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Information technologies are having a profound impact on the ways libraries are providing traditional services. This book identifies emerging technologies and assesses their impact on two distinct yet interdependent entities, library service and library education. While other publications identify technologies and speculate on applications, this volume focuses on the impacts of information technology on several aspects of librarianship.
The book first delineates emerging technologies and their impact on reference services and bibliographic instruction. It then discusses the resultant restructuring of reference services and the relationship between librarians and patrons. Bibliographic instruction is presented as a new paradigm based on the imperative that no faculty member should teach and no student should graduate without being fully information literate. The work also discusses staffing, organization, and financial support, and the structural and political placement of the library within the parent organization.
List of contents
Introduction
Identifying Emerging Technologies by George Machovec
Implications of New and Emerging Technologies on Reference Service by Johannah Sherrer
Implications for Bibliographic Instruction by Harvey Sager
The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Library Clientele by John C. Tyson
People, Organizations, and Information Technology: Facing the Millennium by Delmus E. Williams
Preparing for the Technological Future by Charles B. Lowry
Impact on the Library School Curriculum and Methods of Teaching by Thomas D. Walker
Information Transfer, Information Technology, and the New Information Professional by Herbert K. Achleitner
Impact on the International Development of Librarianship by Charles Wm. Conaway
Index
About the author
GARY M. PITKIN is Dean of University Libraries at the University of Northern Colorado. He has presented more than forty papers and seminars and serves as an international consultant on information management and technology, library automation and networking, operational costs and management, and organizational change and behavior. His many publications include The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Reference Service and Bibliographic Instruction (Greenwood Press, 1995).
Summary
While other publications identify technologies and speculate on applications, this volume focuses on the impacts of information technology on several aspects of librarianship. The book first delineates emerging technologies and their impact on reference services and bibliographic instruction.
