The Academic Research Library in a Decade of Change (Chandos Information Professional) [Paperback]

Reg Carr (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1843342456 | ISBN-13: 978-1843342458 | Publication Date: January 1, 2007

The last decade has brought on a multitude of changes for the academic research library, and this book provides an authoritative overview and analysis of the prominent issues and challenges they now face. Each issue is presented within a global context, with implications drawn for research libraries everywhere.

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About the Author

Reg Carr has spent the whole of his 36-year professional career in academic libraries. He has spent over 30 of those years in the UK's four largest university research libraries, and has occupied a position of leadership in the academic research library world for more than two decades. He became Director of University Library Services and Bodley's Librarian in the University of Oxford in 1997, prior to which he was University Librarian and Dean of Information Strategy in the University of Leeds from 1986. He was Chairman of SCONUL and Secretary of CURL during the 1990s, and from 1998 to 2005 he was a member of JISC and Chairman of the JISC sub-committee responsible for overseeing both the influential eLib programme and the development of the Distributed National Electronic Resource. He was on the Board of the international Research Libraries Group from 1997 to 2003, and served for four of those years as the consortium's first non-North American Chairman. In 2000, he was appointed as an external member of the Board of Overseers' Visiting Committee for the Harvard University Library, and from 2001 to 2005 he was Vice-Chairman of the Digital Preservation Coalition, which he helped to found.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843342456
• ISBN-13: 978-1843342458
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,535,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)