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Leading the 21st-Century Academic Library - Successful Strategies for Envisioning and Realizing Preferred Futures (Hardcover)
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Leading the 21st-Century Academic Library - Successful Strategies for Envisioning and Realizing Preferred Futures (Hardcover)
Series: Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library
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Libraries of all types have undergone significant developments in
the last few decades. The rate of change in the academic library, a
presence for decades now, has been increasing in the first decade
of this century. It is no exaggeration to claim that it is
undergoing a top to bottom redefinition. Cataloging and reference
remain central to its new role, and the circulation of books is
still high though declining. Among the changes is the architecture
of the library: when new libraries replace old or where renovation
is occurring; the role of technology at every stage and in every
library application; the management of serials - selection,
shelving and budgeting; and in a gradual but irrevocable move to
digital forms, altered allocation of resources including larger
portions of the budget diverted to preservation, not only of aging
books, a theme in the latter part of the last century, but of
digital files - cultural, historical, personal. In brief, the
academic library is dramatically different today than it was only
ten years ago. And with it, the profession of the academic
librarian is also undergoing significant changes. Managing digital
resources in all its forms, from telecommunications to storage and
access devices, is central to its new roles. Creating, curating and
preserving digital information is also key to the new
librarianship. And what about services to its clients? Here also we
see dramatic change, particularly but not exclusively with guiding
library users in the effective use of networked knowledge.
Information literacy is a key term and skill in using the new tools
of digital literacy: reading and writing, searching and extracting;
and the new technologies that drive social networking - the Iphone,
Ipad, and Ipod and its many imitators. We can't expect the
redefined academic library to assume its final shape any time soon,
if ever, but the transformation is well underway. This series:
Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library, will explore this topic
from a number of different perspectives. Volume 1, Visionary
Leadership and Futures, will begin the discussion by examining some
of the new roles and directions academic libraries are taking.
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