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The Social Future of Academic Libraries - New Perspectives on Communities, Networks, and Engagement (Paperback)
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The Social Future of Academic Libraries - New Perspectives on Communities, Networks, and Engagement (Paperback)
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The current focus in higher education on student engagement,
holistic education, social responsibility and community
partnerships demands a significant mind-shift for academic
libraries to reclaim their place at the heart of academic
institutions that are reinventing themselves as social enterprises.
The professional response to social trends in the academy and
society includes moves such as converged services, embedded
librarians, relationship management, inside-out libraries and
design thinking. But such work is often confined to small parts of
the library and has not created the largescale change in strategy
and culture required to turn libraries into dynamic social
organisations in the connected digital world. Incremental
enhancement of services, spaces and structures is not enough. The
present context calls for radical rethinking of library mission and
service philosophy to realign resources, processes and practices to
institutional needs. New ways of working must be guided by new ways
of thinking that empower librarians to view practices holistically
through a social lens. Intellectual and social capital theories
offer new perspectives on library work and a proven conceptual
framework for the reset needed to keep academic libraries relevant
in the 21st century. The Social Future of Academic Libraries starts
with the developments in thinking and practice that constitute the
‘social turn’ in communities, professions, the economy, the
academy and libraries, while also introducing the core concepts of
intellectual and social capital and networks. Part II presents nine
case studies illustrating how social capital perspectives and
social network theory can facilitate organisational learning,
service development and collaborative relationships across
different areas of library practice. Examples cover collection
development, data services, information literacy, liaison
librarians, library fundraising, service design, space utilisation,
subject specialists and student success. The volume is accompanied
by a keyword guide to the concepts, theories and models referenced
in the text via two downloadable glossaries with related
bibliographies to inform current reading and future work.
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