Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society write by Barbara Dewey. This book was released on 2010-09-01. Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society explores critical aspects of research library transformation needed for successful transition into the 21st century multicultural environment. The book is written by leaders in the field who have real world experience with transformational change and thought-provoking ideas for the future of research libraries, academic librarianship, research collections, and the changing nature of global scholarship within a higher education context. Authors are leaders in the research libraries field from a variety of countries Thought provoking chapters will help guide research library transformation globally Contains a diversity of thinking on research librarianship in the 21st century
Advances in Library Administration and Organization
Advances in Library Administration and Organization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Advances in Library Administration and Organization write by Delmus E. Williams. This book was released on 2015-06-16. Advances in Library Administration and Organization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume 33 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a range of diverse and reflective essays to provide strategies that will be of value in addressing challenges faced by current and future library managers.
Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation write by Janet Crum. This book was released on 2019-04-29. Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Libraries have recently begun doing more to support entrepreneurship and innovation within their communities. This volume explores how this has come about, looking at libraries from across North America, Europe and Africa, and helps position readers to better understand what is happening, and how this can be brought to further institutions.
Open Access and the Library
Open Access and the Library - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Open Access and the Library write by Anja Oberländer. This book was released on 2019-04-04. Open Access and the Library available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. Over the last two decades, digital technology—and the changes that came with it—have accelerated this transformation to a point where evolution starts to become a revolution. The wider Open Science movement, and Open Access in particular, is one of these changes and is already having a profound impact. Under the subscription model, the role of libraries was to buy or license content on behalf of their users and then act as gatekeepers to regulate access on behalf of rights holders. In a world where all research is open, the role of the library is shifting from licensing and disseminating to facilitating and supporting the publishing process itself. This requires a fundamental shift in terms of structures, tasks, and skills. It also changes the idea of a library’s collection. Under the subscription model, contemporary collections largely equal content bought from publishers. Under an open model, the collection is more likely to be the content created by the users of the library (researchers, staff, students, etc.), content that is now curated by the library. Instead of selecting external content, libraries have to understand the content created by their own users and help them to make it publicly available—be it through a local repository, payment of article processing charges, or through advice and guidance. Arguably, this is an overly simplified model that leaves aside special collections and other areas. Even so, it highlights the changes that research libraries are undergoing, changes that are likely to accelerate as a result of initiatives such as Plan S. This Special Issue investigates some of the changes in today’s library services that relate to open access.
Reflecting on the Future of Academic and Public Libraries
Reflecting on the Future of Academic and Public Libraries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reflecting on the Future of Academic and Public Libraries write by Peter Hernon. This book was released on 2013-01-08. Reflecting on the Future of Academic and Public Libraries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Academic and public libraries are much different today than they were even 15 years ago. With even bigger changes on the horizon, what lies in store? This volume offers ideas to academic and public librarians about the future of library services. Editors Hernon and Matthews invite a raft of contributors to step back and envision the type of future library that will generate excitement and enthusiasm among users and stakeholders. Anyone interested in the future of libraries, especially library managers, will be engaged and stimulated as the contributorsExamine the current state of the library, summarizing existing literature on the topic to sketch in historical backgroundProject into the future, using SWOT analysis, environmental scans, and other techniques to posit how library infrastructure (such as staff, collections, technology, and facilities) can adapt in the decades aheadConstruct potential scenarios that library leaders can use to forge paths for their own institutionsThe collection of knowledge and practical wisdom in this book will help academic and public libraries find ways to honor their missions while planning for the broader institutional changes already underway.
