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Overview
Beginning in 1994 as a five-page handout, the Dictionary of Library and Information Science was soon 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, the Dictionary's content has been carefully selected and includes the most up-to-date 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. Designed as a reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries, this comprehensive resource will be useful for patrons, and a ready-reference tool that librarians will want to have at their fingertips.Synopsis
Now available for the first time in print, this is the most comprehensive and reliable English-language resource for terminology used in all types of libraries.
Library Journal
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.