This paper shares the initial results of a grassroots planning process at the Ohio State University Libraries, along with information about strategic planning, grassroots efforts in libraries, and library organizational culture. The planning effort is presented as a response to the sweeping changes affecting the world of academic libraries, and its successes and failures are shared in the hope ...

This article considers Open Access (OA) training and the supports and structures in place in academic libraries in the United States from the perspective of a new librarian. OA programming is contextualized by the larger project of Scholarly Communication in academic libraries, and the two share a historical focus on journal literature and a continued emphasis on public access and the economics...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the applications of using Web 2.0 technologies and social media tools to “bring” the academic library to its students and implications for the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library, Fitchburg State University. A review of the literature finds varying levels of Web 2.0 implementations as well as various uses for the different tools in academic libraries. A furt...

Introduction. Our aim is to compare the advantages and problems of e-book acquisition identified in research literature to those experienced by two Swedish university libraries. Method. A literature review was used to identify the main issues related to acquisition of e-books by academic libraries. The data for comparison were collected through case studies in two Swedish universities. Document...

Croatia is a Middle-European, Mediterranean country with 4 universities (Zagreb, Osijek, Rijeka and Split) with about 85,000 students and about 4,5 million population. Apart from the biggest and the oldest library, The National and University Library in Zagreb (founded in 1607), which is at the same time the central academic library for the whole country, there are central university libraries ...

Libraries should consider the ways of developing their services around users' workplace in order to reach their users and offer the most appropriate services according to the notion libraries are where users need them. In academic institutions the storage of libraries' resources is not enough and libraries must project them into users' learning environment. In recent academic libraries’ theory ...

AELSTRACT USINGNETWORKED INFORMATION RESOURCES to communicate the results of scholarship has great potential value for academic libraries. This development, here called “academic information services,” will require collaboration among libraries, scholars, computing centers, and university presses. Three barriers to collaboration are discussed: (1) clashes of organizational cultures, (2) persona...

introduction: the present age is the age of dramatic changes in technologies whose intellectual structure deepens information and considers creative and knowledge-oriented human resource participation. the present study has been performed to determine the relationship between knowledge management and creativity among the librarians of university libraries of shiraz, iran in 2010. methods: all f...

Main library for Southern Illinois University Carbondale [2] Holds more than 2.6 million volumes, 200,000 e-books, 43,000 current periodicals and serials, and over 3.6 million microform units Provides access to I-Share [3] (the statewide automated library system) and to a comprehensive array of databases and other electronic data files Offers a wide range of services, including Reference assist...

Main library for Southern Illinois University Carbondale [2] Holds more than 2.6 million volumes, 200,000 e-books, 43,000 current periodicals and serials, and over 3.6 million microform units Provides access to I-Share [3] (the statewide automated library system) and to a comprehensive array of databases and other electronic data files Offers a wide range of services, including Reference assist...