Library Services in Theory and Context

by Michael Keeble Buckland

Book Overview

This creative, original interpretation of the nature and functioning of library services provides a coherent synthesis of the cognitive, economic, political and technical aspects of librarianship and relates them to social values and cultural contexts. In this revised and expanded second edition, Michael Buckland provides fresh material on the role of collections, on the different aspects of the loosely-used concept of 'access', on technology in relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080357555
• ISBN13: 9780080357553
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Pergamon
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.