Catherine Coker, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, and Stephen Bales are Assistant Professors at Texas A & M University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. edu. © Catherine Coker, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, and Stephen Bales Tenure status for library faculty in the academic environment is coming under increasing attack from administration, faculty members in ot...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess attitudes amongst librarians and system vendors towards the use of the Request for Proposal (RFP) process for selecting a library management system; and to use the results as the basis of recommendations for best practice. Design/methodology/approach – A focus group of librarians and a focus group of system vendors were asked open-ended questions...

The attitude of librarians in Nigerian university libraries has the potential to encourage or discourage digital libraries in e-learning. This paper addresses and discusses the attitudes of librarians towards digital library in e-learning, the imperativeness of training and knowledge for effective functionality of digital libraries in Nigerian universities. The paper uses the descriptive survey...

lections and Services,” edited by Ciara Healy), pp. 349–357 © 2010 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article provides responses to five copyright scenarios—institutional pricing, the face-to-face classroom, video copying and replacement, film clips and streaming video—that are frequently faced by librarians who manage and acquire media. Copyright is a particularly comp...

A~STRACT LIBRARIANS HAVE TAKEN ESSENTIALLY three philosophical positions concerning the problem of including Holocaust denial literature in library collections: (1) that such materials must be included to uphold the precepts of intellectual freedom, (2) that they should be excluded because they are false, and (3) that they should be included but labeled as inaccurate. Librarians in different ty...

The first Brandon-Hill list was published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA) in 1965. Since then, the "Selected List of Books and Journals for the Small Medical Library" has become a widely used collection development tool for health sciences librarians. Although intended as a selection guide for small or medium-size libraries in hospitals or comparable medical facilities...

This paper reports on a study of evaluating and generating requirements for the user interface of a digital library. The study involved observation of librarians using the digital library, working on information finding problems on behalf of clients of the library. The study showed that librarians, familiar with the particular digital library system and with information retrieval work in genera...

Library 2.0 is a change in the way libraries interact with their users. The technological developments on the Web have had a major influence on these changes. The change also places new requirements on librarians’ competencies and skills. This research investigates how librarians themselves see this change in terms of their work identity and working knowledge. The research shows what kinds of q...

While organizational scholars are increasingly interested in issues of identity, in-depth empirical studies analyzing the actual process of identity change have lagged, particularly when the process is triggered by IT-related transformational change (Alvesson et al. 2008). In this longitudinal case study, we follow the identity change process of librarians following the digitization of their wo...