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Allen, Seth – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2017
Developing a strategy for embedding librarians in online courses can be challenging, but it is essential to demonstrate to accrediting agencies how libraries serve online students. A well-thought-out plan can be scalable and sustainable for rapidly growing online programs and can satisfy accreditation standards. This article examines how one…
Descriptors: Librarians, Online Courses, Library Role, Educational Technology
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Doan, Tomalee – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Many observers find it baffling that faculty in higher education have been slow to adopt open educational resources (OER). The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a private foundation that makes grants to expand access to learning materials, defines OER as: Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been…
Descriptors: Resource Units, Shared Resources and Services, Instructional Materials, Technology Uses in Education
Virgil, Candance L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This document analysis examined the academic library and the changing role of the academic librarian in higher education. A comparison of the trends and issues reported by prominent librarians in the 20th century was made to those reported in the 21st century. Emphasis was placed on the following decades: 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s in the 20th…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Role, Higher Education
Schaffner, Jennifer; Erway, Ricky – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2014
The digital humanities (DH) are attracting considerable attention and funding at the same time that this nascent field is striving for an identity. Some research libraries are making significant investments by creating digital humanities centers. However, questions about whether such investments are warranted persist across the cultural heritage…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Humanities, Technology Uses in Education, Librarians
Gould, Thomas H.P. – Scarecrow Press, 2011
Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers. In recent years there has emerged the formalizing of one or more of these activities into an Academic Commons. These centers of information have been labeled variously but they all share a commonality:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Guidelines, College Libraries, Student Empowerment
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Yang, Lan – International Education Studies, 2011
Quality education is the core of college education. Libraries are the second class for students due to the extremely important position and function in quality education. Libraries are the best place for cultivating students' morals, the important front for improving students' scientific and cultural qualities, and the effective facilities for…
Descriptors: Colleges, Higher Education, College Libraries, Educational Quality
Pressley, Lauren; Gilbertson, Kevin – Computers in Libraries, 2011
People see challenges to libraries in funding, in ebooks, and in the internet. However, in this information-rich age, librarians' roles are even more important. They are information experts. They know how to think about the changing information environment, and they know the impact--both positive and negative--it can have on people whose jobs…
Descriptors: Expertise, Libraries, Information Literacy, Internet
Spencer, Robert C. – Library Journal, 1978
The president of Sangamon State University (SSU) discusses the role of libraries in teaching and the strategies at the university to place the library at the center of the academic community. (JPF)
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Role
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Lynch, Beverly P. – College and Research Libraries, 1978
Since 1910 academic libraries have been essential resources to the colleges and universities they serve. These libraries have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to adapt to an everchanging environment. It may be time now for academic libraries to define and shape the environment as well as adapt and respond to it. (Author)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Librarians, Library Expenditures
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Wolff, Ralph A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1995
The mission of the college library of the future will be principally a teaching one, directly linked to the institution's educational mission. Therefore, assessment and accreditation should be directed primarily at the library's relationship to the teaching and learning functions of the institution. Evaluation should emphasize how interaction with…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Libraries, Higher Education, Information Technology
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Bolton, Earl C. – College and Research Libraries, 1972
The author predicts the future of university libraries by exploring changing patterns in campus finance and administration and by investigating the interaction between the central campus administration and the library administration. (Author/SJ)
Descriptors: Administration, College Libraries, Financial Problems, Higher Education
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Holladay, Janice W. – Special Libraries, 1982
Discusses new directions and patterns of service as the academic library shifts from providing access to sources of information to providing information itself. Services of the University of Rochester Library System are cited as using interpersonal communications and public relations skills to provide resources and technologies. Four references…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence, Librarians
Horner, S. J. – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1981
Describes the Educational Resources Center at Clarkson College in Potsdam, NY, which opened in October of 1980 and makes extensive use of the new technologies. (CHC)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Automation
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Gasparini, Fay; Vick, Malcolm – History of Education, 2008
Place is material, conceptual and symbolic. Physically, the Library at Townsville College of Advanced Education was central, visible and distinctive. Internally, it provided a dramatically different environment from other college buildings. It functioned as the (metaphorical) "hub" of the external studies programme and, when the college…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Libraries, Library Role, Educational History
Feinberg, Renee – 1992
This report describes adult literacy needs, the role of the libraries in meeting those needs, literacy needs and services in New York, and the contributions the City University of New York (CUNY) is making to the literacy effort. Quotations from Paulo Freire and Jonathan Kozol are used to define the nature of illiteracy and its extent in the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, College Libraries, Government Role
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