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Author: Valerie Horton
Publisher: ALA Editions
Published: 2021-04-02
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780838949870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy proudly owning the audaciousness of the Big Idea, libraries demonstrate both their resiliency and value to their communities. This resource shares the insights and practical knowledge to make it happen.
Author: Valerie Horton
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0838912184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo library stands alone. A long-standing tenet of the discipline, library cooperation predates the founding of ALA. Although these are times of crisis and uncertainty for library consortia (by one count, more than 65 consortia have closed since 2008), the collaboration that consortia offer helps libraries extend the value of every dollar spent. With over 35 years of experience managing five different library consortia between them, Horton and Pronevitz are uniquely qualified to show how consortia have been transforming themselves, offering new services and products while growing ever more important to the library community. Covering the history, current landscape, management approaches, critical trends, and key services that define today’s library consortia, they Highlight the current trends impacting consortia and the fiscal difficulties many have experienced since the 2007-2009 RecessionPresent conclusions drawn from sixteen case studies and the results of a recent survey on consortial environment and priorities Look into current management practices and give an overview of consortia activities, such as such as e-book technology and delivery methodsDiscuss the Discover to Delivery continuum, a key trend that allows libraries to maximize services This book will help new library staff understand the full range of activities that take place in today’s consortia, while also showing consortia managers, participants in consortial governance, and participating libraries methods for revising current practices, places for expanding services, and adopting new project ideas.
Author: Megan Lotts
Publisher: ALA Editions
Published: 2021-05-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780838949474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows academic and public libraries the many benefits of nurturing a culture of creativity, offering hands-on guidance on encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration, launching active-learning events that highlight collections and services, fostering goodwill and trust-building, and forming partnerships that promote library visibility.
Author: Peggy Keeran
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-09-22
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1538113724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries: Building Community Through Collaboration, Peggy Keeran and Carrie Forbes bring together a variety of ways academic libraries are engaging with their communities through outreach, with creativity and the spirit of collaboration as major themes throughout. As a compendium of best practices, it serves as a resource for academic librarians to discover new programming ideas, to learn principles of effective marketing, and to help them think strategically and programmatically about outreach activities of all types. Topics are presented in four sections: Strategic Vision and Planning Developing and Implementing Successful Programs Community Outreach: The Academic Library in the Community Broadening Library Outreach Audiences Practitioners designing outreach programs and activities will benefit from learning about a diverse set of outreach practices from libraries.
Author: David Feng
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 3662053004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEverything you ever wanted to know about multimedia retrieval and management. This comprehensive book offers a full picture of the cutting-edge technologies necessary for a profound introduction to the field. Leading experts also cover a broad range of practical applications.
Author: Lorcan Dempsey
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2014-08-18
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0838919979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems.
Author: American Library American Library Association
Publisher: ALA Editions
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780838959619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe genre of library services platforms helps libraries manage their collection materials and automate many aspects of their operations by addressing a wider range of resources and taking advantage of current technology architectures compared to the integrated library systems that have previously dominated. This issue of Library Technology Reports explores this new category of library software, including its functional and technical characteristics. It highlights the differences with integrated library systems, which remain viable for many libraries and continue to see development along their own trajectory. This report provides an up-to-date assessment of these products, including those that have well-established track records as well as those that remain under development. The relationship between library services platforms and discovery services is addressed. The report does not provide detailed listings of features of each product, but gives a general overview of the high-level organization of functionality, the adoption patterns relative to size, types, and numbers of libraries that have implemented them, and how these libraries perceive their performance. This seminal category of library technology products has gained momentum in recent years and is positioned to reshape how libraries acquire, manage, and provide access to their
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 1999-10-06
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 926417379X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis special issue of the STI Review focuses on "The Global Research Village"
Author: Kevin L. Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-12-08
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1442275049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, the second of two in the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library that deals with the topic of open access in academic libraries, focuses on the implementation of open access in academic libraries. Chapters on the legalities and practicalities of open access in academic libraries address the issues associated with copyright, licensing, and intellectual property and include support for courses that require open access distribution of student work. The topic of library services in support of open access is explored, including the library’s role in providing open educational resources, and as an ally and driver of their adoption, for example, by helping defray author fees that are required for open access articles. A detailed look at open access in the context of undergraduate research is provided and considers how librarians can engage undergraduates in conversations about open access. Chapters consider ways to engage undergraduate students in the use, understanding, evaluation, and creation of open access resources. Issues that are of concern to graduate students are also given some attention and central to these are the development of Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programs. A chapter examines the library’s role in balancing greater access to graduate student work with the consequences of openness, such as concerns about book contracts and sales, plagiarism, and changes in scholarly research and production. The book concludes with issues surrounding open data and library services in critical data librarianship, including advocacy, preservation, and instruction. It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.
Author: Wendy Pradt Lougee
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0974510904
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