Current Issues in Libraries, Information Science and Related ... - 9781784416386

Current Issues in Libraries, Information Science and Related FieldsAuthor(s): Anne Woodsworth, W. David Penniman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781784416386, 978-1784416386\nSynopsis\nThis volume is unusual in that the theme is quite broad in scope yet focused on a specific topic; innovations and boundary-pushing studies in areas not usually found in library literature. It represents a look at the periphery of the field surveyed in previous volumes and presents chapters grouped into two categories: professional issues and transforming services. First section chapters include the challenges facing librarians in an age of litigiousness and threats to academic freedom, educating ethical leaders for the information society by adopting practices from business, valuing intellectual capital assets by looking at the role of librarians in a knowledge society, and emerging practices of open peer rev.