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iSchool Faculty Bertot and Jaeger Co-Editors of New Book
College Park, MD (December 6, 2010)—Two University of Maryland iSchool faculty members, Professor John Carlo Bertot and Assistant Professor Paul T. Jaeger, along with long-time collaborator Charles R. McClure of Florida State University, are co-editors of a new volume of essays on the role of the Internet and related technologies on public libraries. Public Libraries and the Internet: Roles, Perspectives, and Implications is available from Libraries Unlimited, a division of ABC CLIO publishers.
In this new book, 16 wide-ranging essays by a range of leading scholars and administrators, including several iSchool faculty, students and alumni, examines the ways in which the Internet has changed roles, services and expectations of public libraries. Using the lens of pressing issues in public librarianship such as library funding, technology infrastructure, public policy, e-government, emergency preparedness and diverse service populations, this volume offers perspectives on these changes, as well as possibilities for the future and opportunities for public libraries to meet new challenges.
This work is the culmination of research began in 1994 and continues today through the University of Maryland iSchool’s Center for Library and Information Innovation (CLII), where Bertot serves as Director and Jaeger is the Associate Director.
For more information about the book, see: www.abc-clio.com .
For more information about the CLII research on public libraries and the Internet, see: www.clii.umd.edu .
Mary Carroll-Mason
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