Headache or Opportunity? National Library Week for the Academic Library

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 ...

Introducing the National Library for Health Skin Conditions Specialist Library

BACKGROUND This paper introduces the new National Library for Health Skin Conditions Specialist Library http://www.library.nhs.uk/skin. DESCRIPTION The aims, scope and audience of the new NLH Skin Conditions Specialist Library, and the composition and functions of its core Project Team, Editorial Team and Stakeholders Group are described. The Library's collection building strategy, resource a...

Evolving academic library specialties

Standards for the academic veterinary medical library.

The Standards Committee of the Veterinary Medical Libraries Section was appointed in May 2000 and charged to create standards for the ideal academic veterinary medical library, written from the perspective of veterinary medical librarians. The resulting Standards for the Academic Veterinary Medical Library were approved by members of the Veterinary Medical Libraries Section during MLA '03 in Sa...

The Library of Congress's National Digital Library Program

A key question we in America face today is whether or not the information superhighway will reinforce the best values of our society or, instead, will perpetually promise more than it can deliver as a communication medium. At first glance, the new interactive multimedia world we are entering would seem to engage the active mind in intellectual calisthenics and engender the creative use of infor...