Given the continuing cataclysmic shift in the economic landscape
in the last few years, librarians have been forced to reevaluate
not only the traditional services that they offer but also their
continued existence and relevance to their academic institutions.
Given the new normal of tighter constraint on personnel and
materials budgets, librarians now are compelled to find new ways of
offering services and forging new relationships with departments
and programs outside the traditional library setting.
This volume highlights a number of projects being implemented in
academic libraries including: rethinking the entire concept of a
library, redefining physical space for new collaborative uses,
adapting entrepreneurial techniques to acquire funding, creating
new research tools and improving services, forging new consortial
partnerships, allying more closely the mission of the library with
that of the institution, and adapting public library programs to
academic libraries. By re-examining the purpose of an academic
library under continuing financial duress, librarians can ensure
that their libraries will continue to have relevance to higher
education.
This book was published as a special issue of College &
Undergraduate Libraries.
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