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Libraries without Walls 7: Exploring Anytime, Anywhere Delivery of Library Services
Author(s): Peter Brophy (Editor), Jenny Craven (Editor), Margaret Markland (Editor)
- Publisher: Facet Publishing
- Publication Date: 15 May 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1856046230
- ISBN-13: 9781856046237
Book Description
This edited collection is drawn from the seventh Libraries Without Walls Conference, held in 2007. From their beginnings in 1995, the Libraries Without Walls conferences have mapped a major change in the practice of librarianship. While library services are still concerned to provide users with physical access to their buildings, electronic access – often from remote locations – is becoming ever more dominant. Library services are being integrated into virtual learning, research and personal environments.
In 2007 CERLIM wished to encourage the widest possible range of papers to reflect the diverse current developments in library service delivery. These covered:
New kinds of service, especially those that open up new paradigms of ‘library’ – perhaps the library equivalent of YouTube or MySpace
The library’s role within new models of scholarly publishing, including experience of developing services based on institutional or other repositories, and the responsibility of the library for digital curation
Service delivery in challenging environments, especially where the infrastructure may be sub-optimal, as in some developing countries, or where the user group represents particular challenges
New technological solutions and the impact on users of the improved services they make possible
Delivery and assessment of information skills/literacies, especially where this is achieved through electronic environments.
These state-of-the-art papers are designed to increase understanding of the role and importance of information in the learning process, and to enable information professionals and course developers to keep abreast of the latest developments in this vital area.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…The papers included here serve as helpful stand-alone case studies and discourse in delivering services to the distributed learning communities. But by being brought together they interweave; ideas sparked by reading one paper are further provoked and challenged by reading another, resulting in a cumulative effect which leaves the reader with a critical overview of the contemporary issues and practice”
“All in all, there is some interesting material here, something for everyone, in fact…The collection will interest those involved in e-learning and information literacy most, perhaps, with one or two of the papers of value to those more generally concerned with digital library developments.”
“Another sound, well organised book for practitioners emanating from the reputable stable of CILIP…In conclusion, an interesting, if often technical, work in an area of growing concern and relevance to LIS practitioners.”
