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This text offers academic administrators and librarians a better understanding of the issues facing the library during this time of change and the role of the library in the evolving campus of the future. Chapters reflect a range of perspectives and experience.

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Since the mid 1980s academic libraries have established minority residency programs in an effort to increase the representation of librarians of color in their institutions.

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As fast-paced technical changes are transforming the field of information science, this book explores in depth the early stages of the field through the history of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS), which began in 1937 as the American Documentation Institute (ADI).

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This work explores how managerial innovations are generated and disseminated among public librarians. It provides a case study of the dissemination of an innovation which allows librarians to engage in user-oriented planning, community-specific role setting and self-evaluation of performance.

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Examines the Public Library Inquiry's definition of a legitimate social and civil role for public libraries within the context of the Inquiry's view of American democracy.

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While other publications identify technologies and speculate on applications, this volume focuses on the impacts of information technology on several aspects of librarianship.

The book first delineates emerging technologies and their impact on reference services and bibliographic instruction.

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Examines the assumptions and values of the "myth" of the electronic library, compares them with the previous "myth" of the library as place, and explores alternatives to the information society, the role of the librarian in a therapeutic society and the politics of librarianship.

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Wiegand examines the development of ALA from 1876 to 1917 in this masterful tale. He analyzes the three elements of Dewey's motto, `The best reading for the largest number at the least cost,' and how they characterized ALA's development as the leaders sought to accomplish those goals.