- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
This book, first published in 1988, celebrates the development of sci-tech libraries in honour of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first library school in the United States. The expert contributors provide a survey of the development of sci-tech libraries as well as some thoughts about their future. This comprehensive volume covers several types of sci-tech libraries, information retrieval, and library education. Library professionals will be fascinated but the journey of progress detailed in these well-written chapters.
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Yes, you can access One Hundred Years of Sci-Tech Libraries by Ellis Mount in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Library & Information Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Library & Information ScienceTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Academic Scientific and Technical Libraries: Some 19th and 20th Century Tales
- Science and Technology Departments in Public Libraries: A Review of the Past Century
- Scientific and Technical Libraries in the Federal Government: One Hundred Years of Service
- Corporate Science and Technology Libraries: One Hundred Years of Progress
- Information-Retrieval: A 35-Year Personal Perspective
- Education for Sci-Tech Librarianship: Retrospect and Prospect
- Special Paper
- Sci-Tech Collections
- New Reference Works in Science and Technology
- Sci-Tech in Review