Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book

Listing over 10000 entries Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book spans everything from traditional printing terms to search engines and from book formats to URLs. Revisions for this tenth edition have centred in particular on the Information Society and its ramifications on the general shift towards electronic resources and on e-commerce e-learning and e-government whilst at the same time maintaining key areas predating the IT revolution. Web terminology URLs and IT terms have been checked and updated and coverage of terms relating to digitization and digital resources portals multimedia and electronic products has been revised or expanded as necessary. Harrod's Glossary now includes Knowledge Management terms and this edition has also focused on developments in the field of intellectual property copyright patents privacy and piracy. It gives wide international coverage of names addresses and URLs of major libraries and other important organizations in the information sector of professional associations fellowships networks government bodies projects and programmes consortia and institutions influential reports and other key publications. Entries are included on classification and file coding on records management and archiving and on both the latest and the most enduring aspects of library and information skills. Even with the Web at your fingertips Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book remains a quicker reference for explaining specialist terms jargon and acronyms and for finding the URLs you need whether you are working in a print-based or digital library in archiving records management conservation bookselling or publishing.