Some organizations and institutions have converged their previously independent library and technology teams into single information teams, creating a new type of organization: the information service organization. This book is designed to support institutions that are considering or already deploying a converged information service model, principally in academic settings. The book doesn't provide an exact blueprint of how the process should be done, but rather promotes discussion among campus and organizational leaders as well as library and technology staff, and gives guidelines for organizational design in converged organizations. Material is presented from the point of view of the library. The book looks at changes in professional identity, staffing for convergence, and the tension between traditional models of specialization in higher education versus the generalization needs of converged organizations. A final chapter examines future trends in the research process, the cloud, multimedia, metadata, and user interfaces. Barth is executive director of library and information services at Luther College. The book is distributed in North America by Neal-Schuman. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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