Role of Standards in Sci-Tech Libraries / Edition 1

by Ellis Mount

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560240211
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/24/1990
Series:	Science and Technology Libraries Series
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction

• Which Will It Be? A Quality Standards Information Service or a Collection of Standards?
• The Standards Collection in the Science and Technology Department of the Cleveland Public Library
• Standards in the Frito-Lay Corporate Library
• Standards Collections for Academic Libraries
• Measurement Research and the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Research Information Center
• Standards Information Services—The IHS Solution
• You Know More Than You Think: Making Your Initial Contribution to the Subject Collection Literature

Editorial Reviews

Addresses the need for standards in libraries and provides guidelines for developing standards collections. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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