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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1132872 |
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| author | Evans, G. R. |
| author_facet | Evans, G. R. Evans, G. R. |
| collection | Education Resources Information Center |
| contents | The Changing Purposes of University Libraries Evans, G. R. Academic Libraries Library Science Public Policy Change Library Development Library Administration Library Services Financial Support Electronic Libraries Library Materials Library Policy Access to Information Foreign Countries This article explores recent developments in national policy for academic libraries. It considers the shift from traditional to managerial academic librarianship; the move to "social space" and multi-use systems; changes in the balance between meeting teaching and research needs and in public funding priorities; the difficulty of making decisions about moving to electronic resources and saving space in holdings of paper copies; the consequences of the policies of "deduplication" and disposal of "surplus" copies; "aggregation" of library with other functions; the impact of the Open Access policy. |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| id | eric_EJ1132872 |
| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2013 |
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| spellingShingle | The Changing Purposes of University Libraries Evans, G. R. Academic Libraries Library Science Public Policy Change Library Development Library Administration Library Services Financial Support Electronic Libraries Library Materials Library Policy Access to Information Foreign Countries The Changing Purposes of University Libraries Evans, G. R. Academic Libraries Library Science Public Policy Change Library Development Library Administration Library Services Financial Support Electronic Libraries Library Materials Library Policy Access to Information Foreign Countries This article explores recent developments in national policy for academic libraries. It considers the shift from traditional to managerial academic librarianship; the move to "social space" and multi-use systems; changes in the balance between meeting teaching and research needs and in public funding priorities; the difficulty of making decisions about moving to electronic resources and saving space in holdings of paper copies; the consequences of the policies of "deduplication" and disposal of "surplus" copies; "aggregation" of library with other functions; the impact of the Open Access policy. |
| title | The Changing Purposes of University Libraries |
| topic | Academic Libraries Library Science Public Policy Change Library Development Library Administration Library Services Financial Support Electronic Libraries Library Materials Library Policy Access to Information Foreign Countries |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1132872 |