Bits and Bytes and Still a Lot of Paper:
Astronomy Libraries and Librarians in the Age of Electronic Publishing

Uta Grothkopf

European Southern Observatory
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
85748 Garching
Germany
esolib@eso.org

This article was originally published in Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 247, 1997, pp. 155-174.
© 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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• Introduction
• From Traditional to Digital Libraries
• Electronic Publications: Impact on Library Functions
  • Electronic versus Paper-based Publications
  • Processing Electronic Publications in the Library
  • Electronic Books and non-serial Documents
  • Electronic Journals
  • Archiving
• Indexing and Retrieving Electronic Publications
• The Role of Librarians in the Electronic Environment
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• References
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