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Titolo: | Transforming the Bodleian [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Heaney and Catríona Cannon |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin, : De Gruyter Saur, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina: | 025.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Academic libraries - England - Oxford - History |
Soggetto non controllato: | Library science, library buildings |
Classificazione: | AN 83000 |
Altri autori: | HeaneyMichael CannonCatriona |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Introduction / Thomas, Sarah E. -- Chapter 1: Background / Thomas, Sarah E. -- Chapter 2: The Bod Squad / Thomas, Sarah E. / Heaney, Michael -- Chapter 3: Finance / How, Laura -- Chapter 4: The special collections / Hughes, Michael -- Chapter 5: The purchase of electronic journal backfiles / McAslan, Jonathan -- Chapter 6: The building of the Book Storage Facility / Kirtley, Toby -- Chapter 7: Book Storage Facility ingest and retrievals operations / Rodger, Boyd -- Chapter 8: 'And moveth all together, if it move at all': the Bookmoves Project 2010-2011 / Cannon, Catríona -- Chapter 9: Barcoding - the Inventory Control Project / Williams, Michael / MacDonald, Alasdair / Walsh, Cath -- Chapter 10: The Book Storage Facility Information System / Bonnie, Andrew -- Chapter 11: Implementation of a new integrated library system / Price, Dave -- Chapter 12: Staff relocation / Heaney, Michael -- Chapter 13: The creation of the Weston Library / Ovenden, Richard -- Chapter 14: Underground Bookstore and Old Bodleian Access Project / Legg, James -- Chapter 15: Reader services during a time of major changes / Mackay, Donald / Ptak-Danchak, Alena / Shaw, James -- Conclusion / Cannon, Catríona -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | The transformation of the Bodleian Libraries provides an example of how major libraries can meet twenty-first century challenges: in 2008 it was facing a failed system installation, a failed plan to cope with its storage needs and the threat of losing status as a repository suitable to house important manuscripts. Three years later it had a new state-of-the-art repository already holding 7 million items under full automated control, a new advanced library system, transformed reader spaces and the reconstruction of its major building well under way; This was achieved in record-breaking time wit |
Titolo autorizzato: | Transforming the Bodleian |
ISBN: | 3-11-028939-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779721703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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