International standards for global information.
Providing new insights into the role of librarianship in an age of socioeconomic, environmental, and political transformation, Global Librarianship illustrates how globally networked environments promote and increase the sharing and dissemination of ideas, information, and solutions to obstacles affecting libraries. This reference showcases methods to tailor and build collections and technologies that continually support worldwide scholarly and business communities through the utilization of digital tools and electronic media. It Illustrates breakthroughs in the organization, management, and dissemination of information to facilitate easy access to libraries anywhere in the world.
Is the future of MARC assured
The machine‐readable catalogue (MARC) is now more than 20 years old. It has been, and still is, criticized from different points of view. Reviews some of the positive and negative opinions on MARC, as expressed by different sectors of the profession, and studies the future of MARC in relation to technological innovations. Concludes that MARC remains a valuable means of communicating bibliographical information.
Considerations in the design of art scholarly databases
Interet du concept de banques de donnees integrees c'est-a-dire reunissant images, donnees historiques et physiques, thesaurus de termes techniques, etc. Pour que cette notion soit mieux definie sont presentes les discussions de l'Architectural Drawings Advisory Group [ADAG], le cadre intellectuel de l'Art and Architecture Thesaurus [AAT] et les modeles de l'architecture des donnees de la Smithsonian Institution [SI]