Librarians working in the Irish health sector are under threat. This is a relatively young profession in comparison with international counterparts, with a low staffing base even at its peak. The public sector moratorium has led to professionally qualified librarians and library assistants not being replaced right across the health system. Librarians are employed in the HSE, voluntary sector, a...

Theresa Westbrock is Instruction Coordinator at New Mexico State University Library; e-mail: twestbro@ nmsu.edu. Sarah Fabian is First Year Experience Librarian in the Halle Library at Eastern Michigan University; e-mail: [email protected]. © Theresa Westbrock and Sarah Fabian In 1993, based on the proficiencies for bibliographic instruction librarians (1986), Diana Shonrock and Craig Mulder in...

The present study was conducted among the academic librarians under Mumbai University to ascertain the major challenges faced by them while selecting and acquiring e-resources. The survey revealed that the college libraries‘ e-collection is dominated by e-journals. It is found that the librarians use multiple tools to select the e-resources. Apparently, the selection of e-resources depend upon ...

In a dynamic, information and technology-driven society, librarians can create new roles by assessing changes in their environment, the potential effect and ways to reposition themselves. Scenario building, literature reviews, situation analysis, speculation and forecasting may be used. Librarians have a good idea of what they can offer, but are often unable to reposition themselves in time. Re...

purpose: with the entrance of information and communication technologies (ict) in the context of libraries and with the development of electronic services, the evaluation of these kinds of services has become more important. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of electronic services at the libraries of ferdowsi university of mashhad (fum) form the point of view of librarians –...

of the two-page definition for the word " abbreviation, " Beal elegantly exhibits the breadth of his knowledge by discussing the origin and use of abbreviations, how often they occurred and when, who used them and why, and alludes to the difficulty of reproducing them in modern, digital transcriptions. Each entry contains a depth of understanding that cannot be easily reproduced with such conci...

objectives: this research is a comparative study of the level of social capital in tehran university and sharif university of technology libraries.method: the research method is composed of survey and comparative study. statistical population included all librarians affiliated to central and college libraries of sharif university of technology together with librarians affiliated to central libr...

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...