The impact of emerging technologies on reference service and bibliographic instruction

Author(s)

• Pitkin, Gary M.

Bibliographic Information

The impact of emerging technologies on reference service and bibliographic instruction

edited by Gary M. Pitkin

（Contributions in librarianship and information science, no. 87）

Greenwood Press, 1995

Note

Bibliography: p. [163]-171

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Information technologies are having a profound impact on the ways libraries are providing traditional services. This book identifies emerging technologies and assesses their impact on two distinct yet interdependent entities, library service and library education. While other publications identify technologies and speculate on applications, this volume focuses on the impacts of information technology on several aspects of librarianship. The book first delineates emerging technologies and their impact on reference services and bibliographic instruction. It then discusses the resultant restructuring of reference services and the relationship between librarians and patrons. Bibliographic instruction is presented as a new paradigm based on the imperative that no faculty member should teach and no student should graduate without being fully information literate. The work also discusses staffing, organization, and financial support, and the structural and political placement of the library within the parent organization.

Table of Contents

Introduction Identifying Emerging Technologies by George Machovec Implications of New and Emerging Technologies on Reference Service by Johannah Sherrer Implications for Bibliographic Instruction by Harvey Sager The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Library Clientele by John C. Tyson People, Organizations, and Information Technology: Facing the Millennium by Delmus E. Williams Preparing for the Technological Future by Charles B. Lowry Impact on the Library School Curriculum and Methods of Teaching by Thomas D. Walker Information Transfer, Information Technology, and the New Information Professional by Herbert K. Achleitner Impact on the International Development of Librarianship by Charles Wm. Conaway Index

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Details

• NCID: BA2613315X
• ISBN:
  • 0313293651
• LCCN: 95003802
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 180 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 015.2
  • LCC : Z711
  • DC20 : 025.5/2/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Reference services (Libraries) -- United States
  • LCSH : Library orientation -- United States
  • LCSH : Libraries -- United States -- Data processing
  • LCSH : Library information networks -- United States
  • LCSH : Libraries -- United States -- Special collections -- Databases
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00040202