Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service. Technology is key to that change.
The Patron Driven Library explores the way technology has moved the focus from library collections to services, placing the reader at the center of library activities. The book reveals the way library users are changing, and how social networking, web delivery of information, and the uncertain landscape of e-print has energized librarians to adopt technology to meet a different model of the library while preserving core values.
Following an introduction, the first part begins with the historical milieu, and moves on to current challenges for financing and acquiring materials, and an exploration of why the millennial generation is transformational. The second part examines how changes in library practice can create a culture for imagining library services in an age of information overflow. The final chapter asks: Whither the library?
| ISBN: | 9781843347361 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2013 |
| Author: | Dee Ann K Allison |
| Publisher: | Chandos Publishing an imprint of Elsevier Science |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 374 pages |
| Series: | Chandos Information Professional Series |
| Genres: |
Library, archive and information management |
Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service.
The Patron-Driven Library features in the following genres: Library, archive and information management
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The Patron-Driven Library was written by Dee Ann K Allison and published by Chandos Publishing an imprint of Elsevier Science
The Patron-Driven Library has 374 pages
Yes it is part of Chandos Information Professional Series series