Collaboration has increased in importance academic libraries over the past several years, both as a value and model of work. While certainly not new concept, cooperative work with campus partners, external within library itself become increasingly common. In Academic Libraries Collaborative Research Services, editor Carrie Forbes (University Denver) brings together wide variety perspectives on ...

Anne R. Kenney is University Librarian at Cornell University; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 Joan K. Lippincott, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. “It would be interesting to revisit UMN Libraries in three years and see how they are doing,” wrote Kara J. Malenfant in her 2010 article “Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A...

Academic libraries in Malaysia are still not prepared for disaster even though several occasions have been reported. The study sets out to assess the current status of preparedness in disaster management among Malaysian academic libraries in the State of Selangor and the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. To obtain a base level of knowledge on disaster preparedness of current practices, a quest...

Beijing Academic Library & Information System (BALIS), a nonprofit organization and the largest Regional Alliance of University (RAOUL) in Beijing, is representative Chinese RAOULs. BALIS founded 2007 has 100 member libraries covers almost all university Beijing. achieved aim literature resources between libraries, which define life what it does well. Management Committee (BMCE) organizes appli...

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This paper describes three important pillars of publishing programs emerging at university libraries: providing a robust publishing platform, engaging the academic community in discussions about scholarly communication, and building a suite of production level services. The experiences of the Public Knowledge Project, the Simon Fraser University Library, and the University of Toronto Library’s ...