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Book SynopsisVolume 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.
Trade ReviewEden’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 *
Every 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 *
The 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 & Technical Services (LRTS) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: A framework for transforming technical services in a networked environment Christine 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 Amanda Melcher Chapter 4: Keep calm and carry on: the new technical services Joelen Pastva, Gwen Gregory, and Violet Fox Chapter 5: Emerging roles and opportunities for the technical services manager Charles Sicignano Chapter 6: Re-training and re-skilling technical services staff Roman Panchyshyn Chapter 7: Brave new world of technical services Barry Gray, Anthony McMullen Chapter 8: LC subject headings, FAST headings, apps: diversity can be problematic in the 21st century Karen 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
