scholarly journals A Strategy for Academic Libraries in the First Quarter of the 21st Century

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 418-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
The Web

The wide application of digital technologies to scholarly communications has disrupted the model of academic library service that has been in place for the past century. Given the new Internet tools and the explosive growth of digital content available on the Web, it is now not entirely clear what an academic library should be. This article is an attempt to provide a strategy for academic libraries in what is left of the first quarter of the 21st century. There are five components of the model: 1) complete the migration from print to electronic collections; 2) retire legacy print collections; 3) redevelop library space; 4) reposition library and information tools, resources, and expertise; and 5) migrate the focus of collections from purchasing materials to curating content. Each of the components of the strategy and their interactions will be considered. It is hoped that the result will provide a useful roadmap for academic libraries and the campuses they serve.

scholarly journals The Past, Present, and Future of Demand-Driven Acquisitions in Academic Libraries

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Goedeken ◽  
Karen Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
State University ◽  
Iowa State University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constant State ◽  
Call Number ◽  
Development And Evolution ◽  
Do So

Demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) programs have become a well-established approach toward integrating user involvement in the process of building academic library collections. However, these programs are in a constant state of evolution. A recent iteration in this evolution of ebook availability is the advent of large ebook collections whose contents libraries can lease, but not own only if they choose to do so. This study includes an investigation of patron usage and librarian ebook selection by comparing call number data generated by usage of three entities: (1) an ebrary PDA; (2) Academic Complete, which is a leased collection of ebooks; and (3) subject librarian selections based on the YPB approval plan at Iowa State University. The context is provided through a description of the development and evolution of demand driven acquisitions programs with an analysis of where libraries have been and where they are going with enhancing the collection development in academic libraries.

scholarly journals Academic Information Behavior and the Role of the Academic Library: A Study of an Israeli University

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riki Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Information Behavior ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Log Files ◽  
Library Users ◽  
Research Populations ◽  
Academic Information

This article-based dissertation presents three articles, all studying information behavior of the patrons in an academic library in Israel.This dissertation intends to help academic libraries understand their patrons' information behavior in the second decade of the 21st century and to make library services more available and beneficial to its users. The study presents a unique perspective on library users' academic information behavior from three different aspects. The users', the librarians and systems log files. The study utilizes different methodologies and different research populations to get full and comprehensive insights.

scholarly journals Librarian in the underground: What academic libraries can learn from DIY culture

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 312
Author(s):  
Solomon Blaylock ◽  
Declan Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Information Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
The Past ◽  
Library Professionals

Academic library professionals are now in uncharted territory. We’re hurtling through unfamiliar, rapidly shifting landscapes. Information storage and retrieval, scholarly publishing, information literacy: everything’s changing on a daily basis. Get hung up on any one thing, and you’re already working in the past. Allow yourself to be overwhelmed and you’re paralyzed.

scholarly journals Changing the Shape of the Library:

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Marlene Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Classroom Teacher ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Mind

Whilst teaching years 5 and 6 I was once asked to describe my library. My response to this was ‘it rocks’. The staff viewed me quizzically and subsequently moved on to their lunchtime conversation. Little did I know this would be the theme of the 2015 conference? In 2013 I inherited my current library as the stereotypical ‘quiet’, very structured environment of the past century. It was visited by few students during their lunchtime as they required a lunchtime pass (only 6 per class) which was given to them by their classroom teacher. These passes were then collected by library monitors at the door - no pass, no library!Library lessons consisted of 30 minute sessions whereby books were loaned, returned, a story read and the class departed and then the next class arrived to repeat the procedure regardless of age. The schedule was busy as there are 24 classes. There were occasions whereby a book was recommended as a great read and short listed books from the Children’s Book Council were shared. How to change the mind set of both staff and students to see the library and its potential was both my challenge and my goal. It was time to move towards 21st century learning whereby students can develop the skills of creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking. This is not rocket science as this is every teacher librarian’s goal. I can successfully say that 2 years later my library rocks and this sentiment is wholeheartedly shared by students, staff and the community.‘So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.’ (Willy Wonka, 1971) That was 2014.

scholarly journals Weeding the Web

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-156
Author(s):  
Michael Chee
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Information Delivery ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Web

Content available on LibGuides in the academic library context would benefit from being viewed and curated/edited as individual and distinct collections. Viewing LibGuides through this lens provides academic libraries with a new perspective for resolving the well-documented user experience issues that afflict this mode of information delivery. Novel considerations that emerge from this approach include: a) the value of formalizing a collection acquisition policy for individual LibGuides; b) the importance of creating content responsive to emerging research directions; and c) an emphasis on the need for weeding and deselection processes. Although the author anticipates especial resistance to the idea that content on LibGuides would benefit from regular weeding, from the stance that virtual content takes up minimal space, this paper argues that the prioritization of high-quality, curated content in the era of the attention economy is a practice of prime importance.

scholarly journals La Nueva Argentina

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
Melissa Privette
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Financial Position ◽  
Juan Peron

Argentina's recent default is simply another chapter in a saga that stretches back over the past century. To ensure that default and economic recession don’t continue to be the norm in Argentina, its leaders and its people alike must seriously reevaluate the myth of Juan Perón and its relevance in the 21st century world. In order to improve its financial position, Argentina must be willing to relinquish its past views on economic dogma.

Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Meet the Relevant Challenge of Customer Relationship Management for the U.S. Academic Libraries in the 21st Century Using 121 e-Agent Framework

2011 ◽  
pp. 284-311
Author(s):  
Sharon Q. Yang ◽  
Amanda Xu
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Trust Management ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Customer Data ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Social Semantic Web ◽  
The Web

The main contributions of the chapter are 1) defining relevance challenge of CRM for U.S. academic libraries in the 21st century and applying social Semantic Web technologies to address the relevance challenge of CRM using 121 e-Agent framework in the Web as an infrastructure; 2) binding OLTP, OLAP, and Online Ontological Processing to social Semantic Web applications in CRM; 3) adding trust management to the linked data layer with a touch of tagging, categorizing, query log analysis, and social ranking as part of the underlying structure for distributed customer data filtering on the Web in CRM applications; 4) making the approach extensible to address relevance challenge of CRM in other fields.

scholarly journals Accessing E-books through Academic Library Web Sites

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Dinkelman ◽  
Kristine Stacy-Bates
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
One Step ◽  
Common Barriers ◽  
Improve Access ◽  
The Web

This article examines access to electronic books as provided on the Web sites of academic libraries in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Our goal was to discover the ways in which that access occurs and to analyze the merit of the various approaches. We found some common barriers to access, as well as many cases of exemplary access. Many libraries could improve access to e-books by providing guidance to the content of e-book packages, by including the word “book” in links from the homepage to the pages that provide e-books, by providing a one-step limit to e-books in the catalog, by explaining which types of resources are available through search structures outside the catalog, and by featuring e-books in library publicity and instruction.

scholarly journals The 2018 ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Annual Survey: Survey results and how to use them

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
The Past ◽  
Annual Survey ◽  
Survey Participation ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Print Edition ◽  
Summary Data

The editorial board of the ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics (ALTS) Annual Survey is thrilled to announce a 19.8% increase in survey participation over the past 4 years. Along with this increased participation comes a better understanding of what is happening in academic libraries and more impactful data for participants and researchers. Survey participants receive a complimentary link to summary data on the ACRLMetrics website. A subscription to ACRLMetrics provides access to all ALTS data starting from 1999 to present. A print edition of the 2018 data is also available for purchase through the ALA Store. This article highlights some of the findings from the 2018 survey and identifies valuable ways the data from the survey can be used.

scholarly journals CALA’s 21st Century Librarian Seminar Series – 2017 BALIS Conference

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Yongming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
American Library Association ◽  
American Library ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Beijing China

On September 13 and 14, 2017, four Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA, an affiliate of American Library Association) members went to Beijing, China, to attend BALIS conference and give a presentation to BALIS members (Beijing Academic Library Information Systems, a consortium of close to ninety academic libraries in Beijing).

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