Broschiertes Buch

Academic Librarianship Today

Beschreibung

Academic Librarianship Today offers the most current, comprehensive overview of the field available today. Key features include: ·Each chapter was commissioned specifically for this new book, and the authors are highly regarded academic librarians or library school faculty—or both ·Cutting-edge topics such as open access, copyright, digital curation and preservation, emerging technologies, new roles for academic librarians, cooperative collection development and resource sharing, and patron-driven acquisitions are explored in depth ·Each chapter ends with thought-provoking questions for discussion and creative and carefully constructed assignments that faculty can assign or adapt for their courses

Autor

Todd Gilman taught literature and writing at the University of Toronto, Boston University, and MIT before embarking on a career in academic librarianship. Since 2001 he has served as Librarian for Literature in English at Yale University, where he builds humanities collections for Sterling Memorial Library and, as library liaison to various humanities departments, assists undergraduate and graduate students with their library research. Since 2004 Gilman has served as a part-time member of the faculty of the School of Information at San Jose State University, where he teaches graduate courses on Academic Libraries, Reference, and Book and Library History.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781442278752
• ISBN-10: 1442278757
• Artikelnr.: 45668092