Academic Libraries Their Rationale and Role in American Higher Education

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Library & Information Science (General)

Reviews:

• ...you can be assured that not only are the usual suspects (professional education, funding, the future, collections) to be found herein, but also some faint surprises. Especially commendable are the papers by Joanne Euster, Anne Woodsworth and Mary Westerman, and Jordan Scepanski, but the editors are to be congratulated on a compilation of consistent quality and general levelheadedness.
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  Library Journal
• The authors address the issues assigned to them with assurance and conviction as they review where we have been and where we are going: the special needs of the community college the basic as well as continuing education needs of the staff, organizational and personnel issues, and the position of the academic library in the educational enterprise. Much, if not most, of it will be new to administrators in higher education who, as Chapin and Hardesty point out, usually concern themselves with libraries primarily as a budget issue.
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  College & Research Libraries

Table of Contents:

• The Academic Library: Its Place and Role in the Institution by Joanne R. Euster
• What Community Colleges Need from Their Libraries by David R. Dowell and Jack A. Scott
• Benign Neglect of the "Heart of the College": Liberal Arts College Deans Look at the Library by Lloyd W. Chapin and Larry Hardesty
• The Library and the Provost by Peter E. Wagner
• Professional Education for Academic Librarians by Anne Woods Worth and Mary Westerman
• Training and Development for Library Staff by Tom Wilding
• Selection, Career Paths, and Managerial Development in Academic Library Administration: Forecasting the Needs of the Twenty-first Century by G. Charles Newman
• Funding Academic Libraries by Carla J. Stoffle and Kathleen Weibel
• Academic Collections in a Changing Environment by Ronald F. Dow, Salvatore Meringolo, and Gloriana St. Clair
• Designing Effective Library Organizations by Charles T. Townley
• Forecasting, Forestalling, Fashioning: The Future of Academic Libraries and Librarians by Jordan M. Scepanski
• A Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences: A Shamelss Knock-off with Apologies to Galileo by Paul M. Gherman and Robert C. Heterick, Jr.
• Bibliography
• The Academic Library in Higher Education: A Selective Annotated Bibliography by Rashelle S. Karp, Rita Rivera, and Sherry Engle