Information Services for Higher Education: A New Competitive Space

Carol Ann Hughes     chughes@questia.com

D-Lib Magazine ( web site) 6 (12)
(ReLIS:doi:dlibma:y:2000:v:6:i:12:p:3)

Abstract:

In this paper I want to reflect on the "competitive space" that librarians now occupy and strategies that may offer the best chance to maintain services important to our user communities in the turbulent years ahead. The term "competitive space" is applied rather tentatively since it may be perceived as a mildly loaded term -- especially from someone who now works for a commercial firm. But for at least the last ten years of my professional life in academic libraries we have seen higher education recognize itself as an important economic sector for our country?s continued prosperity, and we have heard repeatedly that the new economy is based on knowledge. Life today in higher education is lived in "competitive space."

Volume: 6
Issue: 12

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