NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Head, Alison J. – Project Information Literacy, 2016
This paper identifies approaches, challenges, and best practices related to planning and designing today's academic library learning spaces. As part of the Project Information Literacy (PIL) Practitioner Series, qualitative data is presented from 49 interviews conducted with a sample of academic librarians, architects, and library consultants.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Facilities Design
Mixter, Jeffrey; Childress, Eric R. – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2013
Over the past ten years, various organizations, both public and private, have expressed interest in implementing the Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) in their cataloging workflows. As interest in FAST has grown, so too has interest in knowing how FAST is being used and by whom. Since 2002 eighteen institutions in six countries…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Cataloging
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2009
"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") is a bimonthly report from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). This issue includes the following articles: (1) ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library Associations, Confidentiality
Adams, Caralee – CURRENTS, 2010
Everyone in the business of raising funds for graduate and professional schools knows that the effort has certain challenges. Deborah McCreery, of Widener University School of Law, identifies two main hurdles to alumni fundraising at Widener Law: (1) student loan debt; and (2) a perception problem. At Widener Law and other professional and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Alumni, Alumni Associations
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Bell, Mary Ann – Teacher Librarian, 2005
State-funded informational databases are a boon to students, teachers, and teacher-librarians, but as states struggle with budgets, funding for these resources is endangered survey results on the status of databases in all fifty states along with suggestions for keeping the databases or dealing with their absence follow. Today's students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Sites, Government Libraries, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bell, Colleen, Ed. – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
About a decade ago, a team of librarians and technologists at the University of Texas at Austin began development on a Web-based tutorial for undergraduate students. The tutorial used a range of technologies--HTML, Flash, javascript--to create four modules that emphasized information literacy concepts by using a mix of text, images, interactive…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Literacy, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education