Social science libraries
Subtitle: interdisciplinary collections, services, networks
By: edited by Steven W. Witt and Lynne M. Rudasill
Contributors: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Social Science Libraries Section
Series: IFLA publications -- 144
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9783110232141
Subjects: Interdisciplinary research; Social science libraries
Description: This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses upon the question of interdisciplinary within social science libraries and the role of libraries to both react to and facilitate paradigm shifts in research and science. Section two focuses on the rise of data as a resource to be collected and shared within social science libraries. The third section focuses on the role of librarians to facilitate the development of social organizations that develop around new technologies and research communities.
Notes: "Each chapter is a direct result of the IFLA Social Science Libraries Section's 2008 conference titled Disappearing disciplinary borders in the social science library : global studies or sea change?, which took place August 6th- 7th, 2008 at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information (FI)"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revolutions in science and the role of social science libraries / Steven W. Witt; title: Being undisciplined, or, Traversing disciplinary configurations in social science and humanities databases : conceptual considerations for interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity / Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel; title: Disciplinary boundaries in an interdisciplinary world / Margaret Robb; title: Walls tumbling down : opportunities for librarians in interdisciplinary research / Jeffrey A. Knapp; title: New kids on the block : developing a social science strategy in the British Library / Jude England; title: Share and share alike : data-sharing practices in different disciplinary domains / JoAnn Jacoby; title: Socio-economic databases as a support system for inter-disciplinary research : Indian scenario / P.R. Goswami; title: Going global : facilitating global research and education at George Mason University Libraries / LeRoy LaFleur, Melissa Johnson, and Beth Roszkowski; title: No passport needed : border crossings in the academic library / Suzan Alteri and Michael C. Sensiba.