The Academic Research Library in a Decade of Change

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reg Carr
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Library

scholarly journals Negotiating Use, Persistence, and Archiving: A Study of Academic Research Library and Publisher Perspectives on Licensing Digital Resources

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon E. Farb
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Fundamental Function ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Long Term Preservation

Stewardship has always figured predominantly in the mission of libraries. This paper discusses major findings and implications of a study of licensing in U.S. academic libraries. The data suggests that not all libraries are accepting their heritage role - that is, they are not planning for long-term preservation and access for their growing licensed digital collections and resources. Instead they rely increasingly on third parties to perform this fundamental function. This shift may have far-reaching implications for long-term preservation and access to the world's knowledge and cultural and historical record.

Enabling Scholarship in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
pp. 86-117
Author(s):  
Debra Wallace ◽  
Michael Hemment
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
School Library ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
First Century ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
Information Products ◽  
Real Value ◽  
Self Service

With the ubiquitous digital ecosystem providing information to faculty and students in real time via a myriad of channels, does an academic research library continue to provide real value to faculty's research and teaching as well as students' learning? Or, has the academic research library become irrelevant to twenty-first century scholarship? Describing a variation on information literacy and research skills development approaches, this chapter makes a case for embedding good information practice into a library's products and self-service tools rather than investing in standalone instruction. Close alignment with institutional priorities, the application of user-centric product and service design principles, and a commitment to innovation in information management practices and platforms are cornerstones of this strategy in a graduate business school library. Loosely based on Harvard Business School's case method, this chapter details two frameworks used by HBS's Baker Library, and provides examples of information products created to enable student learning.

Staffing the Transition to the Virtual Academic Library

2011 ◽  
pp. 180-193
Author(s):  
Todd Chavez
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Virtual Library ◽  
Online Services ◽  
Computing Technologies ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
The Way

Change brought about by innovations in computing technologies has fundamentally altered the nature of work in academic libraries. In his description of the term informatica electronica, Gilbert (1998) suggests that despite the way technology is changing how library staff do their work, it should not change the emphases on traditional services to patrons, such as accessing and retrieving information. This chapter also focuses on human changes that accompany the migration from print to electronic collections, from traditional to online services, and from the academic research library of a decade ago to the virtual library of today and tomorrow.

A Comparison of Faculty and Bibliometric Valuation of Serials Subscriptions at an Academic Research Library

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Knowlton ◽  
Adam C. Sales ◽  
Kevin W. Merriman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Library

New Challenges for the Subscription Service at the IALS

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Significant Side Effect ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Subscription Service

First, here is a quick recap for those not familiar with the Library and the Document Supply Service. The Institute Library is a postgraduate academic research library, known for its collections of foreign and international law, particularly Commonwealth law. The main funding for the Institute and its library comes from HEFC. However, in our experience, the collections need to be available to practitioners. Lawyers may not always be willing or able to visit the library in person so a commercial document supply service was devised in the early 1990s, to meet a legal need and to help serve the administration of justice. A significant side-effect of the document supply service has become its ability to generate income to supplement the annual grant from HEFC. The workings of the scheme are set out fully in Gee (1999) but, in outline, practitioners must Join the Library as subscribers and are then able to access our priced document supply service. Full details are available at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/iservice/iservice.htm.

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