Browse School of Information Sciences by Title

  • Pace of Change: A Preliminary YesWorkflow Case Study 
    Senseney, Megan (2016-01-27)
    YesWorkflow (YW) is a grassroots initiative that “aims to provide a number of the benefits of using a scientific workflow management system without having to rewrite scripts and other scientific software.” YW represents ...

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  • Packet Radio for Library Online Catalogs 
    Brownrigg, Edwin B. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1984)
    The advent of online catalogs in libraries has resulted in a problem that could not have been foreseen when most library buildings were built the need for wiring to transmit data between terminals and the online ...

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  • Pakistan Parliamentary Libraries: A Historical Excursion and Hopes for the Future 
    Valentine, Ellie (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010)
    Pakistan’s parliamentary libraries reflect the challenges that the democratic institutions they serve have faced since independence in 1947. This article provides a historical context to the development of the bicameral ...

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  • Pamphlets on the First World War: an annotated bibliography 
    Hendricks, Donald D. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1966)

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  • Pamphlets, Broadsides, Clippings, and Posters 
    Wyllie, John Cook (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1955)

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  • Panel Discussion: Reports on Staff Involvement in Library Automation 
    Drescher, Judith A.; Syed, Christopher; Shaw, Barbara; Bentley, Stella (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1985)
    Editor's note: The following is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on staff involvement in library automation. The panelists are: Judith A. Drescher now director of the Memphis and Shelby County Public Library ...

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  • Panel on information referral projects in libraries: Editor's Note 
    (Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1971)
    Neither Brenda Dervin nor Robert Croneberger delivered the talks they submitted prior to the conference, and which are included in this volume. Their reactions to previous sessions motivated them to put aside prepared ...

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  • Panel presentation at Supervision of employees in libraries (Papers presented at the Allerton Park Institute November 12-15, 1978) 
    Passmore, David; Tomczak, Tom; Halbrook, Barbara; McMahon, Marian; Siciliano, Tony (Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979)
    In preparing the institute program, the planning committee decided to invite representative professional librarians who had recently experienced the role change from supervisee to supervisor (which frequently includes ...

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  • Paper preservation : nature, extent, & recommendations 
    Westbrook, Lynn (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1985)

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  • Paper, Piles, and Computer Files: Folklore of Information Work Environments 
    Neumann, Laura J. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999)

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  • The Paperback Book 
    Forman, Sidney; Collins, Ruby L. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1967)

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  • Paperback Books -- Boon or Bane? 
    Strout, Donald E. (Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1956)
    The scene is a publishers' partyand the central figures a man in a tweedy sports coat, puffing at a pipe, and a pleasantly plump matron, balancing a glass in her hand. "Tell me, " she gushes brightly, "Are you paper-back ...

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  • Paperback Publishing 
    Schick, Frank L. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1958)

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  • The Paradox of Preservation 
    Cloonan, Michèle V. (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)
    This article explores historical, political, and professional paradoxes that underlie efforts to preserve cultural heritage. These paradoxes are illustrated through five case studies: the discovery of the Nag Hammadi ...

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  • The Paradox of the Book 
    Carey, James W. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984)

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  • Paradoxes of the Web: The Ethical Dimensions of Credibility 
    Burbules, Nicholas C. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001)

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  • Parallax ontology and the philosophy of information 
    Compton, Bradley W. (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2015)
    This paper discusses differing perspectives relevant to library and information studies (LIS) regarding the philosophy of information, primarily disparate accounts of ontology. The perspectives include, but are not ...

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  • Paraprofessional Groups and Associations 
    Owen, Linda J. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997)

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  • The Paris Commune of 1871 and the Bibliothèque Nationale 
    Greenberg, Gerald S. (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)
    During the Paris Commune of 1871, communards assumed responsibility for administration of the Bibliothèque Nationale. On April 1 the Commune appointed Citizen Jules Vincent the library’s supervisor. Three weeks later, ...

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  • Parliamentary Libraries: An Uncertain Future? 
    Galluzzi, Anna (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010)
    Parliamentary libraries serve parliamentary institutions on a national or local level. Usually they are founded at the same time as the parliament itself and organized according to the parliamentary model of the country ...

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