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Christopher J. Levesque; Bianca Jimmerson – Education Libraries, 2024
Library staff developed a project to reclassify the Curriculum Materials Collection of a specialty library on the campus of a regional comprehensive university. Materials were reclassified from a custom classification system derived from those developed by Lois Belfield Watt in 1962 and Harlan Johnson in 1973, to the Dewey Decimal Classification.…
Descriptors: Classification, Special Libraries, Library Development, Change
Damith Perera; Whitney Hilley; Juliana M. Nykolaiszyn – Journal of Access Services, 2024
This case study explores the transformation of study room reservations at the Oklahoma State University (OSU) Libraries. Initially reliant on manual methods, the library transitioned to vendor-supported software and would later develop a custom, open source user interface (UI) to streamline booking efficiency. These improvements help demonstrate…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Study Facilities, Scheduling
Yajun Guo; Shuai Li; XinDi Zhang; Yiyang Fu; Yiming Yuan; Yanquan Liu – College & Research Libraries, 2024
The purpose of this study is to learn more about virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) practices at the United States' top one hundred university libraries, as well as how they are engaging with the metaverse. We conducted qualitative and descriptive analysis on the websites of the top one hundred university libraries in the United…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Metadata
Lijuan Xu – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
Drawing on recent teaching experiences in two intermediate-level classes, this paper showcases the ways through which librarians can help students interrogate structural issues in knowledge creation. Through class discussions and projects, students engaged with information at both individual sources and system levels. They confronted hidden…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Epistemology, Social Justice, Minority Groups
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
Winifred Bentil; Chern Li Liew – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
This study investigates staffing competencies and collaboration for electronic resource management (ERM) in public and private university libraries in Ghana. Interviews were conducted with twenty-four library staff from two public and two private universities and three consortium executives. The findings revealed similarities and differences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Personnel, Electronic Libraries
Angela Jones-Evans – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2025
This paper examines the impact of process mapping on the management of change in an academic library in a UK higher education institution. Book ordering has been highlighted by a group of subject librarians as being time-consuming and inefficient, detracting from their ability to respond to new challenges and opportunities. An action research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
Lea Efird-Green; Eve Marion; Diane Willis; Jennifer M. Gierisch; Leonor Corsino – College & Research Libraries, 2024
The Duke University Clinical and Translational Science Institute Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) created an e-Library in 2018. This e-Library was developed in response to requests from academic researchers and the community for reliable, easily accessible information about community-engaged research approaches and concepts. It was…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
Buller, Ryan F.; Gypin, Lindsay – Journal of Access Services, 2021
Library long-term and strategic plans tend to employ top down approaches that can leave departmental staff feeling disconnected an unrepresented in the plan. In 2019, the Access Services Department at the University of Denver engaged in a long-term planning process. This process puts Access Services staff members at the center of the process. This…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Development, Strategic Planning, Universities
Elrod, Rachael; Kester, Brittany; Spears, Laura I. – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2021
Many academic libraries renovate physical spaces to address the needs of the 21st century learner. This study presents the assessment tools used to evaluate the use of space prior to a branch library renovation as well as results of two post-renovation assessments to examine the success of the project. The pre-renovation survey showed that library…
Descriptors: Library Facilities, Library Development, Facility Improvement, Student Behavior
Caitlin Stewart – Education Libraries, 2024
This case study explores the strategies used to redistribute materials among available shelves in a curriculum materials center after deaccessioning and relocation projects. The librarian estimated imposed fill ratios based on collection segments which were then mapped onto a floor plan to efficiently shift materials. The estimated imposed fill…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Development, Library Facilities, Library Materials
Kim, Yujin; Hong, Sungil; Yang, Eunhwa – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2021
In higher education, libraries are facing drastic spatial changes, transforming areas traditionally used for housing books to spaces for interaction and shifting from individual to team-based learning. This study (a) identifies space uses; (b) examines the environmental satisfaction, support for productivity, and perceived productivity depending…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Space Utilization, Productivity, Library Development
Ducas, Ada; Michaud-Oystryk, Nicole; Speare, Marie – College & Research Libraries, 2020
The academic library profession is being redefined by the shifting research and scholarly landscape, the transformation in higher education, and advances in technology. A survey of librarians working in Canada's research-intensive universities was conducted to explore new and emerging roles. This study focuses on librarians' activities in:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Library Role
Ashcroft, Tamasine; Bird, Lisa; Bull, Stephen; Harper, Polly; James, Ann-Marie; Robertson, Catherine – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2020
In summer 2017, the University of Birmingham reconfigured from a subject librarian model of academic library support to a functional or task-based model, including the creation of a dedicated Engagement Team. Using case studies from the new team, an internal survey of staff across the University alongside a survey of librarians from other…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Libraries, Library Policy, Librarians
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