TY - JOUR
T1 - Geology Librarianship: Current Trends and Challenges
AU - Joseph, Lura E.
N1 - Funding Information:
DeFelice has described The Digital Library for Earth System Education, funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (De-Felice 2000). This will be a specialized digital library designed to increase dissemination and use of earth science educational materials. Tahirkheli and Andrews have described the conversion of The Arctic Bibliography from a print to a digital product (Tahirkheli and Andrews 1999). Myers has described a Web application developed at the University of Wyoming, which manages, stores, retrieves, and facilitates use of multimedia geosciences resources (Myers 2000). Badurek described
PY - 2001/9/1
Y1 - 2001/9/1
N2 - Current trends and challenges in geology librarianship are influenced by driving forces such as the exponential increase in knowledge, the interdisciplinary nature of sciences, specialization of disciplines, space and budget constraints, and user expectations. The current trend toward a digital environment affects all areas of librarianship including collection development, current awareness, reference, instruction, preservation, dissemination of information, legislation and copyright law. Although the future role of librarianship may appear murky, science librarians will almost certainly continue to function as information specialists who reach across disciplinary boundaries to find related information. They will continue to prepare users for a lifetime of learning, work to standardize the various electronic resources, and ensure that knowledge is preserved in some format. This article provides an overview of the current state of geology librarianship.
AB - Current trends and challenges in geology librarianship are influenced by driving forces such as the exponential increase in knowledge, the interdisciplinary nature of sciences, specialization of disciplines, space and budget constraints, and user expectations. The current trend toward a digital environment affects all areas of librarianship including collection development, current awareness, reference, instruction, preservation, dissemination of information, legislation and copyright law. Although the future role of librarianship may appear murky, science librarians will almost certainly continue to function as information specialists who reach across disciplinary boundaries to find related information. They will continue to prepare users for a lifetime of learning, work to standardize the various electronic resources, and ensure that knowledge is preserved in some format. This article provides an overview of the current state of geology librarianship.
KW - Challenges
KW - Digital format
KW - Electronic format
KW - Geology
KW - Librarianship
KW - Trends
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U2 - 10.1300/J122v21n01_07
DO - 10.1300/J122v21n01_07
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047695916
SN - 0194-262X
VL - 21
SP - 65
EP - 85
JO - Science and Technology Libraries
JF - Science and Technology Libraries
IS - 1-2
ER -