scholarly journals Shared Patron-Driven Acquisition Within a Consortium: the OCUL PDA Pilot

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Davis ◽  
Lei Jin ◽  
Colleen Neely ◽  
Harriet Rykse
Keyword(s):  
University Libraries ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Purchasing Model ◽  
Careful Thought

In September 2010 members of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) participated in a patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) pilot to determine how this purchasing model might be adapted to a consortium. OCUL understood that developing a model that would allow patrons to purchase titles for different collections would be complicated. Careful thought went into balancing the needs of individual members with the needs of the consortium. This paper describes the project and examines the results from three distinct perspectives in the hopes of gaining a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities of PDA at a consortial level.

scholarly journals Shared Patron-Driven Acquisition Within a Consortium: the OCUL PDA Pilot

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Davis ◽  
Lei Jin ◽  
Colleen Neely ◽  
Harriet Rykse
Keyword(s):  
University Libraries ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Purchasing Model ◽  
Careful Thought

In September 2010 members of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) participated in a patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) pilot to determine how this purchasing model might be adapted to a consortium. OCUL understood that developing a model that would allow patrons to purchase titles for different collections would be complicated. Careful thought went into balancing the needs of individual members with the needs of the consortium. This paper describes the project and examines the results from three distinct perspectives in the hopes of gaining a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities of PDA at a consortial level.

scholarly journals Mobile Applications in Academic Libraries

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Jamie Saragossi ◽  
Laura Costello ◽  
Kathleen Kasten
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities presented by mobile applications in the context of an academic library collection. This emerging format raises important questions about selection, acquisition, access, instruction, outreach, and evaluation as these practices have been applied to traditional resources. A more nuanced understanding of the content and format of mobile applications informs a collection development strategy for discovering, acquiring, and maintaining these resources. The development of an outreach program that includes liaison activity, instruction, and research consultations is also explored as a way to drive users to these new resources. Using Stony Brook University Libraries as a case study, this paper discusses the potential of mobile applications as academic library resources plus practical ways to promote usage and enhance academic engagement.

scholarly journals Immersive Scholar: A Landscape Analysis of Scholarly Forms, Impacts, and Collaborations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynnee Argabright
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
North Carolina State University ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Immersive Scholar, a genre of digital scholarship that produces large scale visualizations, has emphasized physically immersive user experience. Examples of these projects can be found at https://osf.io/ygcn2/. This report strives to meet a need that will expand its scope and impact, and identify the realms in which Immersive Scholar belong that will allow it to bring immersive and scholarly depth. It is thus intended to provide awareness about challenges and opportunities to stakeholders interested in progressing new forms of digital scholarship (in particular, Immersive Scholar). North Carolina State University Libraries engaged Lynnee Argabright over summer 2020 to conduct a landscape analysis to help foresee industry collaboration prospects for Immersive Scholar. This report will also review the current landscape of similar presentations of immersive digital scholarship as well as explore quality evaluation for tenure and review to help define assessment expectations for Immersive Scholar projects.

scholarly journals Supporting the employability agenda in university libraries

2018 ◽  
Vol 119 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Mawson ◽  
Amy C. Haworth
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Work Done

Purpose This paper aims to outline work to support the employability agenda in the Library at the University of Sheffield, set in the context of debates about the nature of employability, employability skills and information literacy in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach The paper starts with a brief review of literature on employability and student skills in the UK higher education sector, the place of information literacy as an employability attribute and information literacy in the workplace. It goes on to outline work done in the Library at the University of Sheffield to support the employability agenda. This includes the development of a commercial awareness workshop in collaboration with other services and the incorporation of student and alumni voices in an employability guide. Findings The literature reviewed highlights the differences between information literacy in the workplace and academia. This could present challenges and opportunities in promoting information literacy as an employability attribute. The case study highlights the benefits of working in collaboration with students and services beyond the library in the employability arena. Originality/value The approaches taken in Sheffield may be of interest to other institutions looking to develop support for the employability agenda.

A Proposed Partnership Model for University Libraries in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blessing Chiparausha ◽  
Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Information And Communication

Literature suggests that partnerships among libraries are important as they help with resource sharing and cost-cutting in the areas of expertise, information and communication technologies, library resources, subscriptions, publications, and library space. The chapter explores the literature on how libraries have been partnering for strategic reasons. Challenges and opportunities related to partnerships were also identified. The article seeks to find out whether there is a need to conduct further studies on the reception of the proposed Creative Library Partnership model by ZULC. Borrowing from success stories realized elsewhere, the authors make recommendations for the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC) and other library consortia to adopt the Creative Library Partnership model. A follow-up survey asks: how Zimbabwe university libraries have been partnering, challenges, and opportunities associated with those partnerships.

scholarly journals La Biblioteca de la Universidad Pública de Navarra, hoy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1213-1228
Author(s):  
Belen Altuna Esteibar
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
User Centered

RESUMEN Se da cuenta de las formas de gestionar los servicios bibliotecarios en la Biblioteca de la Universidad Pública de Navarra. Se ponen de manifiesto la evolución de los servicios en los 25 años de su creación. Se hace hincapié en los retos y oportunidades que en este momento tienen las bibliotecas universitarias. Se aborda el desarrollo y transformación de los servicios, siempre muy vinculados a las necesidades de la Universidad, tanto en docencia, como en aprendizaje e investigación y en un modelo centrado en los usuarios. LABURPENA Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoaren liburutegiko zerbitzuak zertan datzan adierazten da. 25 urtetan zehar, liburutegiaren sorreratik zerbitzuek izan dituzten aldaketak nabarmentzen da. Gaur egun, unibertsitate liburutegiek dituzten erronka eta aukerak azpimarratzen da. Zerbitzuen garapen eta eraldaketari ekiten zaio, Unibertsitatearen beharrei lotuta, irakaskuntzan zein ikaskuntzan eta ikerkuntzan ere, eta oro har erabiltzaileen zentratutako ereduan. ABSTRACT We give an account of how we address library services in the Library of the Public University of Navarra. We bring to light the evolution of such services in the 25 years since it was created. We highlight the challenges and opportunities that university libraries face nowadays. We review the development and transformation of the services which are tightly linked to the University’s teaching, learning and research needs, and which are based on a user-centered model.

scholarly journals Course-based exhibitions: Serendipity in the physical and digital spaces of academic libraries

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 174-188
Author(s):  
Scott Fralin ◽  
Alice Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Spaces

Library exhibition practices vary significantly between institutions, depending on expertise, resources and goals of the individual library. The University Libraries at Virginia Tech have supported and developed two exhibition programmes within the past 6 years, both with a focus on showcasing products and processes from classes around campus rather than library materials and artefacts. While such work is unique, it can provide valuable experiences both for the contributors and for the creators of these exhibitions, as well as those who see and interact with them. In this article, we discuss the history and origins of these programmes, the Course Exhibit Initiative and the Active Learning Curation Program, how they work and the outcomes they strive to achieve. We discuss the workflows that we take to showcase the work of our contributors and demonstrate how these programmes share some outcomes with exhibit programmes based in special collections but have their own unique challenges and opportunities. Finally, we make the case that the output of these two exhibit programmes provides a new experience of serendipity in libraries.

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