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Author Witt, Steve

Title Social Science Libraries : Interdisciplinary Collections, Services, Networks
Edition 2nd ed
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (138 pages)
Series IFLA Publications
Contents Frontmatter; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; REVOLUTIONS IN SCIENCE AND THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARIES; DISCIPLINARY AND ORGANIZATIONAL SHIFTS; BEING UNDISCIPLINED; OR TRAVERSING DISCIPLINARY CONFIGURATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES DATABASES: CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERA; DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WORLD; WALLS TUMBLING DOWN: OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIBRARIANS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; 'NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK': DEVELOPING A SOCIAL SCIENCE STRATEGY IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY; DATA SERVICES; SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE? DATA-SHARING PRACTICES IN DIFFERENT DISCIPLINARY DOMAINS
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATABASES AS A SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: INDIAN SCENARIODEVELOPING SOCIAL NETWORKS; GOING GLOBAL: FACILITATING GLOBAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES; NO PASSPORT NEEDED: BORDER CROSSINGS IN THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY; Backmatter
Summary 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
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Subject Social science libraries.
Interdisciplinary research.
Interdisciplinary research
Social science libraries
Form Electronic book
Author Rudasill, Lynne M
ISBN 9783110232158
3110232154