Title: Transforming research libraries for the global knowledge society
Description: "This forward-looking new resource explores the future of research libraries, academic librarianship, and research collections. Editor Barbara I. Dewey, the Dean of Libraries at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, compiles a team of leading experts to address a broad range of key concepts and ideas that are crucial for successfully transitioning the field of higher education into today's constantly changing multicultural environment. Key chapters include coverage of: transforming services and spaces; key relationships with senior campus administrators; organizational development and leadership; scholarly communications. The deep experience and varied expertise of the authors make this required reading for academic librarians"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Research libraries, Aims and objectives, Academic libraries, Technological innovations, Digital libraries, Multicultural education, Sociology of Knowledge, Knowledge, sociology of, Wetenschappelijke bibliotheken