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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786526703321

Autore

Stielow Frederick J. <1946->

Titolo

Reinventing the library for online education / / Frederick Stielow ; book design by Kimberly Thornton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, [Illinois] : , : ALA Editions, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8389-9696-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

020.285/4678

Soggetti

Academic libraries - Aims and objectives

Academic libraries - Effect of technological innovations on

Libraries and colleges

Digital libraries

Libraries and electronic publishing

Libraries and the Internet

Internet in higher education

Libraries - History

Learning and scholarship - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reinventing the Library: For Online Education; Contents; Figures; Preface; Perspectives; Layout and Subtext; Content Overview; Acknowledgments; Part A: Preparing within a Revolution; Chapter 1: The Narrative; Prologue; A Saga in Five Stages; Chapter 2: Web Technology and Libraries; Internal Infrastructure; External Developers; Libraries Entering Stage VI; Campus Automation; Chapter 3: Disruptions on the Long Tail; Web Macroeconomics; Publication Marketplace; Emergent Market; Open-Access Movement; Political Economy; Universities: Microeconomic Stage; Final Comments: Disruption

Part B: Virtual Campus DiscourseChapter 4: Setting the Stage; In Mid-Paradigm Shift; Crisis Decade; Virtual Campus Crucible; Chapter 5: Elimination Commentaries; Readers' Advisory: Decoding Entry Layout; Chapter 6: Redefinition Commentaries; Chapter 7: Construction Commentaries; Chapter 8: Rewiring Online Librarians; Institutional



Portfolio; Long Tail/Economic Awareness; Web Thinking-Transition Stage; Capturing the Moment; Chapter 9: Managerial Strategies; Communication Zone; Operational Tactics; Concluding Comments: An Idea of the Online Library; Epilogue: Musings for the Teens

A Higher Education Economic and Copyright Zone?On Educational Technology; Multilayered Virtual Library: Toward Memex; Colophon; APUS as Scriptorium; The Scribe; Bibliography; Webliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stielow''s comprehensive look at web-based academic libraries synthesizes the changes wrought by the Web revolution into a visionary new model, grounded in history as well as personal experience.