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This book brings together library educators and practitioners to provide a scholarly yet accessible overview of library and information management and the challenges that the twenty-first century offers the information profession. The papers in this collection illustrate the changing nature of the library as it evolves into its twenty-first century manifestation. The national libraries of Australia and New Zealand, for instance, have harnessed information and communication technologies to create institutions that are far more national, even democratic, in terms of delivery of service and sheer presence than their print-based predecessors.
Aimed at practitioners and students alike, this publication covers specific types of library and information agencies, discusses specific aspects of library and information management and places developments in library and information services in a number of broad contexts: socio-economic, ethico-legal, historical and educational.
Table Of Contents
Part 1: Library and information agencies in the twenty-first century: case studies
Chapter 1: The evolving public library
Chapter 2: Teacher librarians and the school library
Chapter 3: Higher education libraries
Chapter 4: Special libraries and information services
Chapter 5: National, state and territory libraries: information for the nation
Part 2: Library and information services in the twenty-first century
Chapter 6: Creating desire: bringing the library client and the librarian together
Chapter 7: Information sources
Chapter 8: Current issues in library collecting
Chapter 9: Information access
Chapter 10: Library and information systems: a work in progress
Part 3: The information environment in the twenty-first century
Chapter 11: Beyond the corporate library: information management in organisations
Chapter 12: Evidence and memory: records services and archives
Chapter 13: Information literacy and the leveraging of corporate knowledge
Chapter 14: The historical perspective: where we've come from
Chapter 15: The social, political and cultural context of libraries in the twenty-first century: an overview
Chapter 16: Ethics and law for information practice
Chapter 17: Library managers today: the challenges
Chapter 18: Education for library and information service
Conclusion: From people's university to information for all |
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