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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777305603321

Titolo

British library and information schools [[electronic resource] ] : the research of the department of information science, City University London / / guest editor David Bawden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2007

ISBN

1-281-07891-3

9786611078911

1-84663-603-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Collana

Aslib Proceedings ; ; 59, no. 4/5

Altri autori (Persone)

BawdenDavid

Disciplina

020.7

Soggetti

Library education

Information science - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Information Science at City University London; Organised complexity, meaning and understanding; Healthcare libraries in Saudi Arabia: analysis and recommendations; Impact of digital information resources in the toxicology literature; Evaluation of web search for the information practitioner; Parallel methods for the update of partitioned inverted files; Flickr and Democratic Indexing: dialogic approaches to indexing; Non-literal copying of factual information: architecture of knowledge; Mixed reality (MR) interfaces for mobile information systems

Information history: its importance, relevance and futureOf the rich and the poor and other curious minds: on open access and "development"; Continuing professional development for library and information science; Where do we go from here? An opinion on the future of LIS as an academic discipline in the UK Toni Weller and Jutta Haider Department of Information Science, City University London, London, UK

Sommario/riassunto

The papers in this e-book reflect the research and scholarly interests of the staff of the Department of Information Science at City University London. One theme emerges strongly: the continued vitality and variety of the information science discipline. The traditional concerns of the



department are well-represented in several papers: healthcare and scientific information (Khudair and Bawden; Robinson); information retrieval (MacFarlane; MacFarlane, McCann and Robertson); information organization (Rafferty and Hidderley); and legal and policy issues (Eisenschitz). These are complemented by new