SA 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Library Trends, Radical Change, Local Economic Development

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 358
• Professor: Teeple Gary

Document Summary

(29) autonomy- challenged to maintain management autonomy and control essential academic decision making. Challenged to attract best professor and students in completive global academic marketplace. The pressures towards the privatization of the public universities because of reduce public funding. Research universities are central institutions in any knowledge and technology-intensive society and because they are the key to a world-class higher education system. H. (cid:862)the rise a(cid:374)d fall of the ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al li(cid:271)rar(cid:455). (cid:863) Argument of the article is that the uncertainty for the future of the public library as a place which (cid:272)hara(cid:272)terized the (cid:1005)99(cid:1004)"s today is replaced by a new belief in the importance of the physical library. The belief is not only strong among librarians but also among scholars, politicians and city- planners. Looks at new trends in library development and an essential challenge when new libraries are being planned or built.