E-raamat: Academic Librarian in the Digital Age: Essays on Changing Roles and Responsibilities

Table of Contents


Introduction (Tom Diamond)

Part I. Changing Roles: The Big Picture

Openness, Scholarly Communication and Evolving Expectations

for Academic Librarians (Mary Jo Orzech)

Library Positions in a Period of Change (Emily Guhde and Brian W. Keith)

Inside the Laboratory: Open Science and the Skills of Research Librarians
(Jorge Revez)

Part II. Emergence of the Digital Librarian and Digital Humanities

Why Digital Matters: Building a Digital Humanities Center

at the University of Utah (Rebekah Cummings)

Libraries as the Vanguard of Virtual and Augmented Reality

for Academic Instruction (Will Buck and Janine Pino)

From Liaison to Coordinator: How Digital Humanities Influenced

a Role Change and Restructure (Andrea Malone)

Part III. Changing Roles of Public and Technical Service Positions

From Nodes to Networks: Redefining the Role of Library

Somaly Kim Wu, Beth Caruso and Bob R. Price

Documents ­De-Emphasized? The Shifting Roles of Government Information
Professionals (Kenya Flash and Dominique Hallett)

Changing Roles for Web Services Librarians: Supporting Library Staff

as User Experience Practitioners (Jess Waggoner and Susan Chesley Perry)

Cataloging and Metadata: Tools, Trends and the Changing Role

of the Librarian (Harriet E. Wintermute, Melissa K. Moll, Mike Monaco

and Euemduan C. Osmera)

Learning, Growing, Evolving: Changing Discovery Services at the

University at Albany Libraries (Elaine M. Lasda and Rebecca A. Nous)

From Storytime to Data Analytics: The Rise of Digital Technology

and Its Role in My Librarianship (Shanna Hollich)

Exploring Scholarly Communication (Virginia Cononie)

About the Contributors

Index

Tom Diamond is the collections and materials selector librarian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. His published monographs include coverage of the tobacco industry and middle management in academic and public libraries. He is a member of the American Library Association.