The Academic Research Library in A Decade of Change (Chandos Information Professional Series)

This book starts from the premise that the last decade has brought more changes for the academic research library than any ever previously known. The book provides an authoritative overview and analysis of the issues and challenges affecting academic research libraries from the closing years of the 20th century onwards. While the focus on this period of white water change is primarily British, with a number of case studies based on the transformative initiatives of the UKs Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and its seminal Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), as well as on the Bodleian Libraries far-reaching responses to the complex demands of the digital age, the issues themselves are presented in their global context, with implications drawn for research libraries everywhere.* Written by one of the worlds leading academic research librarians * Provides a comprehensive overview of the factors at work in an exceptionally significant and fast-moving decade of research library development * Contains personal insights into many of the key library and information initiatives of recent years Content: Front matter , Pages i-iii Copyright , Page iv Dedication , Page v Foreword , Pages ix-x About the author , Page xi Acknowledgements , Page xiii Introduction , Pages xv-xvii 1 - The strategic issues: an overview , Pages 1-22 2 - Towards the academic digital library: the role of the Joint Information Systems Committee , Pages 23-41 3 - What users want , Pages 43-56 4 - Case study: modernising Oxford's libraries for the new millennium , Pages 57-72 5 - Innovation, cooperation, integration: the defining influence of the eLib programme , Pages 73-90 6 - Working together for strategic advantage: research library consortia in the digital age , Pages 91-112 7 - The past, present and future of the book , Pages 113-128 8 - Case study: library fundraising in Oxford , Pages 129-146 9 - Scholarly communications and the research library in the digital world , Pages 147-167 10 - The digital data deluge: the challenge of e-Science , Pages 169-184 11 - Overcoming transience: digital preservation for the long-term future , Pages 185-201 12 - Case study: the Bodleian Library from Gutenberg to Google , Pages 203-221 Index , Pages 223-237 Providing an overview and analysis of the issues and challenges affecting academic research libraries from the closing years of the 20th century onwards, this book focuses on this period of 'white water' change and presents the issues in their global context, with implications drawn for research libraries everywhere Provides an overview and analysis of the issues and challenges affecting academic research libraries from the closing years of the 20th century onwards. This book focuses on this period of 'white water' change and presents the issues in their global context, with implications drawn for research libraries everywhere