Academic Business Library Statistics, 1997/98

Business As Usual : Amazon . com and the Academic Library

Mary K. Van Ullen is the Bibliographer for Business, Economics, and Geography, University at Albany, University Library, LI-328, Albany, New York 12222 [email protected] ; and Carol Anne Germain is the Networked Resources Education Librarian, University at Albany, University Library, LI-128, Albany, New York 12222 [email protected] . S teve Coffman proposed that libraries emulate Amazon.com, t...

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Book Availability: Academic Library Assessment

In the climate of increasing calls for academic assessment, the authors undertook a study to ascertain book availability in an academic library. The study described here uses the methodology pioneered by Tefko Saracevic, W. M. Shaw, Jr., and Paul Kantor and is a follow-up of earlier research reported in College & Research Libraries in 1987. The authors designed the study to identify any improve...

Terms for Academic Library Directors

IN 1973, ARTHUR MCANALLY AND ROBERTDOWNSauthored a seminal article on the changing role of the university library director. This article takes a look at McAnally and Downs’s findings twenty years later to determine whether the changes outlined in 1973 are still valid today. Additional sources of strife for university library directors are outlined and requirements for today’s library directors ...