Envisioning Our Preferred Future: New Services, Jobs, and Directions: 8 (Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library) - Softcover

Eden, Bradford Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442266929 ISBN 13: 9781442266926

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2016

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As the eighth publication in the series on Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library, this volume looks at how academic libraries are changing through new jobs and services. It contains 14 papers that present a combination of case studies, original survey research, and thought pieces. A wide range of topics are covered, from web services, web design, the use of social media, virtual reference services, data curation, special collections, and institutional repositories. Like the other volumes in this series, it is international in nature with contributors representing five nations: Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Spain, and the U.S. Standout chapters include one that discusses librarians as change agents and another that looks at the future roles of academic librarians to support research. This collection will be of interest to academic librarians who are struggling to find their place within the ever-changing nature of higher education today and tomorrow. * Booklist * [The book] will provide an examination of special collections in the 21st century and a specific case study on digitization that may inform a library's digitization program. The topics are current and the writing is clear and easy to understand. Academic librarians thinking about how their role might evolve in the near term will find this book to be a useful tool and conversation starter.... I would recommend this book to libraries that are currently exploring new roles, services, and directions on their campus, and would highly recommend this book to those that are exploring a topic covered in a given chapter within the book. The chapters...will provide worthwhile perspective and additional information on a topic of concern. Front-line librarians and managers in content areas will find relevant information about their specialty, and library administrators will find the book useful as an overview of current work in emerging areas of interest. * Technical Services Quarterly *

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Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces, cooperative virtual reference services, innovative uses of physical library spaces, uses of social media for disseminating scholarly research, information architecture and usability studies, the importance of special collections and archival collections, and lessons learned in digitization and digital projects planning and management.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1442266929
• ISBN 13: 9781442266926
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274