The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library
Author: Fremont Rider
Publisher: New York city : Hadham Press
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 262
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Author: Fremont Rider
Publisher: New York city : Hadham Press
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eldred Smith
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1990-03-08
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday'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: Geoffrey T. Freeman
Publisher: Council on Library & Information Resources
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics explore these questions this report. The authors challenge the reader to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age.
Author: Henryk Sawoniak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 1284
ISBN-13: 3110975068
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Publisher: Council on Library & Information Resources
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wayne Bivens-Tatum
Publisher: Library Juice Press, LLC
Published: 2012-06
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1936117940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Traces the historical foundations of modern American libraries to the European Enlightenment, showing how the ideas on which library institutions are based go back to the ideas and institutions of that revolutionary time"--Provided by publisher.
Author: John Budd
Publisher: Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780838983188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Changing Academic Library is a revision of Budd's The Academic Library: Its Context, Its Purpose, and Its Operation. This book has been completely updated and revised to reflect the dynamic states of higher education and academic libraries. It presents a critical examination of major issues facing colleges and universities and the unique challenges that their libraries must come to grips with. Current practice is reviewed, but it is examined in the broader context of educational needs, scholarly communication, politics and economics, technology, and the nature of complex organizations."--Publisher's description.
Author: Stephen E. Atkins
Publisher: UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781893311381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gregg Sapp
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780810841963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs we enter a new millennium, librarianship and other information professions are swept up in a period of rapid, almost frantic, change. But while there is widespread recognition that libraries in the future will be vastly different from what we know today, precisely how this change will occur is and always has been a matter of considerable speculation. To this end, Gregg Sapp has analyzed library-based predictions made between 1978, the year F.W. Lancaster published Toward Paperless Information Systems, and 1999;and compared them with seminal works published since 1876, the publication of the first issue of American Library Journal. Includes [between 500 and 700] annotated entries.
Author: Shirley K. Baker
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781560247739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe publication of this volume signifies the movement of resource sharing from a marginal to a key issue for even the largest resource libraries.