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Libraries and Society - Role, Responsibility and Future in an Age of Change (Paperback, New)
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Libraries and Society - Role, Responsibility and Future in an Age of Change (Paperback, New)
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
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This book reviews both the historical and future roles that public,
private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and
shaping society at local, regional, national and international
levels. Globalisation, economic turmoil, political and ethnic
tensions, rapid technology development, global warming and other
key environmental factors are all combining in myriad and complex
ways to affect everyone, both individually and collectively.
Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of society
and the bedrock organisations that underpin it. Libraries and
Society considers the key aspects of library provision and the
major challenges that libraries - however defined, managed,
developed and provided - now face, and will continue to face in the
future. It also focuses on the emerging chapter in cultural,
economic and social history and the library s role in serving
diverse communities within this new era.
Looks at all types of library in a period of major and
discontinuous change, tackling the fundamental questions of the
future of libraries in the context of major societal, political and
environmental issuesPoses important questions for the profession
and policy developmentFills a major gap in literature (recent
discourse and debate on the future of democracy, for example, the
library is rarely included)"
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