[Irtalk] ScienceDirect.com - The Journal of Academic Librarianship - The Effect of Digital Publishing on Technical Services in University Libraries

[Hilton Gibson]

The past decade has brought enormous changes in scholarly communication,
leading many libraries to undertake large-scale digital publishing
initiatives. However, no study has investigated how technical services
departments are changing to support these new services. Using change
management as a theoretical framework, the investigator uses content
analysis, surveys, and interviews to analyze how libraries at the cutting
edge of library-based digital publishing are utilizing their technical
services departments to support these new initiatives and how these changes
are being handled. The findings indicate that while many technical services
departments are actively supporting library-based digital publishing to
some degree, many functions traditionally provided by technical services
are being handled by other units within the library. This leads to a
discussion of how these change processes will progress and their ultimate
effect on library structures and user services.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133312001449
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