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Zakharov, Wei; Gerrish, Thom; Li, Haiyan; Davis, Alison L.; Little, Emily – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2022
Reading resources are essential for teaching and learning. Today's students and instructors are used to the Learning Management System (LMS) for teaching and learning. Within the general LMS trend, a variety of electronic course reserves tools have emerged. One particular tool is Leganto which has been increasingly widely deployed, particularly in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology
Geuther, Christina; Hoeve, Casey D.; O'Reilly, Faye – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2021
Academic libraries face the dual challenges of decreasing budgets and increasing demand for electronic resources. Librarians at three midwestern US public research universities discuss the electronic resources environment, the direction of content development, and using future-proof as well as future-driven licensing language to best provide for…
Descriptors: Library Services, Copyrights, Academic Libraries, Educational Change
Niqresh, Mohammad – International Education Studies, 2019
The study aims at identifying the concept of digital library, it also tries to shed the light on the most significant intellectual issues by presenting its definition, development, functions (selection and acquisition of information resources from the web, sources indexing, communication and management of intellectual property rights, production…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Intellectual Property, Electronic Libraries, Information Sources
Wang, Yu-Hsiu; Baker, Megan – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2013
This paper describes the automated copyright clearance process for electronic reserves materials by the electronic reserves staff at the Information and Library Services (ILS), at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Besides the standard practice to handle and post required course readings in digital format for UMUC's distance…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Electronic Libraries, College Libraries, Library Services
Koulouris, Alexandros; Kapidakis, Sarantos – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2012
This paper presents a policy decision tree for digital information management in academic libraries. The decision tree is a policy guide, which offers alternative access and reproduction policy solutions according to the prevailing circumstances (for example acquisition method, copyright ownership). It refers to the digital information life cycle,…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Information Management, Academic Libraries, Library Services
Dryden, Jean – Journal of Archival Organization, 2012
Copyright is extremely complex, and it is difficult to convey its complexities in a clear and concise form. Through decades of experience, archivists developed informal best practices for dealing with copyright in the analog world; however the application of copyright in the digital environment is evolving in response to rapidly changing…
Descriptors: Archives, Guidelines, Copyrights, Best Practices
Kaser, Dick – Computers in Libraries, 2009
According to the recent survey of Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), one of the several top trends in publishing nowadays is the licensing liberalization among publishers. Licensing options now abound and there are various price points for libraries considering new collections. One such example is how SAGE offers…
Descriptors: Certification, Library Services, Online Vendors, Information Policy
Koehn, Shona L.; Hawamdeh, Suliman – Library Quarterly, 2010
As library collections increasingly become digital, libraries are faced with many challenges regarding the acquisition and management of electronic resources. Some of these challenges include copyright and fair use, the first-sale doctrine, licensing versus ownership, digital preservation, long-term archiving, and, most important, the issue of…
Descriptors: Preservation, Public Libraries, Counties, Library Services
Maceviciute, Elena; Borg, Martin; Kuzminiene, Ramune; Konrad, Katie – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: Our aim is to compare the advantages and problems of e-book acquisition identified in research literature to those experienced by two Swedish university libraries. Method: A literature review was used to identify the main issues related to acquisition of e-books by academic libraries. The data for comparison were collected through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Learning
Baughman, M. Sue, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2012
"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") focuses on current and emerging topics that are strategically important to research libraries. The articles explore issues, share information, pose critical questions, and provide examples. This special issue presents a report released by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Joint Task…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Services, Disabilities, Library Development
McSherry, Corynne; Cohn, Cindy – Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2010
After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically. Readers should view this expansion with both excitement and wariness. Excitement because digital books could revolutionize reading, making more books more findable and more accessible to more people in more ways than ever before.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries, Books
Jetton, Lora Lennertz; Bailey, Alberta S. – Journal of Access Services, 2010
This article updates a previous article published in 1992 that described the role of the access services manager in policy formation. Since that time, the access services department and mission has matured and evolved to a prominent position within the library organization. Technological changes and innovation in the marketplace of wired and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Library Services, Policy Formation, Library Policy
Weeks, Ann Carlson – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2007
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) began as a research project funded primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and Microsoft Research and creates a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world (http://www. childrenslibrary.org). The project…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Electronic Libraries, Library Services, Books
Johnson, Richard K. – Association of Research Libraries, 2007
"ARL" is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). "ARL" reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff and users; higher…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Research Libraries, Library Services, Library Materials
Baudino, Frank, Ed. – Online Submission, 2011
Twenty-three scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the eleventh annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The peer-reviewed proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Athletics, Multilingualism, Interpersonal Relationship