Information Science and Epistemology
Hamidreza Radfar; Maryam Salami; Solmaz Noori
Abstract
Libraries and information centers always try to provide the best and most appropriate answers to their clients’ questions and needs. Due to the increasing and diverse variety of information resources, many libraries do not the capacity to provide these resources and make them accessible. Narges ...
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Libraries and information centers always try to provide the best and most appropriate answers to their clients’ questions and needs. Due to the increasing and diverse variety of information resources, many libraries do not the capacity to provide these resources and make them accessible. Narges Neshat considers cooperation between libraries and information centers as a solution to expand the library’s access to a variety of information resources to meet the needs of their clients. Moreover, by publishing the book “Collaborative Systems in Libraries and Information Centers”, the author has addressed this issue. This resource, which can be considered as an educational resource for students of information and knowledge science and an applied source for specialists and professionals in this science, was critically examined in a descriptive-analytical manner. In this article, after introducing the book, its author and publisher, the structure of the book is mentioned, and then the book is reviewed in both form and content terms. This work is a specialized book in the subject of cooperation between libraries and information centers and has an appropriate scientific level. The most important weakness of this work is the lack of applied aspects; a few parts of this book are not specialized, and the resources used for this work are old.
Information Science and Epistemology
Hamidreza Radfar; Solmaz Nouri
Volume 17, Issue 6 , November 2017, , Pages 135-158
Abstract
Nowadays, accessibility to a large collection of organized information is quite important. The digital library is a new and important topic in this field, and paying attention to it will be somehow a facilitator in all scientific and academic fields. The book Digital Libraries: The Exchange of Information ...
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Nowadays, accessibility to a large collection of organized information is quite important. The digital library is a new and important topic in this field, and paying attention to it will be somehow a facilitator in all scientific and academic fields. The book Digital Libraries: The Exchange of Information is a worthwhile endeavor in this regard. Therefore, the present article attempted to critically review this book without further bias and only to enhance the work and guide its audiences while pointing to the valuable points, highlights, weaknesses, and shortcomings it broadens the scope of such discussions. First the book and the author is introduced and then the book is reviewed in both form and content terms. The appearance and writing specifications of the work are considered in the form review and in the content section such issues as rational order, resource validity, scientific quality, innovation, and adaptability were addressed and finally suggestions were made to remedy the deficiencies.