Magic & hypersystems
Subtitle: constructing the information-sharing library
By: Harold Billings.
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Library science -- Technological innovations.; Library information networks.; Library cooperation.; Information technology.; Collection development (Libraries); Research libraries -- Automation.
Other titles: Magic and hypersystems
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Libraries and other networked botanies; title: Magic and hypersystems : a new orderliness for libraries; title: Governing library networks: the quick and the dead for the 1990s; title: The bionic library; title: Supping with the devil : new library alliances in the information age; title: The information ark : selection issues in the preservation process; title: The tomorrow librarian; title: Library collections and distance information : new models of collection development for the 21st century; title: Libraries, language, and change : defining the information present; title: Special collections : still special after all these years; title: Shared collection building : constructing the 21st century relational research library; title: Giving up prophecy : the future of information cooperation.