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Transversality and the Role of the Library as Fair Witness
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Atkinson, Ross – Library Quarterly, 2005
Scholarship conducted in an increasingly online environment requires the services of a trusted third party in order to ensure that scholarly communication remains reliably accessible and applicable over the longer term. The library, by virtue of its most fundamental values and attributes, is probably better suited at this time than other…
Descriptors: Library Role, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Information Services
Old Forms, New Forms: The Challenge of Collection Development.
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Atkinson, Ross – College and Research Libraries, 1989
Argues that collection development systems need to exert greater control over scholarly and educational information if the systems are to adapt to changing technical and economic conditions. Steps toward increased control should include categorization of sources and access by function, ongoing definition of a title-specific core, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Classification, Documentation
The Acquisitions Librarian as Change Agent in the Transition to the Electronic Library.
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Atkinson, Ross – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1992
Discusses the role of the acquisitions librarian in planning for changes occurring in information services. Topics discussed include future prospects for electronic publishing and online services; scholarly communication and the role of the library in publishing; and two fundamental categories of information services, i.e., delivery and mediation.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Electronic Publishing, Futures (of Society), Information Services
Contingency and Contradiction: The Place(s) of the Library at the Dawn of the New Millennium.
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Atkinson, Ross – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
This article aims to suggest answers to two questions: What should be the primary purpose of information services in general and libraries in particular as we enter the new millennium? Assuming such a purpose, what array of services should the library be prepared to provide? These questions are approached mainly from the academic library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Futures (of Society), Information Science
Managing Traditional Materials in an Online Environment: Some Definitions and Distinctions for a Future Collection Management.
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Atkinson, Ross – Library Resources & Technical Services, 1998
Effective management of traditional materials will remain essential even when digital resources dominate scholarly communication. Examines traditional and digital objects in information services; provides an overview of collection management; discusses goal values, information services as purveyor and repository, the role of collection management,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Higher Education, Information Management
Networks, Hypertext, and Academic Information Services: Some Longer-Range Implications.
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Atkinson, Ross – College and Research Libraries, 1993
Discusses issues relating to scholarly information exchange in the networked environment, focusing on the hypermedia model and nonlinear links within and between texts and the implications for authorial control. The shape of scholarly literature and information exchange in the future and the role of librarians as intermediaries are explored. (52…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Authors, Computer Networks, Electronic Publishing