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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
Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke; Malenfant, Kara – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has a long history of data collection, environmental scanning, and trends analysis. Its most recent work, "Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians," uses a 15-year horizon to look beyond the worries of the current economic cycle and the short-term future in order to anticipate the changing…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Librarian Attitudes, Library Development

Lee, Hur-Li – Libraries & Culture, 2002
Womens' studies librarians' view that women should be represented at the center of library collections and services generates conflict in the United States academic library. An examination of the development of a women's studies research library in the Rutgers University Libraries System between 1970 and the mid-1990s reveals the bibliographic and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Females, Higher Education, Librarian Attitudes

Massey-Burzio, Virginia – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1998
A study of how patrons think and behave as they seek information at a major research library (Johns Hopkins University) reveals the need to provide the kinds of services and programs that meet the actual needs and preferences of patrons. Focusing on what librarians think is needed can result in poor service. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Feedback, Information Seeking, Librarian Attitudes
Hoffert, Barbara – Library Journal, 1998
Reports on the book-buying trends and predilections of libraries at two-year colleges, four-year colleges, universities, and large research institutions. Four tables and figures show findings for purchasing power of academic libraries; areas academic librarians believe need more titles; most-bought book categories; and sources used to make…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Budgeting, Decision Making
Watson-Boone, Rebecca – 1998
Based on interviews with 29 librarians at a midwestern research university, this publication serves as a benchmark for what it is like to work as an academic librarian in a U.S. research university in the mid-1990's and considers changes occurring within the wider field of librarianship. Chapter 1 begins with a broad overview of the concept and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Change, Futures (of Society)