Reinventing the Library for Online Education Frederick Stielow Item
Number: 978-0-8389-1208-9 Publisher: ALA Editions Price: $75.00 Email
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9" Softcover ISBN-13: 978-0-8389-1208-9 Year Published: 2013 AP
Categories: A, B, I, J, Z This title will be available Fall 2013. You
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available. 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
