The Academic Research Library in A Decade of Change
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The Academic Research Library in A Decade of Change

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Academic Research Library in A Decade of Change

About this book

This book starts from the premise that the last decade has brought more changes for the academic research library than any ever previously known. The book provides an authoritative overview and analysis of the issues and challenges affecting academic research libraries from the closing years of the 20th century onwards. While the focus on this period of white water change is primarily British, with a number of case studies based on the transformative initiatives of the UKs Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and its seminal Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), as well as on the Bodleian Libraries far-reaching responses to the complex demands of the digital age, the issues themselves are presented in their global context, with implications drawn for research libraries everywhere. - Written by one of the worlds leading academic research librarians - Provides a comprehensive overview of the factors at work in an exceptionally significant and fast-moving decade of research library development - Contains personal insights into many of the key library and information initiatives of recent years

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Academic Research Library in a Decade of Change
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. About the author
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The strategic issues: an overview
  11. 2 Towards the academic digital library: the role of the Joint Information Systems Committee
  12. 3 What users want
  13. 4 Case study: modernising Oxford’s libraries for the new millennium
  14. 5 Innovation, cooperation, integration: the defining influence of the eLib programme
  15. 6 Working together for strategic advantage: research library consortia in the digital age
  16. 7 The past, present and future of the book
  17. 8 Case study: library fundraising in Oxford
  18. 9 Scholarly communications and the research library in the digital world
  19. 10 The digital data deluge: the challenge of e-Science
  20. 11 Overcoming transience: digital preservation for the long-term future
  21. 12 Case study: the Bodleian Library from Gutenberg to Google
  22. Index