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Ippoliti, Cinthya; Baeza, Victor D. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2017
A growing trend at universities is to use digital badges (micro-credentialing) for capturing the "soft skills" students gain outside of the classroom. Libraries can use this opportunity to become campus leaders in digital badges, using the system to not only promote their information literacy activities but to coordinate workshop…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Credentials, Electronic Publishing, Information Literacy
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Farber, Evan – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1999
Examines how the role of academic libraries and librarians has changed drastically since the early 1970s. Suggests that the recognition of the educational role of librarians today is a result of the convergence of the widespread success of bibliographic instruction and the impact of electronic sources of information.(AEF)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Information Services, Information Technology
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Stoffle, Carla J.; Williams, Karen – New Directions for Higher Education, 1995
Successful higher education institutions of the next century will be learning-centered; successful college libraries will become teaching libraries that equip students with lifelong learning skills; librarians of the future will be knowledge managers. Libraries must become user-centered, which will require a substantial initial investment that…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Higher Education
Kalick, Rosanne, Ed. – 1992
Written by library professionals in the United States and Canada, this book examines issues affecting community college librarians in urban, rural, and suburban settings. The 10 articles included in the book are: (1) "Patterns of Excellence," by Rosanne Kalick, which reviews the history of community college libraries and discusses achieving…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Community Colleges, Educational Media