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interdisciplinary collections, services, networks
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
1 online resource (138 pages) : illustrations
This volume focuses on practical and empirical accounts of organizational change in the social sciences and impacts upon the professional skills, collections, and services within social science libraries. Section one focuses upon the question of interdisciplinary within social science libraries and the role of libraries to both react to and facilitate paradigm shifts in research and science. Section two focuses on the rise of data as a resource to be collected and shared within social science libraries. The third section focuses on the role of librarians to facilitate the development of social.
Revolutions in science and the role of social science libraries / Steven W. Witt -- Being undisciplined, or, Traversing disciplinary configurations in social science and humanities databases : conceptual considerations for interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity / Jean-Pierre V.M. Hérubel -- Disciplinary boundaries in an interdisciplinary world / Margaret Robb -- Walls tumbling down : opportunities for librarians in interdisciplinary research / Jeffrey A. Knapp -- New kids on the block : developing a social science strategy in the British Library / Jude England -- Share and share alike : data-sharing practices in different disciplinary domains / JoAnn Jacoby -- Socio-economic databases as a support system for inter-disciplinary research : Indian scenario / P.R. Goswami -- Going global : facilitating global research and education at George Mason University Libraries / LeRoy LaFleur, Melissa Johnson, and Beth Roszkowski -- No passport needed : border crossings in the academic library / Suzan Alteri and Michael C. Sensiba.
edited by Steven W. Witt and Lynne M. Rudasill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Saur, ©2010