How LIS professionals can use alerting services, Ina Fourie

Abstract

This book focuses on the usefulness of alerting services for LIS professionals. It is a valuable and useful resource as it draws attention to the new and existing current awareness services which can be easily retrieved for updating ones information data banks. The availability of these services does not always mean that they are exploited for advancement of knowledge either by individuals or groups. This book provides a variety of definitions of current awareness services by several authors.