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Ruth Kitchin Tillman; Gala Campos Oaxaca – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Even as librarians have spent the past twenty years documenting the rich world of scholarly communication beyond the catalog, repositories and catalogs too often remain completely siloed from each other. Current practices and tools to unite the two focus entirely on matching names, an imprecise method requiring substantial time spent on review.…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Development, Naming, Library Services
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Fredrick Otike; Peter Kiszl – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Academic libraries are experiencing drastic changes due to unprecedented advancements in technology. This advancement has caused changes in users' information-seeking behavior, increased information competitors, and easy access and availability to free information on the internet. It is unfortunate that all this is happening amidst the dwindling…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Technological Advancement, Library Development, Entrepreneurship
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Brian Mathews – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Academic and research libraries are undergoing a profound transformation, shaped by technological advancements, shifting societal dynamics, and evolving institutional priorities. This essay examines how these forces are driving libraries to evolve into specialized and distinct models, shaping their future and drawing parallels to the Cambrian…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Specialization, Educational Trends
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Watts, John – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
Leading organizational change can be an enticing and exciting venture for library professionals. However, unforeseen difficulties can challenge even the most enthusiastic leader. This article explores one librarian's experience with organizational change and offers practical strategies for weathering obstacles to the success of new initiatives in…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Change Agents
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Kranich, Nancy; Lotts, Megan; Nielsen, Jordan; Ward, Judit H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
In the twenty-first century, academic libraries and librarians have recast the narrative by turning outward, engaging more deeply across the university. No longer solely focused on collecting, libraries now embrace connecting with their campus communities to foster consumption, production, curation, preservation, collaboration, and inquiry around…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Role
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Cox, Andrew M.; Pinfield, Stephen; Rutter, Sophie – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
The literature about academic libraries takes a strong interest in the future, yet little of it reflects on academic libraries' underlying stance toward the years ahead: is there a sense of change or continuity? Is there optimism or pessimism? Consensus or divergence? This article explores these questions using data from interviews with a broad…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Development, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Benedetti, Allison R. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
As libraries respond to new teaching and research practices in the twenty-first century, it is important to consider how to advertise library services. Users are often surprised to learn about the varied expertise of library staff and the many services the staff provides. To investigate this issue, the author designed a study to identify a more…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Development, Institutional Advancement, Publicity
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Wiberley, Stephen E., Jr. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
Books are the most important medium of communication in the humanities, a major medium in the social sciences, and a central component of academic library collections. This study examined humanities and social sciences books that won prizes from ten leading United States disciplinary associations between 2000 and 2009. The study extends earlier…
Descriptors: Humanities, Social Sciences, Professional Associations, Intellectual Disciplines
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Whitworth, Andrew; Calvo, Maria-Carme Torras; Moss, Bodil; Kifle, Nazareth Amlesom; Blåsternes, Terje – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
Two academic libraries undergoing significant organizational changes were the location for a project that researched how staff members and subunits of the libraries made collective judgments, negotiated what is sometimes called the "landscape of practice"--the collective body of knowledge of their profession--and thus came to collective…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Academic Libraries, Organizational Change, Library Development
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Stigberg, Sara; Guittar, Michelle; Morse, Geoffrey – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Assessment and supporting data have become of increasing interest in librarianship. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation of the Northwestern University Library Acknowledgments Database tool, which gathers and documents qualitative data, as well as its component reporting function. This collaborative project and resulting…
Descriptors: Special Libraries, Database Design, Library Development, Program Implementation
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Chen, Yu-Hui; Rorissa, Abebe; Germain, Carol Anne – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
The authors compared Web usability definitions, collected from library professionals at academic institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) through online surveys in 2007 and 2012, to determine whether library practitioners' perspectives had altered as information technologies evolved during this time. The authors applied three…
Descriptors: Definitions, Usability, Academic Libraries, Online Surveys
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Jaggars, Damon E. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
This special issue of "portal: Libraries and the Academy" grew out of a discussion about the need for speculative, creative space within the library and information science (LIS) literature.1 While venues for exposing important research and illuminating case studies are plentiful, the LIS literature lacks an obvious platform on which to…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Writing for Publication, Academic Libraries, Library Development
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Dempsey, Lorcan; Malpas, Constance; Lavoie, Brian – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
This article takes a broad view of the evolution of collecting behaviors in a network environment and suggests some future directions based on various simple models. The authors look at the changing dynamics of print collections, at the greater engagement with research and learning behaviors, and at trends in scholarly communication. The goal is…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Development, Library Administration, Investment
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Jurczyk, Eva; Jacobs, Pamela – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
This article discusses a project undertaken to assess the journals in a Big Deal package by applying a weighted value algorithm measuring quality, utility, and value of individual titles. Carried out by a national library consortium in Canada, the project confirmed the value of the Big Deal package while providing a quantitative approach for…
Descriptors: National Standards, Measurement Techniques, Quality Assurance, Use Studies