Library Technical Services Research Articles

Knowledge Access Management: The Redefinition and Renaming of Technical Services

The context and environment for library technical services may be best described by the examination of influencing factors, which shape and direct these services. Of these factors, the dominant current forces – economic pressures (i.e., budgetary constraints), user expectations, and technology – affect how technical services are changing and converging, thus requiring a new definition and renaming. Knowledge access management is presented for consideration.

Directory of Library Technical Services Home Pages

Directory of Library Technical Services Home Pages

Working the Web

The WWW is not only a resource for reference librarians, but also a tremendous tool for technical services librarians. Five librarians involved in Collection Development, Acquisitions, Serials and Cataloging give examples of useful WWW sites for selecting and acquiring new and O.P. books, selling duplicates, monitoring authority control and changes in cataloging, and receiving and exchanging serials.

Online Documentation in Library Technical Services

For the past several decades technical services operations have witnessed a steady increase in the complexity of their policies, procedures, and workflows. Thus, there is little doubt that documentation plays a critical role in library technical services. Historically, however, documentation has played a secondary role in library productivity. Because of this, the value of strategically integrating documentation into technical services operations has not been recognized. The purpose of this paper is to characterize the current situation in the use of documentation in library technical services, and in so doing to awaken library administrators to the potential that moving documentation to the online environment possesses for enhancing departmental operations in cataloging and acquisitions. Three digital platforms-Microsoft Word, the World Wide Web, and Folio VIEWS-will be compared and contrasted in order to bring out the various considerations necessary in developing an online environment for documentation.

HTML for Beginners (Technical Services Emphasis)

All participants in the information community use the Web as a tool, and we all need to understand the power of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and how it can help us obtain our personal and professional goals. This preconference program offered this opportunity to all those interested in a technical services emphasis. It introduced participants to the basics of HTML with hands-on instruction in standard text formatting and layout conventions. Covering the basic skills of tagging and formatting, creation of links and lists, attendees were able to create a Web document which they could use in their own library technical services departments.

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations; Practices in Academic, Public and Special Libraries

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations; Practices in Academic, Public and Special Libraries

Global properties of a difference approximation of the free boundary problem for symmetric motion of a viscous barotropic gas

We consider the initial boundary value problem for the system of quasilinear equations of symmetric motion of a viscous barotropic gas (a compressible fluid) with free boundary and study a special nonlinear two-level difference scheme. We obtain estimates of a difference solution, which are uniform in t > 0, and prove its stabilization as t —» +00 (with a stabilization rate estimate). The conditions for uniqueness of the solution as well as the scheme implementation by Newton's method are analysed. An extensive literature is devoted to the analysis of the solution estimates global in t > 0 and the solution behaviour as t —» + oo for equations of one-dimensional motion of a viscous gas without the assumption of data smallness [6,14,18] and [7-13, 21-24,26,27]. From the viewpoint of computational mathematics of great interest is the construction and the study of adequate difference approximations of the above equations such that difference solutions inherit the global properties of continuous ones [1,19,20,25]. Of importance is the development of techniques to study the global properties of the difference solutions. In this paper we study these problems for a special two-level difference scheme, which generalizes the scheme in [3,4] and [15], for equations of symmetric motion of a viscous barotropic gas with allowance for the mass force, given a free boundary. In this case we essentially use the methods of [20,24,27]. Moreover, we study the conditions for uniqueness of the solution to the difference scheme as well as its simple implementation by Newton's method. 1. INITIAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM. NOTATION AND AUXILIARY INFORMATION The symmetric motion of a viscous barotropic gas (a compressible fluid) in Lagrangian mass coordinates x, Hs described by the system of quasilinear equations D* = D(ru), η = l/p Dtu = Da + 0[r], σ = ν(η)ρϋη ρ(η) Dtr = u. Here η(χ,ί) > 0, u(x,i), r(x,t) are the sought functions, and Dt = d/dt, D = d/dx, g[r](x,t) =^(r(x, 2. The physical meaning of the values is: 77, u, r are the specific volume, the speed, the Euler coordinate; ρ, σ, ρ are the density, the stress, the pressure \p ρ(η) is an equation 'Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University), Moscow 111250, Russia The work is supported by the Russian Foundation for the Basic Research (97-01-00214) and the Program ^Russian Universities-Basic Research*. Brought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical Services Authenticated Download Date | 5/19/15 2:25 PM

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries. Karen A. Wilson , Marylou Colver

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsOutsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries. Karen A. Wilson , Marylou ColverJennifer CargillJennifer Cargill Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Library Quarterly Volume 69, Number 1Jan., 1999 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/603040 Copyright 1999 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations:

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations:

Outsourcing: Newman Library, Baruch College/ CUNY

City University of New York libraries, when confronted with a university resolution requiring consolidation of the library technical services departments of the 19 colleges into one office, turned to outsourcing of cataloging and acquisitions as a step toward realizing their goal. The processes of determining the needs of the colleges, the cost of technical services, and the locating of an appropriate vendor are described along with the results of their decision.

The future of the descriptive cataloging rules: edited by Brian E. C. Schottlaender. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1998. (ALCTS Papers in Library Technical Services and Collections, no.

The future of the descriptive cataloging rules: edited by Brian E. C. Schottlaender. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1998. (ALCTS Papers in Library Technical Services and Collections, no.

<i>Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries.</i> Eds. Karen A. Wilson and Marylou Colver. Chicago: ALA, 1997. 239p. $38 ($34.20 ALA members) (ISBN 0-8389-0703-2). LC 97-22901.

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries. Eds. Karen A. Wilson and Marylou Colver. Chicago: ALA, 1997. 239p. $38 ($34.20 ALA members) (ISBN 0-8389-0703-2). LC 97-22901.

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries. Eds. Karen A. Wilson and Marylou Colver. Chicago: ALA, 1997. 239p. $38 ($34.20 ALA members) (ISBN 0-8389-0703-2). LC 97-22901.

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries. Eds. Karen A. Wilson and Marylou Colver. Chicago: ALA, 1997. 239p. $38 ($34.20 ALA members) (ISBN 0-8389-0703-2). LC 97-22901.

Using automation in technical services to foster innovation

Current conditions impel technical services librarians to consider new ways of doing business, to foster innovation, and to implement innovative ideas. New approaches such as outsourcing and centralizing selection, OCLC's Passport for Windows, and OCLC's PromptCat illustrate the process of facilitating and fostering new ways of thinking about technical services processes.

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries

(1998). Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries. Serials Review: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 138-140.

Outsourcing, quality control, and the acquisitions professional

Outsourcing, long a presence in the library world, is increasingly seen as a way to cut technical service costs. This development has caused great insecurity among technical service librarians and frequent discussions about whether cataloging and acquisitions are threatened specializations. We argue, based on outsourcing experiences at Stanford University Libraries, that the need for experienced technical services librarians increases rather than decreases in a library that outsources some of its technical service operations. Quality control, once built into routines carried out at the clerical level, becomes a major factor for the success of the outsourced operation. This quality control component logically devolves to librarians who know how the finished product should look. We describe the quality control programs developed for monitoring a no-return approval plan and vendor-supplied cataloging.

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries: edited by Karen A. Wilson & Marylou Colver: Chicago, IL: American Library Association, (Sponsored by the Commercial Technical Services Committee, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services), 1997. 239p. Price. ISBN 0-8389-0703-2.

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries: edited by Karen A. Wilson & Marylou Colver: Chicago, IL: American Library Association, (Sponsored by the Commercial Technical Services Committee, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services), 1997. 239p. Price. ISBN 0-8389-0703-2.

Book Review: Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries

Book Review: Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries

Public Libraries as National Libraries – The Caribbean Experience

While it is essential that national library functions and services are carried out, within the English-speaking Caribbean these functions can be provided by extending the role of the country's main public library. A questionnaire was administered in 1994 to 14 public libraries and one national library in the region to ascertain if public libraries performed any national library functions and if so to assess how effectively, with a view to formulating proposals as to how best this dual role could be achieved. The survey, in which 13 libraries participated, revealed that a majority of the libraries did in fact act as de facto national libraries, performing many of the functions of traditional national libraries, though there were major deficiencies (e.g. only seven had legal deposit, and only four produced national bibliographies). A structure for a dual-function Public/National Library is proposed, with three functional divisions (Public Library Services, Technical Services, and National Heritage) and a powerful National Library Services Board.

Creating a Library Technical Services Outsourcing Operation

Summary In 1994-95, ISM (Information Systems Management) Corporation established a unit in Winnipeg, Canada to provide technical services to libraries. These services include receiving, cataloguing and physically processing a wide range of library materials to the customers' specifications. Contract negotiations, customer base, development of detailed specifications and quality control issues are discussed. Creation of the operation required recruitment and training of staff, establishment of premises, hardware and software acquisition and the development of highly automated operational procedures. Future trends are considered.