Technical Services: Today and Tommorrow, 2nd Edition

(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

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This text focuses on the state of the field of technical services in libraries and offers views on its future. The book is divided into four sections covering acquisition, bibliographic control, automation and administration. Within the sections there are chapters addressing specific aspects of the field. The specialized chapters on book gathering plans, preservation and Slavic technical services have been dropped from this edition, and a chapter on global standardization has been added.

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Recommended for students contemplating an academic library career and for those librarians who teach librarianship.-Library Journal
Reviews of previous edition: I highly recommend Technical Services Today and Tomorrow for academic libraries, and for library and information science collections.-Journal of Academic Librarianship
This revised collection of essays is timely....Would serve as a primer for library school students.-Library Management
"Recommended for students contemplating an academic library career and for those librarians who teach librarianship."-Library Journal
"This revised collection of essays is timely....Would serve as a primer for library school students."-Library Management
"Reviews of previous edition: I highly recommend Technical Services Today and Tomorrow for academic libraries, and for library and information science collections."-Journal of Academic Librarianship

Author Bio

rman and Associates /f Michael /r ed. MICHAEL GORMAN is Dean of Library Services, Henry Madden Library at California State University in Fresno. He has received ALA's Melvil Dewey Medal.