Academic libraries in urban and metropolitan areas : a management handbook
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Academic libraries in urban and metropolitan areas : a management handbook
（The Greenwood library management collection）
Greenwood Press, 1992
Available at 11 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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