Libraries and Society - 9781843341314

Libraries and SocietyRole, Responsibility and Future in an Age of Change\nAuthor(s): Wendy Evans, David Baker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781843341314, 978-1843341314\nSynopsis\nThis book reviews both the historical and future roles that public, private, academic and special libraries have in supporting and shaping society at local, regional, national and international levels. Globalisation, economic turmoil, political and ethnic tensions, rapid technology development, global warming and other key environmental factors are all combining in myriad and complex ways to affect everyone, both individually and collectively. Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of society and the bedrock organisations that underpin it. Libraries and Society considers the key aspects of library provision and the major challenges that libraries however defined, managed, developed and provided no.