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Space Assessment as a Venue for Defining the Academic Library
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Nitecki, Danuta A. – Library Quarterly, 2011
Purposeful assessment of space for the understanding and improvement of the academic library is a relatively new area of inquiry. This essay offers a framework to consider different factors affecting such an assessment and insights for undertaking a meaningful inquiry about the relationship of space to an academic library's evolving purpose as…
Descriptors: Library Role, Academic Libraries, Performance Factors, Space Classification
The Importance of Preserving Paper-Based Artifacts in a Digital Age
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Bee, Robert – Library Quarterly, 2008
The preservation of paper-based artifacts is an essential issue for collection management in academic libraries. In recent years, the library science profession has often favored reformatting through microfilm or digitization, assuming too quickly that information matters, whereas an artifact's medium does not. However, much recent humanities…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Microforms, Academic Libraries, Library Services
Transversality and the Role of the Library as Fair Witness
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Atkinson, Ross – Library Quarterly, 2005
Scholarship conducted in an increasingly online environment requires the services of a trusted third party in order to ensure that scholarly communication remains reliably accessible and applicable over the longer term. The library, by virtue of its most fundamental values and attributes, is probably better suited at this time than other…
Descriptors: Library Role, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Information Services
Sex Structuring in Academic Libraries: Searching for Explanations.
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Swisher, Robert; Du Mont, Rosemary Ruhig – Library Quarterly, 1984
This study of 357 academic librarians concludes that, even when professional characteristics (education, experience, publications, professional activity) are equal, women do not hold administrative positions in proportion to their numbers. Educational attainment is most important factor in reducing magnitude of relationship between sex and type of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Career Ladders, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women
Continuity and Change: The Integration of Oxford University's Libraries
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Moran, Barbara B. – Library Quarterly, 2005
Prior to 1997, the University of Oxford in Great Britain had approximately one hundred autonomous libraries with little coordination of services, collection development, or management among them. In that year a new director was hired with the mandate to integrate many of these libraries into one centralized system. Over the past seven years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, Change Strategies, Organizational Change
Rankings of Library and Information Science Faculty and Programs: The Third in a Series of Studies Undertaken at Six-Year Intervals.
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White, Herbert S. – Library Quarterly, 1993
A study of library school faculty and academic library directors' perceptions of the educational quality of master's and doctoral programs in library and information science and of the professional contributions of library school faculties is reported. Perception rankings are compared to similar studies carried out in 1980 and 1986. (18…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Programs, Educational Quality