Full Description
Will library technical services exist thirty years from now? If so, what do leading experts see as the direction of the field?
In this visionary look at the future of technical services, Mary Beth Weber, Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers and editor of Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS), the official journal of ALA's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services and one of the top peer-reviewed scholarly technical services journals has compiled a veritable who's who of the field to answer just these questions.
Experts including Amy K. Weiss, Sylvia Hall-Ellis, and Sherri L. Vellucci answer vital questions like:
Is there a future for traditional cataloging, acquisitions, and technical services?How can librarians influence the outcome of vendor-provided resources such as e-books, licensing, records sets, and authority control?Will RDA live up to its promise?Are approval plans and subject profiles relics of the past?Is there a need to curate data through its lifecycle?What skills will be needed in the future in technical services jobs?
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Future of Traditional Technical Services
Julie Renee Moore and James L. Weinheimer
Chapter 2: The State of Technical Services Today
Mary Beth Weber
Chapter 3: Metadata, MARC, and More
Sylvia Hall-Ellis
Chapter 4: Restructuring Monograph Acquisitions in Academic Libraries: Innovative Strategies
for the Twenty-First Century
Michael Luesebrink
Chapter 5: The Management of Electronic Resources: An Overview
Alice Crosetto
Chapter 6: Research Data and Linked Data: A New Future for Technical Services?
Sherry Vellucci
Chapter 7: Skills for the Future of Technical Services
Erin E. Boyd and Elyssa Gould
Chapter 8: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The End of Technical Services?: A Think Piece on the Future of Technical Services
Amy Weiss
Chapter 9: Interviews/feedback from the profession
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor
