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Hassan Mallam Ibrahim; Kamsuriah Ahmad; Hasimi Sallehudin – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
As the need for digital content increases almost daily, preserving this content for university libraries, especially in the least developed and developing nations, becomes a challenge, resulting in the loss of this data. Even though most of these libraries are automated and adopt one digital preservation strategy or the other, library users need…
Descriptors: Preservation, Technology Uses in Education, Research Libraries, Internet
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Nikolina Ivanova-Bell – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
In recent years, the opportunities for academic libraries to engage as a partner in digital initiatives in academia have expanded significantly. The traditional focus on digitization, preservation, and dissemination of collections has developed and shifted considerably, bringing new strategies for adequately serving the changed academic needs, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Acoustics
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Julia Furay – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
This case study details how a community college library, in response to rising textbook costs and COVID-related closures, advocated for and received an increase in funding to provide online copies of many textbooks in its reserve collection. It also provides a glimpse into the roadblocks acquisitions librarians might encounter in trying to bolster…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Libraries, Textbook Publication, Electronic Publishing
Eyre, Jodi Reeves, Ed.; Maclachlan, John C., Ed.; Williford, Christa, Ed. – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2017
Six essays, written collaboratively by current and former Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) postdoctoral fellows, explore the contributions that today's academic libraries--as providers of resources, professional support, and space--are making to learning and teaching. Topics include the continuing evolution of the learning…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Role, Librarians, College Faculty
Carriuolo, Nancy; Reis, Tovah – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2015
An increasing number of institutions are freeing up shelf space in their libraries and moving in student services as well as a coffee shop and other lures such as flexible seating arrangements. Librarians are taking down the silence signs in all but the quiet study room and urging members of the academic community to meet, talk, research and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Librarians, Library Role, Library Services
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Brantley, Steve; Bruns, Todd A.; Duffin, Kirstin I. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2017
Modern digital scholarship requires faculty to navigate an increasingly complex research and publication world. Liaison librarians are uniquely suited to assist faculty with scholarly communication needs, yet faculty do not identify the library as a provider of these services. Proactive promotion of scholarly communication services by librarians…
Descriptors: Librarians, Competency Based Education, Library Services, Organizational Communication
Corbett, Tom – School Library Monthly, 2011
As the century unfolds, students will probably rely almost exclusively on electronic resources for their research and reading. In fact, the digitization of information (and entertainment) is already a defining characteristic of this "Information Age" and quite natural to the "digital natives" born into this era. School leaders need to see evidence…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Internet
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Shorish, Yasmeen – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2012
This article describes the fundamental challenges to data curation, how these challenges may be compounded for smaller institutions, and how data management is an essential and manageable component of data curation. Data curation is often discussed within the confines of large research universities. As a result, master's and baccalaureate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Best Practices, Research Universities, Data
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Lage, Kathryn; Losoff, Barbara; Maness, Jack – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
Increasingly libraries are expected to play a role in scientific data curation initiatives, i.e., "the management and preservation of digital data over the long-term." This case study offers a novel approach for identifying researchers who are receptive toward library involvement in data curation. The authors interviewed researchers at…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Data Collection, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Libraries
Rabina, Debbie – Library Journal, 2010
Since the early 1990s, Carl Malamud has made it his business to return to the public what is rightfully theirs: free access to public information. Despite legislation that mandates such access to government information, some categories of information have been excluded, notable among them court opinions (with the exception of the U.S. Supreme…
Descriptors: Laws, Archives, Government Publications, Information Services
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Johnson, Carolyn, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
Twenty scholarly papers and fifteen abstracts comprise the content of the sixteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Research
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Nicholas, Pauline; White, Thelma – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
The society relies on institutions of higher education to produce a literate workforce; one that is able to function in a dynamic, technological, information-overload environment. In support of this new thrust, most universities have incorporated the use of new media and ICTs in the teaching learning process resulting in a multi-modal approach…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Theories, Research Needs, Distance Education
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Walters, Tyler O. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
The rise of digital repositories is helping libraries reinvent themselves. The benefits to libraries and universities creating institutional repositories (IRs) are great as libraries restructure, pursue collaborations, and re-position themselves to become major digital publishers and broadcasters in the scholarly world. They will no longer be…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Role
Gallart, Nuria – 2000
This paper concentrates on the identification of the main trends that are visible from a librarian's perspective in the area of copyright management in the digital environment. The first section discusses the expansion of licensing, including reasons for this trend, standards for licenses, and collecting societies (i.e., societies that act on…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Information Technology
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Landoni, Monica; And Others – Electronic Library, 1993
Examines the development of electronic books and traditional libraries in relation to the history of books and publishing. An ongoing project is described that is developing two forms of electronic books: hyper-books (built from paper books) and visual-books (built from electronic texts). (22 references) (EAM)
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, History, Hypermedia
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