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| Paper: |
Library & Information Services: an Astronomer's Wishlist |
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153, Library and Information Services in Astronomy III (LISA III) |
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35 |
| Authors: |
Andernach, Heinz |
| Abstract: |
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. |
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