There are some people who still believe that librarians spend much of their day sitting behind a desk, surrounded by dusty books. While they do work in libraries, they also work with computers and deal with problems such as file recovery. The rise of the Internet and the advent of powerful computing systems made the computer aspect of library science an important topic. There are many librarians now working solely on computers.
Resources on bibliographic software include:
- Biblio : lets librarians create an outline and bibliography based on their resources.
- Bibliographix : organizes publications and allows users to setup their own database.
- Biblioscape : organizes research and notes to create citation and a bibliography based on that research.
- Bookends : gives users the chance to upload resources found online and look for similar sources.
- Citation : database that organizes notes and bibliographic sources.
- ResearchSoft : offers several different applications for librarians to manage their work.
- Library Master : formats sources into citations and a bibliography and allows users to setup the specific type of citation such as APA or MLA.
- Noodle Tools : allows users to easily create APA or MLA citations based on their notes.Requires registration, with free initial account available.
- PowerRef : manages sources and citations in a database system.
- Scholar’s Aid : allows users to manage their research and data in a notes program and organize those citations based on their preferences.
- Bibliophile Cataloguer : provides cataloguing resources for those working in libraries or dealing in books.
- Citation Machine : automatically generates citations based on user provided references.
- Electronic Research : reviews and compares different data recovery and resource tools for librarians.
- ZNote : manages bibliographies in a variety of ways.
- Ref Works : allows users to setup their references into a database and automatically create a bibliography.
- Reference Manager : publishes and manages bibliographies.
- ProCite : manages and publishes a bibliography on the computer desktop.
- Nota Bene : manages everything from bibliographies to generated text retrieval in the same program.
- MLA Auto Generator : program that automatically generates bibliographies based on the works cited.
- Connexion : database cataloguing program.
Librarians now spend as much time behind the computer as they do working with books. They check out books on the computer, do research on certain topics and even order new books for the library online. Bibliographic software is just one way of making their jobs a little easier.