Tag Archives for Academic Libraries
What Does it Take to Make Discovery a Success?: A Survey of Discovery Tool Adoption, Instruction, and Evaluation Among Academic Libraries
This study also draws connections between operational, instructional, and assessment practices and perceptions that participants have of the success of their discovery tool. Participants who indicated successful implementation of their discovery tool hailed from institutions that made significant commitments to … Continue reading
Diversity Remains a Challenge in Academic Libraries
A new survey reveals that leadership roles within academic libraries become less diverse as employees approach the senior-level. Read More
Distributed Publishers: Collaborating and Facilitating Publishing Across Campus
While the support for publishing open access journals in libraries is widespread as evidenced by the Library Publishing Coalition member roster and discussions about journals on library listservs and at conferences, not all libraries approach journal support by taking on … Continue reading
The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting
It is not only a tribute to Hazen’s impact on the academic library community, but also a primer on where academic library collections could be headed in the future. Read More
Exploring values-based (alt)metrics to enhance library services
This paper describes the HuMetricsHSS initiative, which calls for a major shift towards a values-based evaluation paradigm in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. HuMetricsHSS proposes that metrics only be used to measure a one’s progress towards embodying five core … Continue reading
Libraries: roles and opportunities on Open Science
Libraries: roles and opportunities on Open Science. Read More
Communicating Value Across the University: Library Assessment Across Academic, Student, and Administrative Afffairs
A recent survey of US library directors has identified concerns in regard to their ability to communicate library contributions to student success to senior leadership and other institutional stakeholders, and to communicate the ways in which academic libraries contribute to … Continue reading
Research 2.0 and research data services in academic and research libraries: priority issues
The role of Research Data Services, consisting of research data management, data curation and data stewardship, and data literacy education in supporting Research 2.0 is examined. Besides this, theory and principles, as well as selected examples of best practices in … Continue reading
Integrating the IR into Strategic Goals at the University of Toledo: Case Study
The purpose of this case study is to demonstrate a current model as well as explore future models for integrating institutional repositories in higher education goals at the University of Toledo. Read More
Special Issue: Research Data Services
Open access : https://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-journal — Articles : Libraries tackle the challenge of research data management; Managing research data at an academic library in a developing country; Building professional development opportunities in data services for academic librarians. Read More