Reimagining the academic library
Academic libraries are in the midst of significant disruption. Academic librarians and university administrators know they need to change, but are not sure how. Bits and pieces of what needs to happen are clear, but the whole picture is hard to grasp. Reimagining the Academic Library paints a simple...
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Lanham, Maryland
Rowman & Littlefield
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : There is a road
- Part I. The forces we face
- Force one: Disruption
- Force two: Digital documents
- Force three: The book is changing
- Force four: The new scholarly record
- Force five: The economics of information
- Force six: Demographics
- Interlude: A conjecture on the nature of digital information
- Part II. Steps down the road
- Step one: Defining the job
- Step two: Creating the library as place
- Step three: Retiring the legacy print collection
- Step four: Preserving digital content
- Step five: Making the money work
- Step six: Working with the smart machine
- Conclusion : Ten things to do now