Describes experiences at the Arkansas State University at Jonesboro library when mold was discovered in a large portion of the monograph collection. Discusses causes of mold formation, equipment needed, news media coverage, staff involvement in the cleanup, and possible health hazards from mold. (LRW)

Includes three articles that discuss: (1) the creation of a persistent digital archive email collection, including technical issues; (2) a project at Cornell University that provides library users with personalized electronic library services; and (3) the digitization of a photographic collection in the United Kingdom for preservation purposes.…

Discusses the McDonaldization thesis that suggests that many aspects of the fast food industry are making their way into other areas of society. Explores whether this thesis is applicable to academic libraries, focusing on efficiency, calculability, predictability, control, user expectations, pros and cons of teams, and creativity and information…

Reviews the changes in scholarly publishing from the mid-1980s development of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Electronic Information Delivery Online System (EIDOS). Highlights selected initiatives in electronic publishing: Project MUSE, JSTOR, Academic Press' IDEAL, and Springer-Verlag's LINK Information service. (PEN)

Describes the practice of accreditation in general and considers the role of accreditation in higher education and its impact on academic libraries. Highlights include a history of accreditation; organization and regulation of the accrediting process; the federal government's role in accreditation; and accountability and academic libraries. (LRW)

Explains two methods for planning and implementing change that are being used by business and public institutions: re-engineering, and process improvement. Both are customer oriented and can be utilized by academic libraries as is shown in a case study of the library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (LRW)

Discussion of the restructuring of organizations focuses on some of the factors leading to changes in the organizational structures of academic libraries and provides an overview of trends discernible in North America. Considers possible future developments that might radically alter the organizational structures of academic libraries. (Author/LRW)

Examines the design characteristics of ready-reference and email reference pages on the Web sites of 110 academic libraries in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Characteristics examined included the wording of page titles and links, organization schemes, timeliness, and additional means of communication available between patron and…

The Electronic Reserve Book Room Project (E-RBR) was a two-stage project with three major objectives: (1) to provide San Diego State University Library (California) with experience in applying imaging technology; (2) to provide a model for the resolution of the copyright problems inherent in the Library's application of these technologies; and (3)…

Reviews and describes in detail the procedures of three cataloging projects outsourced with OCLC for a rare book collection of over 10,000 items and a backlog of 30,000 additional titles in the Marian Library of the University of Dayton, a research library focused on Mary, the mother of Jesus. (Author/LRW)

Examines the growth of automation at two university libraries, with particular attention to the stages in the evolution of the academic systems librarian. Discusses a growth in digitized resources; integration of systems; developments in client/server technology, especially as they relate to the World Wide Web; and changes I organizational…

Describes the evolving information technologies employed at the Digital Library Initiative (DLI-I) Testbed of full-text journal articles at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Examines how XML, XSLT, and CSS can be used in a digital library application and discusses document representation and transmission, metadata schema, and…

Discussion of planning for academic library buildings focuses on the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) which is dedicated to academic planning, institutional decision making and resources planning, and facilities planning in higher education. Describes SCUP conferences and possibilities for assistance for academic libraries. (LRW)

Discusses courses that archives are developing to help students understand and use archival materials, stresses the importance of critical thinking skills, provides an introduction to critical thinking instruction, and describes how the university archivist successfully implemented critical thinking skills into a historical research methods course…

Discusses the state of flux in scholarly communications and publishing, explains the Actor-Network Theory that offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the impact on libraries, provides an overview of the evolution of scholarly communications sociotechnical networks, and analyzes the strategy of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic…