Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-08-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
to appear in ``Library & Information Services III'', ASP Conference Series (1998), eds. U. Grothkopf, H. Andernach, S. Stevens
Scientific paper
I review some of the past and current methods for retrieval of literature and other published information, excluding commercial services. Much of this is a personal view and based on experience made at various institutions, some of them neither with an adequately complete astronomy library, nor with a professional astronomy librarian. Rather than describing current retrieval methods, a few of their weaknesses are identified which merit future improval. Despite the availability of powerful electronic tools, we need to improve efforts in safeguarding published numerical and textual information in a format readily usable by astronomers. Comments are made on a user-friendly arrangement of a library, and on useful tasks for librarians with available time.
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