Library Technical Services

Adapting to a Changing Environment

By: Stacey Marien (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 August 2020

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Libraries are experiencing major changes concerning the role of technical services. Technical services librarians also are being challenged about their relevance and role, sometimes revealed by a lack of understanding of the contribution technical services librarians make to building and curating library and archival collections. The threats are real: relocation from central facilities, the dramatic shift to electronic resources, budgetary constraints, and outsourced processing. As a result, technical services departments are reinventing themselves to respond to these and similar challenges while embracing innovative methods and opportunities to advance librarianship in the twenty-first century.

Library Technical Services provides case studies that highlight difficult realities, yet embrace exciting opportunities, such as space reclamation, evolving vendor partnerships, metadata, retraining and managing personnel, special collections, and distance education. Written for catalog and metadata librarians and managers of technical services units, this book will inspire and provide practical advice and examples for solving issues many libraries are facing today.

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"This is a valuable guide on the changing nature of technical services in libraries, detailing how libraries adapt services, positions, job descriptions, and personnel to accommodate the changing nature of information and the academic environment. Librarians interested in learning how other institutions have handled departmental moves, changes in organizational structure, and adjustments in job duties will find this a useful resource."

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