The Academic Research Library in A Decade of Change

Author:   Reg Carr (former head of Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Woodhead Publishing Ltd
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9781843342458


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 January 2007
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Reg Carr (former head of Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781843342458


ISBN 10:   1843342456
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   31 January 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The strategic issues: An overview; Towards the academic digital library: The role of the Joint Information Systems Committee; What users want; Case study: Modernising Oxford’s libraries for the new millennium; Innovation, cooperation, integration: The defining influence of the eLib programme; Working together for strategic advantage: Research library consortia in the digital age; The past, present and future of the book; Case study: Library fundraising in Oxford; Scholarly communications and the research library in the digital world; The digital data deluge: The challenge of e-Science; Overcoming transience: Digital preservation for the long-term future; Case study: The Bodleian Library from Gutenberg to Google.

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. ..a timely and incisive book that should inform practitioners, students and policy-makers. <br>-Australian Academic & Research Libraries<br><br>. ..I found the book enlightening. ...it touches on so many issues that are of vital interest to librarians in UK academic research. <br>-Lesley Dingle, Squire Law Library, UK


. ..a timely and incisive book that should inform practitioners, students and policy-makers. -Australian Academic & Research Libraries. ..I found the book enlightening. ...it touches on so many issues that are of vital interest to librarians in UK academic research. -Lesley Dingle, Squire Law Library, UK


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Dr Reg Carr has spent the whole of his 36-year professional career in academic libraries. He has spent over 30 of those years in the UKs four largest university research libraries, and has occupied a position of leadership in the academic research library world for more than two decades. He became Director of University Library Services and Bodleys Librarian in the University of Oxford in 1997, prior to which he was University Librarian and Dean of Information Strategy in the University of Leeds from 1986. He was Chairman of SCONUL and Secretary of CURL during the 1990s, and from 1998 to 2005 he was a member of JISC and Chairman of the JISC sub-committee responsible for overseeing both the influential eLib programme and the development of the Distributed National Electronic Resource. He was on the Board of the international Research Libraries Group from 1997 to 2003, and served for four of those years as the consortiums first non-North American Chairman. In 2000, he was appointed as an external member of the Board of Overseers Visiting Committee for the Harvard University Library, and from 2001 to 2005 he was Vice-Chairman of the Digital Preservation Coalition, which he helped to found. In his ten years at Oxford, he has presided over the most radical programme of change in the long history of the universitys libraries.

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