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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783535903321

Titolo

British library and information schools [[electronic resource] ] : towards 100 years of educating the information professional at UCL SLAIS / / guest editors, Andy Dawson and David Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006

ISBN

1-280-50691-1

9786610506910

1-84544-927-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Collana

Aslib proceedings, , 0001-253X ; ; v. 58, no. 1/2

Altri autori (Persone)

DawsonAndy

Brown David

Disciplina

026.006242

Soggetti

Libraries - Great Britain

Information science

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; Note from the editor; Towards 100 years of educating the information professions at UCL SLAIS; Developing a new academic discipline; The study of books; The development of description in cataloguing prior to ISBD; The need for a faceted classification as the basis of all methods of information retrieval; Evaluating evaluation; The rendering of humanities information in a digital context; Interpreting the image: using advanced computational techniques to read the Vindolanda texts

Improving the relevance of web menus using search logs: a BBCi case studyTriangulating qualitative research and computer transaction logs in health information studies; Three problems in logic-based knowledge representation

Sommario/riassunto

This e-book is devoted to the research output of British library and information schools. With the Research Assessment Exercise two years off it gives institutions an opportunity to demonstrate the quality and range of their research and scholarship. This issue focusses on the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London, the first British library School to be established in 1919. Both



historical and modern areas of librarianship and information management are explored. The first half of the issue focusses on traditional issues of information description and