Rethinking technical services : new frameworks, new skill sets, new tools, new roles / edited by Bradford Lee Eden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eden, Bradford Lee, editor.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Creating the 21st-century academic library ; 6.

Creating the 21st-century academic library ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technical services (Libraries)--Management.

Technical services (Libraries).

Technical services (Libraries)--Employees--Effect of technological innovations on.

Academic libraries--Effect of technological innovations on.

Academic libraries.

Employees.

Physical Description:

ix, 112 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

Summary:

This sixth volume in the Creating the 21st-century Academic Library series focuses on academic library technical services operations and how they have been transformed and reimagined for today's higher education environment. The amount of literature on the role of technical services librarians, staff, and operations has expanded in the past few years as decreased budgets, a focus on essential public services, and information discovery on the Internet have driven the profession to re-examine the need for or importance of this back-end for hidden) library department. Topics discussed in this book include frameworks for the networked environment; roles for metadata librarians in the areas of research data and digital initiatives; the renewed focus on the discovery of information and its place in academic libraries; the new "normal" in academic library technical services operations; emerging roles and opportunities for technical services managers; the retraining and reskilling of technical services staff; hidden collections and unexplored areas of expertise with technical services librarians and staff; the faceted application of subject headings and obsolete or outdated subject terminology within Library of Congress subject headings; and a conversation about downsizing and moving forward within a law library technical services unit. Book jacket.

Contents:

A framework for transforming technical services in a networked environment / Christine Korytnyk Dulaney

Transforming roles for catalog/metadata librarians through new initiatives : research data, digital humanities, and the digital repository at the University of Connecticut Libraries / Jennifer Eustis

Age of discovery : a new model for libraries / Amanda Melcher

Keep calm and carry on : the new technical services / Joelen Pastva, Gwen Gregory, and Violet Fox

Emerging roles and opportunities for the technical services manager / Charles Sicignano

Re-training and re-skilling technical services staff / Roman Panchyshyn

Brave new world of technical services / Barry Gray, Anthony McMullen

LC subject headings, FAST headings, apps : diversity can be problematic in the 21st century / Karen A. Nuckolls

Is the "brave new world" heuristic? : the professionalization of technical services as a conversation / K. Brooke Moynihan, Hildur Hanna.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

144225789X

9781442257887

1442257881

9781442257894

OCLC:

914218828

Publisher Number:

99965730845