The Academic Library

Zusammenfassung This authoritative textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing functions of higher education libraries & the organizational cultures in which they operate. This new edition has more extensive coverage of: performance measurement; accessibility; information literacy; digital libraries; copyright; institutional repositories; virtual Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The higher education context 2. The history of higher education libraries 3. The library in the institution 4. Users of the academic library 5. The impacts and opportunities of information and communications technologies 6. Human resources 7. Resource management 8. Collection and access management and the organization of resources 9. The academic library building 10. Library systems 11. Services 12. Management 13. Performance measurement 14. Professional issues 15. The academic library of the future.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Brophy, Elizabeth Rippey
• Publisher: Neal Schuman
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2005
• EAN: 9781856045278
• ISBN: 978-1-85604-527-8
• No. of pages: 233
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Facet Publications (All Titles; Facet Publications (All Titles
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system