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Ravenwood, Clare; Stephens, Derek; Walton, Graham – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2015
Many factors and pressures affect decisions made in UK university libraries on opening hours especially 24/7. This article reports on a project to examine the decision-making process, influential factors, and stakeholders. A workshop for senior library managers in the East Midlands was held to gather data and share experiences. From analysis of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Working Hours, Scheduling, Library Policy
Lee, Jongwook; Burnett, Gary; Vandegrift, Micah; Baeg, Jung Hoon; Morris, Richard – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2015
Introduction: This study explores the extent to which an institutional repository makes papers available and accessible on the open Web by using 170 journal articles housed in DigiNole Commons, the institutional repository at Florida State University. Method: To analyse the repository's impact on availability and accessibility, we conducted…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Journal Articles, Academic Libraries, Access to Information
Triumph, Therese F.; Beile, Penny M. – College & Research Libraries, 2015
The primary objective of the study was to describe the number, types and titles, requested qualifications and skills, salary information, and locations of positions advertised in 2011 on the ALA JobLIST and ARL Job Announcements websites and in the print version of the Chronicle of Higher Education for purposes of determining the current state of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Labor Market, Library Personnel, Content Analysis
Robertson, Mark – College & Research Libraries, 2015
This study examines perceptions of provosts from Canadian research-intensive universities regarding their institution's academic libraries. Interviews conducted with nine provosts explored how they perceive academic libraries in terms of alignment with institutional mission, how they envision the future of their libraries, and what they interpret…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Role, Research Universities
Lyons, Lucy Eleonore; Blosser, John – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
The "Comprehensive Allocation Process" (CAP) is a reproducible decision-making structure for the allocation of new collections funds, for the reallocation of funds within stagnant budgets, and for budget cuts in the face of reduced funding levels. This system was designed to overcome common shortcomings of current methods. Its philosophical…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Administration, Budgeting, Resource Allocation
Morales, Myrna; Knowles, Em Claire; Bourg, Chris – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
In this essay, we embrace a vision of the future of academic libraries where librarians confront and creatively address the lack of racial and ethnic diversity within our profession and actively pursue a social justice agenda within our libraries and in the communities we serve. This future requires that we acknowledge that many of our current…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Ethnic Diversity
Banks, Marcus – Communications in Information Literacy, 2013
Academic librarians should expand our understanding of what counts as an authoritative resource, and be unafraid to challenge long-established wisdom in this domain. Wikipedia is far from perfect, but neither is the Encyclopedia Britannica. Wikipedia is updated daily, while the Britannica is no longer printed. If we cling to the Britannica as a…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Competence, Higher Education, Academic Libraries
Perkins, Gay Helen; Slowik, Amy J. W. – College & Research Libraries, 2013
In the summer of 2010, two researchers interviewed twenty-three library administrators of comparable academic libraries at American universities for their views of the value of research in academic libraries. The interview questions focused on the administrators' perceived value of academic librarians' research, incentives given to academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Research, Librarians, Library Administration
Godby, Carol Jean – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2013
This document describes a proposed alignment between BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework) and a model being explored by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) with extensions proposed by the Schema Bib Extend project, a Worldwide Web Consortium sponsored (W3C-sponsored) community group tasked with enhancing Schema.org to the description of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Data Processing, Databases
Baughman, M. Sue, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2013
"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") focuses on current and emerging topics that are strategically important to research libraries. The articles explore issues, share information, pose critical questions, and provide examples. This issue includes the following articles: (1) ARL Library Budgets after the Great Recession, 2011-13…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Budgets, Staff Utilization, College Libraries
Pevar, Susan Gunn – Journal of Archival Organization, 2011
This article presents a perspective on how the restructuring of a historically black university's library and resulting closure of its special collections and archives puts important records pertaining to African American history in jeopardy. This article traces the recent history of special collections and archives at the Lincoln University…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Academic Libraries, Archives, African American History
Sofronijevic, Adam; Milicevic, Vesna; Ilic, Bojan; Seaman, Scott – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2011
As academic libraries around the world face the dual challenges of rising demand but limits on funding, managers look for ways to improve library performance that do not add significantly to the budget. This paper presents a novel relationship between intrapreneurship and Enterprise 2.0 that suggests there are relatively cheap and easy ways to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Administration, Innovation
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Johnson, Carolyn, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
Nineteen scholarly papers and seventeen abstracts comprise the content of the fifteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Instruction, Information Literacy
Herold, Irene M. H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The College Libraries Section (CLS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is the only section specifically for college librarians. In response to a 1989 conference panel of directors' recommendation that there be program for developing college librarians as leaders for the next century, CLS sponsored activities to…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Librarians, Administrators, Library Administration
Kimmel, Sue C. – School Library Research, 2012
Emphasis on collaboration is a significant thrust in both current school reform and school librarianship. Planning for instruction is generally included in various definitions and models of collaboration. Some research exists about individual planning done in isolation (Warren 2000), but little is known about teachers' planning with other…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Science