scholarly journals Wood, Flour, Journal: How the Electronic Turn Has Affected the Way Journals are Found, Used, and Read

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Wood Flour ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
User Preference ◽  
Journal Publication ◽  
Technological Capacity ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
Economic Necessity ◽  
Journal Content ◽  
The Way

The repercussions of the recent dramatic shift in journal publication from a print to a digital platform – a shift termed by the author “the electronic turn” - are far-reaching. Delivered originally as a part of a panel discussion, this essay marks out the profound changes around journal content: how academic libraries purchase it, in how they provide access to it, and in how people use it. Factors contributing to the process include the growth of technological capacity, new publishing models, economic necessity, user preference, and changes in the way people prefer to read. The “electronic turn” is viewed as at the same time unavoidable and calling for corresponding changes in the mindsets of libraries, of publishers, and of researchers.

The future of open access and library publishing

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 225-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Chadwell ◽  
Shan C. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a vision for how academic libraries can assume a more central role in a future where open access (OA) publishing has become the predominant model for disseminating scholarly research articles. Design/methodology/approach – The authors analyze existing trends related to OA policies and publishing, with an emphasis on the development of repositories managed by libraries to publish and disseminate articles. They speculate that these trends, coupled with emerging economic realities, will create an environment where libraries will assume a major role in the OA publishing environment. The authors provide some suggestions for how this major role might be funded. Findings – The trends and economic realities discussed will lead to new roles for academic librarians and will change the existing roles. Originality/value – This article provides insights for academic libraries and their institutions to consider a dramatic shift in the deployment of subscription dollars from a dysfunctional and largely closed scholarly communication system to one that provides open, unfettered access to research results.

Academic Libraries as Complex Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 215-232
Author(s):  
Álvaro Quijano-Solís ◽  
Guadalupe Vega-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Collaborative Group ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Viable System ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this chapter is to describe how the concepts and principles from the Systems Approach may be helpful in understanding and modeling the collaborative group cognitive processes in information handling in an academic library. In order to address complexity and dynamics, this chapter analyzes several theoretical positions, which together may help us to shape the academic library from a comprehensive and systemic point of view (such as Systems Approach, Communities of Practice, Activity Theory and the Viable System Model). This chapter suggests focalizing on the activity (performed by a community) as the basic unit of analysis in studying the complexity of academic libraries. This activity is what allows the transmission of tacit and explicit knowledge and the skills from an expert to a novice. Other elements in the activity are objectives, rules and regulations, and importantly the learning processes that occur dialectically between subjects and community. A model such as Beer´s in the way the authors presented it in this chapter fits well to decompose reality and synthesize it to analyze the proposed complexity. This may allow facing organizational problems by focusing in the way people act to transform the inputs into products and add value to them by teaching and learning.

scholarly journals The Library Department Head in the Context of Matrix Management and Reengineering

1997 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Bloss ◽  
Don Lanier
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Service Operations ◽  
Department Head ◽  
Technical Service ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Dramatic Shift

Academic libraries are experiencing significant organizational changes that are having an impact on the library department head. The library department head’s job has undergone a dramatic shift from what was, until relatively recently, the typical middle manager’s line command position in the bureaucratic hierarchy. Literature analyzing these changes has been reviewed and is discussed in the context of a specific effort to reengineer library technical service operations.

The academic art library: some management problems

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Varley
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Management Problems ◽  
The Way ◽  
User Education ◽  
North London

Art libraries differ from other academic libraries in their stock provision and in the way they are used. The disadvantages of multi-site libraries are outweighed by the difficulties of fitting the art library into a large central library, and by the advantages to the user of co-ordinated decentralisation. The implications for art libraries of centralised cataloguing systems require careful consideration; other problems include staff structures, the use (and abuse) of quantification, and the degree and type of user education. (Text of a paper presented to the course for senior art librarians on ‘Managing the Arts’, organised by ARLIS and the Polytechnic of North London in December).

scholarly journals The Africa Platform and its awareness-raising activities. Panel discussion on the future of Rwanda (13 May 2015)

Afrika Focus ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelies Verdoolaege
Keyword(s):  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The Future ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Way ◽  
Artistic Performance

The reactions to this event were generally very positive; a great many interesting issues were touched upon and the atmosphere of the discussion allowed sufficient room for various points of view and an optimistic view on the future of Rwanda to be expressed. This was an excellent example of an event in which academic Africa expertise is made available to inform a broad public, in conjunction with an artistic performance. Also the input provided by the Rwandan diaspora was greatly valued. In the future, this is definitely the way in which the African Platform of Ghent University Association wishes to present itself to the academic community and beyond. 

scholarly journals Publishing and the Popular Consumption of Print: A Panel Discussion

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Tod Lippy ◽  
Eli Horowitz ◽  
Susan Allen
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The Future ◽  
Literary Journal ◽  
Rare Occasion ◽  
The University

On February 29, 2008, I had the opportunity to sit in on a lecture about the future of academic libraries and the communities they serve. The picture presented was one that had seemed to become formulaic in library discussions: kids don’t want to read anymore, they will continue not to want to read, and on the rare occasion that they do read, it will be on their phones. During this lecture, I thought back to a journal I had discovered in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, a literary journal that took on interesting physical . . .

scholarly journals The Big Deal Is Dead! Long Live The Big Deal!

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Galbraith ◽  
Stephanie P. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Curriculum Changes ◽  
True Value ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
Journal Content ◽  
Binghamton University

In many countries, the proclamation "The king is dead, long live the king" heralds the demise of the old monarch and the accession of a new one. This tradition ensures that the throne never remains empty while facilitating a smooth transition of power. When the "Big Deal" journal subscription model debuted in 1996, few suspected the extent to which academic libraries would come to rely upon it, or that it would become the primary channel by which academic libraries procure academic journal content. As budget cuts take their toll on libraries, the demise of the Big Deal model seems inevitable as the true value of all-inclusive packages becomes less evident. But is it? Collection analysis reveals that many titles included within these Big Deal packages remain unused or underutilized, significantly decreasing the overall value of serial subscription packages. SPARC's Big Deal Cancellation Tracker shows an increasing number of libraries and consortia forgoing this model in favor of regaining local control over their collections and budgets. Binghamton University Libraries is no exception. Recent curriculum changes and financial developments have prompted us to adopt an ongoing evaluation of our users' information needs and proactively negotiate and cancel deals in order to better serve our constituents. This session described our fact finding, workflow modifications, and data analysis processes as well as the outcomes of our adventures in pursuing and planning for the cancellation of Big Deal agreements based on local collection development priorities and serials budget realities.

scholarly journals UFS Libraries COVID19 Survey Dataset

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahlaga Molepo ◽  
Mashia Shokane
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Free State ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
The Third ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Whereas COVID-19 has changed the way academic libraries operate, the University of the Free State (UFS) Libraries have demonstrated resilience, and adaptability during the pandemic. The survey presents a first insight into the effectiveness of UFS libraries during the first, and second waves of COVID-19. Our data on the effectiveness of UFS libraries shows a fair to moderate library and information services. More research is needed to determine how academic libraries are coping during the third wave of COVID-19.

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