Books, Bytes, and Bridges: Libraries and Computer Centers in Academic Institutions

Do your library and computing center clash or collaborate? Successful collaborations improve service to faculty, students, and researchers. Patrons and librarians alike will have access to a full range of technology. As library instruction blends with software training, you have new partners. Books, Bytes and Bridges: Libraries and Computer Centers in Academic Institutions explores the strategies and working models for developing and maintaining successful partnerships between the two groups critical to providing information access in academic institutions. Larry Hardesty has assembled a team of scholars to address such topic as: * the historical evolution, cultures and working relationships of computing centers and libraries; * models of collaboration and cooperation and organizational structures; * careful examination of viewpoints and perspectives from small, medium and university libraries with techniques/ strategies for improving relations; * case studies with a conceptual analysis; and * management models that utilize cross functional teams and minimize hierarchy.