Emerging Technologies for Academic Libraries in the Digital Age

✍ Scribed by LiLi Li (Auth.)

Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 287
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book is written to promote academic strategic management and envision future innovations for academic library resources, services and instructions in the digital age. It provides academic executives, consultants, instructors, IT specialists, librarians, LIS students, managers, trainers and other professionals with the latest information for developing trends of emerging technologies applied to student-centred and service-oriented academic learning environments. This book explores various fields where key emerging technologies may have great implications on academic library information technologies, academic library management, academic library information services, and academic library internal operations.

Reflects most recent emerging technologies which might impact on library administrations, resources, services and instructions
Draws a clear roadmap how and where to monitor emerging technologies which began to emerge under academic library environments
Provides practical and realistic suggestions and solutions how to utilize emerging technologies in academic learning environments

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
List of figures and tables, Pages viii-ix
Acknowledgements, Pages xv-xvi
Preface, Pages xvii-xxii
About the author, Page xxiii
1 - Emerging and cutting-edge technologies: concepts and features, Pages 3-18
2 - Understanding academic libraries in the changing world, Pages 19-34
3 - Where will emerging technologies lead in academic libraries?, Pages 37-51
4 - Emerging technologies for academic libraries in the digital age, Pages 53-111
5 - Impacts on academic library administrators and executives, Pages 115-139
6 - Impacts on management information systems in academic libraries, Pages 141-155
7 - Impacts on academic library information services, Pages 157-170
8 - Impacts on academic librarians, Pages 171-190
9 - The eve of drastic changes, Pages 193-204
10 - Leveraging academic library information services in the digital age, Pages 205-228
Appendix 1 - Selected guide to information resources for emerging technologies, Pages 229-232
Appendix 2 - Academic libraries in 100 of the world’s most famous universities, Pages 233-245
Glossary, Pages 247-276
Index, Pages 277-284

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