Libraries in Open Societies: Proceedings of the Fifth International Slavic Librarians' ConferencePsychology Press, 2002 - 264 pages Learn how libraries have risen to the challenges created by the fall of Communism and the rise of information technology! How do librarians and researchers face war, social upheaval, and other challenges after the fall of Communism and the rise of digital technology? Libraries in Open Societies offers fascinating answers to this and many other questions while providing an overview of this rapidly changing arena. An international panel of authors who know the specialized concerns of libraries in Eastern Europe and the former USSR addresses topics that include the difficulty of preserving and acquiring materials, the importance of international cooperation, and the benefits and pitfalls of electronic media. This book also discusses the rise of the Internet in Russia, the movement of international bibliographies onto the Web, and other features of the digital revolution. Libraries in Open Societies, itself an example of the value of international cooperation in the modern world, will be an important addition to your bookshelves! Other absorbing topics in Libraries in Open Societies include:
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Contents
Proceedings of the Fifth International | 1 |
Abstracting WebsiteIndexing Coverage Year When Coverage Began | 8 |
ISSUES IN COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT | 13 |
In Celebration of Sixty Years of the Polish Émigré Press | 21 |
The Death of Exchange | 29 |
Chinese National Directory | 33 |
Collection Development at the Slavonic Library Prague | 45 |
THE REALITIES OF CREATING FULLTEXT DATABASES | 55 |
Selection and Acquisition | 127 |
Science Culture and Education | 141 |
An Example | 149 |
PRESERVING SLAVIC COLLECTIONS FOR FUTURE | 157 |
Digital Access to Old Manuscripts in the Memoriae | 169 |
Digitizing and Making a Web Site for the Soviet Letopis | 179 |
JOURNALS IN SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN | 185 |
The Contemporary State of World Librarianship | 193 |
The Sofia Corpus of Data on Slavic Manuscripts | 81 |
Benefits and Challenges of Maximizing Technology | 87 |
ASPECTS OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION DELIVERY | 103 |
Electronic Information Delivery and Consortium Realities | 121 |
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