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Now librarians, educators, and students can have
easier access to the knowledge and experience of decades of innovators
in librarianship, with retrospective content of Library Literature
in a convenient WilsonWeb database. Nearly 80 years of citations
document all the innovations, controversies, and people instrumental
in the making of modern librarianship. Search hundreds of periodicals,
plus books, book chapters and library school theses. |
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Unique access to the foundations of
the profession with the oldest and most reliable
database on librarianship.
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Indexing of over 1,200 periodicals,
with citations to more than 500,000 articles,
including book reviews.
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Includes indexing from Library
Work (H.W. Wilson, 1905-1911), Library Journal
(1912-1920), and Library Literature (H.W.
Wilson 1921-1983).
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Includes the full text of
Wilson Library Bulletin from
1914 to 1983, including PDF page images. (See
Sample Articles)
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Extensive annotations, up to several
hundred words, provide detailed information about the
contents of articles.
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Thousands of monograph and book
review records extend coverage far beyond journals to
the whole scope of library and information science
literature.
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Analytic records provide
chapter-level access by author and subject to the
contents of books, conference proceedings, and essay
collections.
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Multilingual coverage, with
translated titles and English language summaries,
covers journals in French, Spanish, Russian, German,
Hungarian, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, and other
languages.
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Truly international coverage comprehensively surveys library science publishing in
Europe, Russia, China, India, Australia, and Latin
America.
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Updated subject headings make finding
information on technical topics easy.
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Original subject headings are also provided, for
insight into the evolution of methods and technology.
See:
Historic and Contemporary Subject Headings.
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Save space with the complete content
from 23 Library Literature print annuals on WilsonWeb!
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Library holdings indicator, linked to
your OPAC, lets users know if they’ll find cited books
and periodicals on your shelves.
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WilsonLink SFX technology links citations with full text from
any of your OpenURL compatible databases—at no additional
charge!
Library Literature
& Information Science Retrospective covers a wide range of
subjects:
Automation • Care & Restoration of Books •
Cataloging • Censorship • Circulation Procedures • Classification
• Copyright • Education for Librarianship •
Government Aid • Indexing • Information Brokers • Library Associations & Conferences • Library Equipment
& Supplies • Personnel
Administration • Public Relations • Publishing • Rare Books •
Reference Services
Updated Plus Original Subject Headings—All Searchable
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Historical Heading |
Contemporary Heading |
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| Archives, North American Indian |
Native American archives |
| Archives/Nyasaland |
Archives/Malawi |
| Armed forces libraries |
Military libraries |
| Art libraries and collections/Book
selection |
Art literature/Selection |
| Association Bulletins |
Associations/Publications |
| Associations/Ceylon |
Associations/Sri Lanka |
| Care and restoration of books,
periodicals, etc. |
Preservation of library materials |
| Children’s films |
Motion pictures for children |
| Children’s reading/Retarded children |
Children’s reading/Handicapped
children |
| County libraries |
Public libraries |
| Documents |
Government publications |
| Films |
Motion pictures |
| Instruction in library use |
Bibliographic instruction |
| Instructional materials centers |
Media centers |
| Mechanization of library
processes/Acquisitions |
Acquisitions/Automation |
| Negro librarians |
Black librarians |
| North American Indian literature |
Native American literature |
| Oriental literature |
Asian literature |
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And many more . . . |
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Use
Library
Literature & Information Science Retrospective to:
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Research historical
information for library school curricula,
theses, and more.
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Find information on seminal
figures in the evolution of modern
librarianship.
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Locate original articles
and books by the founders of library science:
Melvil Dewey, Jesse Shera, L. Quincy Mumford,
S. R Ranganathan, N. K. Krupskaya, and many
others.
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Retrace notable
controversies in censorship and how they
were resolved.
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Explore how yesterday’s
libraries approached issues of funding,
public relations, collection building, and
more.
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Examine the effects of
historical trends and incidents—war,
depression, civil rights, McCarthyism, the
Cold War, the women’s movement, and more—on
libraries and librarianship.
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Search seamlessly with
Library Literature &
Information Science Full Text for
over a century of coverage right up to the present.
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