Access, Delivery, Performance

The Future of Libraries without Walls

Jillian R. Griffiths, Jenny Craven, Jillian R. Griffiths, Jenny Craven

• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9781856046473
• eBook ISBN:
  9781856047883
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Sprachen & Linguistik
• Subtopic: Bibliotheks- & Informationswissenschaft

This book celebrates and acknowledges the contribution Professor Peter Brophy has made over a career spanning 37 years to the field of library and information studies. Whilst reflecting on his work, it is forward looking and challenging, and offers strategies for the future direction of library and information services in the virtual era. Following an introduction and tribute to Peter on his retirement, the text is contributed by an international team of acknowledged leaders in their fields, and focuses on four key themes that have preoccupied Peter during his career and that remain of pre-eminent importance for the future of the profession: libraries, learning and distance learning; widening access to information; changing directions of information delivery; and, performance, quality and leadership. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography of Peter's work. This timely book addresses issues and concerns transferable across different areas of the information sector, including academic, public and special libraries, and will be stimulating reading for anyone working, studying, or teaching within the profession.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Library Research Unit at the University of Lancaster 1967–1972: a memoir
• Theme 1 Libraries, learning and distance learning
• 3 Alice in www.land: reflections on ten years of developing library services for distance learners
• 4 Putting the 'e' into libraries and learning: study, pedagogy, content and services in the digital age
• 5 Library services for visually impaired people: a UK perspective
• 6 Public libraries, an enduring freedom: widening access to learning, information and culture
• 7 Sceptic 2.0? Social networking technologies in public libraries
• Theme 3 Changing directions of information delivery
• 8 Institutional repositories in tertiary institutions: access, delivery and performance
• 9 Folksonomies to ontologies: the changing nature of controlled vocabularies
• Theme 4 Performance, quality and leadership
• 10 An evaluation decision-making system: development and implementation of a web-based evaluation learning and instructional tool
• 11 Measuring the quality of academic library electronic services and resources
• 12 Influential leadership for academic libraries
• Peter Brophy: a select bibliography
• Index