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Australian academic and research libraries
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ISSN: 00048623 Publisher: Bundoora Library association of Australia. University and college libraries section.


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Trésors de l'écrit: 10 ans d'enrichissement du patrimoine écrit
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ISBN: 2711824500 9782711824502 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris Réunion des musées nationaux


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The Oxford guide to library research
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ISBN: 9780199931040 9780199931064 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions: First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you will you miss if you confine your research entirely, or even primarily, to sources available on the open Internet? Second, if you are trying to get a reasonably good overview of the literature on a particular topic, rather than just "something quickly" on it, what are the several alternative methods of subject searching-which are not available on the Web-that are usually much more efficient for that purpose than typing keywords into a blank search box, with the results displayed by relevance-ranking computer algorithms?This book shows researchers how to do comprehensive research on any topic. It explains the variety of search mechanisms available, so that the researcher can have the reasonable confidence that s/he has not overlooked something important. This includes not just lists of resources, but discussions of the ways to search within them: how to find the best search terms, how to combine the terms, and how to make the databases (and other sources) show relevant material even when you don't know how to specify the best search terms in advance. The book's overall structuring by nine methods of searching that are applicable in any subject area, rather than by subjects or by types of literature, is unique among guides to research. Also unique is the range and variety of concrete examples of what to do-and of what not to do.The book is not "about" the Internet: it is about the best alternatives to the Internet-the sources that are not on the open Web to begin with, that can be found only through research libraries and that are more than ever necessary for any kind of substantive scholarly research. More than any other research guide available, this book directly addresses and provides solutions to the serious problems outlined in recent studies documenting the profound lack of research skills possessed by today's "digital natives."


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Beyond the library collections : proceedings of the 2022 Erasmus Staff Training Week at ULiège Library
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ISBN: 9782870193167 9782870193136 9782870193143 9782870193150 Year: 2023 Publisher: Liège ULiège Library

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No library can buy or hold everything its patrons need. At a certain point, librarians need to pool their resources and collaborate to provide access to what they don't have: Collaboration and partnership, centralized and shared collection storage, digitization projects, interlibrary loan and resource sharing, purchase on demand, PDA and EBA are notably key to success. The 2022 edition of the Erasmus Mobility Staff Training week organized at the University of Liège Library focused on services, projects and policies that libraries can deploy and promote to increase and ease access to materials that do not belong to their print or electronic holdings. More than 20 librarians, managers, and researchers in library science share their experiences and visions in this book.

Planning academic and research library buildings
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ISBN: 0838933203 Year: 1986 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): American library association

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