Refocusing Academic Libraries through Learning and Discourse: The Idea of a Library

ISBN-13: 9780323951104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Universit PhD
Professor Emeritus Mary K. (Mary K. Bolin

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. The Current Organizational Landscape
3. How Academic Library Organizations are Changing
4. Re-thinking and Re-imagining: A New Discourse and a New Process
5. New Models: Making the Most of People, Facilities, Budgets, Collections, and Relationships
6. Implementing a Transformed Organization
7. Conclusion

O autorze

Mary K. Bolin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL), USA. She served as Chair of Technical Services at UNL and at the University of Idaho for nearly thirty years, as well as serving as a Catalog and Metadata Librarian. She is a full-time lecturer at the School of Information at San Jose State University, and teaches both cataloging and metadata classes for MLIS students. She is the editor of the peer-reviewed e-journal Library Philosophy and Practice, which has been continuously published since 1998. She is the author of The 21st Century Academic Library: Global Patterns of Organization and Discourse, which was published the by Chandos imprint in 2017, and of numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as conference presentations. Her research interests include library administration and organization, discourse and text analysis, and topics in the Digital Humanities.