{"product_id":"rethinking-technical-services-9781442257887","title":"Rethinking Technical Services","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume 6 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on academic library technical services operations, and ways that they have been transformed and reimagined for working in today's higher education environment.  The literature on the place and role of technical services, technical services librarians, technical services staff, and technical services operations has expanded and grown in the last few years as decreased budgets, a focus on essential public services, and information discovery on the Internet has driven the profession to re-examine the need or importance of this back-end (or 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEden’s Rethinking Technical Services is specific and practical, and describes some interesting innovative projects…. If you are reading to find out where technical services experiments are going on and might continue (without guarantees its forecasts are correct), Eden’s book is… revealing…. [This book] merit[s] a serious reader’s attention. * Technicalities *\u003cbr\u003eEvery chapter in this book...is useful and offers solid advice and tips in the practice of technical services librarianship. Each chapter ends with a thorough list of references that will be most useful to the readers. This is a very relevant and useful book that is a must-read for those librarians with a passion for technical services and it will make a valuable addition to any technical services department’s collection. * Technical Services Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eThe repeated evocations of a 'brave new world' in the titles of the articles may seem alarming, but the authors have more of Shakespeare’s Miranda’s wonder than Huxley’s irony; the pieces in this collection portray twenty-first century technical services as a land of opportunity rather than a dystopia.... Those interested in the evolution of metadata creation and creators should find this book useful. * Library Resources \u0026amp; Technical Services (LRTS) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Chapter 1: A framework for transforming technical services in a networked environment \tChristine Korytnyk Dulaney  Chapter 2: 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  Chapter 3: Age of discovery:  a new model for libraries \tAmanda Melcher  Chapter 4: Keep calm and carry on:  the new technical services \tJoelen Pastva, Gwen Gregory, and Violet Fox  Chapter 5: Emerging roles and opportunities for the technical services manager \tCharles Sicignano  \t\t Chapter 6: Re-training and re-skilling technical services staff \tRoman Panchyshyn  Chapter 7: Brave new world of technical services \tBarry Gray, Anthony McMullen  Chapter 8: LC subject headings, FAST headings, apps:  diversity can be problematic in the 21st century \tKaren A. Nuckolls  Chapter 9: Is the “brave new world” heuristic?  The professionalization of technical services as a conversation K. Brooke Moynihan, Hildur Hanna   Index About the Contributors About the Editor","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039960760663,"sku":"9781442257887","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442257887.jpg?v=1750945364","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-technical-services-9781442257887","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}