Emerging Technologies for Academic Libraries in the Digital Age

287 Pages·2009·4.01 MB·English

by  LiLi Li (Auth.)

Emerging Technologies for Academic
Libraries in the Digital Age
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Emerging Technologies for
Academic Libraries in the
Digital Age
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List of figures and tables
Figures
1.1 International Computer Electronics Show:
emerging technologies 6
2.1 The Reading Room in the National and University
Library in Ljubljana 23
2.2 Home page of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University 27
2.3 Information commons of the Hardin Library,
University of Iowa 28
2.4 IM reference service offered by the Zach S.
Henderson Library 30
3.1 LAN-based technology architecture for academic libraries 41
3.2 Wireless LAN-based technology architecture for academic
libraries 42
3.3 Web-based information technology architecture for
academic libraries 43
3.4 English homepage of Tsinghua University Library,
Beijing, China 45
3.5 VPN at the University of California at Berkeley Library 47
3.6 Wireless access in Virginia Commonwealth University
Libraries 48
10.1 The next-generation web-based library information
technology architecture 209
10.2 The website of Georgia Institute of Technology
Library, USA 213
10.3 The website of Nova Southeastern University Library, USA 214
10.4 The website of Cambridge University Library in the UK 223
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Tables
1.1 A comparison between cutting-edge and emerging
technologies 9
1.2 A comparative table for video camcorder resolutions 12
1.3 A comparison of computer input technologies 13
9.1 A comparative list of major products offered
by Google and Microsoft 197
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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my deep appreciation to Dr Glyn Jones of
Chandos Publishing, Oxford in the UK. Without his strong
encouragement and constant guidance, it would have been impossible
for me to complete this book for all those academic administrators,
executives, faculty, instructors, IT specialists, librarians, library and
information science students, and other professionals intent on following
up the development of new trends in cutting-edge and emerging
technologies in the digital age.
A special thanks also goes to Mr Peter Williams, editor associated with
Chandos Publishing. Without his valuable assistance, my manuscript
would not have made it through the stages of production.
In addition, I would like to thank Dr Bede Mitchell, Dean of Zach S.
Henderson Library at the Georgia Southern University. During a short
interview about the impacts of emerging technologies on academic
library administrators and executives, he sacrificed his valuable time to
tell me what academic library administrators and executives usually have
deep concerns over before deciding how to initialize and implement
information technology applications and projects in academic library
settings. He has also been supporting my participation in international,
national, regional, and state conferences to discover information on
current developing trends in cutting-edge and emerging technologies
applicable to academic libraries.
I would also like to thank my colleagues in my department. Their
thoughtful correspondence and reviews have often been a trigger for
inspiration. It is always a pleasure to exchange and share with them the
various solutions for enhancing and integrating our information
resources, services, and tutorials. Their valuable experience and timely
feedback guided me to deliver a better book on emerging technologies
focused on academic library settings.
In particular, my sincere gratitude goes to my sweet and loyal wife,
Mingfang Tang, who always so reliably provides me with wise advice
and timely support whenever I need them. Without her lifetime of
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dedication and sacrifice, I would not have been able to pursue excellence
in my academic teaching and scholarly achievements.
Finally, I am so grateful to my late father Shaozhou Li, who insisted
that I should complete my secondary education during the years of the
so-called Cultural Revolution (1966–76) in China. My special thanks
also go to my late uncle Shian Li, who unselfishly put together all he had
to support my graduate study in the United States.
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Preface
Purpose of this book
This book has been written to promote academic strategic management
and envision future library innovations, intelligence, and services in the
digital age. It provides academic administrators, executives, consultants,
faculty, instructors, IT specialists, librarians, library and information
sciences (LIS) students, managers, trainers and other professionals with
the latest information on trends currently developing among emerging
technologies as applied to student-centered and service-oriented
academic learning environments. This book explores various fields
where innovative emerging technologies may have great implications for
academic library information resources, services, teaching and other
relevant internal operations based on diverse information technology
architectures and managements.
Since the late 1990s, a great many studies have been made to describe
various emerging technologies in the fields of artificial intelligence,
bioscience, computer science, medical science, nanotechnology, network
technology, space science, telecommunications and so on. However, few
scholarly researches have ever been made to thoroughly explore
emerging technologies and their implications for academic libraries and
their distributed information infrastructures in the world.
To shed some light on currently developing trends in information
technologies at academic library settings, this book overviews evolving
emerging technologies applicable to academic library information
resources, services, and teaching programs. The book is intended to draw
a clear roadmap for all those professionals who have a strong interest in
emerging technologies and their impacts on academic library information
technology infrastructures and related applications, programs and services.
This book focuses on which evolving emerging technologies could impact
on ways of designing, developing, integrating and enhancing high-quality,
seamless, dynamic, mobile and interactive web-based academic library
information resources, services, and tutorials in the digital age.
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