What is it about?
This book describes elements of the University of South Florida's (USF) Virtual Library Project, a multi-year project to move the USF Libraries (6 libraries across 4 campuses) into the emerging online environment. The chapters focus on numerous components of librarianship, with an overarching view of the effects of multiple technologies and the inevitable organizational changes necessary to implement new ways of working.
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Why is it important?
Change is a constant in libraries, with ever-evolving technology and new ways of interacting with colleagues, students, faculty, and administration. In order to withstand profound change, an organisation must be flexible and incorporate the ability to adapt and respond to its external environment and its many stakeholders. This book examines the many barriers and successes during the implementation of this project. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect in the life of a virtual library, from designing the interface to managing the change.
Perspectives
This book is important in that it documents a multi-year project at a major academic university library system that is organizationally complex (multi-campus, autonomous). It uses a complex systems approach and it discusses what worked AND what did't.
Ardis Hanson
University of South Florida
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This page is a summary of: Building a Virtual Library, January 2003, IGI Global,
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-106-3.
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