Mary Kandiuk is Visual Arts, Design and Theatre Librarian/Senior Librarian, Research and Collections in Scott Library at York University; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2014 Mary Kandiuk, AttributionNonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This study examines racial and ethnic diversity among Canadian academic librarians and discusses the findings of a nationwide su...

Ruth Sara Connell is Associate Professor of Library Services and Electronic Services Librarian at Valparaiso University; e-mail: [email protected]. Thanks to Drs. Fred and Tschera Connell for their helpful comments and feedback on earlier versions of this paper. ©2013 Ruth Sara Connell, AttributionNonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This study examines h...

The study investigates the current status of Intellectual Property (IP) information services in Zimbabwe's university libraries. employed a quantitative approach. An online questionnaire was used to collect data from sample 69 library professionals at 20 libraries which are full members Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC). Findings show that focus surveyed institutions is on providi...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013 (“Community Informatics in China,” edited by Kate Williams), pp. 180–204. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This essay examines the work of China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), an academic library community that has established resource sharing in a network environment. More specifically, it examines CALIS’s work...

Library support for research in a university context An increased focus on research within Australian universities, driven by the federal government’s research agenda, has heightened interest in the services and resources provided by academic libraries to enhance research within higher education institutions. While academic libraries have always had as part of their mission support for research...

purpose: the purpose of this study is to investigate the present situation of iranian university libraries in case of experience and knowledge documentation and documentation barriers in order to present solutions for documentation of experience and knowledge in iranian academic libraries. methodology: this research was a descriptive-analytic type and the data gathering tool was a researcher-ma...

Polish academie libraries suffer from a significant lack of foreign scientifie journais. Funds assigned by the Ministry are insufficient. The central system of periodicals subscription also reveals many shortcomings. These problems should be solved through co-operation with the Centra I Academie Libraries. The Library of the Technical University of Wroclaw is one of the th ree Central Technical...

The purpose of this study was to assess the comparative determinants of job satisfaction among male and female librarians in public university libraries in Edo state. The descriptive research design was adopted for this study. The study population was made up of female and male librarians. A sample of twenty (20) female and twenty (20) male academic librarians was selected for the study, using ...

Libraries are a critical component in the functioning of a University. With students, faculty, and staff using the libraries, it has both direct and indirect impacts on the lives of thousands of people. The libraries, just by its core function, have been contributing to intellectual sustainability – a “connecting thread” for the sustenance of life. It is essential for the libraries to become su...