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Will library technical services exist thirty years from now? If so, what do leading experts see as the direction of the field? In this visionary look at the future of technical services, Mary Beth Weber has compiled a veritable who's who of the field to answer just these questions.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Future of Traditional Technical Services
Julie Renee Moore and James L. Weinheimer
Chapter 2: The State of Technical Services Today
Mary Beth Weber
Chapter 3: Metadata, MARC, and More
Sylvia Hall-Ellis
Chapter 4: Restructuring Monograph Acquisitions in Academic Libraries: Innovative Strategies
for the Twenty-First Century
Michael Luesebrink
Chapter 5: The Management of Electronic Resources: An Overview
Alice Crosetto
Chapter 6: Research Data and Linked Data: A New Future for Technical Services?
Sherry Vellucci
Chapter 7: Skills for the Future of Technical Services
Erin E. Boyd and Elyssa Gould
Chapter 8: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The End of Technical Services?: A Think Piece on the Future of Technical Services
Amy Weiss
Chapter 9: Interviews/feedback from the profession
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor
About the author
Mary Beth Weber is the Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers University. She began at Rutgers as the Special Formats Catalog Librarian, progressed to Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, and assumed her current role when Acquisitions and Cataloging/Metadata Services merged. The department has undergone numerous changes under her leadership, including switching the library's primary monographs and approval vendor, instituting two patron driven acquisitions plans for e-books, establishing cross-functional virtual teams with other departments to coordinate the acquisition and cataloging of e-books and media.
Summary
Will library technical services exist thirty years from now? If so, what do leading experts see as the direction of the field? In this visionary look at the future of technical services, Mary Beth Weber has compiled a veritable who’s who of the field to answer just these questions.
