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Digitizing And Hosting Streaming Media Directly From Libraries, Cyrus Ford Zarganj
Digitizing And Hosting Streaming Media Directly From Libraries, Cyrus Ford Zarganj
Library Faculty Presentations
The main objective of this poster is to show how libraries can provide an “online video library” to library users. Library users with a computer and an Internet connection can view videos through the library website. This poster also includes the technical aspects of making streaming videos available to library users.
Guidelines For Media Resources In Academic Libraries (2012), Mary S. Laskowski, Cyrus Ford Zarganj, Nancy E. Friedland, Jacqueline Fritz, Jim Holmes, Lora Lennertz Jetton, M. Claire Stewart, Joe M. Williams
Guidelines For Media Resources In Academic Libraries (2012), Mary S. Laskowski, Cyrus Ford Zarganj, Nancy E. Friedland, Jacqueline Fritz, Jim Holmes, Lora Lennertz Jetton, M. Claire Stewart, Joe M. Williams
Library Faculty Publications
Technology used in teaching, learning, and research has created new challenges and opportunities for managers of college and university library media resource collections and services.
Moving images, sounds, and still images have become increasingly important in teaching, learning and research, and academic librarians are working closely with other agencies on campus to support faculty and student information needs. In some institutions, librarians have become true partners in the delivery of instruction, working with faculty, technologists, and instructional developers to create “new learning communities.”
Most academic libraries collect media, and these materials are as vital and diverse as any print collection …
Tapping Technical Services For Ir Engagement, Marianne A. Buehler
Tapping Technical Services For Ir Engagement, Marianne A. Buehler
Library Faculty Presentations
Current Situation:
- Shrinking budgets
- Loss of/or shifted personnel
- Serial research databases -> majority of library purchases
- Changing technical services priorities and job descriptions:
- Fewer items to catalog
- Focus on processing repository-bound intellectual content
-Institutional repositories (IRs) are expanding
-Welcome staff with existing and useful skills
Map Displays And Exhibits, Katherine Rankin
Map Displays And Exhibits, Katherine Rankin
Library Faculty Publications
Many patrons do not even know libraries have map collections, let alone what kinds of maps are in them or how they could use those maps. Map displays and exhibits can help increase interest in map collections. Muriel Strickland wrote an article on casual map displays with the title "Map Displays: a Means of Promoting Map Use" in volume 17, number 3 of the WAML IB (June 1986). One of the purposes of my writing this article is to reprise some of the valuable information in Muriel's article; because it was published so long ago, many of the present WAmL …
Ebook Collection Analysis: Subject And Publisher Trends, J. Cory Tucker
Ebook Collection Analysis: Subject And Publisher Trends, J. Cory Tucker
Library Faculty Publications
Purpose – This paper aims to provide an assessment of an ebook collection in an academic library, and attempts to locate usage trends by subject and publisher.
Design/methodology/approach – The research was based on: three years of usage data from two e-book packages: NetLibrary and Ebrary; two methods of purchase: NetLibrary was a one-time purchase; Ebrary is purchased on a subscription basis. The research evaluated usage difference over time between the two packages and analyzed subject and publisher usage.
Findings – The research found that Ebrary showed increased usage over time; NetLibrary demonstrated decreased usage; subject analysis showed ebooks in …