In light of the New York Public Library's ongoing plan to move many of its books away from its main branch into offsite storage with 24 - hour advance request required, Bell wonders to what extent libraries really need to keep books around anymore, and what
the changing role of the library might mean in years to come.
April 9 - 15 is Love Your Library - National Library Week, a time to highlight the exciting and
changing role of libraries, librarians and library workers.
Not exact matches
Much has
changed over the course
of the years, particularly in technology, which now plays a major
role in how the
library delivers information, materials and even training programs.
To keep up with
changes in education, studying, collaborating, and learning, schools are looking to re-imagine the
role and structure
of libraries to best support today's learner.
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The
role of the school
library has evolved as technology
changes, but the valuable resources it offers are sometimes seen as superfluous.
The book provides inspiration and guidance for the creation
of national school
library standards and for the development and use
of standards and guidelines to
change school
library practice, to define the teaching
role of school librarians, to guide the initial preparation
of school librarians, and to advocate for school
library services.
His most striking comments pertained to the
roles that both publishers and
libraries are desperately trying to adhere to, without realizing that both
of them need to take a look at their respective
roles in society and adapt to a
changing marketplace for readers.
Selection criteria in the RFP aligns with the RtC vision that
libraries play a critical
role in increasing access and exposure to CS opportunity,
changing perceptions
of who can code and inspiring all youth to pursue CS education by connecting coding to individual interests.
Despite the «high value [Penguin places] on the
role that
libraries can play in connecting our authors with our readers» as Penguin stated in a response to Library Journal, apparently this policy
change came out
of nowhere.
Given the cuts to Government spending that are kicking in everywhere, is it time to ask what
role green groups should play in a shrinking state?Transition Movement Gets Political I started pondering this question having read a heart - felt and passionate account by Sarah Nicholl and Marietta Birkholtz over at Transition Culture
of how climate
change and peak oil activists are fighting swinging cuts to schools,
libraries and other essential public services.
The real thrust
of the project is to act as a catalyst for integrating the School's history,
library collections and archival resources into the life and work
of the Osgoode community by involving the students in developing and curating exhibitions, both physical and virtual, that illustrate the dramatic
changes in legal education and the profession over the course
of the past century and document Osgoode's
role in them.
The
Changing Role of Women in the Law Library Community by Monica Bay (On Firmer Ground, August 5, 2013) Editor - in - Chief of Law Technology News Monica Bay muses on the recent American Association of Law Libraries conference and the role of women in the legal commun
Role of Women in the Law Library Community by Monica Bay (On Firmer Ground, August 5, 2013) Editor - in - Chief
of Law Technology News Monica Bay muses on the recent American Association
of Law
Libraries conference and the
role of women in the legal commun
role of women in the legal community.