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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Todd Gilman - Foreword by Beverly P. Lynch Klappentext Academic Librarianship Today offers the most current, comprehensive overview of the field available today. Key features include:·Each chapter was commissioned specifically for this new book, and the authors are highly regarded academic librarians or library school faculty-or both·Cutting-edge topics such as open access, copyright, digital curation and preservation, emerging technologies, new roles for academic librarians, cooperative collection development and resource sharing, and patron-driven acquisitions are explored in depth·Each chapter ends with thought-provoking questions for discussion and creative and carefully constructed assignments that faculty can assign or adapt for their courses Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Beverly P. LynchAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Todd GilmanPART I: The Academic Library Landscape TodayChapter 1: Historical Context and Contemporary Challenges - Deanna B. MarcumChapter 2: College and University Governance: The Role of the Academic Library - Barbara I. DeweyChapter 3: Organization, Administration, Management, and Planning - Starr HoffmanChapter 4: Funding and Budgeting - Tahir RaufChapter 5: Faculty Research and Scholarly Communication - Sarah K. Lippincott and Joan K. Lippincott PART II: Academic Librarians and Services TodayChapter 6: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach: Current Methods and Models - Carrie Forbes and Peggy KeeranChapter 7: Collection Development: General and Special, Print and Digital, and Resource Sharing - Lidia UzielChapter 8: Challenges Facing Technical Services - Autumn FaulknerChapter 9: Librarians and Services in College and Community College Libraries - Zoe Fisher and Kim ReadPART III: Changing Priorities, New DirectionsChapter 10: Recruitment, Retention, Diversity, and Professional Development - Marta Brunner and Jennifer OsorioChapter 11: Library as Place - David W. LewisChapter 12: Serving Campus and Remote Students and Faculty: Online Learning, Distance Education, and MOOCs - Debbie FairesChapter 13: Open Access, Institutional Repositories, E-Science and Data Curation, and Preservation - Brian OwenChapter 14: Assessment and Evaluation, Promotion, and Marketing of Academic Library Services - Nisa BakkalbasiChapter 15: A Vision for the Future: New Roles for Academic Librarians - Ronald C. JantzBibliographyIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors...