A Newcomer’s Perspective on the Changing Academic Library: Library to Learning Commons

Academic Information Services: A Library Management Perspective

AELSTRACT USINGNETWORKED INFORMATION RESOURCES to communicate the results of scholarship has great potential value for academic libraries. This development, here called “academic information services,” will require collaboration among libraries, scholars, computing centers, and university presses. Three barriers to collaboration are discussed: (1) clashes of organizational cultures, (2) persona...

Library as a hub. Changing roles and functions of academic library

This paper takes a holistic and broad look at introducing and managing change in libraries to improve support for the creation and open publication of digital research resources. It uses a case study approach – the example being Victoria University of Wellington Library, New Zealand – to explore in depth organisational development and design. The case study, supplemented by the literature and o...

An architect's perspective on contemporary academic library design.

The making of space and place (architecture) requires cultural and financial consent as to societal value. Standards and values about the academic library of the immediate future are not always shared by librarians and architects; however, architects and librarians do possess several shared perceptions. Among these shared perceptions are that print collections will remain a primary function of ...

Library on the Go: A Focus Group Study of the Mobile Web and the Academic Library

Jamie Seeholzer is First Year Experience Librarian, Reference and Instruction, at Kent State University; e-mail: [email protected]. Joseph A. Salem, Jr. is Head, Reference and Government Information Services, Kent State University; e-mail: [email protected]. © Jamie Seeholzer and Joseph A. Salem, Jr. This study explores student use of the mobile Web in general and expectations for an academic lib...

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