Week 1 Flashcards
The information industry is about…
Revenues, profits, and products to entertain, connect, and help us get work done
Who plays a special role in the information industry?
Librarians & information specialists
Grace Hopper in the 50s/60s, developed what?
COBOL programming language. Made computers more than calculators.
Who created MARC?
Henriette Avram & team
By end of 1970s, what was made available to libs & who had access?
Lockheed, SDC & BRS became database aggregators. Databases become available. Only librarians who are expert searchers allowed to use
Early lib database access made librarians do what?
Pay for each search & to pay for this, libs had to charge a portion to patrons
In the 1980s, what were people doing?
Their own online searches, but difficult cuz they needed to know the commands to do a search,.
What event gave rise to the internet?
The Cold War.
In mid 1990s, what made searching online easier?
Web browsers. Web queries soon fast outpaced # of OPAC queries
What is just as important as a physical library space?
Library websites
Academic libraries offer what type of search?
A “everything search”. Pulls from databases, records, ebooks & gov’t text from catalog. Broad search.
What kind of searches do public libs have?
Search box at top, e-library collection, & other links
What kind of searches do state libs have?
Most will be accessed though school or public lib websites.clickable categories by educational level.
Databases come from who?
Gov’t, for profit & non profit sectors
Libs work with who to put search tools in patron’s hands?
Non-profit orgs, for-profit firms
