The expert library provides an overview of the changing dynamics entailed in recruiting and retaining academic library professionals for the 21st century and contains fresh thinking and insights into what will be required to ensure continued library relevance and success through its people. The expert library provides an overview of the changing dynamics entailed in recruiting and retaining academic library professionals for the 21st century and contains fresh thinking and insights into what will be required to ensure continued library relevance and success through its people. Get this from a library the expert library staffing sustaining and advancing the academic library in the 21st century scott walter karen williams in the midst of a decade of extraordinary change in academic libraries change driven by information technology new approaches to teaching and learning new models for scholarly communication and . The expert library staffing sustaining and advancing the academic library in the 21st century edited by scott walter and karen williams chicago illinois association of college and research libraries 2010 373 pp 48 usd isbn 13 978 0 8389 8551 9. The expert library staffing sustaining and advancing the academic library in the 21st century 2010 scott walter depaul university karen williams university of minnesota twin cities abstract in the midst of a decade of extraordinary change in academic libraries change driven by information technology new approaches to teaching and learning new models for scholarly