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“Information Technology” is used here as a term of convenience to describe the effect of various developments in computation, data storage, communication, network design, content analysis and description, interface creation, and other fields as these affect the way scholarly information is prepared, disseminated and preserved, either as modifications of traditional library service, or as new developments.

The main function of libraries has been to create and maintain bibliographic control. This is a technical term in library science, but it can be defined as a set of practices and procedures, which, when taken together allow a searcher to:

find a particular item by title
find all items by a particular author
find items on a subject, regardless of author
find the needed items in another library, if the searcher’s own library doesn’t have it

This blog page concentrates on ways of finding information resources and then getting hold of those resources, either with the tools and methods of traditional librarianship, or with new ones.