Library automation in transitional societies : lessons from Eastern Europe / edited by Andrew Lass & Richard E. Quandt ; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lass, Andrew, editor.

Quandt, Richard E., editor.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research libraries--Europe, Eastern--Data processing.

Research libraries.

Academic libraries--Europe, Eastern--Data processing.

Academic libraries.

Research libraries--Data processing--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Academic libraries--Data processing--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a collection of papers from a 1997 conference that attempted to assess the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's efforts to modernize Eastern European libraries after the fall of communism.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Library Automation: Fortunes and Miseries in Poland; 2. Developing National Information Infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe: The Content-versus-Conduit Debate; 3. A Coordinator's View of the Impact of Policy on the Financing and the Managing of Library Automation; 4. Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe: Basic Dilemmas; 5. The Changes in the Functions of University Libraries and of Educational Policy in Poland After 1989; 6. In Search of an Optimum Model of Development

7. Automation and Academic Libraries in Hungary: Theory and Practice in a Period of New Challenges8. Automation in the National Library in Warsaw: From an In-House System to INNOPAC; 9. The Retrospective Conversion of the Catalog in the Library of the American Studies Center, Warsaw University; 10. CASLIN, Priorities of the Czech National Library, and Government Policy on Information and Libraries; 11. Cooperation, Consortia, Compatibility, Connectivity: The Case of CASLIN; 12. Some Problems with Library Automation in the KOLIN Library Consortium

13. Realization of the CASLIN Project in the Slovak National Library and Its Impact on the Automation of Libraries in Slovakia14. The Aleph Implementation at the National Library of the Czech Republic; PART III. Cataloging, Authority Control, Retroconversion, Subject Headings, Search, and Union Catalogues; 15. A Retrospective Conversion: The Case of Debrecen; 16. The Retrospective Conversion in Czech Libraries; 17. The Implementation of an Automated System at the University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia; 18. Cataloging Standards in Czech Libraries

19. Evolution of Authority File Work in Poland20. The Union Catalog: Different Library Systems, Different Solutions; 21. New Possibilities for Information Retrieval; 22. Why, and How to, Translate a Subject Heading System: Authority Control Provides a Solution; 23. Integrating Internet Resources into the Library Catalog; 24. Knowledge and Information Processing; 25. The Dissemination and Archival Storage of Old Materials as Electronic Documents; 26. The Automation of Special Collections: General Issues; 27. The Sequencing of Automation in Central and East European Research Libraries

28. Managing Delays: The Micropolitics of Time in the Czech and Slovak Automation Projects29. The Kraków Project: Problems of Management; 30. Staffing Patterns for Academic Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the CIS Countries; 31. Staff Preparation for Automation; 32. Interactions Between Library Automation and Staff and Patron Training; 33. The Special Role of the Hungarian National Library in the Formation and Management of Consortia; 34. The Human Aspects of Library Automation; 35. The Contribution of Integrated Library Services to the Ensuring of Quality Services

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772490-6

1-280-53070-7

9786610530700

0-19-535104-5

1-4294-0484-1

OCLC:

466426512