Tag Archives for Collection and Development
Measures of Change in Academic Library Behavior
New strategies and practices are required given the changes technology has brought to higher education and scholarly communication. Many libraries are implementing these strategies and practices, but it is difficult to move often long-established ways of doing things and to … Continue reading
Supporting Librarians in Making the Business Case for OER
College textbook costs increased at three times the rate of inflation between 2002 and 2012 (United States General Accounting Office [GAO], 2013). One solution to high textbook costs is Open Educational Resources (OER) and institutional librarians, because of their reach … Continue reading
Rethinking Liaison Programs for the Humanities
For generations, most research libraries have had employees with deep subject expertise. Once known as bibliographers, these scholars and librarians originally focused their efforts on selection for collection building. Today, there is real anxiety about the role of subject expertise … Continue reading
The digital library futures project
“Paul Gooding” describes a joint project looking at the impact of the expansion of legal deposit to include digital material and the challenges that these e-legal deposits pose for the academic sector and its interactions with institutional and regulatory system. Read … Continue reading