Documents tagged with librarianship

Librarian Ship Redefined

Presentation made in the seminar of Refresher course in Library and Information science at academic Staff College, Banaras Hindu University on 10.12.2008.
  • grsgdcup published this 08 / 17 / 2009
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From the Iron Curtain to the Electronic Fence

From the Iron Curtain to the Electronic Fence Ralph Adam reports on the Sekforde Arms meeting on 8 July 2008 The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an important resource a...
  • Ralph Adam published this 07 / 30 / 2009
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An Invisibility of Librarians

An invisibility of librarians What is the collective noun for librarians? Suggestions have included a ‘hush’, a ‘stack’ and a ‘catalogue’. Perhaps, a ‘collection’ is more appropriate.Or, maybe, an ...
  • Ralph Adam published this 07 / 30 / 2009
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Textbook covering a lot of ground

Review of: Chaudhury, G.G. Librarianship: an introduction. London: Facet Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 978 1 85604 617 6
  • Ralph Adam published this 06 / 20 / 2009
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Send a boy – or dial it yourself?

Send a boy – or dial it yourself? Numbering for the information society Ralph Adam City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB Email: ralph@city.ac.uk Abstract Numbering and addressing ar...
  • Ralph Adam published this 05 / 27 / 2009
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Will science become a land of diminishing opportunities?

Will science become a land of diminishing opportunities? LP Hartley’s The go-between begins with the immortal sentence: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” In that st...
  • Ralph Adam published this 05 / 26 / 2009
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Web accessibility - a moral duty as well as legal requirement

Web access for all Craven, J. (editor). Web accessibility: practical advice for the library and information professional. Facet Publishing, 2008; viii + 168pp; ISBN 978-1-85604-625-1; £39.95 (CILIP...
  • Ralph Adam published this 05 / 06 / 2009
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Philosophy of Librarian Ship 2009

My Philosophy of Librarianship as turned in for my reappointment, 2009
  • griffey published this 01 / 16 / 2009
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Professional ethics: Laws For The Lawless

Why bother with ethical principles? This article discusses the issues and explains why. There has been much debate about the need for ethical codes in librarianship and information science. This...
  • Ralph Adam published this 09 / 19 / 2008
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Repositioning the information profession : why and how

A lecture delivered in the seminar on ‘Repositioning the information profession for the market place’. June 24, 2005, Department of Library & information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore. Ab...
  • mssridhar published this 04 / 08 / 2008
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Information Management in Digital Environment: A Librarian’s Perspectives

DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology, 27(4) July 2007, p 45 – 50. Abstract: Digital invasion of recent years has shaken librarianship. This paper tries to look at some important issues of i...
  • mssridhar published this 04 / 03 / 2008
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MLIM6316 Organizing Information Presentation

MLIM6316 – Organizing Information Information organization in real situations with technology support Presenter: Alan Poon Email address: kyokoap@yahoo.com.hk Credit: Chih-Hao Tsai at Chih-Hao Tsa...
  • alanpoon published this 03 / 05 / 2008
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Building a High Quality, Flexible Acquisitions Workflow

Presentation at Timberline Acquisitions Institute May 19-22, 2007
  • awathen published this 05 / 31 / 2007
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