High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine

High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine: Purpose

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Purpose

This journal is devoted to high-energy physics libraries. We aim to help you in your daily activities by discussing experience in the delivery of services to users. Some of the problems we confront are unique to our field, others are of a more general nature. We are interested in knowing about effective and useful solutions to problems (and the problems), based on your experience in the following areas.

Information management

Purchasing, cataloguing, document preservation/archiving, Interlibrary Loans (ILL), quality control, user surveys, user education, copyright, electronic journals and their management, reference services (on-site and remote), grey literature management.

Resources

Reference tools, databases, websites, discussion lists, collection development, budgets, human resources, space.

Training

Staff training, professional development, distance learning.

If you are interested in writing an article (the length is up to you), please send an informative abstract ( approximately 150 words) to hep-webzine-editors@listbox.cern.ch Later you will receive information about our submission procedure and (simple) templates (Word, HTML, plain ASCII).

We are also interested in receiving news items, information on forthcoming events, Web resources you may have discovered, reviews, conference reports, specialized discussion lists, (and whatever else we may have forgotten).

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Last modified: 25 Apr 2003