Professional Astronomy without a Librarian
Abstract
Virtually every ``serious'' place where professional astronomy is done has a librarian, even if shared with the physics or math department. Since its creation in 1994 of {\it Departamento de Astronom\'{\i}a} (DA) of Universidad de Guanajuato (UG) it was neither provided with a librarian, nor with proper space for its holdings, nor with a budget allowing institutional journal subscriptions. I describe my experience of now five years as ``amateur'' librarian, and present information on other small astronomy institutions in Mexico in a similar situation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209085,
title = {Professional Astronomy without a Librarian},
author = {Heinz Andernach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209085},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
to appear in "Library & Information Services in Astronomy - IV" (LISA IV), eds. B. Corbin, E. Bryson, & M. Wolf: US Naval Observatory, paper presented as a poster on LISA-IV, Prague, Czech Republic, 2-5 July 2002; 4 pages, including one eps figure; added third editor on 6-Sep-2002; corrected word in volume title from "Systems" to "Services", and corrected on typo in body of text, 13-Sep-02; Revised conclusions and minor stylistic improvements of the text, 30-Sep-2002