Rethinking Library Technical Services: Redefining Our Profession for the Future
Editat de Mary Beth Weberen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2015
In this visionary look at the future of technical services, Mary Beth Weber, Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers and editor of Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS), the official journal of ALA's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services and one of the top peer-reviewed scholarly technical services journals has compiled a veritable who's who of the field to answer just these questions.
Experts including Amy K. Weiss, Sylvia Hall-Ellis, and Sherri L. Vellucci answer vital questions like:
Is there a future for traditional cataloging, acquisitions, and technical services?How can librarians influence the outcome of vendor-provided resources such as e-books, licensing, records sets, and authority control?Will RDA live up to its promise?Are approval plans and subject profiles relics of the past?Is there a need to curate data through its lifecycle?What skills will be needed in the future in technical services jobs?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781442238633
ISBN-10: 1442238631
Pagini: 206
Ilustrații: 1 BW Illustration, 4 BW Photos, 1 Table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1442238631
Pagini: 206
Ilustrații: 1 BW Illustration, 4 BW Photos, 1 Table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Future of Traditional Technical Services
Julie Renee Moore and James L. Weinheimer
Chapter 2: The State of Technical Services Today
Mary Beth Weber
Chapter 3: Metadata, MARC, and More
Sylvia Hall-Ellis
Chapter 4: Restructuring Monograph Acquisitions in Academic Libraries: Innovative Strategies
for the Twenty-First Century
Michael Luesebrink
Chapter 5: The Management of Electronic Resources: An Overview
Alice Crosetto
Chapter 6: Research Data and Linked Data: A New Future for Technical Services?
Sherry Vellucci
Chapter 7: Skills for the Future of Technical Services
Erin E. Boyd and Elyssa Gould
Chapter 8: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The End of Technical Services?: A Think Piece on the Future of Technical Services
Amy Weiss
Chapter 9: Interviews/feedback from the profession
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor
Chapter 1: The Future of Traditional Technical Services
Julie Renee Moore and James L. Weinheimer
Chapter 2: The State of Technical Services Today
Mary Beth Weber
Chapter 3: Metadata, MARC, and More
Sylvia Hall-Ellis
Chapter 4: Restructuring Monograph Acquisitions in Academic Libraries: Innovative Strategies
for the Twenty-First Century
Michael Luesebrink
Chapter 5: The Management of Electronic Resources: An Overview
Alice Crosetto
Chapter 6: Research Data and Linked Data: A New Future for Technical Services?
Sherry Vellucci
Chapter 7: Skills for the Future of Technical Services
Erin E. Boyd and Elyssa Gould
Chapter 8: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The End of Technical Services?: A Think Piece on the Future of Technical Services
Amy Weiss
Chapter 9: Interviews/feedback from the profession
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor
Recenzii
The roller coaster of technology-driven change continues to challenge 21st-century librarians. Weber provides an overview of technical services and the impact electronic resources are having on this aspect of librarianship. Contributors are drawn from academic and public libraries to discuss technical services' contributions to the profession and suggest ways in which the often behind-the-scenes staff may continue to lead the way in developing user-friendly access to a growing variety of digital resources. Collaboration, refocusing, advocacy, and ongoing professional development are recurring themes for coping with profound transitions currently underway in resource management and data curation. Interviews of six practitioners address career advice, speculation about the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, and skills needed for technical services workers. This collection provides thoughtful, in-depth analyses of technical services, going beyond the basics provided by John Sandstrom's and Liz Miller's Fundamentals of Technical Services. While the climate of perpetual change may sometimes seem daunting, these experts attest to the rewards of engagement in rising to the challenge. VERDICT Recommended for administrators, technical services staff, and information technology faculty.
Rethinking Library Technical Servicesis perfect for an analytical approach to technical services and would work well as a resource for an analysis or as the assigned text in a technical services course.
While each chapter centers on a different topic relating to technical services, they are all worth a read, and I would recommend this book to any technical services librarians whose positions are focused on a specific skill but who are looking to step outside of that skill. I also recommend the book to library directors interested in gaining a better understanding of technical services or who want to reconfigure the department to better fit the library's overall mission. . . .[T]he book offers good examples of what libraries have done with their technical services departments, conveys the truth of the statement 'that librarians [today], technical services librarians in particular, are standing on shifting sands,' and emphasizes that following old standards can be detrimental to the library as a whole.
The authors are experienced librarians with a wide variety of specialties. The collection is a largely successful discussion of current and future trends, which concludes with interviews with working professionals discussing the skills necessary for technical services work in the future. . . .In addition to being a thorough review of the state of technical functions in academic libraries, the essays provide a good description of what these jobs will be like for library professionals and paraprofessionals.
Weber's Rethinking Library Technical Services is thoughtful andfocused on the big picture, furnishingcontext and background that makefor good understanding of its subject.. If you are reading to know where technical services is now andmight be headed, Weber's book is. thorough..[This book] merit[s] a serious reader's attention.
Rethinking Library Technical Services offers positive outlooks originating from the technical services profession itself. It provides an extensive and detailed picture of the current states of affairs and complex functions found in the many aspects of current technical services departments, but best of all it provides positive suggestions, and hopeful advocacy for the profession rather than dismal forecasts of doom, or continuing the folly of policies that blindly propose cutbacks and downsizing.... [T]his book is useful for librarians in all types of libraries, and especially for students in library and information science considering a career in technical services.
Rethinking Library Technical Servicesis perfect for an analytical approach to technical services and would work well as a resource for an analysis or as the assigned text in a technical services course.
While each chapter centers on a different topic relating to technical services, they are all worth a read, and I would recommend this book to any technical services librarians whose positions are focused on a specific skill but who are looking to step outside of that skill. I also recommend the book to library directors interested in gaining a better understanding of technical services or who want to reconfigure the department to better fit the library's overall mission. . . .[T]he book offers good examples of what libraries have done with their technical services departments, conveys the truth of the statement 'that librarians [today], technical services librarians in particular, are standing on shifting sands,' and emphasizes that following old standards can be detrimental to the library as a whole.
The authors are experienced librarians with a wide variety of specialties. The collection is a largely successful discussion of current and future trends, which concludes with interviews with working professionals discussing the skills necessary for technical services work in the future. . . .In addition to being a thorough review of the state of technical functions in academic libraries, the essays provide a good description of what these jobs will be like for library professionals and paraprofessionals.
Weber's Rethinking Library Technical Services is thoughtful andfocused on the big picture, furnishingcontext and background that makefor good understanding of its subject.. If you are reading to know where technical services is now andmight be headed, Weber's book is. thorough..[This book] merit[s] a serious reader's attention.
Rethinking Library Technical Services offers positive outlooks originating from the technical services profession itself. It provides an extensive and detailed picture of the current states of affairs and complex functions found in the many aspects of current technical services departments, but best of all it provides positive suggestions, and hopeful advocacy for the profession rather than dismal forecasts of doom, or continuing the folly of policies that blindly propose cutbacks and downsizing.... [T]his book is useful for librarians in all types of libraries, and especially for students in library and information science considering a career in technical services.