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Download full textRudasill, Lynne M. – 1999
Relatively diminishing financial resources and increasing user expectations are combining to create a new emphasis for the traditional research library. This paper reports on the development of a pilot project at a large research library that explored the relationship between evaluation and assessment to determine how both the institution and the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Library Development
Savenije, Bas; Grygierczyk, Natalia – 2000
The main function of the library of the future is to provide access to electronic sources stored elsewhere. In order to comply with the users' needs, therefore, flexible license scenarios are necessary. Another future function of the library will be to set up and maintain a personal alerting system and to assist users in organizing their own…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Information Retrieval
Smith, Lisa – Cataloguing Australia, 1997
Describes the Electronic Resources Directory of Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), designed for locating electronic resources of the library. It both provides information about these resources as well as direct links to them where appropriate. Use of the World Wide Web for the directory has obvious advantages for a university where global…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Publishing, Information Retrieval
Pereira, Monica – 1997
Traditional reference service at the Creighton University Health Sciences Library/Learning Resources Center has been transformed into a vibrant, information dissemination system. Maintaining routine reference skills and developing new ones is standard practice. The furious pace of demand for information, and the growing "technicalness"…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval
Grygierczyk, Natalia – 1996
This paper investigates the need for electronic provision of information, and advises that the purpose and motivation for providing electronic resources be explored before embarking on a project to provide them. Many projects at universities and other institutes have been begun arbitrarily just because there happened to be financial resources…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedRyer, Mary Ann; Nebeker, Birte – Community & Junior College Libraries, 1999
Describes the thinking and research involved in implementing an electronic reference service to Raritan Valley Community College's Library Web Page. Discusses implementation of a jargon-free "Ask a Librarian" service with well-defined procedures and a plan for advertising the service. Ideas incorporated in the procedures and plans are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education
