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Libraries for Users: Services in academic libraries

Luisa Alvite and Leticia Barrionuevo, University of León, Spain

 - 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

Aimed at professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about 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.

ISBN 1 84334 595 1
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 595 4
August 2010
200 pages  234 x 156mm  paperback  
Approx. £47.00 / US$80.00 / €60.00

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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.

Contents

Quality and evolution of academic library services: history and evolution of services for users in academic libraries; Users: learning and researching in the digital age: what kind of users in academic libraries in this century; Academic libraries: over the last few years: hybrid and digital libraries and Learning Resources Centres; The challenge of enhancing traditional services: catalogues, information and reference services, collections access, marketing services and digital visibility; User-centred libraries: information literacy, repositories, digital collections and 2.0 tools.