The Expert Library: Staffing, Sustaining, and Advancing the Academic Library in the 21st Century

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Karen Williams
Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr, 2010 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 389 pages
In the midst of a decade of extraordinary change in academic libraries--change driven by information technology, new approaches to teaching and learning, new models for scholarly communication, and new expectations for the ways we will discover, share, and make use of information--there is nothing so important to the future of the library and its continued place at the heart of the academic enterprise than its people and the expertise that they bring to the design, development, and delivery of library services. What will those services be, and who will provide them? The Expert Library provides an overview of the changing dynamics entailed in recruiting and retaining academic library professionals for the 21st century and contains fresh thinking and insights into what will be required to ensure continued library relevance and success through its people. --Publisher's description.
 

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Academic Library Staffing a Decade from Now
3
New Challenges in Academic Library Personnel Selection
30
Innovators Wanted No Experience Necessary?
52
Put the Pieces Together and You Get the Perfect Academic Librarian or Do You? What Competency Standards Tell Us about Academic Librarianship...
76
The New Liaison Librarian Competencies for the 21st Century Academic Library
93
Preparing Our Librarians for the Future Identifying and Assessing Core Competencies at the University of Minnesota Libraries
127
PhD Holders in the Academic Library The CLIR Post doctoral Fellowship Program
158
The Publisher in the Library
190
Escience Cyberinfrast ructureand the Changing Face ofScholarship Organizing for New Models of Research Support at the Purdue University Libraries
234
Creative Disorder The Work of Metadata Librariansin the 21st Century
270
List en Up Librarians It s All About the Message
292
Teaching the Teachers Developing a Teaching Improvement Program for Academic Librarians
314
Creating Smooth Sailing The Benefits of Organization Development for the Expert Library
337
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