▰ Sources. Librarian. Profession A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library providing access to information, and sometimes social or technical programming, or instruction on information literacy to users. The role of the librarian has changed much over time, with the past century in particular bringing many new media and technologies into play. From the earliest libraries in the ancient world to the modern information hub, there have been keepers and disseminators of the information held in data stores. Roles and responsibilities vary widely depending on the type of library, the specialty of the librarian, and the functions needed to maintain collections and make them available to its users.
Education for librarianship has changed over time to reflect changing roles. The Sumerians were the first to train clerks to keep records of accounts.[1] "Masters of the books" or "keepers of the tablets" were scribes or priests who were trained to handle the vast amount and complexity of these records. Library catalog. Another view of the SML card catalog The card catalog was a familiar sight to library users for generations, but it has been effectively replaced by the online public access catalog (OPAC). Some still refer to the online catalog as a "card catalog". [who?] Some libraries with OPAC access still have card catalogs on site, but these are now strictly a secondary resource and are seldom updated. Many libraries that retain their physical card catalog will post a sign advising the last year that the card catalog was updated.
Some libraries have eliminated their card catalog in favour of the OPAC for the purpose of saving space for other use, such as additional shelving. The largest library catalog in the world is the WorldCat.org union catalog managed by the non-profit library cooperative OCLC, based in Dublin, Ohio. Goal[edit] 1. to enable a person to find a book of which either (Identifying objective) the authorthe titlethe subjectthe date of publication Catalog card[edit] Arif, Abdul Majid. C. Institutional Repository. Archive of publications by an institution's staff An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.[1] Academics also utilize their IRs for archiving published works to increase their visibility and collaboration with other academics[2] However, most of these outputs produced by universities are not effectively accessed and shared by researchers and other stakeholders[3] As a result Academics should be involved in the implementation and development of an IR project so that they can learn the benefits and purpose of building an IR.
[citation needed] An institutional repository can be viewed as "a set of services that a university offers to members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. Functions[edit] Open-access repositories[edit] Software[edit] Aggregators[edit] Disciplinary Repository. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Disciplinary repositories can acquire their content in many ways. Many rely on author or organization submissions, such as SSRN. Others such as CiteSeerX crawl the web for scholar and researcher websites and download publicly available academic papers from those sites.
AgEcon, established in 1995,[3] grew as a result of active involvement of academia and societies. A disciplinary repository generally covers one broad based discipline, with contributors from many different institutions supported by a variety of funders; the repositories themselves are likely to be funded from one or more sources within the subject community.[4] Deposit of material in a disciplinary repository is sometimes mandated by research funders.
Disciplinary repositories can also act as stores of data related to a particular subject, allowing documents along with data associated with that work to be stored in the repository. Open Access Directory, "Disciplinary repositories" ▱ Sconul. ▱ BL. ▱ Senate. ▱ Bodleian. The National Archives. Redbridge i. Barking and Dagenham. Westminster. Barnet. Camden. Idea Store - Tower Hamlets Council. London Libraries Consortium Library Catalogue. M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries. Inform25.ac.
Library: NI & RoI. ↂ MyAthens. ▱ Lib Congress. ▱ NLoA. NYPL Digital Collections.