The Expert Library: Staffing, Sustaining, and Advancing the Academic Library in the 21st CenturyKaren Williams 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. |
Contents
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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