The International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science Book

The International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science was published to widespread acclaim in 1996, and has become the major reference work in the field. This eagerly awaited new edition has been fully revised and updated to take full account of the many and radical changes which have taken place since the first edition was originally conceived.
With nearly 600 entries, written by a global team of over 150 contributors, the coverage includes: * Accessions * Authority File * Barcode * Barefoot Librarian* Bibliotherapy * Bodley, Sir Thomas (1545-1613) * Buddhist Libraries * Censorship * Central and Eastern Europe * Chain Indexing * Conservation * Consolidation of Information * * Dewey, Melvil (1857-1931) * Digital Libraries [Electronic Libraries in 1/E] * Enumerative Bibliography * Ephemera * Free Text Searching * Freedom of Information * Gesner, Conrad (1516-65) * Historical Bibliography * Hybrid Libraries * Hypermedia * Information Broker * Information Engineering * Information Ethics ) * International Standard Book Number (ISBN) * Knowledge-Based Systems * Lancaster, F. Wilfrid (1933-) * Library of Congress * Library of Congress Classification * Manuscript Libraries * Map Library * Marketing of Libraries * National Register of Archives * Naudé, Gabriel (1600-53) * Online Public Access Catalogues (Opacs) * Packet Switching * Palaeography * Presidential Libraries * Primary Literature * Privacy * Reference Interview * Referral Service * Relational Database * Search Engines * Shera, Jesse Hauk (1903-82) * Sociology of Knowledge * Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) * Standards Specifications Statistical Bibliography UNESCO * Uniform Resource Locator (URL) * Union Catalogs * Virtual Library * Women in Librarianship * Zipf * And much more...