Don't forget to go back to the paper resources throughout your research if appropriate; ask yourself if you've taken too narrow an approach to the problem;
use the library catalogue rather than scanning the shelves as the best texts / resources are often checked out;
Not exact matches
Even if a title goes out of print, the ISBN can not be reused since the title continues to be
catalogued by
libraries and traded by
used booksellers.
At the same time,
used by
libraries in Australia and around the world to
catalogue books.
What is important to know, and it is the main reason for me to start
using Lightning Source, is the availability of hard copy edition AND return policy for bookstores and
libraries plus the distribution of your book through Ingram and their own
catalogue.
I think much of that is because
libraries use Baker and Taylor as their supplier, and B&T is more «exclusive» in their
catalogue listings.
While Create Space recently began offering the option to list your book in wholesale
catalogues used by U.S.
libraries and booksellers, there is no easy or practical way to get your Create Space book listed on Amazon's international sites or in wholesaler books or wholesaler
catalogues used outside the U.S. Lulu offers a global distribution option for a fee, but Lulu's per copy production costs are so high that I don't recommend
using them.
I want to help readers
catalogue their Kindle
Libraries with a spreadsheet template I
use for mine.
It
used to be difficult for
libraries to manage what titles to carry, they basically had an all or nothing proposition, but they can now
use our platform to actively curate their ebook
catalogues.
TPL began to transition from
using print
catalogues to order materials to
using online selection in 2008, initially with Baker and Taylor's Title Source 3 and then in 2010 with an online bibliographic database and selection software developed, in collaboration with TPL, by the Canadian
library wholesaler Whitehots.
Aided by an extensive image
library consisting of automobile
catalogues, anatomical prints, and historical illustrations, Fekete
uses a process that Elliott describes as «analog Photoshop.»
Use the SAM Research
Libraries Catalogue (OPAC) to access books, exhibition
catalogues, videos, and selected historical materials in the McCaw Foundation Library.
On a teachable moment opportunity: I often
used Internet defamation as a teaching example in teaching students how to effectively search the Index to Canadian Legal Literature (ICLL) online (the example also works well in searching a
library catalogue using Library of Congress Subject Headings).
Digital systems have improved organization and retrieval of information, which is why many types of information, such as
library catalogues, are not generally available in print anymore, but there is still a delicate balance among retrieving too many results, ease of
use of the system, and retrieving everything relevant.
The University of Alberta
Libraries have created a Facebook application that lets Facebook users look at the
library catalogue,
use RefWorks and perform other
library functions without leaving the snug confines of Facebook.
Have an idea of ways they could explore these topics further in understand how they relate to various areas of the law
library community, such as
cataloguing, leadership, information system development, and how to best
use developing information resources going forward
I'm
using it to
catalogue a small
library collection for one of the law firms at which I work.
A colleague of mine recently commented that she dealt with law students who had never
used the university's
library catalogue; they just Googled for materials.
Even if eBooks are included in the
catalogue,
libraries may still run into the problem that users will not
use this material.
Since the
catalogues of both the Law Society of Manitoba's Great
Library and the University of Manitoba's Law School
library are available online, it was easy, although time - consuming, to verify that older editions of some of the less -
used items in my
library were readily available.
Based on personal experience, a certain number of people find reading books on a computer screen to be awkward so even if a user does find the eBook in the
library catalogue, he or she may not wish to
use it.
The question is, would allowing for tagging and other similar features in our traditional
library catalogues make them more useful or more
used?
Library Services tends to involve fairly concrete actions or steps (order a book, research a point of law, train students on how to
use Quicklaw) with specified daily activities for
library staff (check in new case law reporters, circulate newspaper stories from Lexis Publisher,
catalogue new books, etc.).
In the Canadian law
library context, all major private law firms with national practices, save one,
use modified KFThe best article on KF and the development of Canadian law
library cataloguing comes from UBC.
Demonstrates the
use of
library indexes and Online Public Access
Catalogue to locate relevant information
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Reorganized the
cataloguing system, making the process 58 % less cumbersome to perform than before • Rearranged the entire
library's books into a «by author» sequence, as opposed to the cumbersome first in, first shelved basis • Successfully arranged and led a series of in - house reading sessions for 6 year olds for a local community school • Suggested acquisition of Braille materials to cater to and encourage blind population to make good
use of
library services
Qualified to explain the effective
use of standard
library materials such as online
catalogues and electronic resources.