How are your library and its patrons adjusting to the challenges of
the digital age?This essential book examines how digital formats
are changing libraries today, from the perspectives of librarians,
vendors, and library users. Editor Sul Lee is an internationally
recognized leader in library administration and management. The
expansion of digital collections has been one of the foremost
issues in the library field since the early 1990s, and this book
addresses important questions about the impact of the digital age.
Questions like: How will scholars and students react to digital
formats? How will electronic resources change collection
development? Will libraries stop buying print materials in favor of
digital resources? Will libraries convert to only digital products
or will they have to buy both electronic and print formats? Will
academic libraries retain their central role in the university?With
chapters from leading academic deans and directors, directors of
national organizations of library professionals, and book/serials
vendors including Philip Blackwell, CEO of Blackwell Limited, this
book explores: digital resources and technology digital books--and
what they mean to libraries legislation on copyrights and
intellectual property rights in the digital age electronic
cooperation between libraries how digital technology can facilitate
on-campus research partnerships the extent to which academic
libraries are embracing electronic publications
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