Library & Information Services: as Astronomer's Wishlist
Abstract
Description
I review some of the past and current methods for retrieval of literature and other published information, excluding commercial services. Much of this is a personal view and based on experience made at various institutions, some of them neither with an adequately complete astronomy library, nor with a professional astronomy librarian. Rather than describing current retrieval methods, a few of their weaknesses are identified which merit future improval. Despite the availability of powerful electronic tools, we need to improve efforts in safeguarding published numerical and textual information in a format readily usable by astronomers. Comments are made on a user-friendly arrangement of a library, and on useful tasks for librarians with available time.
to appear in ``Library & Information Services III'', ASP Conference Series (1998), eds. U. Grothkopf, H. Andernach, S. Stevens-Rayburn & M. Gomez; 8 pages, style file included
to appear in ``Library & Information Services III'', ASP Conference Series (1998), eds. U. Grothkopf, H. Andernach, S. Stevens-Rayburn & M. Gomez; 8 pages, style file included