Developing an Approach and Methodology for the Continued Progress of Library Studies and Information Management

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Copyright: 2014
Pages: 21
Source title: Information Technology and Collection Management for Library User Environments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Joseph Walker (IT Consultant, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4739-8.ch002

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Library Information Systems / Library Science

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Libraries and related information institutions cannot afford to rest on their laurels. The primary objective is not to fail, but to adapt and overcome the challenges that face all of our institutions today—adapt our institutions, adapt our profession, adapt our tools, and services; all of them must be considered in the end. The library user environment and information management, leveraging and developing them to support superior patron services, becomes the primary focus of information expertise and is what the library professional must evolve into in order to remain relevant and thrive in the Information Age. With information expertise as an engine, the library field can guide the development of new technologies providing information services. But only a developed and utilitarian system can bring about technology when applied by skilled and intuitive professionals. Such technology, understood as a practical process or tool for use in the everyday world by overcoming the rigors of real life, is established by the testing, observation, and documentation of accurate data for adaption of working theory to those of real-time results and efficient production/reproduction of the finished product for purposes of a general application—the introduced NITA Methodology as a key pillar of information expertise is this system. Surveyed in this chapter are the developments in approach and methodologies needed if the library field is to thrive into the future.

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