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Caterina Reed; Paria Aria; Guinsly Mondésir; Harvey Long – College & Research Libraries, 2025
This research seeks to find the new trends in virtual reference and online learning by looking at the impact of COVID-19 on academic libraries, and by identifying gaps in professional development for academic librarians, particularly in reference and instruction. Responses from the surveyed academic librarians indicate that many services…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Learning, Library Services, Reference Services
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Mierzecka, Anna; Kisilowska, Malgorzata; Suminas, Andrius – College & Research Libraries, 2017
The article reports the results of a survey conducted among the Polish and Lithuanian academics concerning their information needs and expectations regarding academic library websites. The survey was realized using the technique of Computer-Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) on a group of scholars representing sciences and humanities or social…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Education, Expectation, Online Systems
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Watkins, Sean; Battles, Jason; Vacek, Rachel – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
Smartphone users expect the presentation of Web sites on their mobile browsers to look and feel like native applications. With the pressure on library Web developers to produce app-like mobile sites, there is often a rush to get a site up without considering the importance of reusing or even restructuring the data driving the Web sites. An…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Libraries, Information Systems, Online Systems
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Garrison, 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
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Hemmig, William; Johnstone, Brian T.; Montet, Margaret – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
"Sense of place" no longer applies only to the physical library. All students are distance learners to one extent or another, and all distance services must be considered as a single virtual learning commons. Librarians at Bucks County (PA) Community College implement and integrate current teaching, learning, virtual reference, and mobile access…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Online Systems, Distance Education
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
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Bogdanovic, Marijana; Johanson, Graeme – Australian Library Journal, 2007
This paper reports on the implementation of "My Language Portal" in the City of Greater Dandenong Libraries (CGDL), Melbourne, Victoria, through the development of a "My Language Portal Project Plan" in 2006. It discusses how the aims of the designers of My Language Portal (MLP) are fulfilled in the exceptional, changing…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Marketing, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2006
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 education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Web Sites, Electronic Libraries, College Libraries
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Wakimoto, Jina Choi; Walker, David S.; Dabbour, Katherine S. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2006
On the surface, SFX, utilizing the concept of context-sensitive linking among library resources, promises the ability to obtain full text effortlessly. This paper reports on the results of a three-fold study--online survey, focus group interviews, and sample testing analysis--to examine library end-user and librarian expectations and experiences…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Surveys, Focus Groups, Interviews
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
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Faiks, Angi; Hyland, Nancy – College & Research Libraries, 2000
Describes the card sort technique that was used by Cornell University to help determine how users would organize a set of concepts to be included in an online digital library help system. Presents Cornell's experiences as a case study with detailed instructions for conducting and evaluating the card sort technique. (Contains 13 references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Electronic Libraries, Evaluation Methods
Zia, Lee L.; Pearce, Linda; Prinsen, Jola G. B.; Ticer, B. V.; Peters, Dale; Pickover, Michele; Matylonek, John C.; Ottow, Carolyn; Reese, Terry – D-Lib Magazine, 2001
Topics include: digital library projects in the National Science Foundation's NSDL program; an electronic reserve platform at the University of Calgary; highlights from the sixth International Summer School on the Digital Library; the Digital Imaging Project of South Africa; a database of local information at the Oregon State University library;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Services
Greenstein, Daniel; Thorin, Suzanne E. – 2002
This report draws on the results of a survey and case studies of Digital Library Federation (DLF) members (Council on Library and Information Resources - CLIR). The survey was intended to document how DLF member libraries are focusing their digital library programs: how and under what circumstances their programs were initiated; the influences…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
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Moyo, Lesley M. – Electronic Library, 2002
Outlines the service rationale, software and technology considerations taken by the Pennsylvania State University library in planning towards online, real-time reference services and provides an overview of the planned pilot project. Discusses recent trends in academic electronic libraries, including providing value-added services to support…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Software, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
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Galloway, Edward A.; Michalek, Gabrielle V. – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1998
Describes a project at Carnegie Mellon University libraries to convert the congressional papers of the late Senator John Heinz to digital format and to create an online system to search and retrieve these papers. Highlights include scanning, optical character recognition, and a search engine utilizing natural language processing. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Character Recognition, Data Conversion, Electronic Libraries
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