Weber, Mary Beth (ed.) Rethinking Library Technical Services: Redefining Our Profession for the Future. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4422-3863-3
Description
What will technical services look like in thirty years, if it exists at all? This collection of essays from leading experts in the field of technical services takes a look at the future of the field.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Future of Traditional Technical ServicesJulie Renee Moore and James L. Weinheimer
Chapter 2: The State of Technical Services TodayMary Beth Weber
Chapter 3: Metadata, MARC, and MoreSylvia Hall-Ellis
Chapter 4: Restructuring Monograph Acquisitions in Academic Libraries: Innovative Strategies
for the Twenty-First CenturyMichael Luesebrink
Chapter 5: The Management of Electronic Resources: An OverviewAlice Crosetto
Chapter 6: Research Data and Linked Data: A New Future for Technical Services?Sherry Vellucci
Chapter 7: Skills for the Future of Technical ServicesErin E. Boyd and Elyssa Gould
Chapter 8: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The End of Technical Services?: A Think Piece on the Future of Technical Services Amy Weiss
Chapter 9: Interviews/feedback from the profession
