Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

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

Libraries in the USA and globally are undergoing quiet revolution. Libraries are moving away from a philosophy that is collection-centered to one focused on service. Technology is key to that change. The Patron Driven Library explores the way technology has moved the focus from library collections to services, placing the reader at the center of library activities. The book reveals the way library users are changing, and how social networking, web delivery of information, and the uncertain landscape of e-print has energized librarians to adopt technology to meet a different model of the librar

Library automation --- Libraries --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Aims and objectives. --- Information technology. --- Digital libraries --- Use-driven acquisitions (Libraries) --- Bibliothèques virtuelles --- Acquisitions initiées par les usagers (Bibliothèques) --- Management --- Gestion --- Libraries and the Internet --- Patron-driven acquisitions (Libraries) --- Aims and objectives --- Forecasting --- Information technology --- Effect of technological innovations on --- E-books --- Demand-driven acquisitions (Libraries) --- Evidence-based acquisitions (Libraries) --- UDA (Libraries) --- Acquisitions (Libraries) --- Information scientists --- Library employees --- Internet and libraries --- Internet --- 026.068 --- 026.068 Software, programmatuur. Elektronische informatiebronnen. Digitale bibliotheken. Virtuele bibliotheken --- Software, programmatuur. Elektronische informatiebronnen. Digitale bibliotheken. Virtuele bibliotheken --- Libraries - Aims and objectives --- Libraries - Forecasting --- Libraries - Information technology --- Librarians - Effect of technological innovations on --- Libraries and the Internet. --- Forecasting. --- Effect of technological innovations on.