Download or read book Redefining Libraries in Digital Era written by Superna &. Kaushik Arundhati &. Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet has emerged as a powerful medium for storage, retrieval and dissemination of information on the web and the user of the information growing rapidly. Information Communication ant Technology has changed the concept of library, where the print and paper media are the main components to the new system called digital library. Digital libraries can be viewed as a new form of information institution or as an extension of the services of libraries currently provided. Multimedia is one of the components of the information technology that is being used in digital libraries in the handling and dissemination of information. The librarian needs to be aware of the many characteristics of the multitude of communication forms available. This book organizes and investigates the prevalent information communication technologies and multimedia for the management of digital library is an effort to assist the professionals in becoming more knowledgeable about them.
Download or read book Redefining Libraries in Digital Era written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mastering Digital Librarianship written by Alison Mackenzie and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: - Rethinking marketing and communication: this strand looks at strategic approaches and practices which harness social media and illustrate the importance of communication and marketing activities in these new online spaces. - Rethinking support for academic practice: this part 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. - Rethinking resource delivery: this section 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. Readership: 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.
Download or read book The Academic Librarian in the Digital Age written by Tom Diamond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new technology and opportunities emerge through the revolutionary impacts of the digital age, the function of libraries and librarians and how they provide services to constituents is rapidly changing. The impact of new technology touches everything from libraries' organizational structures, business models, and workflow processes, to position descriptions and the creation of new positions. As libraries are required to make operational adjustments to meet the growing technological demands of libraries' customer bases and provide these services, librarians must be flexible in adapting to this fast-moving environment. This volume shares the unique perspectives and experiences of librarians on the front lines of this technological transformation. The essays within provide details of both the practical applications of surviving, adapting, and growing when confronted with changing roles and responsibilities, as well as a big picture perspective of the changing roles impacting libraries and librarians. This book strives to be a valuable tool for librarians involved in public and technical services, digital humanities, virtual and augmented reality, government documents, information technology, and scholarly communication.
Download or read book Library Science and Administration Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 1771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective administration of libraries is a crucial part of delivering library services to the public. To develop and implement best practices, librarians must be aware and informed of the recent advances in library administration. Library Science and Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on trends, techniques, and management of libraries and examines the benefits and challenges of library administration. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as digital libraries, information sciences, and academic libraries, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, practitioners, and librarians seeking current research on library science and administration.
Download or read book Reinventing Reference How Libraries Deliver Value in the Age of Google written by Katie Elson Anderson and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely positioned to connect library users to the information they seek, and thus to the wider world, library staff who serve on the front lines of reference have both the power and responsibility to position the library as an institution that remains relevant and responsive. This collection takes a critical look at the overarching trends that affect current library policy and practice regarding the process of delivering information services, and how factors such as public policy, economics, and popular culture will continue to affect those trends in the future. Library leaders and visionaries from across the spectrum of institutions address such topics as -The history of reference librarianship and how it relates to the current landscape -Privacy, censorship, and reference ethics -The effects of the born digital library user on the purpose and function of reference -Strategic challenges for reference in the coming decade -A reference forecast for 2025 Placing these issues in historical and cultural context, this book offers practical solutions for new paradigms of reference service for all users.
Download or read book Innovation in Public Libraries written by Kirstie Nicholson and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation in Public Libraries: Learning from International Library Practice examines the recent activities of successful and innovative libraries around the world, presenting their initiatives in areas including library design, events and programs, and creating customer experiences. This timely guide provides an overview of these libraries’ successful experiences and identifies emerging global trends and themes. The author offers library practitioners guidance on how to pursue these trends in their own library environment, identifying achievable goals when planning building and design improvements, and developing customer interactions in order to emulate the experiences of international libraries. Presents a range of successful and innovative practices in one book, covering library innovation in building design, programs and events, and in customer experience and approach Provides an international perspective on library activities, with libraries in different countries discussed Analyzes the experiences of various libraries to identify common trends and themes Provides practical advice for librarians who wish to emulate the activities of the libraries discussed, with recommended goals to action Examines both the big picture of emerging global trends and themes, as well as highlighting the daily experiences of individual libraries
Download or read book Modern Technologies for Reshaping Libraries in the Digital Era written by Sivasankar Prasad and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology from the year 2017 in the subject Library Science, Information- / Documentation Science, University of Delhi, language: English, abstract: There are a variety of challenges facing the LIS profession, owing to the rapidly changing technologies and environment in which it exists. Recent developments in ICT, the web and social media, have led to the creation of digital resources and its access through online as well as remote login. Librarians need to be ‘tech savvy professionals' who can take all their professional skills and experience, and adapt them in order to align library services with the changing demands of the library user community. Written by practicing library professionals and librarians, this book focused primarily on topics related to new technologies, featuring a range of significant issues in current library and information science. Some of the topics included are digital consortia, information literacy, e-books, Web 2.0, RFID, plagiarism, mobile technologies, the Consortium for Educational Communication, E-Learning, Cloud Computing and Green Libraries.
Download or read book The Catalogue of the Library written by South Australian Institute (ADELAIDE) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reinventing the Library for Online Education written by Frederick Stielow and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have changes such as cloud computing, search engines, the Semantic Web, and mobile applications rendered such long-standing academic library services and functions as special collections, interlibrary loans, physical processing, and even library buildings unnecessary? Can the academic library effectively reconceive itself as a virtual institution? Stielow, who led the library program of the online university American Public University System, argues most emphatically that it can. His comprehensive look at web-based academic libraries synthesizes the changes wrought by the Web revolution into a visionary new model, grounded in history as well as personal experience. He demonstrates how existing functions like cataloging, circulation, collection development, reference, and serials management can be transformed by entrepreneurship, human face/electronic communicator relations, web apps, and other innovations. Online education can ensure that libraries remain strong information and knowledge hubs, and his timely book Shows how the origins and history of the academic library have laid the foundation for our current period of flux Identifies practices rooted in print-based storage to consider for elimination, and legacy services ready to be adapted to virtual operations Discusses tools and concepts libraries will embrace in a networked world, including new opportunities for library relevance in bookstore/textbook operations, compliance, library/archival/museum functions, e-publishing, and tutorial services Offers a thorough examination of the virtual library infrastructure crucial for an online learning program, with a special look at the particular needs and responsibilities of online librarians Looks at the evolving relationship between higher education and copyright, and posits how educational technology will bring further changes Bursting with stimulating ideas and wisdom gleaned from first-hand experience, Stielow’s book presents a model for offering outstanding higher education library services in an increasingly online environment.
Download or read book Modern Technologies for Reshaping the Libraries in Digital Era written by O. Sivasankar Prasad and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the 21st century Academic Library written by Bradford Lee Eden and published by Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rate of change in the academic library, a presence for decades, has been increasing in the first decade of this century. Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Successful Innovations That Make a Difference explores the initiatives in student ...
Download or read book Library as Place written by Geoffrey T. Freeman and published by Council on Library & Information Resources. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics explore these questions this report. The authors challenge the reader to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age.
Download or read book The Network Reshapes the Library written by Lorcan Dempsey and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems.
Download or read book Library Technical Services written by Stacey Marien and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries are experiencing major changes concerning the role of technical services. Technical services librarians also are being challenged about their relevance and role, sometimes revealed by a lack of understanding of the contribution technical services librarians make to building and curating library and archival collections. The threats are real: relocation from central facilities, the dramatic shift to electronic resources, budgetary constraints, and outsourced processing. As a result, technical services departments are reinventing themselves to respond to these and similar challenges while embracing innovative methods and opportunities to advance librarianship in the twenty-first century. Library Technical Services provides case studies that highlight difficult realities, yet embrace exciting opportunities, such as space reclamation, evolving vendor partnerships, metadata, retraining and managing personnel, special collections, and distance education. Written for catalog and metadata librarians and managers of technical services units, this book will inspire and provide practical advice and examples for solving issues many libraries are facing today.
Download or read book Libraries in Digital Era written by M. S. Rana and published by Arcler Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries have existed since approximately 2600 BCE as an archive of recordedknowledge. From tablets and scrolls to bound books, they have catalogedresources and served as a locus of knowledge. Today, with the digitization ofcontent and the ubiquity of the internet, information is no longer confined toprinted materials accessible only in a single, physical location.Libraries are reinventing themselves as content becomes more accessibleonline and their role becomes less about housing tomes and more aboutconnecting learners and constructing knowledge. Libraries across the world, including the greatest academic libraries, are undergoing considerabletransformational change as a result of the digital disruption, which societyis now experiencing. In just the last two decades relatively new but nowubiquitous digital technologies have developed to allow for global access toinformation, enormous and economical storage of information and new modesof discovering and sharing knowledge. At the same time the publishing worldhas consolidated globally leading to more aggressive library economics thatrequire new strategies for acquisition of essential library materials. But mostimportantly, the use patterns of library clients have been changing dramatically.Physical book borrowing by going to the library has declined sharply, while'any place any time' access to the digital collections provided by the library hassoared.The traditional library was firmly rooted in the physical transfer ofinformation and knowledge. People came to the physical space to specificallylook at a physical item. Libraries have for long played a central role in the livesof universities, in supporting learning, teaching and research. Since universitiesthemselves vary considerably in the nature, range and scale of their activities, it is not surprising that their libraries too come in many different shapes andsizes. Along with the rest of the higher education sector, however, all of themhave experienced over the past decade a period of unprecedented change.They have transformed their operations as they have responded to theopportunities of the digital revolution, and further challenges lie ahead. Thefundamental changes that underlie the ways in which much information isnow created, modified, disseminated, and accessed offer both opportunitiesand challenges for libraries and public access to information. Across the globe, college and university libraries are changing. By blending traditional bookcollections with new technologies and a sharper focus on collaborative learning, libraries are transforming the ways we learn and conduct research. A library for the 21st century must support the digital expectations of scholars and students, provide flexible spaces for both solitary study and collaborative work, and offerstudents an array of academic support services.The present book titled "Libraries in Digital Era", has comprehensivelycovered various spheres of discussions pertaining to new age, i.e. digital age, libraries. Various interesting chapter contributions from various intellectualsin the field of library profession belonging to reputed institutions. The chaptercontributions have largely focused on those issues, which libraries of todayare dealing with or planning to adapt themselves. These contributed chapterscover topics related to digital preservation, digitization, RFID, web 3.0, socialnetworking, intelligent library system, information gateway, scientometrics, digital literacy in rural areas, modern libraries, e-content, e-books, datacuration, big data, etc.I, sincerely, thank all the contributors for their meaningful contributionin this book and anticipate their continued future endeavours in the respective areas.
Download or read book Shaping the Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
