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Summary
Summary
Connection. Competition. Collaboration. These three words define management of college libraries, today and in the future. They also describe the contents of this book, which focus on planning for the multiple directions that college library managers must consider and act upon. Contributed chapters cover the challenges nearly all must face, such as understanding users, information literacy, staff alignment, and the integration of physical building and function. Some chapters contain studies and models that can be replicated at similar institutions. Others offer documentation that can be used in reports or presentations to administrators and boards. Together, they convey a plethora of good ideas for responding to customers, competitors, technologies, and stakeholders.
Author Notes
Janet McNeil Hurlbert is Associate Dean and Director of Library Services, Snowden Library, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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Library Journal Review
Edited by Hurlbert (associate dean and director, libraries services, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA) and featuring chapters written by more than 20 librarians, library administrators, and professors, this book addresses issues relating to rising trends in academic library management. Starting with a description of the emerging generation of academic library patrons (i.e., the Millennial generation) and Web 2.0 technology, the essays focus on a range of timely topics--from a discussion of the changing role of the "library as a place" to an entire section devoted to issues of information literacy. The intent of this volume is to cover the overarching themes of "Connection, Competition, and Collaboration" and as such it provides a worthy introduction to the vast array of emerging themes and trends that will impact the future of academic libraries, large and small. For academic libraries and library school collections.--Thomas Harrod, Univ. of Maryland Libs., College Park (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| I Analyzing Our Users: Making the Connection | |
| 1 Changing Demographics: Meet the Students and Faculty of the Future | p. 3 |
| 2 Social Software, Web 2.0, and Libraries | p. 16 |
| II The Integration of Form and Function: Buildings and Services | |
| 3 Place Planning for Libraries: The Space Near the Heart of the College | p. 35 |
| 4 The New 3R's: Revolution, Reorganization, and Renovation | p. 52 |
| 5 A Future Place for Us: Results of a Survey on the Academic Library "As a Place" | p. 65 |
| III Collaboration for Learning: Managing Information Literacy | |
| 6 Rhetoric versus Reality: A Faculty Perspective on Information Literacy Instruction | p. 85 |
| 7 Faculty and Information Literacy Case Study | p. 96 |
| 8 Through the Information Literacy Lens: Managing the College Library in the Twenty-First Century | p. 119 |
| IV Promoting the Library: Competition and Collaboration | |
| 9 Campus Partnership in Small Academic Libraries: Challenges and Rewards | p. 131 |
| 10 Collaboration in Small and Medium-Sized Academic Libraries | p. 146 |
| V Integration of Staff, Services, and Assessment: What Is Needed? How Will We Know? Who Will Do It? | |
| 11 Managing to Keep Academic Reference Service | p. 161 |
| 12 Community College Library Staffing: Evolution and Revolution | p. 170 |
| 13 From Slide Rules to Scorecards: Service Environment Factors Affecting the Future of Assessment in Academic Libraries | p. 178 |
| 14 Big Growth Is Not a Small Strategy | p. 186 |
| 15 From Predictability to Managed Chaos: The Change from Print Serials to Electronic Resource Management-Indiana University, Kokomo Campus | p. 200 |
| 16 Is There a Future for Technical Services? | p. 213 |
| VI Connections for College Archives: Taking on New Missions | |
| 17 Opportunities for Small and Medium-Sized College Archives in the Digital Age | p. 223 |
| VII Issues and Challenges for the Future: A Bibliographic Essay | |
| 18 The Academic Library: Issues and Challenges for the Future | p. 237 |
| Index | p. 265 |
| About the Editor and Contributors | p. 271 |
