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Planning For The Future Of The Book: Some Longer-Term Financial Considerations In The Managemnent Of Book Stock, Patrick G. Scott
Planning For The Future Of The Book: Some Longer-Term Financial Considerations In The Managemnent Of Book Stock, Patrick G. Scott
Faculty Publications
Contrasts library costs for short-term access to digital collections for a delimited group of library users with the traditional free access and loan of now-ageing and irreplaceable print collections, suggests that future access to major research collections of printed material may well be fee-based, and argues that libraries need to plan for the future of their book stock with the same imagination and financial realism that has been given to digital resources. Presented in Plenary Session 1: the Future of the Book, at the Charleston Conference on Issues in Book & Serial Acquisition, Nov. 6, 2003, and subsequently published in …
Review Of An Action Plan For Outcomes Assessment In Your Library, By Peter Hernon And Robert E. Dugan, Fred W. Jenkins
Review Of An Action Plan For Outcomes Assessment In Your Library, By Peter Hernon And Robert E. Dugan, Fred W. Jenkins
Roesch Library Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
What's Best For Students: Comparing The Effectiveness Of A Traditional Print Pathfinder And A Web-Based Research Tool, Trina J. Magi
What's Best For Students: Comparing The Effectiveness Of A Traditional Print Pathfinder And A Web-Based Research Tool, Trina J. Magi
University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This quantitative study compared a print pathfinder and a web-based research tool in library instruction for two sections of a first-year business course. The traditional print pathfinder received higher ratings on use, ease of use, and helpfulness, but both tools resulted in students citing a similar number of recommended sources.
Suppressing The Commons: Misconstrued Patriotism Vs. A Psychology Of Liberation, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook
Suppressing The Commons: Misconstrued Patriotism Vs. A Psychology Of Liberation, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook
School of Information Faculty Publications
In these affairs, no gun is needed. The victims do it all themselves. And the bullets never miss.--Bruce Jackson, CounterPunch , May 2003 Libraries play an important role in community building by supporting the public sphere to provide a commons environment that addresses the need for people to meet and interact with others. (1) Additionally, the library preserves historical and cultural memory and maintains resources for discourse and decision-making. However, since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the passage of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act, …
Libraries In The Cyberage, Part Iv, Mark Y. Herring
Libraries In The Cyberage, Part Iv, Mark Y. Herring
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
Is the book dead? Are libraries obsolete? Did the Internet murder both?
West Virginia Libraries 2003 Vol.56 No.3, Jennifer Soule
West Virginia Libraries 2003 Vol.56 No.3, Jennifer Soule
West Virginia Libraries Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Libraries In The Cyberage, Part Iii, Mark Y. Herring
Libraries In The Cyberage, Part Iii, Mark Y. Herring
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
The roots of librarianship have been sorely shaken by the Internet, but to what extent and how much remains to be seen.
Information Commons Issues And Trends: Voices From The Frontline, D. Russell Bailey
Information Commons Issues And Trends: Voices From The Frontline, D. Russell Bailey
Library Commons
Attendees at this ACRL panel were invited to increase their understanding of Information Commons (IC) concepts, models, planning, implementation and assessment. The event was a discussion panel with IC leaders regarding models that their libraries were developing, evolutionary processes their ICs have undergone, challenges and successes in the past years, and what the future holds.
Information Literacy For Music Librarians: Pre-Conference Workshop At Mla 2003, Monica Fazekas
Information Literacy For Music Librarians: Pre-Conference Workshop At Mla 2003, Monica Fazekas
Western Libraries Publications
No abstract provided.
The Future Of The Book: Does It Have One?, Mark Y. Herring
The Future Of The Book: Does It Have One?, Mark Y. Herring
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
While the book has been with us for two millennia, digital artifact threaten its permanence. Now we being to wonder if it has a future at all.
Global Changes In Scholarly Communication, Suzanne E. Thorin
Global Changes In Scholarly Communication, Suzanne E. Thorin
Libraries' and Librarians' Publications
For more than a decade, the cost of print and electronic journals, particularly in the sciences, has increased rapidly at the same time that the amount of research being reported via published articles has grown exponentially. With academic libraries being less and less able to purchase the journals needed for their communities, the use of the term scholarly communication has evolved to illustrate the breakdown of the process of traditional scholarly publication; that is, as a means to disseminate research results, the present system of scholarly communication can no longer meet the needs of the scholarly community at large.
When …
The Development Of The Niso Committee Ax's Openurl Standard, Arthur Hendricks
The Development Of The Niso Committee Ax's Openurl Standard, Arthur Hendricks
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Describes the development of the OpenURL standard and how it will impact librarians and information technologists. Scope and application of the OpenURL standard; Transportation of metadata and identifiers about referenced works and their context from any information resource to a local link server; Roles of libraries and librarians.
Statistically Challenged: The Need For An Electronic Resources Management Standard, Tyler Goldberg, Melissa Laning, Weiling Liu
Statistically Challenged: The Need For An Electronic Resources Management Standard, Tyler Goldberg, Melissa Laning, Weiling Liu
Faculty Scholarship
The authors review changes in the standards for measuring electronic resources through an examination of the 1990-2000 IPEDS Academic Library Survey forms. During that decade, academic libraries have moved from counting electronic resources by the number of bibliographic and physical units to measuring usage. Local attempts to capture electronic resource usage are described.
Review Of The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, And The Quest For Balance By Michael Gorman, W. Bede Mitchell
Review Of The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, And The Quest For Balance By Michael Gorman, W. Bede Mitchell
Library Faculty Publications
This review was published in College and Research Libraries.