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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511699103321

Titolo

A handbook for media librarians / / edited by Katharine Schopflin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Facet, , 2008

ISBN

1-85604-995-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchopflinKatharine

Disciplina

026.07

Soggetti

Multimedia library services

Libraries - Special collections - Electronic information resources - Management

Libraries - Special collections - Mass media - Management

Digital libraries - Management

Mass media - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Media libraries in the 21st century / Katharine Schopflin -- The virtual media library (I) : managing intranets / Linda MacDonald and Katy Heslop -- Picture libraries and librarianship / Graeme Boyd -- Cataloging television programmes / Hazel Simpson ; Afterword / Katharine Schopflin -- The virtual media library (II) : managing online subscriptions / Joanne Playfoot and Katharine Schopflin -- Legal issues for news databases and archives / Ian Watson -- The regional news librarian : a survivor's guide / Colin Hunt -- Swimming upstream in a media library / Carol Bradley Bursack.

Sommario/riassunto

"Media librarians - information workers employed by media organizations such as broadcasters and publishers of newspapers, magazines and websites - often seem to have a low profile in both the information profession and among their employers. Academic, legal and public librarians are often intrigued to discover that some of their peers work for the same people who provide their television programmes and daily newspaper." "Yet, media companies, producing vast quantities of content in an increasing variety of formats, need people both to help them fill up column inches, pages or hours, and to



organize this content afterwards so that it can be found again. Although unlikely to be called 'librarian' - 'researcher', 'media manager' or 'information manager' are more likely titles - information professionals continue to carry this task out for media organizations throughout the world."