Libraries for Users
Services in Academic Libraries
- 1st Edition - December 10, 2010
- Latest edition
- Authors: Luisa Alvite, Leticia Barrionuevo
- Language: English
This book reviews the quality and evolution of academic library services. It revises service trends offered by academic libraries and the challenge of enhancing traditional ones… Read more
This book reviews the quality and evolution of academic library services. It revises service trends offered by academic libraries and the challenge of enhancing traditional ones such as: catalogues, repositories and digital collections, learning resources centres, virtual reference services, information literacy and 2.0 tools.
- Studies the role of the university library in the new educational environment of higher education
- Rethinks libraries in academic context
- Redefines roles for academic libraries
Staff at all managerial and supervisory levels within Library and Information Services; Students of Library and Information Science
List of figures
Preface
About the authors
Chapter 1: Academic library services: quality and leadership
Universities in a globalised setting
Quality in academic libraries
Methods of evaluating quality
User-oriented quality
Leading libraries in service provision
Chapter 2: Users: learning and researching in the digital age
The new teaching-learning model in European higher education
E-Research and e-Science
Innovative academic libraries in the Knowledge Society
Chapter 3: Academic libraries over the last few years
Hybrid libraries
From libraries to Learning Resource Centres
Chapter 4: The challenge of enhancing traditional services
Catalogues
Marketing services
Chapter 5: User-centred libraries
Information literacy
Information literacy programme design
University repositories
Digital collections
2.0 tools
Index
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 10, 2010
- Language: English
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Luisa Alvite
Luisa Alvite Díez, PhD is Lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of León, Spain. She has focused her research interest on Information retrieval, Interfaces, Electronic Libraries and Electronic resources. She has published several works related to these lines in different congresses and scientific journals.
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Leticia Barrionuevo
Leticia Barrionuevo Almuzara has a degree in Information Science from the University Carlos III of Madrid. She completed her doctorate on “Knowledge Management and Transfer in the Organizations” and is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on evaluation of institutional repositories. She is in charge of the Library of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in University of Leon from 2005, although she has been performing her activity in the field of archives and libraries for more than nine years. She takes part in the design and implementation of the open and institutional digital archive and she lectures on electronic resources and Open Access initiatives to university teaching staff.
Affiliations and expertise
University of León, SpainRead Libraries for Users on ScienceDirect