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Moving The Marc: Transitioning Workflows To Target Digital Resources, Susan A. Massey

Susan A. Massey

Envisioning And Integrating New Cataloging Workflows, Susan A. Massey

Susan A. Massey

This presentation describes the Cataloging department reorganization in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida.

Surviving The Great Ts Restructure, Susan A. Massey

Susan A. Massey

This presentation describes the reorganization of the Technical Services department in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida.

Erm Maintenance: Mapping, Maximizing And Marketing Multiple User Access Methods, Susan A. Massey

Susan A. Massey

The proliferation of discovery layers to access library materials poses challenges for electronic resource record loading, maintenance, display, and marketing of multiple user portals. Centralized discovery systems promise to reduce data silos but may complicate electronic resource management activities and mask the importance of the library as a data provider. Electronic resource maintenance must include cross-departmental cooperation for tracking statistics, making purchased titles available to the user, updating subscription changes, verifying metadata display and access in multiple user interfaces, storing metadata files for potential future system migrations, deduplication of processes, and crosswalks between discovery layers. This presentation uses the University …

Recommendations To Improve Cataloging Efficiencies At The Thomas G. Carpenter Library, Susan A. Massey

Susan A. Massey

This report examines current workflow assignments and proposes a full department reorganization to achieve new efficiencies and repurpose positions for the electronic and digital future. The workflow change recommendations are designed to improve library service and relevance by decreasing dock to shelf time for physical materials and improving user access to unique digitized materials and electronic resources.

Reinventing Libraries For Next Generation Of Library Users, La Loria Konata

La Loria Konata

Libraries have reinvented themselves to remain relevant in the 21st Century. During the early 1990s voters pushed towards “reinventing government.” Like governments in the 1990s, libraries are operating in a new environment and community that forces them to advocate their own relevancy against competitors and attract millennials as the next generation of library users. This paper examines how libraries are “reinventing” themselves and discusses key business management principles libraries must adopt to compete in a more diverse and abundant information environment.

Quality Assurance In Subject Librarian Services And Library Management, Emmanuel Kunle Ogunlana, Oyintola Isiak Amusa

EMMANUEL KUNLE OGUNLANA

The quality of subject librarian services is crucial to academic library survival; as such subject librarian that desire continued relevance within academic institutions must ensure that their activities and services are in tandem with the philosophy and objectives of the curricular of their respective institutions.

Transforming Academic Libraries For 21st Century Students: Umass Amherst Libraries -- A Case Study, Gerald Jay Schafer

Gerald J. Schafer

This presentation was given at the 15th International Seminar CASLIN 2008: Knowledge Technologies and (the Future of) Higher Education.

Effective Library And Information Services Sustainability And The Impact Of Information And Communication Technology, Emmanuel Kunle Ogunlana, Oyintola Isiak Amusa

EMMANUEL KUNLE OGUNLANA

With the incorporation of information and communication technologies and more open models, the library has the potential of becoming more involved at all stages, and in all contexts, of knowledge creation, dissemination, and use. This paper looks at the impact and challenges of ICT on library and Information Services. Various library services were highlighted, especially those services that ICT have great impact upon. The paper proffers recommendations and concludes that ICT is cost effective and can improve library services and ensure sustainability

Introducing Learning Commons Functionality Into A Traditional Reference Setting, Jeffrey A. Franks

Jeffrey A Franks

Learning Commons Concept, Jeffrey A. Franks

Jeffrey A Franks