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NASIC And The Information Services Librarian: Room In The Middle

Wax, David M.

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Title
NASIC And The Information Services Librarian: Room In The Middle
Author(s)
Wax, David M.
Issue Date
1975
Keyword(s)
  • Reference services (Libraries) --Automation
  • Database searching
  • Online bibliographic searching
  • Information retrieval
  • NASIC
  • Information Services
Abstract
As activity related to the provision of information has increased and become more complex in recent decades, the role of the intermediary between the information producer and the information user has similarly become more complex and specialized. The referee, the journal editor, the abstracting and indexing service, the publisher, the bookstore owner and the librarian are all examples of educated intermediaries who have a significant impact on the quantity and kinds of information resources available to the user. This paper will consider the activities of two types of intermediaries in one of the newer and more complex information delivery processes: the computerized bibli- ographic search. Initially, I shall discuss a new role for a traditional intermediary the reference librarian. Later, I shall describe and evaluate an attempt to define an organizational intermediary, of which the Northeast Academic Science Infor- mation Center (NASIC) is a prototype, developed specifically in response to this new information service. While this discussion emphasizes the delivery of machine-readable services in the academic community, most of the comments are equally applicable to the special library and public library communities.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (12th : 1975)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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1975: The use of computers in literature searching and related reference activities in libraries PRIMARY
12th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1975). Edited by F. Wilfrid Lancaster