Rethinking library technical services : redefining our profession for the future / edited by Mary Beth Weber. - Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, (c)2015. - xviii, 187 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographies and index.

What is technical services? / The future of traditional technical services / The state of technical services today / The current state of bibliographic description / Restructuring monograph acquisitions in academic libraries: Innovative strategies for the twenty-first century / The management of electronic resources: An overview / Research data and linked data: A new future for technical services? / Skills for the future of technical services / Breaking up is hard to do: The end of technical services?: A think piece on the future of technical services / Interviews and feedback from the profession / Mary Beth Weber -- Julie Renee Moore and James L. Weinheimer -- Mary Beth Weber -- Sylvia Hall-Ellis -- Michael Luesebrink -- Alice Crosetto -- Sherry Vellucci -- Erin E. Boyd and Elyssa Gould -- Amy K. Weiss -- Mary Beth Weber.

Will library technical services exist thirty years from now? If so, what do leading experts see as the direction of the field? In this look at the future of technical services, Mary Beth Weber, Head of Central Technical Services at Rutgers, has compiled a veritable who's who of the field to answer just these questions.



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Technical services (Libraries).

Z688 / .R484 2015