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Mollie Dollinger; Fiona Salisbury; Kate Davis – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
Student partnership, a growing phenomenon in higher education, has transformed the way universities collaborate with students. Yet, to date, the academic library has rarely been examined as a place for student and staff partnerships to thrive. In this article, we present findings from a national students as partners benchmarking survey conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Libraries, Librarians, Library Personnel
Antonia Mocatta; Ryan Stoker; Lisa McIntosh – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
This paper examines the University of Sydney Library's development and piloting of a methodology to survey its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural collections, to enhance catalogue metadata and allow culturally sensitive material to be identified and protected. The research falls broadly within the interpretivist epistemology and draws…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Library Services
Alisa Howlett; Eleanor Colla; Rebecca Joyce – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
An increasingly complex and demanding research landscape has seen university libraries rapidly evolve their services. While research data management, bibliometrics, and research impact services have predominantly featured in the literature to date, the full scope of support libraries are currently providing to their institutions is unknown. This…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Academic Libraries, Universities, Foreign Countries
Brown, Sarah; Alvey, Elizabeth; Danilova, Elena; Morgan, Helen; Thomas, Amberyn – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2018
Research support services at The University of Queensland Library (UQ Library) have evolved in response to the global and national drivers, which have impacted on broader University strategy. UQ Library's success in responding to these drivers has involved leveraging the information within, and capacity of, the institutional repository, the core…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Reference Services
Kattau, Maureen – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2012
Macquarie University Library's planning for a new library coincided with a major renewal of the university's curriculum and research activity. This provided a significant opportunity to re-think the presentation of the library collections in the new environment. This article describes how strategic alignment with university goals and the framework…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Intellectual Disciplines, Research Libraries, Higher Education
Missingham, Roxanne; Zobec, Helena – Australian Library Journal, 2012
Demonstrating the value of library and information services has been a theme in library discussions in recent years. The application of many different approaches to evaluation has waxed and waned together with the development of theories of evaluation across the humanities and social sciences. Over the past two decades research and activity on…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Services, Foreign Countries, Library Materials
Richardson, Joanna; Nolan-Brown, Therese; Loria, Pat; Bradbury, Stephanie – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2012
University libraries worldwide are reconceptualising the ways in which they support the research agenda in their respective institutions. This paper is based on a survey completed by member libraries of the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation (QULOC), the findings of which may be informative for other university libraries. After…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Research, Institutional Research
Genoni, Paul; Wright, Janette – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2011
This paper reports on the results of an overlap study of Australian research library collections. The study used OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis software to mine data recording Australian holdings on the WorldCat database. The data is analysed according to the results obtained for six "groups" which represent various coalitions of…
Descriptors: Special Libraries, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Materials
Kennan, Mary Anne; Williamson, Kirsty; Johanson, Graeme – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2012
The literature speaks of a "deluge" of scientific and research data and the importance of capturing and managing it for use beyond its original creating community, purpose, and time. Data value increases as it is interconnected, networked, shared, used, and re-used. This paper extends the conversation about data sharing to "wild…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Quality Control, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries
McNamara, Paul – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2012
Two floors of the W. K. Hancock Library at the Australian National University (ANU) were refurbished in 2011 as part of a cooperative project between the library and the College of Science. The refurbishment, costing $5 million, was part of a much larger exercise involving the construction of four new science buildings around the Hancock Library.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries
Ahmad, Pervaiz; Brogan, Mark – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2012
From a fledgling technology with no proven business models, electronic books (e-books) have grown in importance usurping traditional formats as an acquisitions budget line in many academic library contexts. Business models include purchase, subscription, and pay per use. In academic and research libraries, web based e-book delivery is the dominant…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries
Jarrett, Kylie – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2012
In September 2011, Flinders University Library launched FindIt@Flinders, the Primo discovery layer search to provide simultaneous results from the Library's collections and subscription databases. This research project was an exploratory case study which aimed to show whether students were finding relevant information for their course learning and…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Services, Feedback (Response), Usability
Erway, Ricky – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2013
This call for action addresses the high-level benefits of adopting a university-wide policy regarding research data management. It identifies the various university stakeholders and suggests that the library initiate a conversation among them in order to get buy-in for a proactive, rather than reactive, high-level policy for responsible data…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
Du, Jia Tina; Evans, Nina – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2011
This study investigated the use of a university library academic service to assist in research information seeking, and the role and value of the academic services in support of research from the viewpoints of both academic users and librarians. Ten Ph.D. students completed questionnaires followed by face-to-face discussions and four academic…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Questionnaires, Interviews, Research Libraries
Bankier, Jean-Gabriel; Smith, Courtney – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2010
Institutional repositories have been established by most university libraries but their level of success has varied. Determining what belongs in such repositories has been the subject of some discussion but research would suggest that a broader rather than narrower compass is a positive approach to adopt. By seeking out a variety of content types,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Archives, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries