Dictionary for Library and Information Science

by Joan Reitz

Overview

What began in 1994 as a five-page handout, the Dictionary of Library and Information Science soon was expanded and converted to electronic format for installation on the Western Connecticut State University Library Web site, where it is in high demand by library professionals, scholars, and students, and has won international praise. Now available for the first time in print, the Dictionary is the most comprehensive and reliable English-language resource for terminology used in all types of libraries. With more than 4,000 terms and cross-references (last updated in January of 2003), the Dictionary's content has been carefully selected and includes terms from publishing, printing, literature, and computer science where, in the author's judgment, they are relevant to both library professionals and laypersons. The primary criterion for including a new term is whether library and information science professionals might reasonably be expected to encounter it at some point in their career, or be required to know its meaning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591580751
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	800
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.59(d)

About the Author

JOAN M. REITZ is Librarian, Instructional Services, Ruth A. Haas Library, Western Connecticut State University.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface
Bibliography
Dictionary

Editorial Reviews

What began in 1994 as a five-page handout at Western Connecticut State University (and later converted to electronic format) has evolved into a 700-plus-page print book with more than 4000 entries. But this is not a dictionary of just library and information science terms. As the author states in her preface, "the dictionary includes not only the terminology of the various specializations within library science and information studies but also the vocabulary of publishing, printing, the book trade, graphic arts, book history, literature, bibliography, telecommunications, and computer science when, in the author's judgment, a definition might prove helpful to librarians and information specialists in their work." OK. So we have "pen," "uppercase," "abbreviation," etc., but not "Gen-Y" (the age group 18-24 who have very different ideas about libraries), "SIP" (session initiated protocol),"broadband," etc. When you go broad, you go broad. The question then: Is it too broad to be of value to its intended audience? On that issue, you can draw your own conclusions.--B. Susan Brown, Pamunkey Regional Lib., VA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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