The Academic Librarian in the Digital Age: Essays on Changing Roles and Responsibilities

ISBN-13: 9781476680163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 198 str.

Tom Diamond

Spis treści

• Introduction (Tom Diamond) 1
• Part I. Changing Roles: The Big Picture
• Openness, Scholarly Communication and Evolving Expectations for Academic Librarians (Mary Jo Orzech) 7
• Library Positions in a Period of Change (Emily Guhde and Brian W. Keith) 22
• Inside the Laboratory: Open Science and the Skills of Research Librarians (Jorge Revez) 42
• Part II. Emergence of the Digital Librarian and Digital Humanities
• Why Digital Matters: Building a Digital Humanities Center at the University of Utah (Rebekah Cummings) 57
• Libraries as the Vanguard of Virtual and Augmented Reality for Academic Instruction (Will Buck and Janine Pino) 71
• From Liaison to Coordinator: How Digital Humanities Influenced a Role Change and Restructure (Andrea Malone) 84
• Part III. Changing Roles of Public and Technical Service Positions
• From Nodes to Networks: Redefining the Role of Library IT Somaly Kim Wu, Beth Caruso and Bob R. Price 97
• Documents ­De-Emphasized? The Shifting Roles of Government Information Professionals (Kenya Flash and Dominique Hallett) 108
• Changing Roles for Web Services Librarians: Supporting Library Staff as User Experience Practitioners (Jess Waggoner and Susan Chesley Perry) 120
• Cataloging and Metadata: Tools, Trends and the Changing Role of the Librarian (Harriet E. Wintermute, Melissa K. Moll, Mike Monaco and Euemduan C. Osmera) 131
• Learning, Growing, Evolving: Changing Discovery Services at the University at Albany Libraries (Elaine M. Lasda and Rebecca A. Nous) 141
• From Storytime to Data Analytics: The Rise of Digital Technology and Its Role in My Librarianship (Shanna Hollich) 157
• Exploring Scholarly Communication (Virginia Cononie) 169
• About the Contributors 183
• Index 187