Research in Library and Information Science / Gale Fox

Contents: 1. Information Science Abstracts, 2. Quality Management Approaches in Libraries, 3. Integrated Library Management System, 4. Participatory Networks, 5. Academic Library Environment, 6. Emerging Initiatives in Library Management Systems, 7. Preserving the Information Content: Issues and Strategies, 8. Electronic Publishing: Research Issues for Academic Librarians and Users, 9. Research Libraries, Risk and Systemic Change, 10. Code Practices in Academic and Research Libraries, 11. Service Quality in Academic Libraries, 12. Librarians and Libraries Promote Community, 13. Librarians Perform Sacred Functions, 14. Librarians and Libraries Organize Chaos, 15. Online Library Management System, 16. ICT and Electronic Library, 17. Financial Management, 18. Future Digital Library Management Systems, 19. System Design Methodologies, 20. Application of Data Mining Techniques for Library System, 21. Resource Sharing, Networking and Library Consortia.

Librarianship is one of the world's oldest and most successful professions. It has survived war, plague, economic depression, and varying social values and conditions.The profession has shown an extraordinary ability to adapt to changing social and economic conditions and to adapt changing technologies to serve a variety of people with divese interests and need. A compendium of selected research studies conducted in various Library Schools. The subjects such as professional development, reading habits of women, space planning in libraries, industrial information system, I.T applications in decentralised planning and bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics studies focussed on various communication media are investigated. A reference book for students, teachers and researchers engaged in library and information science research.