Access technology in academic libraries

Job Satisfaction of Information Technology Workers in Academic Libraries

Walk the Talk: Open Access and Academic Libraries

Driven to near despair by the ever increasing cost of scholarship, particularly the growing expense of scientific journal subscriptions, Mary Case and I, way back in 1998, wrote an article for Notices of the American Mathematical Society with the highfalutin title of " Reforming Scholarly Publishing in the Sciences. " In it we argued that scientists, working with librarians and professional soc...

Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet

This article is the revised and elaborated version of a presentation that was delivered at the invitation of the American Digital Library Federation (DLF) at their Spring Forum meeting in New Orleans (http://www.diglib.org/forums/Spring2004/springforum04abs.htm). It will be followed by "Search engine technology and digital libraries: Moving from theory to praxis" as a collaborative article from...

E-books in academic libraries

Purpose This paper provides an analysis of the current state of the art in e-books, and attempts both to set the scene and provide reasons for their low uptake. Methodology The different approaches to e-books of academic librarians, authors, publishers and readers are considered, using the results of a recent survey commissioned by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Findings and Va...

Pricing Policies in Academic Libraries

ECONOMICPRESSURE ON LIBRARIES in the United States is approaching a critical stage.’ Academic libraries in particular are vulnerable to this pressure because of tightened budgets coupled with rapidly increasing costs. Academic institutions have been hurt economically by the need to increase tuition, while enrollment is decreasing due to lower birthrates in the 1950s and early 1960s, less intere...