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The Shifting Nature Of Academic Library Collections, Doug Way
The Shifting Nature Of Academic Library Collections, Doug Way
Doug Way
Over the past decade technological advances and changes in the scholarly publishing environment have ushered in an era of unprecedented change for academic libraries. Financial pressures, the rise of online content, and the ability to easily share and distribute materials are driving libraries to reexamine many of their practices and priorities. This presentation will explore how libraries are moving from traditional models of collection develop toward a new future where the focus is on curating access to information and on supporting the production and dissemination of scholarly resources.
New Roles For Library Faculty Liaisons At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
New Roles For Library Faculty Liaisons At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Academic libraries of all sizes can and must strategically position themselves to capture, manage, and disseminate the digital scholarship of their respective institutions. Explore the new opportunities that these roles are providing for liaison librarians in their relationships with faculty and other members of the campus community at UMass Amherst.
Preface, Christine L. Borgman
A Modest Proposal For Scholarly Publishing: 21st Century Ideas For A 19th Century System, Shawn Martin
A Modest Proposal For Scholarly Publishing: 21st Century Ideas For A 19th Century System, Shawn Martin
Shawn Martin
In 1729 Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal which proposed (albeit sarcastically) that Irish peasants could solve their economic problems by selling their children to the rich. The point Swift was making, with an admittedly morbid sense of humor, was that Ireland was facing serious problems and that transformational change was needed. Similarly, the scholarly publishing and communication system is also in need of such changes in order to continue. To facilitate this change, it is important to re-frame how we think about scholarly publishing. Disseminating scholarship is no longer a matter of simply publishing work in a print monograph …