Title: Convergence and collaboration of campus information services /
Authors: Hernon, Peter.; Powell, Ronald R.
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Libraries and colleges.; Academic libraries United States Case studies.; Information Services; Universities; Libraries; Cooperative Behavior
Abstract: This book is ideal for anyone interested in how academic libraries can be more closely tied to the various missions of the colleges/universities in which they reside.
Contents: Innovation is an ongoing process : collaboration at the University of California--Irvine / Carol Ann Hughes -- Sowing an old field with a new crop : collaborative services of libraries and other campus units / Richard W. Meyer and Tyler O. Walters -- From isolation to engagement : strategy, structure, and process / Barbara J. Kriigel and Timothy F. Richards -- Convergence and collaboration in information services at the University of Calgary / Darlene Warren -- The library as model of integrated student-centered academic support enterprise / Jay Schafer and Anne C. Moore -- The University of Georgia student learning center / Florence E. King ... [et al.] -- From faction to fusion : the Columbia University libraries as information services enterprise / James Neal -- Libraries and convergence at Yale / Alice Prochaska -- The poetry center at Suffolk University / Fred Marchant and Robert E. Dugan -- Collaborative initiatives to deliver agricultural information / Barbara Hutchinson, Jeanne L. Pfander, and George B. Ruyle -- Other perspectives and concluding thoughts / Peter Hernon, Ronald R. Powell, and Amy F. Fyn.