Tim Wales (2012) Library Technologies for Boutique Services In: Personalising Library Services in Higher Education: The Boutique Approach. , , pp. 63-86.
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In this chapter I examine the latest Library technologies at the time of writing (Summer 2011) and test them against the central tenets of the boutique library concept to see if they compliment or contradict each other. I draw on two specific practical case studies from my own experience at my former employer, Royal Holloway, University of London Library Services (RHULLS), and also illustrate how easy it is now to set-up a boutique Library service from scratch thanks to web technologies. My focus is very much on practical and pragmatic practitioner experience with the odd discussion on the future of technology included, in the hope that this book delivers both immediate value and insight to the reader and a record of the current thinking about UK academic library systems.
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The author writes in a personal capacity but would like to acknowledge the work of Royal Holloway, University of London Library Services staff for providing source material for this chapter: Anna Grigson for Case Study 1 and Peter Kiely and Graham Seaman for their work on discovery systems described in Case Study 2.