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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

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

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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, …

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.

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 Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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

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

Western Libraries Publications

No abstract provided.

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

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.

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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

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

Library Faculty Publications

This review was published in College and Research Libraries.