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E-Sources: Challenges For Librarians, Students, And Teachers, Betty Rozum, Kevin Brewer, Flora Shrode, Linda Wolcott Aug 2002

E-Sources: Challenges For Librarians, Students, And Teachers, Betty Rozum, Kevin Brewer, Flora Shrode, Linda Wolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Libraries face many challenges as electronic resources proliferate and become the expected means of accessing information. In a period of ten years, expectations of library users for desktop access to information has required dramatic shifts in the behind the scenes work performed at the library as well as the instruction provided to students. This presentation provides an overview of the issues.


The University Library As Information Provider And Communication Facilitator: A Faculty Research Database, Judiith R.J. Johnson, Anne Hedrich Jan 1995

The University Library As Information Provider And Communication Facilitator: A Faculty Research Database, Judiith R.J. Johnson, Anne Hedrich

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

The current "information explosion," coupled with rapid electronic developments and pervasive economic constraints, is forcing academic communities and their libraries to refine and rethink their policies and services in order to increase efficient dissemination of information. This requires close monitoring of and quicker response to the changing needs of their own user communities. This collaborative project addresses these issues by collecting and correlating information obtained directly from university faculty and research units, tracking elements such as research interests, projects, patents, funding sources, publications, and courses taught. Preliminary findings and the significance of providing wide electronic access to the results are …


Improving The Implementation Of A Research Tool: Methods To Increase Library Survey Response Rates, Judiith R.J. Johnson, Anne Hedrich Jan 1994

Improving The Implementation Of A Research Tool: Methods To Increase Library Survey Response Rates, Judiith R.J. Johnson, Anne Hedrich

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

In the winter of 1992 we began research into the implementation of a university-wide survey. This project grew out of discussion about ways Merrill Library could be more responsive through collection development to changing trends in course offerings and research emphases at Utah State University. It was felt that our collection development policies traditionally answered and were based upon teaching needs but might not address research-related needs adequately. This was in large part due to a lack of information about the evolution of research directions throughout the USU community. The problem was further exacerbated by the spiraling costs of journal …