Envisioning Our Preferred Future: New Services, Jobs, and Directions

by Bradford Lee Eden (Editor)

Overview

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, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442266926
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/09/2016
Series:	Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library , #8
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Bradford Lee Eden is Dean of Library Services at Valparaiso University.  He is editor of OCLC Systems & Services:  Digital Library Perspectives International; The Bottom Line:  Managing Library Finances; Library Leadership & Management, the journal of the Library Leadership & Management Association (LLAMA) within the American Library Association; and The Journal of Tolkien Research, a new, open-access peer-reviewed journal.  He is also on the editorial boards of Library Hi Tech, Advances in Library Administration and Organization, and The Journal of Film Music.  He has a masters and Ph.D. degrees in musicology, as well as an MS in library science. His two books Innovative Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services: Paths for the Future and Case Studies (Libraries Unlimited, 2004) and More Innovative Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services (Libraries Unlimited, 2009) are used and cited extensively in the field.  His recent books include Middle-earth Minstrel:  Essays on Music in Tolkien (McFarland, 2010); The Associate University Librarian Handbook:  A Resource Guide (Scarecrow Press, 2012); Leadership in Academic Libraries:  Connecting Theory to Practice (Scarecrow Press, 2014), and The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology:  Essays on Revisions and Influences (McFarland, 2014).  

Table of Contents

Introduction   Chapter 1 An overview of research data management in regional libraries in North Carolina Mark Stoffan   Chapter 2 The future of library web services Vincci Kwong   Chapter 3 QuestionPoint at the City University of New York:  providing cooperative virtual reference services within and beyond a large academic institution Robin Brown, Beth Evans, Courtney Walsh   Chapter 4 Becoming the library?  Research librarians and the future of academic libraries Rebecca Parker   Chapter 5 Physical library spaces and services:  the uses and perceptions of humanities and social sciences undergraduate students Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic, Boris Badurina, Kornelija Petr Balog   Chapter 6 The role of academic reference librarians in copyright Eduardo Graziosi Silva   Chapter 7 Disseminating scholarly output through social media Angel Borrego   Chapter 8 Information architecture and usability as new fields for librarians Christopher Ewing   Chapter 9 Intentional synergy:  the new librarian as co-learner Topher Lawton   Chapter 10 Libraries and student privacy in the digital age:  the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Jennifer Wondracek   Chapter 11 Librarians as web designers Jenny Brandon   Chapter 12 Change-making in the new librarianship Le Yang, Li Fu   Chapter 13 Archives and special collections in the digital world Katherine M. Crowe, Steven Fisher     Chapter 14 Lessons learned:  a case study in digital collection missteps and recovery       Joy Marie Perrin   Index   About the Editor and Contributors  

Editorial Reviews

[The book] will provide an examination of special collections in the 21st century and a specific case study on digitization that may inform a library’s digitization program. The topics are current and the writing is clear and easy to understand. Academic librarians thinking about how their role might evolve in the near term will find this book to be a useful tool and conversation starter…. I would recommend this book to libraries that are currently exploring new roles, services, and directions on their campus, and would highly recommend this book to those that are exploring a topic covered in a given chapter within the book. The chapters…will provide worthwhile perspective and additional information on a topic of concern. Front-line librarians and managers in content areas will find relevant information about their specialty, and library administrators will find the book useful as an overview of current work in emerging areas of interest.

Technical Services Quarterly

As the eighth publication in the series on Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library, this volume looks at how academic libraries are changing through new jobs and services. It contains 14 papers that present a combination of case studies, original survey research, and thought pieces. A wide range of topics are covered, from web services, web design, the use of social media, virtual reference services, data curation, special collections, and institutional repositories. Like the other volumes in this series, it is international in nature with contributors representing five nations: Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Spain, and the U.S. Standout chapters include one that discusses librarians as change agents and another that looks at the future roles of academic librarians to support research. This collection will be of interest to academic librarians who are struggling to find their place within the ever-changing nature of higher education today and tomorrow.

Booklist

As the eighth publication in the series on Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library, this volume looks at how academic libraries are changing through new jobs and services. It contains 14 papers that present a combination of case studies, original survey research, and thought pieces. A wide range of topics are covered, from web services, web design, the use of social media, virtual reference services, data curation, special collections, and institutional repositories. Like the other volumes in this series, it is international in nature with contributors representing five nations: Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Spain, and the U.S. Standout chapters include one that discusses librarians as change agents and another that looks at the future roles of academic librarians to support research. This collection will be of interest to academic librarians who are struggling to find their place within the ever-changing nature of higher education today and tomorrow.

Booklist