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Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing To Support Performance Measurement In Estonian University Libraries: A Case Study For Acquisition Process, Kate-Riin Kont

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Libraries today are included in the general demand for cost transparency and effective cost management. In the current socio-economic situation, it is challenging to cope with the same or reduced resources in managing the same processes and activities, so that the quality of the result would not be affected. The need of library managers to justify their costs to their parent organizations has become particularly important, perhaps even more important than ever in the history. With the data they have traditionally collected, libraries can assess details about the costs of collection building; what they need now are reliable data about …

Integrated Communication - And Service-Infrastructure For Libraries, Christoph Mitscherling

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In terms of research support, Technische Universität München (TUM) University Library strikes out in new directions. The eRIC (eResearch – Communication and Infrastructure) initiative aims to develop an integrated communication and data management infrastructure for accompanying the complete life cycle of scientific knowledge generation and transfer.

eRIC attaches particular importance to the analysis and development of models and tools for communication between researchers and libraries, both among eRIC project partners and within research teams. In cooperation with an international team of scientists and library staff, we will develop suitable communication and decision-making structures, establish a research accompanying consultation infrastructure as …

To Get Or Not To Get The Kaust Library E-Resources Acquisition Experience, Rindra M. Ramli, Ola A. Kabli

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In the challenging times of budget cuts and reviews, libraries are faced with issues such as justifying acquisition, negotiating deals and reviewing current subscriptions (pertaining to electronic resources) among others. With the rapid growth of electronic resources, libraries have to continuously assess their acquisition models and policies to constantly ensure that they are balancing their budget and users’ needs as well. This paper highlights the role played by Technical and Digital Services (TADS) section of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) library (Saudi Arabia) in acquiring the electronic resources (electronic books, electronic journals, databases, image and reference) for …

Examining The Connection Between Classroom Technology And Student Engagement, R.C. Morris, Loran Carleton Parker

IMPACT Publications

Technological pedagogy is being relied upon more-and-more as a way to address the growing needs of higher education. This study investigated the use of a tool designed with the specific purpose of student engagement in a large classroom. The tool allows students to post to a community based discussion in a manner similar to a Twitter feed. Despite engaging in a community dialogue, findings suggest that as usage of the technology went up a student’s sense of community learning went down. This result prompted the authors to consider how this tool was utilized in the classroom. We close with a …

From Your Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Publisher Profile: Oclc

Against the Grain

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Random Ramblings: "You Can't Always Get What You Want": When Academic Libraries Say No, Bob Holley

Against the Grain

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Curating Collective Collections: Shared Print Mou's: Thoughts On Future Coordination, Sam Demas

Against the Grain

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Blurring Lines: Learning Belongs In The Library: Three Reasns This Must Eventually Be So, David Parker

Against the Grain

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Oregon Trails: Literary Snob, Thomas Leonhardt

Against the Grain

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Questions And Answers: Copyright Column, Laura Gasaway

Against the Grain

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Decoder Ring: A Funny Thing Happened When Amazon Bought The Forum, Jerry Spiller

Against the Grain

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Full Page Ads

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From The Reference Desk: Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

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Redrawing The Line: Challenging The Publisher-Library Relationship, Jane Harvell, Joanna Ball

Against the Grain

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Hunters And Gatherers: The Future Of Search, Andrea Fallas

Against the Grain

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Analyze This: Usage And Your Collection, Elisabeth Leonard, Kathleen Mcevoy

Against the Grain

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Letter To Editor Indiana Magazine Of History, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Letter responding to comparison of Guantanamo bay terrorist detainees with the noted Indiana Civil War case of Lambdin Milligan, ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, who was detained by Union military authorities during the Civil War for his pro-confederate activities and tried by a military court.

Literary Adaptations Of James In Roth's, Ozick's, And Franzen's Work, John Carlos Rowe

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Literary Adaptations of James in Roth's, Ozick's, and Franzen's Work" John Carlos Rowe posits that Henry James continues to exert a powerful influence on contemporary writers. Given the dramatic social, economic, and political changes from modern to postmodern eras, his continuing influence requires explanation. Rowe considers three US-American novelists—Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and Jonathan Franzen—who are influenced by James and presents an interpretation of James's continuing impact. Despite James's reputation as a cosmopolitan modern who influenced global literature in significant ways, US-American writers attempt to "Americanize" him. Their effort expresses the problem of contemporary US-American literary practice …

Roth's Graveyards, Narrative Desire, And "Professional Competition With Death", Debra Shostak

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Roth's Graveyards, Narrative Desire, and 'Professional Competition with Death'" Debra Shostak analyzes Philip Roth's 1954 short story "The Day It Snowed" and surveys a range of his books. Shostak offers a reading of Sabbath's Theater and Everyman to explore Roth's fictional forms and his conception of storytelling, elucidates how the traumatic knowledge of death at graveside initiates the psychoanalytic process of repression, repetition, remembering, and telling, and uncovers several motifs or formal strategies that appear when Roth deploys cemetery scenes: the linear plotting toward death is often embraced within circular narrative structures; the voice of the mother, …

Marketing Academic Libraries: Marketing, Mission, And Administration, Matthew Ismail

Against the Grain

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And They Were There: Reports Of Meetings, Sever Bordeianu

Against the Grain

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Jewish History, Us-American Fictions, And "Soul-Battering" In Roth's "Conversion Of The Jews", Sandor Goodhart

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Jewish History, US-American Fictions, and 'Soul-Battering' in Roth's 'Conversion of the Jews'" Sandor Goodhart discusses Philip Roth's story in which an innocent question raised in a Hebrew school discussion in the early 1950s gets wildly out of control. It leads the student into a screaming fight with his Rabbi, which propels the child into a confrontation with his mother, which in turn leads to a second violent confrontation with the Rabbi (who ends up slapping the child), and the episode culminates in a rooftop exchange over the synagogue where the boy’s thought of escape is suddenly converted …

Pelikan's Antidisambiguation: Smart Things, Michael P. Pelikan

Against the Grain

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Atg Luminaries: Ane Carriveau, Galadriel Chilton, Rolf Janke, And Elizabeth Lightfoot

Against the Grain

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Library Marketplace: Against The Grain And The Charleston Conference Free Digital Versions On Purdue E-Pubs, John Riley

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The Scholarly Publishing Scene: On The Road In The 1970'S, Looking For Authors, Myer Kutz

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Changing Library Operations: Consortial Demand-Driven Ebooks At The University Of California, Allen Mckiel, Jim Dooley

Against the Grain

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Biz Of Acq-Beyond The Materials Budget: Managing Endowment And Transferred Funds, Kristin Rogers, Christina Torbert, Michelle Flinchbaugh

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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