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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Social Future of Academic Libraries: New Perspectives on Communities, Networks, and Engagement

The Social Future of Academic Libraries: New Perspectives on Communities, Networks, and Engagement

Schlak, Tim
Corrall, Sheila
Bracke, Paul

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ISBN10: 1783304715
ISBN13: 9781783304714
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: Feb 22 2023
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.13
Language: English

The current focus in higher education on student engagement, holistic education, social responsibility, and community partnerships demands a significant mindshift for academic libraries to reclaim their place at the heart of academic institutions that are reinventing themselves as social enterprises. The professional response to social trends in the academy and society includes moves such as converged services, embedded librarians, relationship management, inside-out libraries, and design thinking. But such work is often confined to small parts of the library and has not created the large-scale change in strategy and culture required to turn libraries into dynamic social organizations in the connected digital world. Incremental enhancement of services, spaces and structures is not enough. The present context calls for radical rethinking of library mission and service philosophy to realign resources, processes, and practices to institutional needs. New ways of working must be guided by new ways of thinking that empower librarians to view practices holistically through a social lens. Intellectual and social capital theories offer new perspectives on library work and a proven conceptual framework for the reset needed to keep academic libraries relevant in the 21st century.

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