In the summer of 2013, staff in the Access Services unit of an academic library began a cross-training and collaboration project in an effort to provide continued library service to the campus community. The cross-training was established in an attempt to address a shortage of staff as a result of budget cuts. The cross-training resulted in the…

To consolidate library public service points and reallocate staff resources, Old Dominion University Library (Virginia) transferred responsibility for government documents reference service to the library's main reference desk. A team-based approach was used to manage aspects of the merge, including training of reference desk staff and production…

Discusses collection development in research libraries and presents a model for organizing collection management that combines functional and team-based design principles. Traditional and new organization designs of university libraries are described, and collection development and management is defined in terms of reference and technical…

Describes how the University of Toronto library addressed the problem of supporting the extensive learning of electronic-information resources required by reference and library instruction staff by organizing teams of learners who shared responsibility for leadership. Discusses responses from evaluation questionnaires. (Author/LRW)

The 2003 Brick and Click is a one-day conference that focuses on providing library resources and services for students who are either on-campus learners or off-campus learners. The conference theme was "The Shape of Tomorrow". It is sponsored by the Northwest Missouri State University in order to offer academic librarians a forum for…

The Brick & Click Libraries Symposium is a one-day conference that focuses on providing library resources and services for students who are either on-campus learners or off-campus learners. It is sponsored by Northwest Missouri State University in order to offer academic librarians a forum for sharing practical information. The subjects and…