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Principles And Practices For Library Outreach To First-Year Students, Jane Currie
Principles And Practices For Library Outreach To First-Year Students, Jane Currie
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Academic libraries recognize that outreach is best undertaken as soon as students arrive on campus for their first year. Librarians have designed creative methods for engaging incoming students with the resources and services provided by the campus library. Such outreach is increasingly important as prior experience using library resources and services among incoming first-year students decreases. This paper reviews the rationale for employing several methods of outreach to first-year students and provides examples of creative means for doing so implemented successfully at American colleges and universities. Hope College’s information literacy objectives and its library’s outreach programs, both as initially conceived …
The Information Commons Handbook (Review), Robert A. Seal
The Information Commons Handbook (Review), Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Once an innovative idea but now a standard feature of many academic libraries, the information commons has transformed library services across the country over the past decade. Although dozens of articles have appeared in the literature on various aspects and models of the information commons (IC), until now there has not been a thorough monograph devoted to the topic.
The Information Commons: New Pathways To Digital Resources And Knowledge Management, Robert A. Seal
The Information Commons: New Pathways To Digital Resources And Knowledge Management, Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No longer an innovation, the information commons has become a mainstream approach in U.S. academic libraries for providing convenient access to technology and online resources, the first step for many university students in their own knowledge management. From the very basic model of a well-equipped computer lab to more elaborate projects involving multiple campus departments, extensive digital resources, and spaces for knowledge creation, the information commons can facilitate the integration of the college and university library into the academic learning process. After a brief overview of the changing library environment, the paper provides a look at the various models and …
Interlibrary Loan: Integral Component Of Global Resource Sharing, Robert A. Seal
Interlibrary Loan: Integral Component Of Global Resource Sharing, Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Presentation from IFLA/SEFLIN International Summit on Library Cooperation in the Americas held in Miami, Florida, on April 19, 2002.
The Intangible Benefits Of International Resource Sharing, Robert A. Seal
The Intangible Benefits Of International Resource Sharing, Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Presentation from Second China/US Conference on Libraries in Flushing, NY, August 2001.
Reference 2001: A Director’S Admonitions, Robert A. Seal
Reference 2001: A Director’S Admonitions, Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Reflections on professional roles and responsibilities are explored, as well as the opportunities and challenges facing academic reference librarians. The information environment has been transformed by technology and the Web, and will continue its exponential change. What's coming? What endures? How will we thrive? Whatever approach we take, it is essential to remember that maintaining the status quo is not good enough to meet the changing needs and expectations of library clientele.
Erasing Boundaries: Global Resource Sharing In The 21st Century, Robert A. Seal
Erasing Boundaries: Global Resource Sharing In The 21st Century, Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Academic libraries have long been accustomed to participating in cooperative ventures with neighboring institutions as well as with those in other regions of their country. In large part, such activities have grown out of a desire to reduce or control costs, as well as to provide users with a broader base of materials for research, study, and teaching. Because not even a well-developed national library is able to fulfill all its users' needs all the time, today's university libraries must depend upon one another to fulfill those needs. For many decades, the resource sharing tradition has been particularly strong among …
Mexican And U.S. Library Relations, Robert A. Seal
Mexican And U.S. Library Relations, Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This paper examines recent library interactions involving the United States and Mexico, providing a review of the literature and commentary on current and potential future cooperative endeavors. However, due to space considerations and a dearth of literature describing early work, the focus is limited to the past 30 years, with only selected references to earlier activity. The potential impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), recent developments in telecommunications and computer technology, and a rising number of "grass roots" binational conferences and projects all make this a good time to review our relationship, librarywise, with our neighbors to …
The U.S.-Mexico Interlibrary Loan Project, Robert A. Seal
The U.S.-Mexico Interlibrary Loan Project, Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Initiated in the fall of 1989, the U.S.-Mexico Interlibrary Loan Project is a cooperative effort providing for the formal exchange of books, photocopies, and microforms between libraries in the Southwest United States and Mexico City. The 25 U.S. participants are all members of the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council and are primarily academic libraries. The Mexican collaborators include six libraries at private colleges and universities and the Benjamin Franklin Library of the United States Information Service. The University Library of the University of Texas at El Paso coordinates the program, the first of its kind between the United States and its neighbor …
Academic Branch Libraries, Robert A. Seal
Academic Branch Libraries, Robert A. Seal
University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Few issues in academic librarianship inspire as much controversy as the branch or departmental library. At the center of this controversy is the question of whether or not collections should be centralized in the main university library or located in part in separate branch libraries. Although vigorously debated since the beginning of this century, the centralization-decentralization dilemma became even more of an issue following World War II, when college and university enrollments and academic libraries began to grow at unprecedented rates and the pressure for adequate library services and collections increased. This particular issue has never been resolved completely, nor …