For a librarian of St. John's School, Texas literacy is a passion and she believes that what all read matter because their lives are changed through the experience of reading good literature. She feels that most important responsibility of librarians is that of creating lifelong readers and learners.

This article discusses the events that occurred when Donald J. Olson was arrested for arrested for insider trading and SEC violations. Olson had been arrested for embezzling money from his own company, cooking the books to hide the missing funds, providing insider financial information to friends to boost stock prices, and numerous other offenses.…

Supporting the information needs of researchers adequately is a major challenge for university libraries. This paper outlines results of a survey of 23 researchers conducted by Deakin University Library into their information needs and perceptions of the library's role and performance. The survey challenged established ideas about researchers'…

Graduate and professional school students face a variety of academic integrity issues and are sometimes academically dishonest. The author surveys the literature of the last decade on graduate student academic integrity, including plagiarism, cheating, falsification, and authorship conflicts, focusing on empirical studies in multiple disciplines,…

As academic libraries move toward the electronic frontier for their serial subscriptions, there are several issues to be considered. This paper intends to outline the advantages and disadvantages with respect to electronic and paper serials, address selection criteria, and describe our practice in coping with these issues at the Leddy Library of…

Electronic performance support system (EPSS) technology provides a powerful mechanism for helping end-users operate complex systems. This article describes and discusses some research we have undertaken to explore their potential within academic library systems. Based on a needs analysis, an EPSS for supporting library users was designed and…

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…

Within Australia there is a growing interest in e-research and the use of cyberinfrastructure. There is also increasing recognition that the use of cyberinfrastructure is often inhibited, not by technical issues, but by so-called "soft" issues, such as those related to work practices, intellectual property issues, the nature of research…

The rise of digital repositories is helping libraries reinvent themselves. The benefits to libraries and universities creating institutional repositories (IRs) are great as libraries restructure, pursue collaborations, and re-position themselves to become major digital publishers and broadcasters in the scholarly world. They will no longer be…

An interview with the District Principal, Briarcliff Public Schools, New York. (PF)

Discusses the importance of community study in academic librarianship and describes the kind of analysis an academic community needs for short- and long-range planning. (Author/PF)

A well rounded education in primary and secondary schools has been handicapped by the inadequacy or absence of good library services to support the instructional programs of the schools, to broaden the intellectual horizons of the students, and to inculcate in them a lasting desire to read. (Author)

The trustee needs to continue the traditional responsibility of fulfilling a public trust and, in addition, must accept the new commitments to meet the services people are demanding. Economically and practically, this means learning to think in terms of total library service to the community, the region, the state and even the nation. This…

The future of microforms in the library is great. What forms new advances take will depend, unfortunately, upon the kinds of systems being developed for other than library applications. (Author)

Reports on a survey of feminist presses that explored their view of the role of libraries. (PF)