01749nam a2200217Ia 4500 OSt 20231117201941.0 231117b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978-8189-18-5 OSENT CRCM GEN 19.01.03 C748 Special Libraries in the Caribbean: on the Threshold of the New Millennium/ Edited by Margarette Pearce Arawak Publications: Jamaica, 2002 100 p. The convergence of information and communications technologies has made a significant impact on the modem information environment. It has created many challenges for library and information professionals in all types of libraries the world over, in both developed and developing countries. Academic, public and school libraries are widely regarded as possessing 'self evident good', and are therefore more likely to obtain the support which will enable them to meet the challenges head on. Special libraries are different however in that these exist to serve the needs of a special sector or group and must continuously justify their existence to survive particularly in harsh economic climates. Sharing information and strategies for coping and providing quality service is certainly one way of strengthening the options available to special librarians. It is for this reason that Special Libraries in the Caribbean on the Threshold of the new Millennium - a conference sponsored jointly by the Commonwealth Library Association (COMLA) and the Jamaica Library Association (JLA) is regarded as timely and important. 10/3/02 EVELYN_D Special Libraries Caribbean Area M udc 19.01.03 C748 0 24574 24574 0 0 0 0 CRCM CRCM 2023-05-04 0 0000000018588 2023-05-04 00:00:00 2023-05-04 M