This volume is unusual in that the theme is quite broad in scope
yet focused on a specific topic; innovations and boundary-pushing
studies in areas not usually found in library literature. It
represents a look at the periphery of the field surveyed in
previous volumes and presents chapters grouped into two categories:
professional issues and transforming services. First section
chapters include the challenges facing librarians in an age of
litigiousness and threats to academic freedom, educating ethical
leaders for the information society by adopting practices from
business, valuing intellectual capital assets by looking at the
role of librarians in a knowledge society, and emerging practices
of open peer review as a means of achieving a "new science". In the
second section chapters include the effects of terminology on
health queries by analysing users' health literacy and topic
familiarity, an analysis of academic social networking via a case
study of users' information behaviour, a study on redefining
services and spaces for graduate student success by creating a
"scholars' commons", and a final chapter on serving adults and
teens in social spaces within a "virtual branch".
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