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Library Administration and Management

Notes Other Characteristics:
Documentation of sources is not required, though sometimes brief bibliographies of
further readings are included.

Include jargon and terms that are commonly used in the profession or trade.
Moderate number of advertisements targeted to the interests of the members of a profession,
industry, or organization.

Authors are members of the profession or trade, specialized journalists, or technical writers.
Credentials are usually not provided.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
13. Academic journals publish scholarly and ………….. articles.
14. …………………… contain extensive, lengthy and detailed articles.

15. General interest periodicals fall into a ………………….
16. ……………. include current news, trends and products in a specific industry as well as
practical information for professionals working in the field or industry.

Case Study Document Library

The Problem
The Production Support group for Blue Shield of California’s mylifepath.com needs to be
able to answer questions about the website’s business-oriented functionality. They do this
by consulting electronic documents written during software development projects large
and small.
The documents the Production Support group consult have several relevant characteristics:
They are authored by Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and
Visio.
Some are published as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
They are written by many different people.

Typically these documents reside wherever project team members leave them across
a variety of file servers and proprietary technologies like eRoom.
The business-oriented documents are commingled with project only working papers
and draft versions of the same documents.
There is no consistency of appearance, content, and filenames.
The Production Support group needs quick and easy access to documents in a way that is
free of software license issues and file access permission issues. Furthermore, they want to
extend this access to the mylifepath developers and associated business staff.

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