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The 21st Century Academic Library: Organizational Patterns and Librarian Status in North America and other Anglophone Countries discusses the organization of academic libraries and how little has changed in the last 50 or even 100 years. The organization of the library follows the path of a print book or journal: acquisitions, cataloguing, circulation, reference, instruction, preservation and general administration. Most libraries still have public services and technical services (using those names or others), and are still very print-based in their organization while their collections and services are increasingly electronic and virtual. This book gathers information on organizational patterns of large academic libraries in the US and Europe, providing data that could motivate libraries to adopt innovative organizational structures or assess the effectiveness of their current organizational patterns. While there is a fair amount of research on topics like new competencies for librarians (using vacancy announcements as data), there is much less data on library organizational patterns. Contributes to the literature on the globalization of information and of library and information science Analyzes and presents data in a way that allows librarians and library administrators to consider what organizational patterns are the most effective for the goals they are pursuing Includes emerging patterns that are not widely seen in the academic library population |
