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Sci-Tech Libraries of the Future (Paperback)
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Sci-Tech Libraries of the Future (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Library and Information Science
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What will future sci-tech libraries be like? Who will be the key
players? In this insightful volume, first published in 1992,
leaders in sci-tech librarianship reflect on their years in the
profession and predict how the sci-tech library will look in ten
years. It takes a close look at the revolution in the communication
of scientific information and how technology has transformed the
process of knowledge delivery and acquisitions. It prepares
libraries to react to new channels of scholarly communication that
in the future may challenge the viability of the research library.
Most importantly, it emphasizes how the rapid pace of change in
science, communication, and computers has pushed libraries to
aggressively seek to become central to the knowledge formation and
transfer process - just to survive. These provocative chapters
reveal how sci-tech librarians need to work with scientists and
engineers to understand their changing information needs and to
participate in the planning and development of new information
systems. This book examines all areas of the scientific process
that will be affected by change: the way research is conducted,
communicated, transferred, stored, and delivered. The changes
discussed in this book encompass researchers, librarians,
information managers, publishers, and users. Some of the important
topics discussed include an in-depth analysis of the information
needs of science and engineering and how to best develop the
electronic means to meet them; leadership challenges in the future
electronic, computer, or virtual library; concern over the quality
of information services for scientists delivered by non-scientist
librarians; a ten-year prediction for sci-tech librarians and
sci-tech publishers; the science library building of the future;
the impact of increasingly interdisciplinary scientific research;
and the effect of federal policy on sci-tech libraries.
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