Continuing Change, Constant Engagement: Caribbean Academic Libraries at the Forefront of Transformation (Advances in Librarianship, 57) - Hardcover

 
9781835491317: Continuing Change, Constant Engagement: Caribbean Academic Libraries at the Forefront of Transformation (Advances in Librarianship, 57)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1835491316 ISBN 13: 9781835491317
Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Continuing Change, Constant Engagement considers the current environment, impact, and future directions of academic libraries in the Caribbean. This work presents a fresh approach to global academic library literature, featuring a uniquely Caribbean voice, and a futures mindset, while bridging critical gaps and charting new pathways forward. It features forward-thinking case studies, research findings, and historical perspectives from information professionals across the French, Spanish, and English-speaking Caribbean region.

Chapters illuminate transformative stories of libraries reimagining their responses to cultural shifts, redefining their purpose, and pioneering practices for engaging communities. Authors highlight triumphs and challenges in surpassing user expectations while navigating declining budgets, resource constraints, leadership issues, technological advancement, climate change, and post-pandemic realities.

Caribbean academic libraries are positioning themselves as future catalysts – supporting teaching, learning, and research while becoming engines of knowledge creation, institutional transformation, and regional development.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paulette A. Kerr, is former Campus Librarian at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona. A leader in Information Literacy in the Caribbean with over 40 years of library and information experience, including service with the National Library of Jamaica, her research areas coalesce around Caribbean social history and media and information literacy in academic libraries.

Jessica Lewis Marshall serves as Campus Librarian (Acting) at The UWI Mona , specialising in Special Collections, Information Literacy, Reference Services, Outreach, and Library Management.

Nicola A. Palmer is a Public Services Librarian at Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama, her research interests in liaison librarianship, media and information literacy, and academic library quality standards.

David A. Drysdale is University Librarian at the University of Technology, Jamaica, bringing over 40 years of library and information experience, including service with the Jamaica Library Service.

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Verlag
Emerald Publishing Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1835491316
ISBN 13 
9781835491317
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
292
Herausgeber
Kerr Paulette A., Palmer Nicola A., Marshall Jessica Lewis, Drysdale David A.
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