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Social Science Libraries : Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks / ed. by Steve W. Witt, Lynne M. Rudasill.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: IFLA Publications ; 144Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Saur, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (138 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110232158
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleOther classification:
  • AN 68400
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Revolutions in Science and the Role of Social Science Libraries -- Disciplinary and Organizational Shifts -- Being Undisciplined; Or Traversing Disciplinary Configurations in Social Science and Humanities Databases: Conceptual Considerations for Interdisciplinarity and Multidisciplinarity -- Disciplinary Boundaries in an Interdisciplinary World -- Walls Tumbling Down: Opportunities for Librarians in Interdisciplinary Research -- 'New Kids on the Block': Developing a Social Science Strategy in the British Library -- Data Services -- Share and Share Alike? Data-Sharing Practices in Different Disciplinary Domains -- Socio-economic Databases as a Support System for Interdisciplinary Research: Indian Scenario -- Developing Social Networks -- Going Global: Facilitating Global Research and Education at George Mason University Libraries -- No Passport Needed: Border Crossings in the Academic Library -- Backmatter
Summary: This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses upon the question of interdisciplinary within social science libraries and the role of libraries to both react to and facilitate paradigm shifts in research and science. Section two focuses on the rise of data as a resource to be collected and shared within social science libraries. The third section focuses on the role of librarians to facilitate the development of social organizations that develop around new technologies and research communities. Changed role of librarians within social science libraries Describes new developments of social organizations Essential for librarians
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Revolutions in Science and the Role of Social Science Libraries -- Disciplinary and Organizational Shifts -- Being Undisciplined; Or Traversing Disciplinary Configurations in Social Science and Humanities Databases: Conceptual Considerations for Interdisciplinarity and Multidisciplinarity -- Disciplinary Boundaries in an Interdisciplinary World -- Walls Tumbling Down: Opportunities for Librarians in Interdisciplinary Research -- 'New Kids on the Block': Developing a Social Science Strategy in the British Library -- Data Services -- Share and Share Alike? Data-Sharing Practices in Different Disciplinary Domains -- Socio-economic Databases as a Support System for Interdisciplinary Research: Indian Scenario -- Developing Social Networks -- Going Global: Facilitating Global Research and Education at George Mason University Libraries -- No Passport Needed: Border Crossings in the Academic Library -- Backmatter

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This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses upon the question of interdisciplinary within social science libraries and the role of libraries to both react to and facilitate paradigm shifts in research and science. Section two focuses on the rise of data as a resource to be collected and shared within social science libraries. The third section focuses on the role of librarians to facilitate the development of social organizations that develop around new technologies and research communities. Changed role of librarians within social science libraries Describes new developments of social organizations Essential for librarians

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