期刊名称：Library Information Research : Research into Practice for Information Library Services
印刷版ISSN：1756-1086
电子版ISSN：1756-1086
出版年度：1999
卷号：23
期号：73
页码：19-23
语种：English
出版社：CILIP Library & Information Research Group
摘要：This is a remarkably successful enterprise and a splendid example of 'how to do it right' in so many ways. As a reference book it compiles a fantastic amount of information useful to IT practitioners and library managers' As a collection of statistics it provides solid evidence for the history of public library automation in the 1980s and 1990s. To keep policy makers' feet on the ground it provides essential information on which electronic materials and services have already been taken up by public library users' The combination of these three goals in a single volume works excellently: the whole is so much more valuable and exciting than would be a more 'logical' separation into parts. The fact that this is number six in a series of comparable data stretching back to 1984 makes it possible to see the historical context clearly. Chris Batt is personally responsible for this continuity: he deserves the gratitude and encouragement of the whole profession.
关键词：librarianship; information science; information management;information technology; public libraries; Automated circulation systems; catalogues; aquisition systems; Community Information; Open Learning; CD ROMS; Internet; LMS; online searching; electronic information; charging policies
