An Automation Primer for School Library Media Centers
This is a comprehensive and unpretentious manual for those with little experience in automated library resources and for those who seek to update or improve existing automation systems. It provides mostly overviews of concepts and vocabularies from OPACs to MARC records to WWW2, and offers suggested resources for detailed specifications to using systems and equipment to organize and access collections. The strengths of this manual are its succinct definitions for commonly used (often misused) terminology and the suggestion for methodically planning and then recognizing library automation. This could be a useful resource to a very specific audience.—Jodi Kearns, University of Akron, OHCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.