Management of Serials Automation
Subtitle: Current Technology and Strategies for Future Planning
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: September 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780917724374
Subjects: Automation of library & information processes; Library & Information Sciences; Library Automation; Serials (Library Science); Reference; Serials control systems; Library & Information Science; Automation
First sentence: Librarian of Congress Boorstin, in warning against the temptation to accept uncritically the notion that the burgeoning presence of computer printouts represents an actual increase in the world's body of knowledge, nevertheless musters an almost lyrical enthusiasm for the computer itself: The last two decades have seen the spectacular growth of the information industry-the frontier spirit in the late twentieth century.