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Sanchez-Rodriguez, Nilda Alexandra; LoGiudice, Joseph – Journal of Access Services, 2018
Building effective communication and interdepartmental partnerships are essential components of strengthening services, policies, and procedures to meet the individual information needs of students, faculty, and the college community. Despite major advancements in library services for users with disabilities, there are ongoing challenges, which…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Higher Education, Librarians, Academic Libraries
Johnson, L.; Adams Becker, S.; Estrada, V.; Freeman, A. – New Media Consortium, 2014
The internationally recognized "NMC Horizon Report" series and regional "NMC Technology Outlooks" are part of the NMC Horizon Project, a 12-year effort established in 2002 that annually identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years in every sector of education around the…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Information Management
Uwhekadom, Ejimaji Emmanuel; Olawolu, Oladunni Elizabeth – African Higher Education Review, 2013
The influence of globalization and information technology on higher education in Nigeria was investigated through a descriptive survey design. Forty-five professional librarians from University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni Port Harcourt, Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku Rivers…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Librarians, Information Services, Best Practices
Carpenter, Maria; Graybill, Jolie; Offord, Jerome, Jr.; Piorun, Mary – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
This research probes future roles for libraries in the scholarly communication process through the use of scenarios. The researchers asked 20 ARL library directors to read and provide constructive comments on the scenarios, name the scenarios, and either select a scenario that most closely matched their vision or propose a new scenario. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Role, Researchers, Futures (of Society)
Tripathi, Manorama – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The paper aims to report on the 30th IATUL Annual Conference held in Leuven, Belgium, 1-4 June, 2009. Design/methodology/approach: The paper summarises the major themes of the conference as well as giving some specific details of developments at the Indira Gandhi National Open University in India, which supplement the author's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Academic Libraries, International Organizations
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Johnson, Carolyn, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
Eighteen scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the fourteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, 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.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Information Technology, Electronic Libraries
Harle, Jonathan – Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2009
Good libraries are a critical part of any university's research and teaching, whether in physical or digital form. But, as numerous accounts have documented, many African libraries have struggled to maintain good collections in the face of falling budgets, rising purchasing costs, and expanding student numbers. This paper draws on a literature…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Internet, Foreign Countries, Universities
Campbell, Melissa – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
If Google represents the first flicker of information technology, the development of additional tools has continued to enhance access to information but with the unfortunate downside of decreasing information literacy. Todd Gilman, librarian for literature in English at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library, decries the resulting disconnect…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Access to Information, Information Technology, Information Science
Bullen, Andrew – Computers in Libraries, 2008
The wonderful Web 2.0 is a famously slippery concept to define. The very ambiguity of the term is Escheresque, self-referential to its ever-changing meaning. As Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly Media, described it, "Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core." As Illinois State Library's…
Descriptors: Participation, Government Libraries, Information Technology, Internet
Patterson, Martha H. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Citing her own difficulties in gaining access to digital repositories that would have made her research on "New Women" much less time-consuming, the author argues here that the digital divide between the ivory-tower haves and have-nots will be a defining one for the current generation of scholars. The inequity in ease of access, she asserts,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Information Technology, Electronic Libraries, Access to Information
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
This article presents a Technology Forum that focuses on online archives and their role in academe. The forum brought together Daniel Greenstein, associate vice provost for scholarly information and university librarian at the California Digital Library of the University of California; Adam Smith, group business-product manager for the Google Book…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Search Engines, Internet, Academic Libraries
Beccaria, Mike; Scott, Dan – Computers in Libraries, 2007
The new Fac-Back-OPAC (a faceted backup OPAC) is built on code that was originally developed by Casey Durfee in February 2007. It represents the convergence of two prominent trends in library tools: the decoupling of discovery tools from the traditional integrated library system (ILS) and the use of readily available open source components to…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Library Networks, Academic Libraries, Library Automation
Horton, Forest Woody, Jr.; Keiser, Barbie E. – Computers in Libraries, 2008
While much has been done to address the digital divide, awareness concerning the importance of information literacy (IL) has taken a back seat to a world that focuses on technology. This article traces the genesis of a global effort to address information literacy education and training beyond discussions taking place within the library and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Library Associations, Information Literacy, Public Policy
Smallwood, Carol, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2011
There's no shortage of library management books out there--but how many of them actually tackle the little details of day-to-day management, the hard-to-categorize things that slip through the cracks of a larger handbook? "Library Management Tips that Work" does exactly that, addressing dozens of such issues facing library managers, including: (1)…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Time Management, Guides, Personnel Management
Grafstein, Ann – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
The literature on information literacy often assumes that there is an inherent link between the need for information literacy and what is commonly referred to as the information explosion. This assumed link is reflected in programs of information literacy instruction offered by academic libraries. This article argues that the basic concepts of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Technology, Information Literacy, Library Role