Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This inspiring book will enable academic librarians to develop excellent research and instructional services and create a library culture that encompasses exploration, learning and collaboration. Higher education and academic libraries are in a period of rapid evolution. Technology, pedagogical shifts, and programmatic changes in education mean that libraries must continually evaluate and adjust their services to meet new needs. Research and learning across institutions is becoming more team-based, crossing disciplines and dependent on increasingly sophisticated and varied data. To provide valuable services in this shifting, diverse environment, libraries must think about new ways to support research on their campuses, including collaborating across library and departmental boundaries. This book is intended to enrich and expand your vision of research support in academic libraries by; inspiring you to think creatively about new services; sparking ideas of potential collaborations within and outside the library, increasing awareness of functional areas that are potential key partners; providing specific examples of new services, as well as the decision-making and implementation process; and encouraging you to take a broad view of research support rather than thinking of research and instruction services, metadata creation and data services as separate initiatives.

Higher education --- Library management --- Academic libraries. --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Data Mining --- Databases as Topic --- Library Services --- Information Storage and Retrieval --- Research Support as Topic --- Librarians --- Library Automation --- College libraries --- Libraries, University and college --- University libraries --- Libraries --- Libraries and colleges --- Public libraries --- Services to colleges and universities

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book provides strategic insights drawn from librarians who are meeting the challenge of digital scholarship, utilizing the latest technologies and creating new knowledge in partnership with researchers, scholars, colleagues and students. The impact of digital on libraries has extended far beyond its transformation of content, to the development of services, the extension and enhancement of access to research and to teaching and learning systems. As a result,the fluidity of the digital environment can often be at odds with the more systematic approaches to development traditionally taken by academic libraries, which has also led to a new generation of roles and shifting responsibilities with staff training and development often playing 'catch-up'. One of the key challenges to emerge is how best to demonstrate expertise in digital scholarship which draws on the specialist technical knowledge of the profession and maintains and grows its relevance for staff, students and researchers. This edited collection spans a wide range of contrasting perspectives, contexts, insights and case studies, which explore the relationships between digital scholarship, contemporary academic libraries and professional practice. The book demonstrates that there are opportunities to be bold, remodel, trial new approaches and reposition the library as a key partner in the process of digital scholarship.

Library automation --- Higher education --- Academic libraries --- Digital libraries. --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Bibliothèques virtuelles --- Technological innovations. --- Innovations --- Libraries and museums. --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Bibliothèques virtuelles --- Museums and libraries --- Digital curation --- Digital media collections --- Digital media libraries --- Digital repositories --- Electronic libraries --- Electronic publication collections --- Electronic publication libraries --- Electronic text collections --- Repositories, Digital --- Virtual libraries --- College libraries --- Libraries, University and college --- University libraries --- Museums --- Museum libraries --- Libraries --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Web archives --- Libraries and colleges --- Public libraries --- Services to colleges and universities

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

A vision for the future of information literacy teaching Based on groundbreaking research, undertaken by the authors as part of the prestigious Arcadia Programme at Cambridge University, this presents a new and dynamic information literacy curriculum developed for the 21st century information professional. The curriculum adopts a broad definition of information literacy that encompasses social as well as academic environments and situates IL as a fundamental attribute of the discerning scholar and the informed citizen. It seeks to address in a modular, flexible and holistic way the developing information needs of students entering higher education over the next five years. Interweaving the authors' research and the reflections of internationally-recognised experts from the library, education and information literacy sectors, it will illustrate how and why this new curriculum will work in practice.

Information systems --- Information user --- Information literacy --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Information behavior. --- Human behavior. --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human beings --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Psychology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Information-seeking behavior --- Human behavior --- Behavior --- Libraries and colleges. --- Culture de l'information --- Bibliothèques et universités --- Social aspects --- Etude et enseignement (Supérieur) --- Aspect social --- Social aspects. --- Colleges and libraries --- Libraries and universities --- Universities and libraries --- Universities and colleges --- Academic libraries --- Literacy, Information --- Information science --- Information literacy - Study and teaching (Higher)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book examines the changing roles of the librarian and how working within a rich digital environment has impacted on the ability of professionals to develop the appropriate 'know how', skills, knowledge and behaviours required in order to operate effectively. Expert specialists and opinion-makers from around the world discuss the challenges and successes of adapting existing practices, introducing new services and working with new partners in an environment that no longer recognizes traditional boundaries and demarcation of roles. The book is structured thematically, with a focus on three key strands where the impact of digital technologies is significant. The first strand, Rethinking Marketing and Communication, looks at strategic approaches and practices which harness social media and illustrate the importance of communication and marketing activities in these new online spaces. The second strand, Rethinking Support for Academic Practice, examines the professional expertise required of librarians who engage with and support new academic and learner practices in digitally rich teaching, learning and research environments. The third strand, Rethinking Resource Delivery, investigates the use of strategies to maximize access to online resources and services: harnessing system data to enhance collection management and user choice, designing and managing mobile 'friendly' learning spaces and providing virtual resources and services to an overseas campus. This timely and inspiring edited collection should make vital reading for librarians, library schools, departments of information science and other professional groups such as education developers, learning technologists and IT specialists.

Library science. --- Library science --- Technological innovations. --- Bibliothèques virtuelles --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- -Digital libraries. --- Libraries and electronic publishing --- -02 --- 025.00285 --- Librarianship --- Electronic publishing and libraries --- Digital libraries --- Academic libraries --- Bibliothèques --- Management. --- Automation. --- Marketing --- Gestion --- Informatique --- Innovations --- Electronic information resources --- 02 Bibliotheekwezen --- Bibliotheekwezen --- Electronic publishing --- Digital curation --- Digital media collections --- Digital media libraries --- Digital repositories --- Electronic libraries --- Electronic publication collections --- Electronic publication libraries --- Electronic text collections --- Repositories, Digital --- Virtual libraries --- Libraries --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Web archives --- Library economy --- Bibliography --- Documentation --- Information science --- Digital information resources --- Digital resources (Information resources) --- Electronic information sources --- Electronic resources (Information resources) --- Information resources --- Management --- Technological innovations --- Administration --- Information systems --- Library automation --- Library management --- Bibliothèques virtuelles --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Automatisation --- Bibliothèques numériques --- Gestion. --- Informatique. --- Innovations. --- Librarians --- Internet --- Information Storage and Retrieval --- Research Support as Topic --- utilization --- -Digital libraries --- College libraries --- Libraries, University and college --- University libraries --- Libraries and colleges --- Public libraries --- Services to colleges and universities --- Internet - utilization --- -Management --- Bibliothèques numériques --- Bibliothèques