This updated edition enables readers to understand how academic libraries deliver information, offer services, and provide learning spaces in new ways to better meet the needs of today's students, faculty, and other communities of academic library users.
The main part of the book is organized into three parts: The Academic Library Landscape Today, Academic Librarians and Services Today, and Changing Priorities, New Directions.
Scenarios, case studies, and profiles throughout illustrate the successes that real "blended librarians" are having on campuses.
"Examines the academic library's position as a culturally and historically situated producer and curator of knowledge and its instrumental role in driving social reproduction and the status quo"--
In the ongoing evolution of the academic library, embedded librarianship has become an important topic of debate across levels and departments. This book delves into the concept, examining everything from theory to best practices.
This book treats academic librarianship as a professional culture, and traces its historical development in relation to the transformation of American higher education from the early 19th Century into the...
What does the future hold for academic libraries and librarians? These nineteen essays offer some interesting observations and opinions about the problems and issues that are changing academic librarianship as we know it.
Examining the Emotional Dimensions of Academic Librarianship: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential scholarly resource that offers detailed discussion on the latest crises and challenges for librarians and supplies innovative ...
His primary focus is on collections as this is the area with the greatest opportunity for change and is the driver of most library cost.
Students are emerging scholars whose work should be recognized and shared in conversation with work done by established scholars.
The book covers a wide variety of themes, with good number of practical papers such as Library Automation, Digitization.