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Libraries for Users: Services in academic libraries

Luisa Alvite and Leticia Barrionuevo, University of León, Spain

Chandos Information Professional Series

 - studies the role of the university library in the new educational environment of higher education
 - rethinks libraries in academic context
 - redefines roles for academic libraries
 - redesigns services for users

This book reviews the quality and evolution of academic library services. It revises service trends offered by academic libraries and the challenge of enhancing traditional ones such as: catalogues, repositories and digital collections, learning resources centres, virtual reference services, information literacy and 2.0 tools.

Readership: Staff at all managerial and supervisory levels within Library and Information Services, IT managers within LIS units and students of LIS at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

£47.50 / US$80.00 / €55.00

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About the authors

Luisa Alvite Díez, PhD is Lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of León, Spain. She has focused her research interest on Information retrieval, Interfaces, Electronic Libraries and Electronic resources. She has published several works related to these lines in different congresses and scientific journals.

Leticia Barrionuevo Almuzara has a degree in Information Science from the University Carlos III of Madrid. She completed her doctorate on “Knowledge Management and Transfer in the Organizations” and is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on evaluation of institutional repositories. She is in charge of the Library of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in University of Leon from 2005, although she has been performing her activity in the field of archives and libraries for more than nine years. She takes part in the design and implementation of the open and institutional digital archive and she lectures on electronic resources and Open Access initiatives to university teaching staff.

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Contents

Academic library services: quality and leadership
 - Universities in a globalised setting
 - Quality in academic libraries
 - Methods of evaluating quality
 - User-oriented quality
 - Leading libraries in service provision
 - Notes
 - References

Users: learning and researching in the digital age
 - The new teaching-learning model in European higher education
 - E-Research and e-Science
 - Innovative academic libraries in the Knowledge Society
 - Notes
 - References

Users: learning and researching in the digital age
 - The new teaching-learning model in European higher education
 - E-Research and e-Science
 - Innovative academic libraries in the Knowledge Society
 - Notes
 - References

Academic libraries over the last few years
 - Hybrid libraries
 - From libraries to Learning Resource Centres
 - Notes
 - References

Academic libraries over the last few years
 - Hybrid libraries
 - From libraries to Learning Resource Centres
 - Notes
 - References

The challenge of enhancing traditional services
 - Catalogues
 - Information and reference services
 - Marketing services
 - Notes
 - References

The challenge of enhancing traditional services
 - Catalogues
 - Information and reference services
 - Marketing services
 - Notes
 - References

User-centred libraries
 - Information literacy
 - University repositories
 - Digital collections
 - 2.0 Tools
 - Notes
 - References

User-centred libraries
 - Information literacy
 - University repositories
 - Digital collections
 - 2.0 Tools
 - Notes
 - References