Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas

A Management Handbook
Herausgeber: McCabe, Gerard B.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Solutions to the unique problems of academic libraries in urban and metropolitan areas are provided in this professional handbook. Issues faced by the administrators of these libraries can differ markedly from those encountered by their counterparts in residential college towns, with service demands emanating from both the surrounding community and their own academic community. Written by experienced urban university librarians, each chapter addresses issues unique to the in-city academic library. Reaching out to their communities to establish links with business, industry, and other libraries, the administrators of the urban/metropolitan libraries require a great degree of diplomacy and management skills. Service demands arising from urban high schools place additional pressures on limited resources. This handbook shows how the use of new technologies can assist the urban academic librarian in fashioning services for a nonresident faculty, as well as a usually older student body, comprised of many international and part-time students. The characteristics of city living and their impact on information-seeking behavior are discussed. Other topics covered are resource sharing, setting fees, staff and collection security, environmental pollution and space requirements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Libraries Unlimited
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780313275364
• ISBN-10: 031327536X
• Artikelnr.: 21577013

Autorenporträt

GERARD B. McCABE is Director of Libraries at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of The Smaller Academic Library: A Management Handbook (Greenwood, 1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Urban Academic Library: Opportunity Spawned of Pressure--A
Bibliographic Essay by Rashelle S. Karp The Mission of the Urban Academic
Library Defining the Mission of the Urban University and Its Library: The
Beginnings of a Typology by Delmus E. Williams Conflict of Mission: The
Midsize Private University in an Urban Environment by Fred Heath Services
to External Population Groups External User Access to Academic Libraries in
Urban/Metropolitan Areas by Ralph H. Russell, Carolyn L. Robison, James E.
Prather, and Christina E. Carlson General Circulation Policies for Private
Citizens: The Practices of Publicly Supported Academic Libraries by Eugene
S. Mitchell Urban University Library Services to Business and Industry by
Linda Keir Simons and Edward D. Garten High School Students and Libraries
in Public Universities by Jay R. McNamara and Delmus E. Williams
Cooperation: Private Academic and High School Libraries by Kathleen Tiller
Services to Internal Population Groups Reference and Information Service by
Carolyn A. Sheehy Local Information in Federal Sources by Catherine M.
Dwyer Audiovisual Services: Strategic Planning by Donna R. Leone Library
Services for Faculty in the Urban University by Floyd C. Hardy
Bibliographic Instruction for Students by E. Ray Hall Extended Campus
Considerations Extended Campus Library Services by Mary Joyce Pickett The
Perception of Distance: Networking Among Libraries by Susan Anderson
Joint-Use Library Services at Distant Campuses: Building Cooperation
Between a Community College and a University by Yvonne L. Ralston and Adele
Oldenburg Security, Safety, and Preservation Legal and Practical Aspects of
Securing the General Collection in Academic Libraries by Carolyn L.
Robison, John D. Marshall, Jr., and Pamela J. Cravey Security and Safety of
People in Urban Academic Libraries by Elizabeth Ader and Julie Pinnell
Preservation and Environmental Control Issues in the Urban/Metropolitan
Academic Library by James E. Gwin Managerial Perspectives Personnel
Management in the Urban Academic Library by James R. Coffey Acculturation
of the International Student Employee in Urban University Libraries by
Harriett M. Pastor and Lia S. Hemphill Space: The Physical Environment of
the Urban Academic Library by Ruth J. Person and Joan G. Rapp The Future
Results of Using New Technology by John W. Head Index