Chapter 17 Instructor Supplement:
Accessing Information Anywhere and Anytime: Access Services
By Michael J. Krasulski
By Michael J. Krasulski
After completing this chapter, readers should have a better understanding of:
Understand circulation, resource management, resource sharing, course reserves, and related functions that are most common within information organizations.
Recognize what is important for leading and assessing access services.
Downloadable PowerPoint presentation and PowerPoint notes for course instruction. These files are only accessible to instructors who have adopted Information Services Today: An Introduction (3rd ed) for their course. To request access, please click on the images below or email Sandy Hirsh.
The following questions are included in the textbook
What are the advantages and disadvantages to using remote storage facilities or AS/RS technology? Do the benefits outweigh the loss of serendipitous browsing in the book stacks? Why or why not?
What skills are necessary to lead an access services unit? How are these skills developed? What role can LIS education play in forming access services leaders?
Additional discussion questions provided by author
In what ways can access services contribute to the success of the information organization and how can these contributions be measured?
The following documents are formatted to share with students as handouts.
The following chapters are referenced in Chapter 17 and may assist in expanding your classroom instruction and discussions.
Chapter 9: Learning and Research Institutions: Academic Libraries
Chapter 14: Metadata, Cataloging, Linked Data, and the Evolving ILS
Chapter 15: Curation and Preservation
Chapter 16: User Experience
Chapter 24: Managing Budgets
Chapter 25: Managing Human Resources
Chapter 26: Innovative Library and Information Services: The Design Thinking Process
Chapter 27: Managing Collections
Chapter 28: Managing Technology
Chapter 29: Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization
Chapter 31: Advocacy
Chapter 34: Copyright and Creative Commons
Chapter 37: Information Privacy and Cybersecurity
Chapter 38: Intellectual Freedom
Chapter 40: Leadership Skills for Today’s Information Landscape