Reimagining The Academic Library
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Reimagining The Academic Library
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Author : David W. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2016-05-04
Reimagining The Academic Library written by David W. Lewis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Academic libraries are in the midst of significant disruption. Academic librarians and university administrators know they need to change, but are not sure how. Bits and pieces of what needs to happen are clear, but the whole picture is hard to grasp. Reimagining the Academic Library paints a simple straightforward picture of the changes affecting academic libraries and what academic librarians need to do to respond to the changes would help to guide future library practice. The aim is to explain where academic libraries need to go and how to get there in a book that can be read in a weekend. David Lewis provides a readable survey of the current state of academic library practice and proposes where academic libraries need to go in the future to provide value to their campuses. His primary focus is on collections as this is the area with the greatest opportunity for change and is the driver of most library cost. Lewis provides an accessible framework for thinking about how library practice needs to adjust in the digital environment. The book will be useful not only to academic librarians, but also for librarians to share with presidents and provosts who a concise source for understanding where and how to focus their expenditures on libraries.
Reimagining Library Spaces
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Author : Diana Rendina
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Reimagining Library Spaces written by Diana Rendina and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Education categories.
With the advent of modern technologies and the rise of participatory and active learning pedagogy, the traditional school library model is no longer as effective as it once was. Reimagining Library Spaces helps librarians rethink the library space, including the changing role of technology, showing ways to transform how students learn in and use these spaces. Find the guidance you need to make smart and efficient updates to your library space that encourage the use of technology to improve student learning. This book includes: tips and strategies for transforming your outdated library space on a small budget, how-to's for addressing the challenges and opportunities brought about by the changing role of technology, including collaborative learning labs, makerspaces and ways to support BYOD, and practical suggestions for finding ideas to improve your space, inventory your library and survey your community.
Creative Universities
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Author : Anke Schwittay
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2021-10
Creative Universities written by Anke Schwittay and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with Education categories.
In this wide-ranging book, Anke Schwittay argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a new high education pedagogy that develops their imagination, creativity, emotional sensibilities and practical capabilities.
Reimagining Homelessness
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Author : Eoin O'Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2020-04-15
Reimagining Homelessness written by Eoin O'Sullivan and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-15 with Political Science categories.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The number of people experiencing homelessness is rising in the majority of advanced western economies. Responses to these rising numbers are variable but broadly include elements of congregate emergency accommodation, long-term supported accommodation, survivalist services and degrees of coercion. It is evident that these policies are failing. Using contemporary research, policy and practice examples, this book uses the Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine homelessness as a pattern of residential instability and economic precariousness regularly experienced by marginal households. Bringing to light stark evidence, it proves that current responses to homelessness only maintain or exacerbate this instability rather than arrest it and provides a robust evidence base to reimagine how we respond to homelessness.
Posthumanism And Higher Education
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Author : Carol A. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-17
Posthumanism And Higher Education written by Carol A. Taylor and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-17 with Education categories.
This book explores ways in which posthumanist and new materialist thinking can be put to work in order to reimagine higher education pedagogy, practice and research. The editors and contributors illuminate how we can move the thinking and doing of higher education out of the humanist cul-de-sac of individualism, binarism and colonialism and away from anthropocentric modes of performative rationality. Based in a reconceptualization of ontology, epistemology and ethics which shifts attention away from the human towards the vitality of matter and the nonhuman, posthumanist and new materialist approaches pose a profound challenge to higher education. In engaging with the theoretical twists and turns of various posthumanisms and new materialisms, this book offers new, experimental and creative ways for academics, practitioners and researchers to do higher education differently. This ground-breaking edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of posthumanism and new materialism, as well as those looking to conceptualize higher education as other than performative practice.
Cases On Global Innovative Practices For Reforming Education
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Author : Sriya Chakravarti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Cases On Global Innovative Practices For Reforming Education written by Sriya Chakravarti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Education and globalization categories.
"For contemporary educators affected by technological disruptions, looming pandemic, global financial woes and changing higher education structure and needs, this book is a snapshot of time capturing this transition towards delivering innovative and sustainable education worldwide"--
The Changing Academic Library
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Author : John Budd
language : en
Publisher: American Library Association
Release Date : 2018
The Changing Academic Library written by John Budd and has been published by American Library Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Previous edition published: Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2005.
Positioning The Academic Library Within The University
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Author : Leo Appleton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-13
Positioning The Academic Library Within The University written by Leo Appleton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Academic libraries are facing uncertain times. The international higher education environment is very volatile and academic libraries and librarians can play a major role in helping to strategically position their parent institution within it. In doing so, there needs to be clarity as to what the position of the academic library is with regard to the role and function it has within the university and how library leadership can have pan-institutional influence and impact. There are several ways in which the academic library can position itself and this collection demonstrates many of these. Strategic alignment with the university and its mission is a fundamental part of successful positioning, as is being flexible, adaptable and responsive to changing needs, requirements and expectations. Developments in research support and scholarly communications, as well as super-convergences with other academic support departments, are examples of such responsiveness. These topics along with other emerging themes, such as library functions and institutional partnerships and collaborations, are all discussed in the book and provide the reader with a rich variety of reflections and case studies on how academic libraries, from across the globe, have addressed their position within their institution. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal New Review of Academic Librarianship.
Bold Minds
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Author : Margaret Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Bold Minds written by Margaret Weaver and has been published by Facet Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Are librarians and libraries relevant in the 21st century? This is a fundamental question and one that presents differing opinions across the many diverse information sectors. If there is a continuing need for libraries and for librarians, then how do library leaders obtain strategic support when there appears to be a lack of clarity or understanding about the very purpose of libraries at a time when economically, libraries are under pressure to develop new business models and be more commercially focussed? Bold Minds: Library leadership in a time of disruption brings together international leaders who frame many aspects of the current library provision and who carry responsibility for the library models of the future to consider how librarians and libraries can be a driving force in a time of disruptive economic, technological and cultural change. Each chapter critically presents a short leadership provocation regarding libraries and their purpose, encompassing impact, service delivery, collections, staff skills and professional training and assessing what it means for leaders, their sectors and organisations, and how they have developed their personal leadership signature. This book will be invaluable to library and information professionals in a range of public and private sector libraries as well as policy makers in services where libraries are a component. It will also be useful for students, educational establishments, and IT professionals with an information management element to their work.
Assessing Academic Library Performance
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Author : Holt Zaugg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2021-10-29
Assessing Academic Library Performance written by Holt Zaugg and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Assessment is essential to describe a library’s value and to inform decision-making. Using the four key assessment components of design, data collection, data analysis, and dissemination, Assessing Academic Library Performance: A Handbook provides strategies and case studies for performing four different types of assessments: Service assessments for the library’s outward and inward facing services that either help library users or other library employees to help users. These assessments focus on providing and improving how things are done to better serve others.Resources assessments for the physical and virtual resources that the library has in its holdings or to which it provides access. Resources are the reason libraries exist as they help patrons in instructional and research pursuits.Space assessments for physical and online library spaces. These assessments help ensure that spaces meet user needs.Personnel relationship assessments look at how library employees interact with each other. as library professionals. While not for evaluation or advancement purposes, these types of assessments provide information on what library employees can do to improve their relationships with one another. Each section has information on conducting each aspect of libraries followed by three examples to illustrate how assessment is used to support descriptions of library value and to help library employees make decisions that are critical to library improvement.