Role of Standards in Sci-Tech Libraries - Hardcover

Mount, Ellis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560240210 ISBN 13: 9781560240211

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

Required reading for any librarian who has been asked to identify standards and specifications, this unique new book highlights the importance of standards in many sci-tech libraries. Collections of standards in sci-tech libraries encompass a great variety--from the most narrow subject fields, to those covering many, and from collections of American standards only, to those with an international array. Role of Standards in Sci-Tech Libraries addresses the need for standards in libraries and provides crucial guidelines for developing standards collections. The first chapter describes the operation and collections of the ideal service that could be established to serve those needing stadards and to promote the use and collection of standards. A helpful list of foreign and domestic organizations that issue standards is included. Successive chapters explore the role of standards in different types of libraries--a public library’s science and technology department, a corporate library, an academic library, and the library of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The final chapter addresses the role of Information Handling Services (IHS), a commercial source of all types of standards, discusses the range of standards services, and explains how information is acquired.

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Ellis Mount

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560240210
• ISBN 13: 9781560240211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140