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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 027.70973
EAN: 9780838983188
ISBN: 0838983189
Label: Association of College & Research Libraries
Manufacturer: Association of College & Research Libraries
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 323
Publication Date: May 30, 2005
Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries
Sales Rank: 24662
Studio: Association of College & Research Libraries
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Rating:  - An introduction to academic libraries
This is a standard text for courses in academic librarianship taught in library schools. It serves this purpose reasonably well. It is definitely NOT a work designed to teach college students how to use the library (there are many other books which serve this purpose). Anyone interested in learning more about how college and university libraries function and what their institutional role is will find a good introduction in this book.
Rating:  - A readable textbook
Academic libraries are in a state of flux, as they try to maintain their relevance in an increasingly electronic world. In many ways, library culture has been a thing apart within the university or college setting, but as access to scholarly works, research requests, and professors themselves becomes more and more possible over the Internet, printed works and face-to-face meetings are rarer.
Librarians, too, are trying to find their place in this new academic world. A good number are working as tenured faculty, instead of as staff as in the recent past, with the need to do their own research. In a world where all information appears to be right at hand, new librarians must learn how to show researchers -- students, professors, and others -- the best ways in which to find information that is pertinent, but also how to avoid data that is downright wrong. They must learn about the research tools and the media in which they are presented so that they can understand the differences, advantages, and disadvantages, while not letting the library itself become anachronistic. They must also learn how to let their users know how important it is to take advantage of their knowledge and skills
Students of library and information studies who choose academic librarianship as their career path will be considering the advantages and disadvantages of tenure and how best to fit into the changing dynamics within academia, along the way to making data and available to potential users. ... Read More
Rating: - Discusses the Major Issues Facing Libraries
Academic libraries are in a state of change. New technologies such as the Internet are creating both opportunities and confusion. Combine this with broader context of educational needs, the explosion in very expensive scholarly periodicals, the ever present budgetary problems, and the profusion of remote campuses. All of these are combining to force change upon the library system.
This book provides both an analysis of the changes that are occurring, but also the ways libraries are facing these changes. The book is suitable for use as a text in library and information science courses as well as an introduction for new professionals and academic administrators.
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