Search (5 results, page 1 of 1)

  • × author_ss:"Line, M.B."
  • × language_ss:"e"
  1. Line, M.B.: Who pays for information? : And why should they? (1995) 0.00 
    0.0025241538 = product of:
  0.015144923 = sum of:
    0.015144923 = weight(_text_:in in 1690) [ClassicSimilarity], result of:
      0.015144923 = score(doc=1690,freq=16.0), product of:
        0.059380736 = queryWeight, product of:
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.043654136 = queryNorm
        0.25504774 = fieldWeight in 1690, product of:
          4.0 = tf(freq=16.0), with freq of:
            16.0 = termFreq=16.0
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.046875 = fieldNorm(doc=1690)
  0.16666667 = coord(1/6)
    Abstract
    Big changes in the economic and political climate have affected attitudes to paying for the provision of and access to information. However, the scholarly publication system is not a true market one, Nearly all of the costs that occur at the various points in the information production and access chain are ultimately borne by institutions, though research bodies may fund some of them. The interesting question is whether charging mechanisms within the chain can significantly affects the system. Charging users usually results in their institution paying. The market signals given by charging are of limited value; waste may be reduced, but some waste in information provision is necessary; and it is dangerous to make charges as a matter of expediency rather than principle. The provision of access to users in the Third World should be regarded as an investment in a long term market and in political stability. Information is expensive, but not unaffordably so
    Source
    Information superhighway: the role of librarians, information scientists, and intermediaries. Festschrift in honor of Frederick Wilfred Lancaster. 17th International Essen Symposium, 24.-27.10.1994. Ed. A.H. Helal et al
  2. Line, M.B.: Service and self-service : the electronic library from the user's point of view (1993) 0.00 
    0.0021859813 = product of:
  0.013115887 = sum of:
    0.013115887 = weight(_text_:in in 7016) [ClassicSimilarity], result of:
      0.013115887 = score(doc=7016,freq=12.0), product of:
        0.059380736 = queryWeight, product of:
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.043654136 = queryNorm
        0.22087781 = fieldWeight in 7016, product of:
          3.4641016 = tf(freq=12.0), with freq of:
            12.0 = termFreq=12.0
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.046875 = fieldNorm(doc=7016)
  0.16666667 = coord(1/6)
    Abstract
    Electronic technology should not be used for its own sake but to serve users. In the academic world, students are likely to make much increased use of self-instructional materials of various kinds as student numbers expand without a parallel increase in total university resources. Libraries should be centrally involved in the development of integrated learning resources. The probelm of student textbooks in heavy demand coulb be solved by mass produced optical cards. Other books may be produced on demand at service points, which may and should include libraries. Types of user need are for access to specific items, searching for material on particular topics, updating, and browsing and serendipity; all of these will be affected by technology. Libraries must aim to be totally self-explanatory and self-usable; so must the electronic database of references and full text to which they provide access. Librarians need to become information resource managers and providers, giving a more direct service to users than they do now
    Source
    Opportunity 2000: understanding and serving users in an electronic library; 15th Int. Symp., 12.-15.10.1992; Festschrift in honour of Herbert S. White. Ed.: A.H. Helal
  3. Line, M.B.: ¬An information world apart : the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference of 1948 in the light of 1998 (1998) 0.00 
    0.0021859813 = product of:
  0.013115887 = sum of:
    0.013115887 = weight(_text_:in in 1074) [ClassicSimilarity], result of:
      0.013115887 = score(doc=1074,freq=12.0), product of:
        0.059380736 = queryWeight, product of:
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.043654136 = queryNorm
        0.22087781 = fieldWeight in 1074, product of:
          3.4641016 = tf(freq=12.0), with freq of:
            12.0 = termFreq=12.0
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.046875 = fieldNorm(doc=1074)
  0.16666667 = coord(1/6)
    Abstract
    The Royal Society Scientific Information Conference of 1948 was a top level attempt to look at scientific and technical information in the light of the post-war growth of the literature. Some of the large number of recommendations have been made irrelevant by advances in technology, and some, for example those relating to bibliographic control of books and comprehensive collecting of scientific literature, have been overtaken by action. Most recommendations, however, are unfinished - some unfinishable - business. The recommendations relating to control over the number and format of journals and cooperation between abstracting journals were never realistic. Issues that are still live include library co-operation and copyright. The 1948 conference may have had few direct effects, but it helped to create a climate where improvements were easier to make. Political and technological changes in the world since then have led to a very different environment, in which information is held to bave a commercial value, the private sector plays a greater part, and market forces rule. A similar conference in 1998 would have a very different agenda
  4. Line, M.B.; Kinnell, M.: Human resource management in library and information services (1993) 0.00 
    0.0020823204 = product of:
  0.012493922 = sum of:
    0.012493922 = weight(_text_:in in 350) [ClassicSimilarity], result of:
      0.012493922 = score(doc=350,freq=2.0), product of:
        0.059380736 = queryWeight, product of:
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.043654136 = queryNorm
        0.21040362 = fieldWeight in 350, product of:
          1.4142135 = tf(freq=2.0), with freq of:
            2.0 = termFreq=2.0
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.109375 = fieldNorm(doc=350)
  0.16666667 = coord(1/6)
  5. Line, M.B.: Reengineering libraries for a lifelong learning society (1997) 0.00 
    0.001682769 = product of:
  0.010096614 = sum of:
    0.010096614 = weight(_text_:in in 54) [ClassicSimilarity], result of:
      0.010096614 = score(doc=54,freq=4.0), product of:
        0.059380736 = queryWeight, product of:
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.043654136 = queryNorm
        0.17003182 = fieldWeight in 54, product of:
          2.0 = tf(freq=4.0), with freq of:
            4.0 = termFreq=4.0
          1.3602545 = idf(docFreq=30841, maxDocs=44218)
          0.0625 = fieldNorm(doc=54)
  0.16666667 = coord(1/6)
    Abstract
    The environment in which libraries everywhere in the developed world operate is undergoing massive changes, most of them driven or influenced by information technology. Discusses 2 trends that are having a fundamental impact on libraries: lifelong learning and the shift from teaching to learning. Presents concepts of academic and public libraries of the future, where culture, learning and research will be fostered, and where most of the competencies of librarians and information professionals will become more rather than less needed, because information handling skills will be of prime importance

Themes