University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Online Catalogs and Specialized Clienteles: Children and Youth

Roman, Susan

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Title
Online Catalogs and Specialized Clienteles: Children and Youth
Author(s)
Roman, Susan
Issue Date
1985
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library personnel management
  • Online library catalogs
  • Library catalogs and users
Abstract
"Editor's Note: At the time she delivered this paper, Susan Roman was Head, Youth Services, Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, Illinois. Her examples are from that public library. ""Whether we like it or not, the child today is far more sophisticated, independent, and knowledgeable than his peers of a generation ago. Have most children's librarians recognized and accepted this fact? I think not."" 1 This statement by Elizabeth Gross Kilpatrick in discussing the future of library service to children, could be made stronger. Those who set policy library managers and trustees often fail to recognize that children of today are more sophisticated than children of a generation ago. And what is most disturbing is the statement that was quoted was made in 1968 and we still have not accepted it. What implications can be drawn and how can we apply them to online catalogs?"
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (22nd : 1985)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1985.

Owning Collections

1985: Human aspects of library automation : helping staff and patrons cope PRIMARY
22nd Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1985). Edited by Debora Shaw.