a chapter that is new to this edition deals with e-serials; and two appendixes contain samples of policies related to electronic concerns. It is an excellent survey of the state of the art of collection development and a comprehensive text.

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ISBN 9780313321993 (0-313-32199-X, 031332199X)

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Dismantling the Public Sphere: Situating and Sustaining Librarianship in the Age of the New Public Philosophy

by John Buschman

ISBN 031332199X (0-313-32199-X)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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This work presents a thorough examination of librarianship and the social and economic contexts in which the profession and its institutions operate. As a basis of analysis, Buschman employs critical education scholarship and the research of German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, whose seminal work on the public spherethe arena in which the public organizes itself and formulates public opinionserves as a meta-framework for Buschman's study of librarianship. Buschman asserts that a significant shift has occurred from the library as a contributor to the public good to a model where economic rationality directs policy. He challenges much of the current thinking and assumptions guiding libraries, exploring the circumstances in which librarians and libraries operate and linking the profession back to democratic and public purposes as the core essence of the field.

Chapters include:

" Crisis Culture and the Need for a Defense of Librarianship in the Public Sphere

" The New Public Philosophy and Critical Educational Analysis

" The Public Sphere: Rounding Out the Context of Librarianship

" Studies in Librarianship and the Dismantling of the Public Sphere

" Follow the Money: Library Funding and Information Capitalism

" Follow-the-Leader Library Management and the New Public Philosophy

" On Customer Driven Librarianship

" Drifting Toward the Corporate Model: ALA

" Notes on Postmodern Technology, Technocracy, and Libraries

" The Public Sphere and Democratic Possibility

Highly recommended for courses in policy and librarianship, as well as for academic and public library directors, this work will also be of interest to theorists in the social sciences.

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ISBN 9781856044561 (1-85604-456-4, 1856044564)

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Essential Cataloging

by John H. Bowman

ISBN 1856044564 (1-85604-456-4)
Softcover, Neal Schuman Pub

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Cataloguing has always been important but hardly any library schools teach it, leaving many students and information professionals to learn on their own. This book covers descriptive cataloguing and is designed as a simple companion to "AACR2". The author believes that most items can be dealt with by using comparatively few of the rules, and that many of the more abtruse ones can be ignored until you need them. This book therefore concentrates on the basics. It has a clear, informal approach, with less important aspects set in smaller type, and is fully cross-referenced to "AACR2", taking into account the 2002 revisions. Concentrating on the materials most Anglo-American libraries are most likely to meet, it includes MARC21 coding and examples, and is designed for library school students, beginning cataloguers and information professionals who need to revise cataloguing skills. [via]

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ISBN 9781555705183 (1-55570-518-9, 1555705189)

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Foundations of Library and Information Science

by Richard Rubin

ISBN 1555705189 (1-55570-518-9)
Softcover, Neal Schuman Pub

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This is the revised edition of the first textbook specifically written to cover the fundamentals of library and information science programs. Designed as a highly current teaching resource, Rubin offers library and information science students and professionals the background and techniques they need to meet today's - and tomorrow's - challenges.

Foundations of Library and Information Science begins with a discussion of the practice of librarianship, and moves on to address the place of libraries within the broader perspective of the information superstructure, the development of information science, the growth of information technologies, information policy in libraries, intellectual organization of libraries (from classification systems to databases), the mission of libraries from past to present, and ethical aspects and principles between information providers and clients. The various types of libraries (public, academic, school, and special), their internal functions, and the major organizational issues they face are discussed.

This comprehensive text contains an extensive list of selected readings. Appendixes include the Association of Research Libraries Statement on Intellectual Property; Development of the National Information Infrastructure; a bill of rights and responsibilities for electronic learners; major periodicals, indexes, encyclopedias and dictionaries in library and information science; and a listing of associations. [via]

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ISBN 9781563086021 (1-56308-602-6, 1563086026)

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The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources

by Ron Blazek, Elizabeth Smith Aversa

ISBN 1563086026 (1-56308-602-6)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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This thorough text offers you a reliable guide to humanities information sources. More comprehensive than previous editions, it includes approximately 1,250 main entries (the last edition contained 973), with increases equally proportioned in all sections. Chapters cover general humanities, philosophy, religion, visual arts, performing arts, and language and literature. [via]

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ISBN 9780262194334 (0-262-19433-3, 0262194333)

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The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

by Elaine Svenonius

ISBN 0262194333 (0-262-19433-3)
Hardcover, Mit Pr

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Instant electronic access to digital information is the single most distinguishing attribute of the information age. The elaborate retrieval mechanisms that support such access are a product of technology. But technology is not enough. The effectiveness of a system for accessing information is a direct function of the intelligence put into organizing it. Just as the practical field of engineering has theoretical physics as its underlying base, the design of systems for organizing information rests on an intellectual foundation. The subject of this book is the systematized body of knowledge that constitutes this foundation.

Integrating the disparate disciplines of descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, indexing, and classification, the book adopts a conceptual framework that views the process of organizing information as the use of a special language of description called a bibliographic language. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is an analytic discussion of the intellectual foundation of information organization. The second part moves from generalities to particulars, presenting an overview of three bibliographic languages: work languages, document languages, and subject languages. It looks at these languages in terms of their vocabulary, semantics, and syntax. The book is written in an exceptionally clear style, at a level that makes it understandable to those outside the discipline of library and information science. [via]

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ISBN 9780838906774 (0-8389-0677-X, 083890677X)

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Intellectual Freedom Manual

by Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association

ISBN 083890677X (0-8389-0677-X)
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Intellectual Freedom Manual

by American Library Association, Office for Intellectual Freedom

ISBN 0838935613 (0-8389-3561-3)
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ISBN 9781591582359 (1-59158-235-0, 1591582350)

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Introduction to Cataloging And Classification

by Arlene G. Taylor, David P. Miller

ISBN 1591582350 (1-59158-235-0)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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In the latest edition of this classic work, Arlene Taylor once again offers a complete, up-to-date, and practical guide to the world of cataloging and classification. Since the publication of the ninth and ninth-revised editions (2000 and 2004), changes have occurred in almost all areas of the organization of information in general, as well as in cataloging and classification. The 10th edition incorporates the 2002 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), MARC 21, the 22nd edition of Dewey Decimal Classification, current schedules of the LC Classifications, the latest Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the 18th edition of the Sears List of Subject Headings. In addition, Taylor addresses such vital issues as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), and the Semantic Web. The bibliography and glossary have also been substantially reworked. In fact, only the appendix, which covers arrangement dilemmas and filing rules, remains unchanged.

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Introduction to Reference Work

by William A. Katz

ISBN 0071120742 (0-07-112074-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College

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Basic Information Services, Volume I of Introduction to Reference Work, explains the essential reference processes and sources in todays libraries. It is a tool for understanding and mastering fundamental reference forms - online, in print, and elsewhere. This eighth edition is completely rewritten to reflect the radical changes library science has undergone since the advent of widely available electronic databases and the Internet. [via]

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ISBN 9781563081347 (1-56308-134-2, 1563081342)

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Library and Information Center Management

by Robert D. Stueart, Barbara B. Moran

ISBN 1563081342 (1-56308-134-2)
Softcover, Libraries Unlimited Inc

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This basic management text presents the principles of library and information centre management in a conceptual framework. The authors examine the dynamics of organizational missions, goals, policies and programs as well the external forces that encourage change. This edition includes expanded sections on the change process, strategic planning and management, and managing conflict through Total Quality Management in a technology intense environment. [via]

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ISBN 9780974035321 (0-9740353-2-7, 0974035327)

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Library Mascot Cage Match: An Unshelved Collection

by Bill Barnes, Gene Ambaum

ISBN 0974035327 (0-9740353-2-7)
Softcover, Overdue Media LLC

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What's so funny about a library? Just about everything, as you'll find out in Library Mascot Cage Match, the third Unshelved collection. In addition to a year's worth of comic strips featuring library mascots duking it out and the return of the masked mystery man known only as "the Shusher," LMCM features the all-new full-color graphic novelette Empire County Strikes Back. Can Mallville's librarians defeat the mother of all bookmobiles? [via]

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ISBN 9781555703707 (1-55570-370-4, 1555703704)

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Management Basics for Information Professionals

by G. Edward Evans, Bendik Rugaas, Patricia Layzell Ward

ISBN 1555703704 (1-55570-370-4)
Softcover, Neal Schuman Pub

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This new, current, and comprehensive introduction to the management of libraries is both a successor to and a revision of Evans's classic Management Techniques for Librarians . The focus is exclusively on library and other information environments and provides conceptual overviews and library/information examples to illustrate the basic skills good library managers must exercise: how to plan; how to delegate; how to make decisions; how to communicate; and how to lead. Equal emphasis is placed on managing a library's resources-its people, its money, its technology, and its building.

Including timely issues such as women in management and diversity as well as practical charts and forms, this text will appeal to LIS educators, librarians in new management positions, and experienced librarians in management positions who want to become more effective. A companion Web page features readings on topics such as women in library management, cultural diversity, management goals, and career development, as well as annual reviews of library management literature. [via]

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The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guide

by Rachel Singer Gordon

ISBN 1573872563 (1-57387-256-3)
Softcover, Information Today Inc

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ISBN 9781563086571 (1-56308-657-3, 1563086573)

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Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of Theory and Practice

by Carol Tenopir, Joseph Janes, Geraldene Walker

ISBN 1563086573 (1-56308-657-3)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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Designed to assist beginning searchers, whether they are students or practitioners, this text offers a comprehensive introduction to online systems that primarily provide information in the form of bibliographic citations. Walker and Janes give basic how-to information on the use of online systems, discuss topics for which there are no accepted paradigms, and present alternative points of view within a framework of previous research. Expanding on their immensely popular and critically acclaimed first edition, the authors have added extensive new material addressing Internet search and retrieval techniques as well as the more traditional Dialog and Lexis-Nexis services. Invaluable as a textbook for students in online retrieval courses, practicing librarians, and online searchers in library settings, this book can be used as a quick reference tool and as a handy guide for in-service training. Information seekers who want to perform their own searches for bibliographic information using an online sea

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Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of Theory and Practice

by Joseph Janes, Geraldene Walker

ISBN 1563081571 (1-56308-157-1)
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ISBN 9781563089695 (1-56308-969-6, 1563089696)

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The Organization of Information

by Arlene G. Taylor

ISBN 1563089696 (1-56308-969-6)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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The extensively revised and completely updated second edition of this popular textbook provides LIS practitioners and students with a vital guide to the organization of information. After a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor proceeds to a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities. After tracing the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present, the author addresses topics that include encoding standards (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), metadata (description, access, and access control), verbal subject analysis including controlled vocabularies and ontologies, classification theory and methodology, arrangement and display, and system design.

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Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century

by Michael Gorman

ISBN 0838907857 (0-8389-0785-7)
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ISBN 9780838907245 (0-8389-0724-5, 0838907245)

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Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians

by Michael Gorman

ISBN 0838907245 (0-8389-0724-5)
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A Place at the Table: Participating in Community Building

by Kathleen De LA Pedna McCook

ISBN 0838907881 (0-8389-0788-1)
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Readers' Advisory Service In The Public Library

by Nancy Brown, Joyce G. Saricks

ISBN 0838905110 (0-8389-0511-0)
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Readers' Advisory Service In The Public Library

by Joyce G. Saricks

ISBN 0838908977 (0-8389-0897-7)
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Reference and Information Services: An Introduction

by Linda C. Smith, Richard E. Bopp

ISBN 1563086247 (1-56308-624-7)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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Thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect current developments in the field, this text is designed to provide the beginning student of library and information science with an overview of the most important tools for general reference work and the concepts and theory behind today's reference services. The 21 chapters are divided into two parts. The first 11 chapters deal with concepts and theory and are topical. They cover such areas as ethical aspects of reference services, reference interview, the principles and goals of library instruction, bibliographic control and search strategies, training and continuing education for reference staff, the evaluation of reference services, and the management of these services. In many cases, specific applications in different types of libraries are pointed out. Expanded coverage of electronic reference service is provided by two full chapters devoted to basic principles and current trends in this area. A separate chapter covers unique approaches to reference service for special groups. Part 2 describes the general principles and sources for selecting and evaluating reference tools and the principles for building a reference collection. The remaining chapters discuss the characteristics and uses of particular types of reference tools. This new edition describes a greater number of titles of each type as well as the formulation of strategies for the effective use of specific sources or groups of sources. Scenarios in particular library settings conclude each chapter, offering realistic reference questions and appropriate search strategies. Throughout the text, boxes are used to highlight specific issues, concepts and search strategies that underlie contemporary reference services. Selected important sources for further reading are listed at the end of each chapter. This text presents the essential theory and practical knowledge necessary for an initial reference course. Its broad scope and organisational clarity should benefit students and practitioners alike. [via]

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Reference and Information Services: An Introduction

by Richard E. Bopp

ISBN 1591583748 (1-59158-374-8)
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Thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect current developments in the field, this text is designed to provide the beginning student of library and information science with an overview of the most important tools for general reference work and the concepts and theory behind today's reference services. The 21 chapters are divided into two parts. The first 11 chapters deal with concepts and theory and are topical. They cover such areas as ethical aspects of reference services, reference interview, the principles and goals of library instruction, bibliographic control and search strategies, training and continuing education for reference staff, the evaluation of reference services, and the management of these services. In many cases, specific applications in different types of libraries are pointed out. Expanded coverage of electronic reference service is provided by two full chapters devoted to basic principles and current trends in this area. A separate chapter covers unique approaches to reference service for special groups. Part 2 describes the general principles and sources for selecting and evaluating reference tools and the principles for building a reference collection. The remaining chapters discuss the characteristics and uses of particular types of reference tools. This new edition describes a greater number of titles of each type as well as the formulation of strategies for the effective use of specific sources or groups of sources. Scenarios in particular library settings conclude each chapter, offering realistic reference questions and appropriate search strategies. Throughout the text, boxes are used to highlight specific issues, concepts and search strategies that underlie contemporary reference services. Selected important sources for further reading are listed at the end of each chapter. This text presents the essential theory and practical knowledge necessary for an initial reference course. Its broad scope and organizational clarity should benefit students and practitioners alike. [via]

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Revolting Librarians

by Celeste West, Elizabeth Katz

ISBN 0912932015 (0-912932-01-5)
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Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out

by Jessamyn West, Katia Roberto

ISBN 0786416084 (0-7864-1608-4)
Softcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub

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"Revolting librarians arent defined by what they are, they are defined by what they do. In fact, its not even what they do, but how they do it"Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West, in the Preface.

This compilation of witty, insightful, and readable writings on the various aspects of alternative librarianship edited by two outspoken library professionals is a sequel to Revolting Librarians, which was published in 1972. The contributors, including Alison Bechdel, Sanford Berman, and Utne Reader librarian Chris Dodge, cover topics that range from library education and librarianship as a profession to the more political and spiritual aspects of librarianship. The contributions include critiques of library and information science programs, firsthand accounts of work experiences, and original fiction, poetry and art. Ten of the original librarians who wrote essays for Revolting Librarians back in 1972 reflect upon what they wrote thirty years ago and the turns that their lives and careers have taken since. [via]

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Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries And Librarianship

by Nancy Kalikow Maxwell

ISBN 0838909175 (0-8389-0917-5)
Softcover, Amer Library Assn

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ISBN 9780262522953 (0-262-52295-0, 0262522950)

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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star

ISBN 0262522950 (0-262-52295-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr

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Is this book sociology, anthropology, or taxonomy? Sorting Things Out, by communications theorists Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, covers a lot of conceptual ground in its effort to sort out exactly how and why we classify and categorize the things and concepts we encounter day to day. But the analysis doesn't stop there; the authors go on to explore what happens to our thinking as a result of our classifications. With great insight and precise academic language, they pick apart our information systems and language structures that lie deeper than the everyday categories we use. The authors focus first on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a widely used scheme used by health professionals worldwide, but also look at other health information systems, racial classifications used by South Africa during apartheid, and more.

Though it comes off as a bit too academic at times (by the end of the 20th century, most writers should be able to get the spelling of McDonald's restaurant right), the book has a clever charm that thoughtful readers will surely appreciate. A sly sense of humor sneaks into the writing, giving rise to the chapter title "The Kindness of Strangers," for example. After arguing that categorization is both strongly influenced by and a powerful reinforcer of ideology, it follows that revolutions (political or scientific) must change the way things are sorted in order to throw over the old system. Who knew that such simple, basic elements of thought could have such far-reaching consequences? Whether you ultimately place it with social science, linguistics, or (as the authors fear) fantasy, make sure you put Sorting Things Out in your reading pile. --Rob Lightner [via]

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Tapping the Government Grapevine: The User-Friendly Guide to U.S. Government Information Sources

by Judith Schiek Robinson

ISBN 1573560243 (1-57356-024-3)
Softcover, Oryx Pr

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Judith Schiek Robinson has updated and expanded this popular guide, which offers a thorough and sometimes humorous tour of government information sources. Her highly readable text explains the intricacies of government information and how to find sources that meet specific research needs. New features in the third edition include detailed coverage of Internet resources, directories of World Wide Web addresses, and quick tips on which government Web sites to search for different types of information. Helpful guides to government abbreviations and citations are also included, as are numerous new tables, user guides, exercises, and illustrations.

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Unshelved

by Bill Barnes, Gene Ambaum

ISBN 0974035300 (0-9740353-0-0)
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What Would Dewey Do?: An Unshelved Collection

by Gene Ambaum, Bill Barnes

ISBN 0974035319 (0-9740353-1-9)
Softcover, Overdue Media Llc

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Dewey and his fellow librarians confront the FBI, psychic fairs, poetry slams, crashed hard drives, identity theft, and of course each other. Features introduction by librarian, bestselling author, and action figure model Nancy Pearl plus pages of never-before-published comics. [via]

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Wynar's Introduction to Cataloging and Classification

by David P. Miller, Arlene G. Taylor

ISBN 159158230X (1-59158-230-X)
Hardcover, Libraries Unltd Inc

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This revised edition offers practitioners and students of library and information science a practical guide to the world of cataloguing and classification as it stands at the beginning of the 21st century. It emphasizes online catalogues and cataloguing, with all the attendant terminology. The author addresses such vital issues as Internet cataloguing, international access control, metadata, and ontologies. A new chapter, "Encoding", has been added to introduce users to the area of mark-up language that allows data to be read by computer and displayed online. Emphasis in this chapter is on "MARC 21". The chapter on "Description" reflects the major conceptual shift in description of resources with a new organization based on the eight areas of the "International Standard Bibliographic Description" (ISBD) rather than according to the type of material being catalogued. Other changes covered by the work encompass the 1998 revision of the "Anglio-American Cataloguing Rules", second edition (AACR2), the 21st edition of "Dewey Decimal Classification", current schedules of the LC Classifications, the latest "Library of Congress Subject Headings", and the 17th edition of "Sears List of Subject Headings". In addition, the section on adminstrative issues has been completely rewritten, and suggested readings have been updated in all chapters. [via]

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