Access, delivery, performance : the future of libraries without walls : a festschrift to celebrate the work of professor Peter Brophy / edited by Jillian R. Griffiths and Jenny Craves

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Publication details: London : Facet, 2009Description: XIV, 238 p. : ilISBN:

9781856046473

Summary: This book celebrates and acknowledges the contribution Professor Peter Brophy has made over a career spanning 37 years to the field of library and information studies. Whilst reflecting on his work, it is forward looking and challenging, and offers strategies for the future direction of library and information services in the virtual era. Following an introduction and tribute to Peter on his retirement, the text is contributed by an international team of acknowledged leaders in their fields, and focuses on tour key themes that have preoccupied Peter during his career and that remain of pre-eminent importance for the future of the profession: libraries, learning and distance learning; widening access to information; changing directions of information delivery; performance, quality and leadership. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography of Peter's work. This timely book addresses issues and concerns transferable across different areas of the information sector, including academic, public and special libraries, and will be stimulating reading for anyone working, studying, or teaching within the profession. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC	BB Acc 09	1	Available		1900142012

Contributors -- 1. Introduction / Alan F. MacDougall -- 2. The Library Research Unit at the University of Lancaster, 1967-1972: a memoir / Michael Buckland. Theme 1. Libraries, learning and distance learning : 3. Alice in www.land: reflections on ten years of developing libraries services for distance learners / Gill Needham, Nicky Whitsed -- 4. Putting the "e" into libraries and learning: study, pedagogy, content and services in the digital age / David Baker -- Theme 2. Widening access to information : 5. Library services for visually impaired people: a UK perspective / Jenny Craven -- 6. Public libraries, an enduring freedom: widening access to learning, information and culture / John Dolan -- 7. Sceptic 2.0? Social networking technologies in public libraries / Juliet Eve -- Theme 3. Changing directions of information delivery : 8. Institutional repositories in tertiary institutions: access, delivery and performance / Rowena Cullen, Brenda Chawner -- 9. Folksonomies to ontologies: the changing nature of controlled vocabularies / Richard J. Harley -- Theme 4. Performance, quality and leadership : 10. An evaluation decision-making system: development and implementation of a web-based evaluation learning and instructional tool / Charles R. McClure, John T. Snead -- 11. Measuring the quality of academic library electronic services ans resources / Jillian R. Griffiths -- 12. Influential leadership for academic libraries / Jennifer Rowley, Sue Roberts -- Peter Brophy: a selected bibliography -- Index

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