Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Progress on the ‘Declaration Concerning the Evolving Rôle of Libraries in Research Centres’

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Book cover Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings ((ASSSP,volume 1))

Summary

I outline the goals of the ‘Declaration concerning the Evolving Rôle of Libraries in Research Centres’ and describe progress in obtaining its official adoption as IAU policy.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    What became the ‘Declaration Concerning the Evolving Rôle of Libraries in Research Centres’ was drafted subseqent to FPCA-I but was not part of the proceedings of that meeting.

  2. 2.

    See Shapley (1969) and Payne-Gaposchkin (in Haramandunis 1984) for captivating first-hand accounts of life in Harvard College Observatory in the first half of the twentieth century. See also Johnson (2005) for a brief account of the life of Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

  3. 3.

    I have dealt with the issue of the need to maintain sufficient printed copies of journals and books elsewhere (Mahoney 2007).

References

  • Corbin, B. G., Bryson, E. P. & Wolf, M. (eds) 2003, Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV (LISA IV) (Washington, DC: USNO)

    Google Scholar 

  • Grothkopf, U, Andernach, H., Stevens-Rayburn, S. & Gomez, M. (eds) 1998, ASP Conf. Ser., 153, Library and Information Services in Astronomy III (LISA III) (San Francisco: ASP)

    Google Scholar 

  • Haramandunis, K. (ed.) 1984, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections (Cambridge: CUP)

    Google Scholar 

  • Heck, A. & Houziaux, L. (eds) 2007, Future Professional Communication in Astronomy (Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique)

    Google Scholar 

  • Isaksson, E. (ed.) 2010, ASP Conf. Ser., Library and Information Services in Astronomy VI: 21st Century Astronomy (San Francisco: ASP)

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, G. 2005, Miss Leavitt’s Stars (New York: Atlas)

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, L. 2008/4/16, Physics and Astronomy Library News (http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ljohnsto/physics/scholarly-communication/)

  • Mahoney, T. J. 2007, in ASP Conf. Ser., 377, Library and information Services in Astronomy V: Common Challenges, Uncommon Solutions, ed. S. Ricketts et al. (San Francisco: ASP), 389

    Google Scholar 

  • Mahoney, T. J. 2007, Obs 127, 401

    Google Scholar 

  • Mahoney, T. J. (transl. M. Marra) 2008, Giornale di Astronomia 3, 22

    Google Scholar 

  • Mahoney, T. J. et al. 2008, Soc. Hist. Astron. Newsletter 16, 28

    Google Scholar 

  • Murtagh, F., Grothkopf, U. & Albrecht, M. (eds) 1995, Library and Information Services in Astronomy II (LISA II), Vistas 39 (2)

    Google Scholar 

  • Nunemaker, M. 2008/4/18, NRAO Library Updates (http://www.nrao.edu/library/NRAOLibraryUpdates.html)

  • Ricketts, S., Birdie, C. & Isaksson, E. (eds) 2007, ASP Conf. Ser., 377, Library and Information Services in Astronomy V: Common Challenges, Uncommon Solutions (San Francisco: ASP)

    Google Scholar 

  • Shapley, H. 1969, Through Rugged Ways to the Stars (New York: Scribner’s)

    Google Scholar 

  • van der Hucht, K. (ed.) 2009, Reports on Astronomy 2006-2009 (IAU XXVIIA): IAU Trans. XXVIIA (Cambridge: CUP), p. 364

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilkins, G. A. & Stevens-Rayburn, S. (eds) 1989, IAU Colloq. 110, Library and Information Services in Astronomy (Washington, DC: USNO)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/ Vía Láctea s/n, E-38200, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

    Terence J. Mahoney

Authors
  1. Terence J. Mahoney
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Terence J. Mahoney .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian Center, Garden St. 60, Cambridge, 02138, USA

    Alberto Accomazzi

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

About this paper

Cite this paper

Mahoney, T.J. (2011). Progress on the ‘Declaration Concerning the Evolving Rôle of Libraries in Research Centres’. In: Accomazzi, A. (eds) Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8369-5_13

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8369-5_13

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-8368-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4419-8369-5

  • eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation