Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape

Tramullas, Jesus · Garrido, Piedad

Jul 2012 · IGI Global

About this ebook

The advent of computers in libraries made library automation a hot topic in the 1980s and 1990s, but this focus has dropped off over time, leaving much library automation research outdated.

Library Automation and OPAC 2.0: Information Access and Services in the 2.0 Landscape brings library automation back to the forefront of cutting-edge research. In today's age of Web 2.0 and social networking, libraries are entering the new Library 2.0 era, and this reference will present current and future librarians with the necessary new library automation research they will need to keep their institutions up-to-date in today's constantly changing technological environment.

About the author

received his Masters in Computer Management from the Institute of Enterprise Directors IDE / CESEM. He has directed and developed funded research projects on information management in organizations, such as Coordinator of the Thematic Network on Digital Documents (founded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, 2004-2007), Member of the Information Resources Management in Organizations Research Group, Director of Digital Information Workshops & Summer Courses (Univ. of Zaragoza in Jaca, 2001-2010), Senior member of the Association for Computer Machinery ACM, IEEE Education Chapter, and International Society for Knowledge Organization ISKO, Author of numerous works on the implementation and development of computer tools in Information Management and Librarianship. Jesus Tramullas has authored the books: World Wide Web: Fundamentals, Navigation and Languages on the Global Information Network (1996), Introduction to Documatica, (1997), Information Retrieval on the Internet (2001), Libre Software for Information Services (2006), Trends in Digital Documents (2006). He has also lectured and spoken at numerous conferences, courses and seminars. View his weblog at: http://tramullas.com.

Piedad Garrido is an assistant professor in the Department of Computers and Systems Engineering at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. She graduated in Computer Science and Documentation at the Technical University of Valencia in 1997 and 1999, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in Documentation from the University Carlos III of Madrid in 2008. Her current research interests include intelligent transportation systems, virtual agents, ontologies, traffic safety, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. She is member of the IEEE.

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