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An Environmental Analysis Corroborating Pda And The Winthrop Example, Antje Mays
An Environmental Analysis Corroborating Pda And The Winthrop Example, Antje Mays
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
Libraries seek active ways to innovate amidst macroeconomic shifts, growing online education to help alleviate ever-growing schedule conflicts as students juggle jobs and course schedules, as well as changing business models in publishing and evolving information technologies. Patron-driven acquisition (PDA), also known as demand-driven acquisition (DDA), offers numerous strengths in supporting university curricula in the context of these significant shifts. PDA is a business model centered on short-term loans and subsequent purchases of ebooks resulting directly from patrons' natural use stemming from their discovery of the ebooks in library catalogs where the ebooks' bibliographic records are loaded at regular intervals …
Using Technology To Increase Collaboration Between The Library, Teaching Faculty, And The Campus At Large, Antje Mays
Using Technology To Increase Collaboration Between The Library, Teaching Faculty, And The Campus At Large, Antje Mays
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
This article outlines many different ways of using technology to better link academic librarians and faculty, focusing particularly on how the appropriate use of technology in Acquisitions can improve the image of the library. The article presents a comprehensive overview of how technologies can be used to make Acquisitions not just a book purchasing department, but a department that works proactively to impress consituents, helping to make the library a central and prestigious part of the campus community. While the article's primary focus is on academic libraries, much of the discussion is also applicable to other types of libraries.
Winning The Accreditation Game: The Library As Key Player And Hidden Gold Mine, Antje Mays
Winning The Accreditation Game: The Library As Key Player And Hidden Gold Mine, Antje Mays
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
Libraries are a central hub of information resources supporting college and university curricula. Several library strategies, cross-campus collaborations, and philosophical considerations of electronic and print offerings led to successful accreditations in business and engineering programs.