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Direct linkGarrison, Brian Wade – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2013
After providing access to over 100 video interviews conducted by a professor with notable entertainers and personalities from film through an institutional repository, an experiment was conducted to discover whether a larger audience could be gained by adding a subset of 32 of these videos to YouTube. The results, over 400,000 views, indicate that…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Delivery Systems, Online Systems, Internet
Stielow, Fred – Computers in Libraries, 2011
Today's academic libraries must demonstrate their value to cost-conscious university administrators. Budget trade-off decisions that involve the library can be difficult for any university administrator to make, and such decisions are complicated by the recent appearance of massive global digital libraries that seem poised to replace the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Internet, Electronic Libraries, Library Automation
Fagan, Jody Condit – Computers in Libraries, 2009
Far more people are familiar with their local public or college library facility than their library's website and online resources. In fact, according to a recent survey, 96% of Americans said they had visited a library in person, but less than one-third have visited their online library. Since everyone agrees that online library resources are…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Marketing, Electronic Libraries, College Libraries
Porter, Brandi – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Millennial students make up a large portion of undergraduate students attending colleges and universities, and they have a variety of online resources available to them to complete academically related information searches, primarily Web based and library-based online information retrieval systems. The content, ease of use, and required search…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Investigations, Familiarity, Search Strategies
Paskin, Norman; Canos, Jose H.; Jaen, Javier; Lorente, Juan C.; Perez, Jennifer; Rinehart, Richard; Smith, MacKenzie; Barton, Mary; Branschofsky, Margaret; McClellan, Greg; Walker, Julie Harford; Mass, Mick; Stuve, Dave; Tansley, Robert; Mitchell, Steve; Mooney, Margaret; Paynter, Gordon W.; Mason, Julie; Ruscheinski, Johannes; Kedzierski, Artur; Humphreys, Keith – D-Lib Magazine, 2003
Includes five articles that discuss copies in terms of metadata and digital rights management; safety oriented systems, a new type of decision support systems; MOAC (Museums and the Online Archive of California); DSpace, an open source digital repository; and iVia, an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system. (LRW)
Descriptors: Decision Support Systems, Electronic Libraries, Internet, Metadata
Library Journal, 2005
Like many young people, Aaron Schmidt loves electronic gadgets. But not for their own sake. He believes the future of libraries depends on how well we meet the needs of today's young adults, who are far more tech-fluent than most librarians. As reference librarian and all-around technology guru at Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Schmidt created the…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Librarians, Reference Services, Online Systems
Nickerson, Gord – Computers in Libraries, 1992
Describes Gopher, a distributed document delivery service for electronic publishing across a computer network that allows a user to access data using a client-server communications model. The use of Gopher in campuswide information systems is described, and its use in libraries with electronic journals and multimedia documents is discussed. (three…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Journals, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
Peer reviewedGraham, Peter S. – College & Research Libraries, 1998
Argues that special collections in an electronic environment will continue to be important because of the continuing value of artifactual documents and that special collections librarians may have new roles with respect to intellectual property and the merging of special and general digital collections. Discusses special collections on the…
Descriptors: Change, Documentation, Electronic Libraries, Intellectual Property
Peer reviewedCarter, David S.; Janes, Joseph – Library Trends, 2000
Presents results of an exploratory study attempting to establish a methodology for the unobtrusive analysis of a digital reference enterprise. Logs of over 3,000 questions asked of the Internet Public Library in early 1999 were analyzed on the basis of questions asked, self-selected demographic information, how those questions were handled, and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Electronic Libraries, Information Services, Internet
Peer reviewedTebbetts, Diane R. – Electronic Library, 2000
Discusses the impact of information technology requirements on the costs of electronic libraries. Addresses key questions concerning hardware, software and network installation and upgrades and provides strategies for dealing with the needs for continuous funding and long-term financing that are essential for keeping up with the requirements of…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Costs, Electronic Libraries
von Retzlaff, Lothar – Australian Library Journal, 2006
As players in the delivery of services and online information, libraries are in the best position to use staff expertise and the technology they have developed to foster community awareness of social, professional and commercial interactions on the internet. Historically, libraries have been progressive institutions, undertaking constant…
Descriptors: Libraries, Internet, Expertise, Sustainability
Download full textHartness, Elizabeth Williams; Bingham, Margaret H. – 2001
In the past 5 years, each state in the Southeastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) region (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina) developed virtual libraries that provide citizens access to licensed databases. This guide describes each state's offerings including the methods of access, resources, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Educational Development, Electronic Libraries
Pare, Richard – 2002
In the late 1980s, when few Canadian citizens had Internet access, federal departments and agencies in Canada were already preparing for the future by putting information and documentation online. This paper outlines several government-sponsored programs--SchoolNet, the Canadian Investment Fund, Community Access Program, Canada Foundation for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedPeters, Thomas A. – Library Trends, 2000
Suggests that current conditions are nearly ideal for the effective meta-assessment of online reference services (ORS), in part because expected patterns and modes of service have not yet been established for emerging and evolving online environments, and in part because the distance between theory and practice regarding reference service in…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Evaluation, Information Policy, Information Services
Lee, Hur-li – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Reports on results of an exploratory study of perceptions of collections by librarians in an academic library that provides both traditional and networked information services. Five librarians from a Midwestern university library were interviewed. Findings indicated an uncertainty about the virtual world in two particular areas: collection and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Services
