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Harnessing Open Internet Media Resources, Dorothea J. Coiffe

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Academic librarians support the efforts of teaching and learning at our institutions. Media librarians select and acquire media that support and enhance an instructors’ mission to accomplish their goals. Though the use of moving images for pedagogy is not new, wading through the myriad of online moving image websites is a daunting task. This paper will explore how one altruistic institution and a hard working librarian produced a shareable global open resource of a moving image/hypermedia hub. This community college media librarian’s hypermedia resource of moving image websites, which uses SpringShare’s Content Management System (CMS) as a platform, has continued …

Open Versus Closed: Private Versus Public - A Library And Research Perspective, Tom Cochrane

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This keynote presentation starts with a consideration of the privacy and security obligations of libraries in their universities and moves on to an assessment of choices to be made in the policy and practice of optimising access. It proposes a view of a “threaded” principle underlying professional responses to censorship, to the invasion of the privacy of users, and on to interacting with the open agendas that have developed in the digital age. These agendas include open source, open content licensing, open access and open data. It reviews how these agendas mesh with rapid changes in the techniques and capabilities …

Information Security, Mikko H. Hyppönen

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The online threat landscape does not stand still. One of the best ways to understand the threats is to understand the attackers and their motives. Who are the attackers? What makes them tic? Where are they going? And what's going to happen next?

The Stick Or The Carrot? An Approach To Open Access, Randi Tyse Eriksen, Jorunn Alstad

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In Norway, as internationally, Open Access (OA) policy states that officially funded research should be open to the public. This paper touches upon the EU’s new OA-initiative (Horizon 2020) before giving a short description of the guidelines from the Norwegian Government and the National Research Council of Norway, as well as NTNU’s and other Norwegian Universities’ OA policies. Through the Norwegian CRIStin database, which was established in 2010, Norway has a national system for registration of academic publishing. Reporting these and other data concerning academic activities to the government partially dictates funding. Together with institutional archives for realizing green OA …

Library Learning Spaces In The Digital Age, Anne Horn, Bernadette Lingham, Sue Owen

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Students describe the Library as being central to their learning, offering focus and inspiration, enabling access to information and technologies, and collaboration with peers. Deakin University Library’s building redevelopment program has been integral to the Library’s re-imagined value proposition for students learning in the digital age. The introduction of new generation library and learning spaces strengthens the University’s offer to students for a brilliant education where you are and where you want to go through premium cloud and located learning experiences that are personal, engaging and relevant.

The Library’s building projects are distinctive in terms of location and the built …

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

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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

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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

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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 …

Future Tense: Technology Trends Affecting Libraries, Jay Jordan

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Hubs And Centers As Transitional Change Strategy For Library Collaboration, Julie Speer, Brian Mathews, Tyler Walters

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Libraries of science and technology universities worldwide are adapting to a changing environment where cyberinfrastructure, eResearch, and new technology-intensive approaches to teaching and learning are transforming the very nature of universities. While many have adopted new technologies and the resources and expertise to manage them, this is only an initial step. Libraries are experimenting with organizational models that will transform their work capacity and expertise. The goal of these libraries is being an entity that feeds and produces collaborative synergies between faculty, students, information professionals, and technologists. Virginia Tech, among the top research universities in the United States, and its …

Meeting The Users’ Needs In The Access To Information: Effective Collaboration For Developing And Delivering New User-Centered Information Services, Ilona Trtíková, Lenka Němečková, Marta Machytková

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University library needs to learn how to work with new models of scholarly communication and react on new challenges in the global knowledge environment within and outside the university community. This paper introduces electronic tools and services based upon a close cooperation and intensive feedback from the researchers and teachers, which have been introduced by the library for the enhancement of the electronic information resources use and for building a digital space for communicating information.

Based on the idea of alerting services and using simple and generally easy-to-setup RSS technology, the Central Library of the Czech Technical University in Prague …

Transliteracy At A Technical University – An Institution-Wide Collaboration In Practice, Caroline Leiss

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Information literacy has been strongly challenged by fundamental and continuing changes in the digital age and in the way students and researchers learn and work. New media types, collective data storage and information sharing made it necessary to extend information literacy from the capability to search and obtain information to producing, storing, and sharing it – involving fundamental technical skills and an understanding of the digital world.

Transliteracy – along with other terms such as digital literacy, 21century skills, and media literacy – aims at conceptualizing these new trends. At the same time transliteracy even in its most elaborate sense …

Creation Of A Digital African Archive Through Collaboration, Pierre Malan

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Sabinet facilitates collaboration between various role players in the African region in an effort to create the most comprehensive collection of African research content in the world. By collaborating with publishers, libraries and faculty at institutions, Sabinet is bringing together full-text content published in journals and institutional repositories, on a single and easily accessible platform.

The initiative was started in 1998 with a project to collect and make available African journal content online. The aim was, for the first time, to create a central full-text collection of journal content containing important African research across a number of fields, including medical, …

Library-Faculty-Vendor Partnership To Create Stem Digital Learning Activities, Dianna Magnoni, Jackie Laplaca Ricords

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Olin College of Engineering’s Library staff set a 2013 academic year goal to transform their instructional program. Grounded in ACRL standards and ABET accreditation criteria, the program would become workshop-based, combining classroom experiences with digital exercises and tools.

Library Director Magnoni began work with a materials science faculty member to design a research rubric for the digital exercise. Following a brainstorming session, a broad outline was created. Magnoni turned the outline into a diagram, and then created the initial exercise as well as a set of research tips for use with the course subject guide. Both the faculty member and …

Collaborating To Develop Research Data Management Services And Collections, Martin Borchert, Stephanie Bradbury, Philippa Broadley

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The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Library, like many other academic and research institution libraries in Australia, has been collaborating with a range of academic and service provider partners to develop a range of research data management services and collections. Three main strategies are being employed and an overview of process, infrastructure, usage and benefits is provided of each of these service aspects.

The development of processes and infrastructure to facilitate the strategic identification and management of QUT developed datasets has been a major focus. A number of Australian National Data Service (ANDS) sponsored projects - including Seeding the Commons; …

Bagan Mural Project – Building A Robust Digital Library On Wordpress, Chia Yew Boon, Ng Kiak Peng

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With the advent of powerful computing devices, ubiquitous connectivity and affordable gadgets, a large amount of research data is produced every day. In the Bagan Mural project, a history professor had taken many photographs of the mural paintings in the temples of Bagan in the course of her field trips. These photographs are simply stored in her computer folders and are therefore not easily searchable or shareable. Ideally, these photographs should be made available online and come with descriptions to provide users with a perspective on the meaning behind the murals. Over one year, NTU librarians collaborated with the professor …

Assisting Students With Disabilities: A Partnership Between The Disability Unit Of The Cape Peninsula University Of Technology And Its Libraries, Petro Coreejes-Brink, Nina Du Toit

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This presentation focuses on attempts at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) to develop a meaningful partnership between the five libraries and the Disability Unit, in order to reconstruct and enrich the academic experience of students with disabilities. CPUT hosts a variety of students from different countries, cultures, economic and social backgrounds, including a number of students with disabilities. In the past, students with disabilities could often not participate fully in academic and student life, due to a context of discrimination, inequity and even inhumanity. They experienced a sense of exclusion, and had the perception that they were not …

The Human Sciences Research Council’S Virtual Library As An Information Hub Which Ultimately Drives The Creation Of New Knowledge., Mark Douglas Frier

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One of South Africa’s premier research councils, the HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council) has been actively engaging with its researchers in a virtual space for more than a decade. The nature of the HSRC’s research business model has dictated a footprint which acts as research hubs across South Africa and involving Southern Africa as well. These research hubs are a fundamental inclusion in the virtual space, which is the HSRC’s Virtual Library. Essentially, the HSRC has dedicated research professionals in most of the major city centres in South Africa, namely Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Port Elizabeth. It is …

Doing It Together For Cost Effective Access To Scholarly Information: A South African Perspective, Yvonne Halland

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The South African National Library and information Consortium (SANLiC) is a consortium of 30 public universities and government supported research councils.

It was established in 1999 with envisaged outcomes of substantially increasing the quantity, quality and depth of research literature available to the entire South African academic and research community on an equitable basis and to foster innovation, increase research output and support the competitiveness of the South African science and technology research community.

This paper will give an overview of SANLiC’s history, growth, achievements and current products and services to its members.

Student And Library Services In Cooperation, Eva Nordgren, Linda Gerén

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At Ångström Laboratory, one of the largest campuses at Uppsala University, the Library and the Student Services Office merged in November 2012. This merger is a pilot project to improve service for students and faculty. Ångström Laboratory has around 900 staff and almost 10,000 students, of whom most also spend time at other campuses. In this paper we describe the background and the implementation of the pilot project.

One of the main reasons for moving together was the wish to gather together all kinds of student services, including the distribution of written examinations in one place. The central location and …

The Design Of An Alternate Reality Game As Capstone Course In A Multimedia Post-Graduate Degree, Koos De Beer, Marlene Holmner

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The Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria offers a unique undergraduate and post graduate programme in Multimedia which focuses on aspects of IT that require both creativity and logical thinking. These skills enable students to build and design multimedia products, thus consolidating technology and visual design. One of the Honours (fourth year) programme modules requires the students to consolidate and use all knowledge and skills obtained in the three year degree to successfully design and implement an Alternate Reality Game (ARG).

An ARG is a game that uses interactive fiction, integrated with reality, as its narrative and context. The …

The Embedded Library: A Marriage Made In Heaven Or In Hell?, Glenda Myers, Trish Warner

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This case study covers a number of areas in which a 90 year old medical library has been able to redefine purpose and services, and considers both the positive as well as the negative aspects of the embedded relationship.

According to the Shumaker assessment of readiness for embeddedness, the Witwatersrand Health Sciences Library (WHSL) and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand were more than ready to embrace a partnership by 2010. A survey indicated that a high proportion (93.5%) of academic staff felt that evidence-based information literacy (IL) should be included in the formal medical …

A Collaborative Partnership: Libraries And Careers Services, Cyrill Walters, D Casey

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Globally, universities are rethinking traditional models of service delivery to better serve the new generation of students entering our campuses.

Academic libraries are evolving from their traditional passive role as information repositories to proactive participants in the academic enterprise. However, student support divisions, in this case, UCT Careers Service, are often overlooked as areas in need of library liaison and possible collaboration.

Historically there had been no relationship between UCT Libraries and the Careers Service; neither informal nor infrequent interaction occurred. A new Director was appointed to the UCT Careers Service in 2011. Faced with the task of aligning service …

Towards A Holistic Analysis Tool To Support Decision-Making In Libraries, Lorena Siguenza-Guzman, Ludo Holans, Alexandra Van Den Abbeele, Joos Vandewalle, Henri Verhaaren, Dirk Cattrysse

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Academic libraries have recently been subjected to continuous budget reductions, mainly due to the increasing costs of information and the global economic crisis. As the primary purpose of an academic library is to provide well-balanced collections and a wide range of services to support education and research, an efficient use and allocation of limited resources is vital. However, allocating resources such as money, staff, time, and infrastructure between the library collection and services represents a challenge due to the multitude of data sources required to consult during a decision-making process.

Academic libraries are accustomed to keeping voluminous statistics on their …

From Cornerstone To Capstone: Information Literacy Collaboration Across The Curriculum, Fiona Salisbury, Jenny Corbin, Tai Peseta

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Librarians and academics alike are passionate about how students engage with scholarly information. We want students to build on their existing information literacy skills when they commence university and to graduate with the information skills needed for lifelong learning in their chosen profession and society at large. Collaboration between librarians and academics to embed information literacy into curriculum design is a key strategy for developing students’ information skills. But what impact does our collaborative effort have on student learning outcomes and long-term information seeking behaviour? Are our graduates information literate and ready for a complex information society?

At Latrobe University …

Strategies For Gaining And Maintaining Academic Support For The Institutional Open Access Repository, Martin Borchert, Paula Callan

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The impact of research can be measured by use or citation count. The more widely available that research outputs are; the more likely they are to be used, and the higher the impact. Making the author-manuscript version of research outputs freely available via the institutional repository greatly increases the availability of research outputs and can increase the impact.

QUT ePrints, the open access institutional repository of research outputs at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, was established in 2003 and is managed by the QUT Library. The repository now contains over 39,000 records. More than 21,000 of these records have …

Getting In Bed With Our Customers: How Did We Embed Our Services To Push The Library Mission At Vaal University Of Technology, Ntombizodwa G. Thomas

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Emerging trends in technology have changed the academic libraries’ landscape and services. These changes will forever impact and influence how libraries conduct their businesses to satisfy the most important people in their lives; that is; the customers we serve, especially in academic libraries.

In the 21^st century waiting for customers to come to the libraries to is no longer working and is also no longer relevant. Getting out of our comfort zones, getting close to our clients, invading their space when they least expect and getting in bed with those customers to satisfy their information needs is now a …

Library As A Coordinator Of University Open Access Initiatives:, Lenka Němečková, Vera Pilecka, Helena Kovarikova

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Service Career System A New Approach To Manage Competencies In An Academic Library, Irma Pasanen, Mari Svahn, Eva Tolonen

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The Impact Of Cloud Computing On The Future Of Academic Library Practices And Services, Judith Mavodza

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