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Direct linkSinkinson, Caroline; Alexander, Stephanie; Hicks, Alison; Kahn, Meredith – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
This article details an open card sort study administered to undergraduate students, graduate students, and librarians at the University of Colorado at Boulder in order to reveal perceptions of library research guides. The study identifies user group preferences for organization and content of research guides, as well as themes emerging from the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Library Research, Academic Libraries
Jakubs, Deborah – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
The AAU/ARL Global Resources Program (GRP) was launched in 1997 with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to improve access to international research resources through cooperative structures and new technologies and to help libraries contain costs. A joint initiative of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of…
Descriptors: Universities, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Models
Lowry, Charles B. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
Where library budgets are concerned, there is every evidence now, after three years, that research libraries have arrived at "the new normal." That is, they do not expect a return to systematic and regular additions to Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) budgets in order to support ever-increasing prices that are out of proportion to…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Budgets, Economic Climate, Context Effect
Funk, Carla J. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
Association management in today's "association 3.0" environment presents some new challenges and new perspectives on old ones. This paper summarizes 10 such challenges including collaboration, diversity, innovation, transparency, financial stability, member benefits, knowledge-based decision-making, a demand-driven association model, pro-activity…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Administrative Organization, Research Libraries, Administrator Responsibility
Feeney, Mary; Newby, Jill – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
Presenting electronic resources to users through a federated search engine introduces unique opportunities and challenges to libraries. This article reports on the decision-making tools and processes used for selecting collections of electronic resources by a project team at the University of Arizona (UA) Libraries for the Association of Research…
Descriptors: User Satisfaction (Information), Search Engines, Research Libraries, Electronic Libraries
