Innovating in Libraries, Volume 2 - by Blessing Chiparausha & Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita & Madeleine Fombad Hardcover

About the Book

This collection explores how academic libraries can harness emerging technologies, integrate 4IR-driven solutions, and support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on education, industry innovation, and reducing inequality.

Book Synopsis

The world is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by the transformative forces of the Integrated Industrial revolution (4^th-5^th Industrial Revolutions)--a new era where data, connectivity, and human-machine interaction define progress. For libraries, this revolution presents both challenges and opportunities, demanding innovation in services, technologies, and strategies.

Both Volume 1 and 2 of Innovating in Libraries explore how academic libraries can harness emerging technologies, integrate Human-Tech synergistic and reciprocal solutions, and support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on education, industry innovation, and reducing inequality. Contributions from leading experts and practitioners--many drawn from across the globe and selections from the Zimbabwe University Library Consortium's 5th Biennial International Conference--offer global insights into spatial design for digital libraries, platform capitalism, open science, ethics, change management, and more.

With an international perspective and forward-thinking approach, Innovating in Libraries is essential for library professionals, educators, and policymakers navigating the future of information access in an era of rapid change.

Review Quotes

The global librarianship community will benefit from the topics covered in the book as they directly impact them. Likewise, the main topic of book addresses general society, as it covers issues linked with social dynamic. The set of topics studied are meaningfully, providing theoretical and practical elements about each topic. The outputs are terrific, touching on trending topics around the world for which solutions are required. Chapters provide several methods, measuring the quantitative impact, along with the qualitative impact, measured by reproducibility of the studies and outputs across implementation of methods and results obtained to benefit society.

About the Author

Blessing Chiparausha is the Library Director at Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe.

Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), South Africa.

Madeleine Fombad is a Professor in the Department of Information Science at The University of South Africa (UNISA).