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Helal, Ahmed H., Ed.; Weiss, Joachim W., Ed.
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Towards a Worldwide Library: A Ten Year Forecast.
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Proceedings of the International Essen Symposium (19th,
Essen, Germany, September 23-26, 1996). Publications of
Essen University Library, No. 21.
Essen Univ. (Germany). Library.
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Academic Libraries; Access to Information; *Electronic
DESCRIPTORS
Libraries; Foreign Countries; *Futures (of Society); Higher
Education; Information Dissemination; *Information
Technology; Internet; Librarians; Library Administration;
*Library Development; *Library Role; Library Services;
Organizational Change; Research Libraries; Strategic
Planning; *Technological Advancement; Total Quality
Management; World Wide Web
Information Age
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ABSTRACT
The 25 papers presented at this symposium focus on the
future of libraries and library services in an ever evolving Information Age.
The papers deal with topics such as: economic and political issues in
determining the future of the professionally managed library; adding value to
library services; the need for librarians and library educators who are
masters of both book forms and electronic information retrieval; the revival
of the Ancient Library of Alexandria project; managing organizational change;
strategic planning and management of change; the local academic library
within the worldwide context; choice and voice in determination of research
librarian roles; a new kind of strategic planning in which flexibility and
adaptability to change are key elements; new services in academic libraries
through institutional alignment and leadership; challenges of digital
information for research libraries; how technology may help or hinder the
development of the digital library; SwetsNet(R) as an electronic agent for
libraries and publishers; evaluation in the digital library; multilingual
access to libraries' databases; a model for the electronic university
library; new tasks and developments in bibliographic utilities and library
networks; a comparison of online search engines and search strategies; the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's journal storage project; the LAIRD (Libraries
and Archives Integrated Resources Database) source for Scottish culture;
Internet search engines; using the World Wide Web to disseminate information
on the Internet; providing public access to information over the Internet;
document delivery towards the Year 2000; and a 10-year forecast of
developments in information science and technology. The symposium agenda, a
list of participants, and a list of participating vendors are provided.
Contains an index.
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Vol. 1
Current Trends in Serials Automation
Essen Symposium
6 Oct. - 8 Oct. 1980
3-922602-01-0
Vol. 2
Hierarchical Relationships in
Bibliographic Descriptions
Library Systems Seminar Essen
25 March 27 March 1981
3-922602-05-3 (out of print)
Vol. 3
Workshop zur Benutzerschulung
1 April
3 April 1981
3-922602-03-7 (out of print)
Vol. 4
Future of Library Networks
Essen Symposium
16 Sept.
18 Sept. 1981
3-922602-04-5 (out of print)
Vol. 5
Increasing Productivity through
Library Automation
Essen Symposium
11 Oct.
14 Oct. 1982
3-922602-06-1 (out of print)
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Ode to Ahmed Helal
The Essen Librarian's Symposium has a status unique in the field.
A place in this august gathering is not one you'd willingly yield.
It began at the start of the eighties and has gone on for seventeen years,
It's not about eating and drinking but about sharing your hopes and your fears.
Delegates come from all over, from north, south, east and from west,
It attracts the high and the mighty, the cleverest and always the best.
The Symposium is Helal's legacy to the world of librarianship.
Long may it continue to flourish, giving vision and fellowship.
Ahmed, we will miss your warm welcome and your cheerful, smiling face.
For your moiling 'rrrs' and dam-k mischief, in our hearts there is always a place.
Happy rrretirement
Bernard Gallivan
Universitatsbibliothek Essen
Essen University Library
Towards a Worldwide Library :
A Ten Year Forecast
19th International Essen Symposium
26 September 1996
23 September
Edited by
Ahmed H. Helal
Joachim W. Weiss
Universitatsbibliothek Essen
Essen 1997
Towards a worldwide library : a ten year forecast / 19th International
Essen Symposium 23 September 26 September 1996. Ed. by Ahmed
H. Helal
Essen, 1997. - XLIV, 291 S.
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Table of Contents
Preface XI
Agenda of the Seminar
XVII
List of Participants
XXI
XLI
Participating Vendors
Herbert S. White
Economic and Political Issues in Determining the Future of the
Professionally Managed Library over the Next Ten Years
1
Ray Lester
13
The Need to Add Value
Irene Sever
Educating Librarians for a Worldwide Library:
32
Skills and Curricula
Mohsen Zahran
BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA:
41
Revival of the Ancient Library of Alexandria Project
Richard M. Dougherty
53
Navigating Permanent "Whitewater" of Organizational Change
Sheila Corrall
Creating Change without Chaos: Preparing Libraries for the
66
21st Century
Margaret Beckman / John B. Black
The Local Academic Library within the Worldwide Context:
78
Changes, Directions, Realities
Anthony M. Angiletta
The Morphing of Research Librarians in the New World:
88
Or, Myths and Realities of Professional Choice and Voice
8
Maurice B. Line
Chaos, Strategy and Planning: Can They be Reconciled?
102
Greg Anderson
Re-Engineering the Academic Library: New Services through
Institutional Alignment & Leadership
115
Sul H. Lee
Challenges of Digital Information for Research Libraries
136
Frank B. Oliver
How Technology May Help or Hinder the Development of the
Digital Library
144
Pieter Rustenburg
Swets as an Electronic Agent for Libraries and Publishers:
SwetsNet® - The Electronic Warehouse
154
(full paper not received in time due to extraordinary circumstances)
Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster
Evaluation in the Context of the Digital Library
156
Genevieve Clavel-Merrin
Multilingual Access to Libraries' Databases
168
Mel W. Collier
A Model for the Electronic University Library
180
Ronald Michael Schmidt
Libraries, Bibliographic Utilities and Library Networks:
Looking ahead
191
Eugene Garfield
Agony and Ecstasy of the Internet:
Experiences of an Information Scientist Qua Publisher
202
Richard De Gennaro
JSTOR: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Journal
Storage Project
223
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Bernard Gallivan
LAIRD and the Curriculum plus a short note on
231
The Future of National Libraries in Britain
Andrew G. Torok
241
Internet Search Engines: Are Users Ready?
James A. West
The Intranet: Using the World Wide Web to Disseminate
254
Information over the Internet
Paul Nieuwenhuysen / Patrick Vanouplines
262
Providing Public Access to Information on the Internet
Sue Orchard
276
Document Delivery towards the Year 2000
Susan K. Martin
285
Conference Summary
288
Index
10