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Author Bolin, Mary K., author.

Title The 21st century academic library : global patterns of organization and discourse / Mary K. Bolin
Published Cambridge, MA : Chandos Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Chandos information professional series
Chandos information professional series.
Contents Front Cover; The 21st Century Academic Library; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Organizations and Institutions; Typology of Library Organizations; Types; Theoretical Framework; The Political Environment of Higher Education and Academic Libraries; The Library and the University; Historical Context; Problem Statement; Research Questions; Methodology; Data; Summary of Information on Each Region; South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh); Africa; Australia and New Zealand; United Kingdom and Ireland; North America; 2 Background
Introduction: Historical ContextEducation for Librarianship; The Global Environment of Higher Education and Academic Libraries; South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh; Africa; The United Kingdom and Ireland; Australia and New Zealand; 3 Academic Library Organization; Introduction; Bureaucracy; Academic Library as "Ideal Type"; The Collection-Based Library; Libraries and Technology; Public Services and Technical Services; Acquisitions; Cataloging; Access Services; Reference and Instruction; Special Collections; Systems; New Programs and Services
Organizational Strategies and Mechanisms of Institutionalization4 Literature Review; Introduction; Academic Library Organization, Administration, and Planning; Education for Librarianship and Librarianship as a Profession; Academic Library Genres; Global Academic Libraries; Comparative Education and Its Application; Comparative Librarianship; Discourse Analysis; Genre and Register; Social Theory, Social Semiotics, and CDA; Organizational Communication; Discourse Analysis of Written Texts; Library and University Discourse and Texts; Discourse Communities and Speech Communities
Discourses of LibrarianshipInstitutionalism; 5 Data, Results, and Discussion; Introduction; Frequencies; Africa; South Asia; United Kingdom and Ireland; Australia and New Zealand; North America; All Regions; Analysis of Types Using Examples; Example 1: US Library, Type 1; Example 2: Pakistan Library, Type 1; Example 3: Australian Library, Type 2; Example 4: Australian Library, Type 2; Example 5: US Library, Type 3; Example 6: US Library, Type 3; Example 7: United Kingdom Library, Type 4; Example 8: Australian Library, Type 4; Genre and Register Analysis; FTM/GR Discourse Analysis Instrument
Text: Library Organizational ChartField; Semantic Domains (General Subject Categories); Transitivity: Process, Semantic and Grammatical Roles, and Circumstance Process; Semantic and Grammatical Roles; Circumstance; Tenor; Author; Audience; Relative Status, Social Distance, Personalization, Speech Functions, and Standing; Standing (Author's Knowledge and Authority); Stance (Attitude, Agency, and Modality); Mode; Textual Meaning; Spoken/Written; Action/Reflection and Interactivity; Schema; Patterning; Thematic Organization (Macrotheme); Cohesion (Lexical, Logical); Cohesion (Lexical)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-152) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ScienceDirect, viewed September 8, 2017)
Subject Academic libraries.
academic libraries (institutions)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries.
Academic libraries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780081018675
0081018673
0081018665
9780081018668