This manual covers the academic library, focusing on its current state and future direction within the digital environment. It aims to guide academic librarians through evolving practices, particularly concerning collections, which represent a significant area for change and cost. The content provides a framework for understanding necessary adjustments to library operations to ensure continued value for academic institutions.
The purpose of this guide is to offer a clear and concise overview of academic library transformation. It details the steps required to adapt to new challenges and opportunities, offering insights into how libraries can best serve their campuses. The manual is designed for quick comprehension, enabling readers to grasp key concepts and actionable strategies for library practice in a weekend.
Reimagining the Academic Library paints a simple straightforward picture of the changes affecting academic libraries and what academic librarians need to do to respond to the changes would help to guide future library practice. The aim is to explain where academic libraries need to go and how to get there in a book that can be read in a weekend. David W. Lewis provides a readable survey of the current state of academic library practice and proposes where academic libraries need to go in the future to provide value to their campuses. His primary focus is on collections as this is the area with the greatest opportunity for change and is the driver of most library cost. Lewis provides an accessible framework for thinking about how library practice needs to adjust in the digital environment.
Author: Lewis, David W.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Reimagining the Academic Library
Pages: 00202 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00202 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2016-05-04
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781442238589
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Library & Information Science
Reimagining the Academic Library paints a simple straightforward picture of the changes affecting academic libraries and what academic librarians need to do to respond to the changes would help to guide future library practice. The aim is to explain where academic libraries need to go and how to get there in a book that can be read in a weekend. David W. Lewis provides a readable survey of the current state of academic library practice and proposes where academic libraries need to go in the future to provide value to their campuses. His primary focus is on collections as this is the area with the greatest opportunity for change and is the driver of most library cost. Lewis provides an accessible framework for thinking about how library practice needs to adjust in the digital environment.
Author: Lewis, David W.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: Reimagining the Academic Library
Pages: 00202 (Encrypted EPUB) / 00202 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2016-05-04
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781442238589
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Library & Information Science
