Optimizing Library Services: Access to Service Keeps the Academic Library Community Busy These Days

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...

Labor on Campus: Academic Library Service to Labor Groups

THISPAPER EXAMINES ACADEMIC LIBRARY SERVICE TO LABOR GROUPS, particularly in the area of Internet training. An informal survey of fifty-three academic libraries in schools with labor study programs throughout the United States and Canada indicates that while many libraries provide support for labor study programs within their schools, few provide direct programming to labor unions. The paper ex...

Service to the Labor Community: A Public Library Perspective

Library Service-Oriented Architecture to Enhance Access to Science

In the digital world, library services need to be transformed to recognize that automation and machine-to-machine communication of information enables many advanced features. NRC CISTI, Canada's National Science Library, has addressed this challenge using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Using SOA based on Enterprise Architecture, we have modeled services provided by the catalogue, services...

"Distinctive Signifiers of Excellence": Library Services and the Future of the Academic Library

6 In a recent essay outlining principles for rethinking the future of library collections, Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collection Development, notes that “[research] libraries have traditionally built their reputations on the basis of their collection size and also the depth and breadth of rare book holdings and their special collections.” Even in light of digitization...