Libraries for Users. Services in Academic Libraries

✍ Scribed by Luisa Alvite and Leticia Barrionuevo (Auth.)

Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 211
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book reviews the quality and evolution of academic library services. It revises service trends offered by academic libraries and the challenge of enhancing traditional ones such as: catalogues, repositories and digital collections, learning resources centres, virtual reference services, information literacy and 2.0 tools.

Studies the role of the university library in the new educational environment of higher education
Rethinks libraries in academic context
Redefines roles for academic libraries

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures, Page vii
Preface, Pages ix-xi
About the authors, Page xiii
1 - Academic library services: quality and leadership, Pages 1-18
2 - Users: learning and researching in the digital age, Pages 19-34
3 - Academic libraries over the last few years, Pages 35-51
4 - The challenge of enhancing traditional services, Pages 53-118
5 - User-centred libraries, Pages 119-197
Index, Pages 199-204

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