The Scholar And The Future Of The Research Library

Author : Eldred Smith
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015017928592

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The Librarian, the Scholar, and the Future of the Research Library by Eldred Smith Pdf

Today's research librarian exists within an environment of rapid and unrelenting change. A wide and increasing variety of technological advances are transforming the communication, organization, and storage of information -- and the librarian's traditional function. This work represents the first analytical discussion of the functional role of the research librarian, as well as the relationship between the research librarian, the scholar, and the record of scholarship. Key points include an in-depth, analytical treatment of the future nature of the research library and the future role of the research librarian; fresh appraisals of research library cooperation and the application of technology to research libraries; and a new look at preservation alternatives within the context of the research library's future. Eldred Smith identifies the essential contribution that the research librarian makes to the scholarly process, as well as how and why the librarian has, throughout history, been unable to fulfill the role completely. He explores the scholar's information-seeking practices, and identifies the reasons why these are at odds with the information-organization practices of librarians. Also probed is the conflict that the librarian feels between preservation and the use of research library collections, discussing how this conflict has influenced research library policy and practice. Smith discusses the new electronic information technology as both a threat to the continuation of the research librarian's historical role and as an opportunity to fulfill that role more completely than in the past. Also discussed are the steps that the research librarian needs to take in order to use the new technologies to advantage, including a major redirection of collection preservation activities. The book concludes with a discussion of the main features of the future research library, which provide for a strengthened relationship between the librarian and the scholar, as well as a more productive and substantive contribution by the research librarian to the scholarly process. Research librarians, academic librarians, academic administrators, and scholarly publishers will find a wealth of information in the pages of this book. It will also serve as an ideal adjunct in any course dealing with the future of libraries and librarianship.

Author : Fremont Rider
Publisher : New York city : Hadham Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015033591101

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The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library by Fremont Rider Pdf

Author : University of Pennsylvania. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Learning and scholarship
ISBN : UOM:39015033875462

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Changing Patterns of Scholarship and the Future of Research Libraries by University of Pennsylvania. Library Pdf

Author : Sul H Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317939788

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The Role and Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries by Sul H Lee Pdf

What does the future hold for special collections in research libraries? Will special collections be an important feature in humanistic research or will technology make special collections irrelevant to research in the humanities? The Role and Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries explores the answers to these questions by examining special collections in British and American libraries and the changing trends in research and scholarship as they relate to special collections. This book examines the particular experience of a variety of special collections in British research libraries. By learning more about British experiences related to special collections, North American libraries will discover new ways to manage existing information resources in light of diminished funding. The topics cover this essential role of special collections in these areas: the British perspective on issues relating to access and preservation of manuscripts, reproduction from originals, confidentiality, and the development of collections a historical overview of changes in special collections technology and special collections balancing the collection and preservation of books and manuscripts with the acquisition of new materials in electronic format The Role and Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries brings together international perspectives on library programs to help librarians and library administrators understand the factors that influence special collections. With the help of this insightful book, librarians will learn how to develop and modify future programs and services to maintain excellent special collections.

Author : Warren Frederick Seibert,Marjorie A. Kuenz,Paul Allen Games
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015019820714

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Research Library Trends II by Warren Frederick Seibert,Marjorie A. Kuenz,Paul Allen Games Pdf

Author : Sul H. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317989240

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The Emerging Research Library by Sul H. Lee Pdf

The chapters included in this book were developed from papers presented at "The Emerging Research Library: Our Role in the Digital Future" Conference sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Libraries. These chapters explore the emergence of a new form of academic library and the challenging issues we face as a profession because of the changing role of the academic library. Issues discussed include the changing profession, new publishing models, the reallocation of spaces, the preservation of past knowledge, changing user behaviours, and improving access to information. This book also provides possible suggestions for helping academic libraries transition into the future, including re-evaluation of professional expectations and abandoning past practices, enhancing the use of metadata, responding to user behaviours, long-term planning for preservation, the promotion of open access initiatives, and extending professional inclusion and collaboration. Each chapter engages the question of how academic libraries will adapt to the challenges arising from their new role as facilitators of research in the information age. Together these chapters present an impressive set of reflections on the changes that are necessary for emerging research libraries to flourish in an increasingly digital future, and this book is recommended reading for scholars and professional librarians. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration.

Author : Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442266933

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Envisioning Our Preferred Future by Bradford Lee Eden Pdf

Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces, cooperative virtual reference services, directions on research in the 21st-century academic library, innovative uses of physical library spaces, uses of social media for disseminating scholarly research, information architecture and usability studies, the importance of special collections and archival collections, and lessons learned in digitization and digital projects planning and management. Data management services are highlighted in the context of a consortium of smaller liberal arts and regional institutions who share a common institutional repository. Survey research plays a role in a number of chapters. One provides insight into how academic libraries are currently approaching web services, web applications, and library websites. A second survey is used to explore the role of librarians as web designers, and provides detailed information related to job titles, job duties, time percentages related to duties, and other duties outside of web design. Comments of those surveyed are included and make interesting reading and a deeper understanding of this new function in libraries. More generally, is a survey study exploring how librarians feel about the changes that are currently happening within the profession, as well as how these changes have personally affected their job duties and their current job assignments. Case studies are include one that features QuestionPoint in the context of a cooperative virtual reference service; another shows how research and scholarship can be disseminated using social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, ResearchGate and Google Scholar, among others; a other studies explore the importance of user engagement and buy-in before moving forward on digitization; and one shows how information architecture and usability emerge from the redesign of a public library website and whose successful completion involves user surveying, focus groups, peer site reviews, needs analysis, and usability testing. Two chapters deal with the changing legal context: the importance and understanding of copyright and author rights in the 21st-century academic library, and the basics Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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the Future of the Research Library by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Branin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135838799

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Managing Change in Academic Libraries by Joseph Branin Pdf

Managing Change in Academic Libraries helps academic librarians plan, implement, and manage changes to the fundamental structure of their organizations. It shows readers that in academic libraries the two driving forces behind most change are economics and technology. Declines in funding for education and in the purchasing power of libraries have made it impossible to maintain the status quo, let alone realize growth, in traditional information services and collection development. Add to this downward trend in library economics, the explosion of new information technology and its potential for radically altering communications and knowledge management, and one has the ingredients for some amazing changes in libraries. To help manage these many changes, chapters in Managing Change in Academic Libraries approach change with a mixture of radical and rational ideas. Readers learn academic librarians’views on dealing with change as they read about: an environmental scan which identifies both internal and external forces that are increasing the amount and scope of change in academic libraries technological change and its impact in academic libraries the academic library director’s role as an agent of change how two large library systems managed to change in some very fundamental ways when faced with serious economic and political challenges difficult personnel issues faced by academic libraries as they move into new organizational structures and adopt new management styles the future of traditional reference services in light of rapid developments in computing and networking how to change bibliographic control to better serve the changing expectations and needs of user communities conducting a restructuring study and recommendations for organizational change in a large research library system Each chapter shows academic librarians how they can respond imaginatively and nimbly to economic, political, and technological change that envelopes their professional work life. Academic librarians will refer to Managing Change in Academic Libraries again and again as a survival tool as they meet with challenging and unpredictable changes.

Author : Sue McKnight
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781856046916

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Envisioning Future Academic Library Services by Sue McKnight Pdf

Edited by a thought leader with an international reputation, it brings together renowned authors from across the globe who are breaking traditional moulds and boundaries in a way that will have a profound impact on the way libraries and library services are conceptualized in the years to come. They represent the key links in the knowledge chain: authors, publishers, academics, community knowledge creators, librarians and institutions; the student perspective is also provided.

Author : Shirley K. Baker,Mary E. Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000757545

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The Future of Resource Sharing by Shirley K. Baker,Mary E. Jackson Pdf

This book, first published in 1995, addresses the key issue facing libraries on how to survive in an age of interdependence. Increasingly, individual libraries must act as if each is part of a ‘world library’ Instead of being self-sufficient, each library, from the small public library to the large research library, must find ways to put materials from this ‘world library’ into the hands of its patrons and must stand ready to supply materials from its own collection to others, both quickly and cost-effectively through interlibrary loan. It explores the critical questions for making resource-sharing work, with particular emphasis on interlibrary loan. Cooperative collection development, economic decision models, consortial arrangements, copyright dilemmas, and the possibilities of technology are explored and a national project to revamp interlibrary loan and document delivery is described and future directions posited. Authors present historical perspective, explore the future, and report from multiple perspectives.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781400033041

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Double Fold by Nicholson Baker Pdf

The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.

Author : Graham Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317004301

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University Libraries and Space in the Digital World by Graham Walton Pdf

This timely book addresses physical space in university libraries in the digital age. It considers the history of the use of space, integrates case studies from around the world with theoretical perspectives, explores recent developments including new build and refurbishment. With users at the forefront, chapters cover different aspects of learning and research support provision, shared services, and evaluation of space initiatives. Library staff requirements and green issues are outlined. The book also looks to the future, identifying the key strategic issues and trends that will influence and shape future library spaces. The authors are international, senior university library managers and academics who provide a range of views and approaches and experience of individual projects and initiatives.

Author : Allen Kent,Harold Lancour,Jay E. Daily
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0824720296

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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science by Allen Kent,Harold Lancour,Jay E. Daily Pdf

"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Decision-Making in the Absense of Certainty by Anonim Pdf