Library Hi Tech: Volume 21 Issue 3

The status of systems librarians

Systems librarians are a subspecies on whom everyone in the library world depends. Yet no one who has worked as a systems librarian would recognize themselves as having an exalted…

Introduction

It is clear there will always be a need for library systems support, but will libraries always need professional librarians in the systems office? The authors of this theme issue…

The self‐education of systems librarians

This article outlines the common duties and responsibilities of systems librarians, and describes how library school students and others interested in entering the field can take…

The integrated librarian: IT in the systems office

The library systems office is under increasing pressure to support not only the integrated library system (ILS), but a proliferation of systems, servers and technologies. Some…

From library systems to mainstream software: how Web technologies are changing the role of the systems librarian

With the advent of the Web, systems librarians now find themselves managing or facilitating a wealth of mainstream technologies. Systems work revolves around many resources that…

Systems librarianship in Australia: a historical perspective

This paper describes and comments on the evolution of systems librarianship in Australia through two strands – the author’s personal work experience in libraries since 1977 and…

Library systems without systems librarians: the Mexican experience

This article aims to describe library automation development in Mexican universities, particularly the role of systems librarians in this process, together with the creation of…

Library systems teams – more than just peripherals

The role of systems librarian is now common across a range of library types. The methods for becoming one still vary, with many systems librarians growing into the role without…

Building bridges: the role of the systems librarian in a university library

This article will review the role of system librarians in the administration of a university library management system. It will focus library systems projects, which have been…

Changing roles of the systems librarian at the College of William and Mary: the explosion of technology and position of the systems librarian

The systems office, at the College of William and Mary’s Swem Library, evolved from a hierarchical department to a modified team structure. Along the way, the role of the systems…

Electronic books: viewpoints from users and potential users

A questionnaire survey was distributed among 27 students at a library and information science school in the USA to find out what users and potential users think about e‐books in…

Accessibility of Web‐based library databases: the vendors’ perspectives

Accessibility, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, pertains to accessibility of online environments as well as physical environments for persons with…

Monastery to marketplace: a paradigm shift

Library design and planning has undergone a significant change since the beginning of the 1990s. Library spaces and services have been reconfigured to satisfy the demands of an…

Web forms: the next generation

XForms are the future of data entry on the Web. Their advancement to W3C Candidate Recommendation status in November 2002 has been followed by a variety of implementations…

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