Purposeful Mentoring in Academic Libraries

Building a Strong Foundation: Mentoring Programs for Novice Tenure-Track Librarians in Academic Libraries

Analyses of Mentoring Expectations, Activities, and Support in Canadian Academic Libraries

Marni R. Harrington is an Associate Librarian in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies, and Elizabeth Marshall is Director of the C.B. “Bud” Johnston Library, Western Libraries, both at The University of Western Ontario; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. Research for this article was partially funded by a grant from the Canadian Library Association, Canadian Association of College ...

Mentoring in academic medicine: a systematic review.

CONTEXT Mentoring, as a partnership in personal and professional growth and development, is central to academic medicine, but it is challenged by increased clinical, administrative, research, and other educational demands on medical faculty. Therefore, evidence for the value of mentoring needs to be evaluated. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the evidence about the prevalence of mentorship ...

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...