Twenty-first Century Academic Media Center: Killer App or Chindogu?

Vallier, John

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Title

Twenty-first Century Academic Media Center: Killer App or Chindogu?

Author(s)

Vallier, John

Issue Date

2010

Keyword(s)

• Academic libraries
• Library media services

Abstract

What is the role of the academic media center in the twenty-first century research library? Will it be relevant or irrelevant? In this article the author attempts to answer these questions by first abstracting and summarizing recent reports from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Both reports offer guidance on how tomorrow’s research library can be best prepared to meet future challenges and opportunities. The author then uses themes generated from this review, along with his own experiences as a media librarian and archivist, to frame a discussion of how academic media centers around the nation are already actively engaged in imagining and transforming their institutions into the research library’s twenty-first century killer app. He ends by suggesting that research libraries look to media centers as models of how to be adaptive and innovative for twenty first century academic environment.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ISSN

0024-2594

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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