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How LIS professionals can use alerting services /

This book examines how Library and Information Service (LIS) professionals can use alerting services (also called current awareness services or CAS) to survive: to grasp new opportunities to enhance information services, their professional development, professional image and job satisfaction. It foc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fourie, Ina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] : Chandos Publishing, 2006.
Colección:Chandos information professional series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 'Current awareness' or 'alerting' services: where do we come from and where are we heading?
  • A dynamic LIS environment and the need to be a benchmark
  • Available alerting services
  • Learning from studies on information seeking behaviour
  • Surviving the negative side of alerting services
  • Time to reflect on creative use of information
  • seizing opportunities and surviving.