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Teaching the New Library: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Planning and Designing Instructional Programs : A How-To-Do-It Manual (How to Do It Manuals for Librarians)
Teaching the New Library A HowToDoIt Manual for Planning and Designing Instructional Programs A HowToDoIt Manual - How to Do It Manuals for Librarians Author:Michael Blake, Laura Farwell, Caroline Kent, Ed Tallent Experts involved with the Electronic Teaching Center for the Harvard College Libraries have developed this cutting-edge volume, which begins with the premise that the impact of computers in the past 30 years has been more profound than much of the library community has acknowledged. The authors call for rethinking even the most basic librar... more »y structures and icons, reinventing an instruction vocabulary, and trying to anticipate the change and development of the role of libraries in the future. Chapters include: What is "The New Library?"; New and Old Library Users; The User's Perspective; From Catalog to Collections Online: Radical Changes; Library Structures/Traditions Revisited; The Library Outside the Building; Remote Users; Tinker, Tailor, Itinerant Teacher; Where We're Headed; plus a glossary of terms.« less