Reinventing the Library for Online Education Frederick Stielow Item
Number: 978-0-8389-1208-9 Publisher: ALA Editions Price: $75.00
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pages 6" x 9" Softcover ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-1208-9 Year Published:
2013 AP Categories: A, B, I, J, Z This title will be available Fall
2013. You may place an order and the item will be shipped when it
becomes available. Have changes such as cloud computing, search
engines, the Semantic Web, and mobile applications rendered such
long-standing academic library services and functions as special
collections, interlibrary loans, physical processing, and even
library buildings unnecessary? Can the academic library effectively
reconceive itself as a virtual institution? Stielow, who led the
library program of the online university American Public University
System, argues most emphatically that it can. His comprehensive
look at web-based academic libraries synthesizes the changes
wrought by the Web revolution into a visionary new model, grounded
in history as well as personal experience. He demonstrates how
existing functions like cataloging, circulation, collection
development, reference, and serials management can be transformed
by entrepreneurship, human face/electronic communicator relations,
web apps, and other innovations. Online education can ensure that
libraries remain strong information and knowledge hubs, and his
timely book Shows how the origins and history of the academic
library have laid the foundation for our current period of flux
Identifies practices rooted in print-based storage to consider for
elimination, and legacy services ready to be adapted to virtual
operations Discusses tools and concepts libraries will embrace in a
networked world, including new opportunities for library relevance
in bookstore/textbook operations, compliance,
library/archival/museum functions, e-publishing, and tutorial
services Offers a thorough examination of the virtual library
infrastructure crucial for an online learning program, with a
special look at the particular needs and responsibilities of online
librarians Looks at the evolving relationship between higher
education and copyright, and posits how educational technology will
bring further changes
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