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As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds with Tradition of Privacy
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Parry, Marc – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Colleges share many things on Twitter, but one topic can be risky to broach: the reading habits of library patrons. Patrons' privacy is precious to most librarians. Yet new Web services thrive on collecting and sharing the very information that has long been protected. This points to an emerging tension as libraries embrace digital services.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Internet, Reading Habits, Influence of Technology
Blind Spots
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Drucker, Johanna – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Stanford University is going through the difficult and highly fraught process of figuring out a plan for the library of the future. Coming on the heels of the "bookless library," touted as the vision for a new engineering library, a preliminary proposal in 2007 to tear down the seismically unsafe Meyer Library and digitize and house off campus…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Humanities, Library Administration, Library Automation
An Anthropologist in the Library
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Carlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Nancy Fried Foster was an anthropologist hired by University of Rochester's library to study its undergraduates, to help shed light on how they do their research and write papers, and how they spend their days. The results of the study helped guide a library renovation, influenced a Web-site redesign, led to changes in the way the library markets…
Descriptors: Educational Anthropology, Library Development, Academic Libraries, Undergraduate Students
Library Renovation Leads to Soul Searching at Cal Poly
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Carlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
This article reports on a library renovation at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona which incurs complaints from professors and librarians about a shift from print to online materials. The $60-million project at Cal Poly is providing a difficult lesson in the challenges of library renovation, and in the changing role of one of the…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Internet, Library Development, Library Facilities
Holdings of Research Libraries in U.S. and Canada, 1989-90.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1991
Tabular data are presented on 107 university and 12 non-university research libraries' holdings and operating expenditures, providing information by library rank on volumes in library; volumes added; current serials; total staff; and total expenditures. A graph depicts percentages for operating expenditures. (DB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Acquisition, Library Collection Development
Rising Costs and Dwindling Budgets Force Libraries to Make Damaging Cuts in Collections and Services.
Nicklin, Julie L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
Financial pressures brought on by economic recession and increasing costs of academic materials are causing academic libraries to cancel journal subscriptions, reduce book orders, neglect book preservation, cut staff positions, and reduce general services while seeking new revenue sources. Examples of libraries cutting back include those at…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Economic Factors, Financial Exigency, Financial Support