Academic Library Centrality: User Success Through Service, Access, and Tradition, Publications in Librarianship no. 50

Deborah J. Grimes

$30.00 (ACRL members less 10%), 156p.
0-8389-7950-5, 1998

Libraries are at the heart of institutions of higher learning—or are they? This new volume in ACRL's Publications in Librarianship series examines this commonly accepted metaphor. Through an analysis of organizational theory and on the basis of interviews with a cohort of major leaders in higher education to learn what their expectations are for the role of the academic library, the author brings new insights into criteria for academic libraries to help users achieve success.