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Ali Kavak; Ayse Feride Kop – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This study aims to examine the effects on users of social and cultural activities organized in academic libraries. In the study, randomly selected users from academic libraries in Türkiye were surveyed and the data obtained were analyzed using a descriptive statistical method. The findings show that library activities have positive effects on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Role
Pritchard, Sarah M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
"portal: Libraries and the Academy" has as its mission to address library and information services in a campus-wide context, focusing on librarians' engagement with learning services, joint technology initiatives, cross-disciplinary and cross-functional research, faculty partnerships, and scholarly publishing and public policy, but…
Descriptors: Information Services, Information Management, Partnerships in Education, Educational Cooperation
Holmgren, Richard; Spencer, Gene – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2014
In December 2013, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) sponsored a workshop that explored the ways in which library and information technology services (LITS) organizations and academic institutions will need to evolve in the face of new challenges and opportunities. The workshop discussions, reflected in this paper, offer…
Descriptors: Library Services, Information Services, Information Technology, Academic Libraries
Nasiruddin, Md. – Online Submission, 2013
Each night, around 20,000 people--both adults and children--make the streets of Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh) their home. Living amongst the noise, rubbish, and traffic, thousands of families walk down the streets of Dhaka, looking for a safe place to rest for just a few hours each night. Trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Homeless People, Emergency Shelters
Aiguo, Li – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007
Science and Technology Novelty Search (S&TNS) is a special information consultation service developed as part of the Chinese Sci-Tech system. The author introduces the concept of S&TNS, and explains its role, and the role of the university library in the process. A quality control model to improve the quality of service of the S&TNS at…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Information Services, Sciences

McKinlay, John – 1979
The development of automated information services in academic libraries and the growth of AUSINET (Australian Information Network) are described. The current organization of online services and their integration into the pattern of user assistance are noted, and the effects on the user/librarian relationship, on the use of primary and secondary…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Information Services, Interlibrary Loans

Watson, Peter G.; Boone, Rebecca A. – College and Research Libraries, 1989
Presents the results of a test of an information support service for academic administrators by librarians, together with the model and rationale for such service. The demand for such a service, administrator reactions, and its cost effectiveness are discussed, as well as issues in library service, techniques, and philosophy that were identified…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrators, Educational Administration, Higher Education
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

Kirkendall, Carolyn A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1984
The Library Orientation Exchange (LOEX) provides assistance to librarians in developing library instruction programs for college faculty. It offers information and materials, compiles research reports, constructs bibliographies, and gives advice. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Clearinghouses, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Coffman, Steve; Josephine, Helen – Library Journal, 1991
Discusses academic and public libraries that expand the range and type of their services via fee-based information services and private information businesses that charge fees. Questions of billing the total cost to the patron versus part of the cost are considered; and the impact of such fees on library cooperation and networks is described. (six…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Fees, Higher Education

Kruk, Miroslaw – Australian Library Journal, 1998
Public libraries emerged as educational institutions during the second half of the 19th century. Their aim was the intellectual and moral improvement of individuals and societies. After several decades it became evident that public libraries had failed as "people's universities." They came to acknowledge the provision of entertainment as…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Services, Library History, Library Role

Fulcher, Glenn; Lock, Debbie – Distance Education, 1999
Considers the role of library support for distance learning activities at the University of Surrey, with specific reference to master's programs in linguistics and in English language teaching management, whose students have no face-to-face contact with staff since most of them work overseas. Describes the distance learners' information service.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Lundu, Maurice C. – 1981
This paper describes the situation of the information user in the developing countries of Africa; discusses the role of information resources in national development; delineates the most important functions of national libraries with respect to information dissemination and information utilization; explores the relationship between financial…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Governance, Information Dissemination

Hernon, Peter; Altman, Ellen – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1995
Describes a study which linked the misconduct of proposing, performing, and reporting academic research to librarians' perceptions of service quality; explores implications of fraud for library collections and information services; and discusses factors meriting further research. Tables present examples of sources in which those implicated in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Fraud, Information Services, Librarians

Battin, Patricia – College and Research Libraries, 1984
Analyzes traditional roles and services of academic libraries, summarizes new communication links, and suggests major policy areas to be considered by university officers: centralized financial and technological planning, integration of information services with academic programs, access to scholarly resources, electronic publishing, copyright and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Networks, Information Services