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Library Automation in Transitional Societies

Lessons from Eastern Europe

By: Andrew Lass (Editor), Richard Quandt (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2000

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This is a collection of papers from a 1997 conference that attempted to assess the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's efforts to modernize Eastern European libraries after the fall of communism. Looking primarily at Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, the international panel of contributors cover library automation, library policy, and management strategy.

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"The twenty-nine essays included in this work......offer a plethora of details on the evolution of libraries in parts of the world less addressed by studies of comparative librarianship." - - L&C Book Reviews

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History Library & Info Sciences Automation of Library & Information Services Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Development Studies Education Library & Information Services

Contributors
Introduction	p. 3
Library Policy and the State
Library Automation: Fortunes and Miseries in Poland	p. 23
Developing National Information Infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe: The Content-versus-Conduit Debate	p. 28
A Coordinator's View of the Impact of Policy on the Financing and the Managing of Library Automation	p. 45
Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe: Basic Dilemmas	p. 59
The Changes in the Functions of University Libraries and of Educational Policy in Poland After 1989	p. 74
In Search of an Optimum Model of Development	p. 83
Case Histories
Automation and Academic Libraries in Hungary: Theory and Practice in a Period of New Challenges	p. 93
Automation in the National Library in Warsaw: From an In-House System to INNOPAC	p. 104
The Retrospective Conversion of the Catalog in the Library of the American Studies Center, Warsaw University	p. 113
CASLIN, Priorities of the Czech National Library, and Government Policy on Information and Libraries	p. 120
Cooperation, Consortia, Compatibility, Connectivity: The Case of CASLIN	p. 134
Some Problems with Library Automation in the KOLIN Library Consortium	p. 141
Realization of the CASLIN Project in the Slovak National Library and Its Impact on the Automation of Libraries in Slovakia	p. 153
The Aleph Implementation at the National Library of the Czech Republic	p. 168
Cataloging, Authority Control, Retroconversion, Subject Headings, Search, and Union Catalogues
A Retrospective Conversion: The Case of Debrecen	p. 183
The Retrospective Conversion in Czech Libraries	p. 196
The Implementation of an Automated System at the University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia	p. 204
Cataloging Standards in Czech Libraries	p. 219
Evolution of Authority File Work in Poland	p. 224
The Union Catalog: Different Library Systems, Different Solutions	p. 235
New Possibilities for Information Retrieval	p. 251
Why, and How to, Translate a Subject Heading System: Authority Control Provides a Solution	p. 267
Integrating Internet Resources into the Library Catalog	p. 284
Knowledge and Information Processing	p. 293
The Dissemination and Archival Storage of Old Materials as Electronic Documents	p. 313
The Automation of Special Collections: General Issues	p. 327
Management Issues
The Sequencing of Automation in Central and East European Research Libraries	p. 335
Managing Delays: The Micropolitics of Time in the Czech and Slovak Automation Projects	p. 345
The Krakow Project: Problems of Management	p. 360
Staffing Patterns for Academic Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the CIS Countries	p. 374
Staff Preparation for Automation	p. 399
Interactions Between Library Automation and Staff and Patron Training	p. 407
The Special Role of the Hungarian National Library in the Formation and Management of Consortia	p. 420
The Human Aspects of Library Automation	p. 427
The Contribution of Integrated Library Services to the Ensuring of Quality Services	p. 443
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