Overview
Will library technical services exist thirty years from now? If so, what do leading experts see as the direction of the field? In this visionary look at the future of technical services, Mary Beth Weber, Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers and editor of Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS), the official journal of ALA’s Association for Library Collections and Technical Services and one of the top peer-reviewed scholarly technical services journals has compiled a veritable who’s who of the field to answer just these questions. Experts including Amy K. Weiss, Sylvia Hall-Ellis, and Sherri L. Vellucci answer vital questions like: •Is there a future for traditional cataloging, acquisitions, and technical services? •How can librarians influence the outcome of vendor-provided resources such as e-books, licensing, records sets, and authority control? •Will RDA live up to its promise? •Are approval plans and subject profiles relics of the past? •Is there a need to curate data through its lifecycle? •What skills will be needed in the future in technical services jobs?
Full Product Details
Author: Mary Beth Weber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9781442238633
ISBN 10: 1442238631
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 09 April 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Rethinking Library Technical Services is perfect for an analytical approach to technical services and would work well as a resource for an analysis or as the assigned text in a technical services course. VOYA While each chapter centers on a different topic relating to technical services, they are all worth a read, and I would recommend this book to any technical services librarians whose positions are focused on a specific skill but who are looking to step outside of that skill. I also recommend the book to library directors interested in gaining a better understanding of technical services or who want to reconfigure the department to better fit the library's overall mission...[T]he book offers good examples of what libraries have done with their technical services departments, conveys the truth of the statement 'that librarians [today], technical services librarians in particular, are standing on shifting sands,' and emphasizes that following old standards can be detrimental to the library as a whole. Law Library Journal
Rethinking Library Technical Services is perfect for an analytical approach to technical services and would work well as a resource for an analysis or as the assigned text in a technical services course. VOYA
Author Information
Mary Beth Weber is the Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers University. She began at Rutgers as the Special Formats Catalog Librarian, progressed to Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, and assumed her current role when Acquisitions and Cataloging/Metadata Services merged. The department has undergone numerous changes under her leadership, including switching the library’s primary monographs and approval vendor, instituting two patron driven acquisitions plans for e-books, establishing cross-functional virtual teams with other departments to coordinate the acquisition and cataloging of e-books and media.
