British library and information schools [electronic resource] : towards 100 years of educating the information professional at UCL SLAIS / guest editors, Andy Dawson and David Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dawson, Andy.

Brown David.

Series:

Aslib proceedings (Online) ; v. 58, no. 1/2.

Aslib proceedings, 0001-253X ; v. 58, no. 1/2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries--Great Britain.

Libraries.

Information science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This e-book is devoted to the research output of British library and information schools. With the Research Assessment Exercise two years off it gives institutions an opportunity to demonstrate the quality and range of their research and scholarship. This issue focusses on the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London, the first British library School to be established in 1919. Both historical and modern areas of librarianship and information management are explored. The first half of the issue focusses on traditional issues of information description and

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Note from the editor; Towards 100 years of educating the information professions at UCL SLAIS; Developing a new academic discipline; The study of books; The development of description in cataloguing prior to ISBD; The need for a faceted classification as the basis of all methods of information retrieval; Evaluating evaluation; The rendering of humanities information in a digital context; Interpreting the image: using advanced computational techniques to read the Vindolanda texts

Improving the relevance of web menus using search logs: a BBCi case studyTriangulating qualitative research and computer transaction logs in health information studies; Three problems in logic-based knowledge representation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-50691-1

9786610506910

1-84544-927-4

OCLC:

69661740