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Recreating the Academic Library: Breaking Virtual Ground
By Cheryl LaGuardia
1-55570-293-7 . 1998 . 6 x 9 . 250 pp.
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Academic libraries are being literally reinvented: buildings, collections, personnel, organizations, a new generation of computerization - even who and where their clients are is changing. These essays are by leading academic library "recreators." Richard DeGennaro talks about "The Library as a State of Mind"; Clifford Lynch reveals how he is "Recomputerizing Libraries"; James Rettig describes "Buildings That Help, Not Hinder"; Esther Grassian defines "Librarian Teachers"; Ilene Rockman shares strategies for "Reaching the Remote User"; and others address a spectrum of issues ranging from academic to electronic collections.

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"Recommended for academic librarians, academic library directors, and library science students." Library Journal
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword : The Library As a State of Informed Mind

by Richard DeGennaro vii

Preface

by Cheryl LaGuardia xi

Part I: An Implicitly New Paradigm

Recomputerizing the Library: New Roles for Information Technology in a Time of Networked Information by Clifford A. Lynch 3

Technostress in the Bionic Library by John Kupersmith 23

Part II: Information’s Domain

Leadership Teams: Making Meaning from Puzzle Pieces by Susan Lee 51

Designing Scenarios to Design Effective Buildings by James Rettig 67

Human Resource Management for the New Personnel: An Interview with Hazel Stamps 91

Computer Ergonomics for Library Staff and Users by John Vasi 107

Part III: In/Finite Resources

New Collections for Old by Stella Bentley 123

Access Is Everything by Mary Cahill 135

The Evolution of Technical Services to Serve the Digital Library by Liz Lane and Barbara Stewart 151

Part IV: Information Providers

Making the Internet Manageable for Your Users (and Yourself) by Abbie Jan Basile 169

Lessons Bull Durham Taught Me: Reference as the Show by Ed Tallent 193

Librarian-Teachers and the Virtual Library by Esther Grassian 203

Virtual Library Instruction: Training Tomorrow’s User Today by Pat Ensor 221

Part V: Information Seekers

Challenges and Opportunities in Reaching the Remote User by Ilene F. Rockman 241

Is Anyone at Home? Remembering Our In-Library Clients by Caroline M. Kent 257

Afterword

The New Renaissance Librarian by Cheryl LaGuardia 267

Author Biographies 271

Index 281



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