Computer Spreadsheets for Library Applications, 2nd Edition

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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By using software programmes in "Computer Spreadsheets for Library Applications" librarians should be able to quickly and easily build spreadsheets for budgetary and other quantitative analysis. Using library terminology, the author shows users who are familiar with microcomputers how to translate familiar library statistical compilations into automated, appealing spreadsheet formats. In this revised and updated second edition of his original "Electronic Spreadsheets for Libraries", Auld presents 35 spreadsheet models in which real or imaginary "what if" data can be assembled, analysed, and displayed. New to this edition are chapters in three-dimensional spreadsheets; macros, graphics, word processing and databases; fines; grades, salaries by sources of funding; an expanded section on circulation; CD-ROM use; preservation values; reference work values; and random numbers. The book also covers budgets, currency exchange rates and estimating shelving capacity. Each spreadsheet is presented in two ways: first in expanded cell-by-cell instructions which contain no data but widen and identify cell columns and rows and display all formulas; and then in tables as the completed spreadsheet with data in place. Two and three-dimensional spreadsheet software applications are included for most examples.

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[U]pdated with new and reworked applications including some that take advantage of three-dimensional spreadsheet software. . . . [T]he approach is generic, and a user should, without too much difficulty, be able to use the problems to adapt to similar packages in a DOS, Windows, or Macintosh environment. . . . [I]ts aplications make it useful for someone starting use of spreadsheets in a library environment. After a familiarization period, an imaginative person should be able to use it as a basis for more complicated applications. * ALR *

Author Bio

Lawrence W.S. Auld, PhD, is chair and associate professor, Department of Library Studies & Educational Technology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. He is past-president of the National Librarians Association and is a book review editor for Library Resources & Technical Services. Dr. Auld is a member of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (a division of the American Library Association), the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) and the Southeastern Library Association.