Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society

<p>Dedication</p> <p>List of figures and tables</p> <p>About the authors</p> <p>Chapter 1: Transforming research libraries: an introduction</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Transformation from different perspectives</p> <p>Relevance and effectiveness</p> <p>Organizing for successful collaboration</p> <p>Creation literacy: an example of the transformation journey</p> <p>Knowledge creation is global</p> <p>Conclusion: building to scale at the interfaces of cultures</p> <p>Part 1: Framing the Twenty First-Century Research Library</p> <p>Chapter 2: Advancing from Kumbaya to radical collaboration: redefining the future research library</p> <p>Collaboration and innovation</p> <p>Radical collaboration</p> <p>Strategic leadership for preservation</p> <p>Accountability and assessment</p> <p>Library space and collaboration</p> <p>Big science and data curation</p> <p>Faculty relationships</p> <p>The 2CUL Project</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Chapter 3: Will universities still need libraries (or librarians) in 2020?</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Contours of change</p> <p>What will the university’s information needs be in 2020?</p> <p>The ‘library’ in 2020</p> <p>‘Librarians in 2020’</p> <p>Some conclusions</p> <p>Chapter 4: Transforming research libraries: Piano, piano, si va lontano</p> <p>Starting at the top</p> <p>Leading organizational transformations</p> <p>An enabling vision</p> <p>Creating opportunities for others to do the right things</p> <p>The acquisition of knowledge, professional networks, and partners</p> <p>Transformative, collaborative priorities</p> <p>The continuing involvement of the user community</p> <p>Piano, piano, si va lontano: toward lasting transformations</p> <p>Chapter 5: The transformation of academic libraries in China</p> <p>Yesteryear’s libraries</p> <p>Today’s libraries</p> <p>Staffing: recovery</p> <p>Collections and collection development</p> <p>Library buildings</p> <p>Summary and challenges</p> <p>Part 2: Organization and the University Context</p> <p>Chapter 6: Organizational and strategic alignment for academic libraries</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>The strategy focused organization</p> <p>Aligning strategies to performance</p> <p>Strategic alignment in the academic environment</p> <p>Strategic alignment for academic libraries</p> <p>Organizational alignment for libraries</p> <p>Organizational and strategic alignment for libraries – the leadership challenge</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>Chapter 7: Building key relationships with senior campus administrators</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>About McMaster University</p> <p>Human performance technology</p> <p>Systems theory</p> <p>Applying the HPT model, phase one: performance analysis</p> <p>Phase two: cause analysis</p> <p>Phase three: intervention (selection and implementation)</p> <p>Phase four: evaluation</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Appendix A: Interview questions</p> <p>Appendix B: Focus groups</p> <p>Appendix C: Web survey questions</p> <p>Part 3: Partners and Collaborative Environments</p> <p>Chapter 8: Partnerships and connections</p> <p>Partners defined</p> <p>Engaging partners</p> <p>Sustaining partners</p> <p>Partnering skills</p> <p>Future partners</p> <p>Chapter 9: Common spaces, common ground: shaping intercultural experiences in the learning commons</p> <p>Impetus for change</p> <p>The commons concept</p> <p>The role of Web 2.0</p> <p>A learning commons and ‘Ready for the World’</p> <p>Common Ground Book Club</p> <p>The Sparky Awards</p> <p>Commons World</p> <p>Film discussion series</p> <p>Programming for international students</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Part 4: Creating Accessible and Enduring Scholarship</p> <p>Chapter 10: New modes of scholarly communication: implications of Web 2.0 in the context of research dissemination</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Scholarly communication</p> <p>Social web and interactive tools</p> <p>Scholarly communication and implications of Web 2.0</p> <p>Developing academic library services towards scholarly communication 2.0</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Chapter 11: Coming home: scholarly publishing returns to the university</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Digital publishing issues</p> <p>Campus publishing stakeholders</p> <p>Creators</p> <p>University publishing as commodity</p> <p>Publishing: a university priority</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Chapter 12: Confronting challenges of documentation in the digital world: the Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the University of Texas</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>The birth of the Human Rights Documentation Initiative</p> <p>Mission and scope of the HRDI</p> <p>Building external partnerships</p> <p>Access</p> <p>Privacy</p> <p>Archiving the Internet</p> <p>Collaboration</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Appendix 1: List of Human Rights Documentation Initiative personnel</p> <p>Index</p>