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Book Synopsis Best Practices of Academic Library Information Technology Directors by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book Best Practices of Academic Library Information Technology Directors written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is based on interviews with IT directors and assistant directors of leading college and university libraries and consortiums, including The Research Libraries Group, Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas, Lewis & Clark College, Salt Lake Community College, the University of Washington, the California Institute of Technology, Hutchinson Community College and Australia?s Monash University, Among the many topics covered are: investment in and maintenance of workstations, implementation of wireless access, policies towards laptops in the library, digitizing special collections, establishing digital depositories, preserving scholarly access to potentially temporal digital media, use of Ebooks, services for distance learning students, use of url resolvers, web site development and management, use of virtual reference, investment in library software, IT staff size and staff skill composition, range of IT staff responsibilities, use of outsourcing, relations between Library and general University IT staff, uses of PHP programming, catalog integration with the web, catalog enhancement software and services, web site search engine policies, use of automated electronic collection management software, technology education and training, development of technology centers and information literacy, library printing technology and cost reimbursement, and other issues of concern to library Information Technology Staff Directors.
Book Synopsis Best Practices of Public Library Information Technology Directors by :
Download or read book Best Practices of Public Library Information Technology Directors written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of major findings -- The Minneapolis Public Library -- Princeton Public Library -- Santa Monica Public Library -- Evansville Public Library -- Columbus Metropolitan Public Library -- The Boston Public Library -- Cedar Falls Public Library -- The Seattle Public Library -- The San Francisco Public Library -- The Denver Public Library -- Other reports from Primary Research Group, Inc.
Book Synopsis Conversations with Leading Academic and Research Library Directors by : Patrick Lo
Download or read book Conversations with Leading Academic and Research Library Directors written by Patrick Lo and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with Leading Academic and Research Library Directors: International Perspectives on Library Management presents a series of conversations with the directors of major academic and research libraries. The book offers insight, analysis, and personal anecdote from leaders in the library field, giving a unique perspective on how the modern library operates. Readers will learn about the most up-to-date trends and practices in the LIS profession from the directors of 24 internationally acclaimed academic and research libraries in Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, and the UK and USA. This is the first book focusing on leaders and managers of library institutions to offer a global outlook. Facing the need to respond to the expectations of changing populations that librarians strive to serve, this book aims to develop a new understanding of the core values of academic and research libraries, and asks how librarians can innovate, adapt, and flourish in a rapidly shifting professional landscape. Presents conversations with library leaders from 24 major institutions Offers a global perspective on the operation and management of libraries Discusses the director’s impact on institutional structures and future landscapes Gives insights based on first-hand experience
Book Synopsis Best Practices in Academic Libraries by : Shilpa S. Waghchoure
Download or read book Best Practices in Academic Libraries written by Shilpa S. Waghchoure and published by Ess Ess Publication. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global changes, particularly in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have had an impact on the functioning of academic libraries. The developments in ICT have changed the users' expectations in different ways, causing the ways librarians build a collection and give services to the end users to vary from recent past practices. To meet the demands of end-users effectively, the academic libraries need to identify and adopt good practices and benchmarks. Library and information system (LIS)?management is the basic and core activity which helps the user community in identifying and accessing knowledge resources in an academic institution. It is comprised of the activities performed in relation to the development of vision, mission and policies of the library, stock verification methods, budgeting and reporting, manpower development, basic amenities and facilities, as well as collection development management or information resources development. LIS management is also concerned with strategic planning of LIS in present and future operations. Identifying and internalizing best practices in the management and administrative functions at regular intervals would enhance the collection development process, services dissemination, and use of the library as a whole. A total of 21 case studies from various institutions have been presented here in an attempt to compile the case studies of the best practices used by the contributors in their libraries. This book will help the library professional who want to get NAAC accreditation in their institutions. [Subject: Library and Information Science]
Book Synopsis Library Management in the Information Technology Environment by : Brice G. Hobrock
Download or read book Library Management in the Information Technology Environment written by Brice G. Hobrock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1992, equips library managers in all types of libraries to make the administrative changes necessary to deal with new information technologies. Despite financial difficulties due to inflation and declining budgets, electronic/optical information formats and the hardware and software to support them are a reality for many libraries. Libraries are designing and implementing prototypes of the ‘electronic library’ and are introducing new technologies as a growing adjunct to traditional text formats and services. It analyses administrative adjustments to the new technological information culture. Chapters in this resource that deal with issues not easily grasped by non-computing specialists are distilled to basic components, making them easy for busy managers to comprehend and immediately useful to library administrators.
Book Synopsis Prevailing and Best Practices in Electronic & Print Serials Management by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book Prevailing and Best Practices in Electronic & Print Serials Management written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report looks closely at the electronic and print serials procurement and management practices of eleven libraries including: The University of Ohio, Villanova University, the Colorado School of Mines, Carleton College, Northwestern University, Baylor University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of San Francisco, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center"--P. 6.
Book Synopsis Training College Students in Information Literacy by :
Download or read book Training College Students in Information Literacy written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report profiles the information literacy efforts of a broad range of North American colleges including: Syracuse University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Windsor, Ulster County Community College, the University of North Texas, the University of California Berkeley, the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Southeastern Oklahoma University, Central Connecticut State University and Seattle Pacific University. Participants discuss how they promote information literacy at their institutions, how they win support of key faculty and administrators, and how they develop courses, guidelines, tutorials and standards. Other major issues include student assessment, instructor training, integration of info literacy into other curriculums, grants and institutional financial support, the impact of new educational technologies, and the role of learning and computer centers in supporting the info literacy effort, among other issues. Indiana University library officials discuss info literacy efforts for specialized populations, such as athletes, while librarians at the University of California, Berkeley explain their grant funded information literacy outreach program that reaches all corners of the University. University of North Texas librarians relate how they are developing special classrooms to ready themselves for the likely move towards more formal information literacy classes, while faculty at Ulster County Community College explain how the college developed a required information literacy course that is delivered through traditional means and through the college?s distance learning program. Instructional library faculty at North Carolina State Wilmington explain the political process of getting a required information literacy course approved at their university, while Seattle Pacific University librarians discuss the challenges of student assessment. As North American colleges move towards mandated information literacy courses, this study can help information literacy coordinators to reduce the time and effort involved in developing courses and tutorials, and assist them in dealing with in-house politics and in finding useful institutional models and best practices.
Book Synopsis Creating the Digital Art Library by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book Creating the Digital Art Library written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special report looks at the efforts of ten leading art libraries and image collections to digitize their holdings. The study reports on the efforts of The National Gallery of Canada, Cornell University?s Knight Resource Center, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, The Illinois Institute of Technology, The National Archives and Records Administration, McGill University, Ohio State University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the joint effort of Harvard, Princeton, The University of California, San Diego, the University of Minnesota and others to develop a union catalog for cultural objects. Among the issues covered: cost of outsourcing, cost of in-house conversions, the future of 35 mm slides and related equipment, use of ARTstor and other commercial services, ease of interlibrary loan in images and the creation of a union catalog, prioritizing holdings for digitization, relationship of art libraries to departmental image collections, marketing image collections, range of end users of image collections, determining levels of access to the collection, digitization and distribution of backup materials on artists lives and times, equipment selection, copyright, and other issues in the creation and maintenance of digital art libraries.
Download or read book Survey of Library Cafés written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survey of Library Cafes (ISBN# 1-57440-089-4)presents data from more than forty academic and public libraries about their cafes and other food service operations. The report gives extensive data on library cafe sales volume, best selling products, impact on library maintenance costs, reasons for starting a cafe, effect on library traffic, and many other issues regarding the decision to start and manage a library cafe. The 60 page report presents data useful in managing a library cafe; it is not returnable.
Book Synopsis The Academic Library Director by : Frank Dandraia
Download or read book The Academic Library Director written by Frank Dandraia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Academic Library Director: Reflections on a Position in Transition addresses the changing nature of work and the new demands being placed on academic library directors. The authors’broad range of professional experience offers you unique insight on a management position that is truly in transition. Get inside seasoned professionals’heads to save time, effort, and money for yourself and your library. See what these experienced directors did right . . . and learn from their mistakes. The Academic Library Director is the resource that: Considers the challenges of leading an academic library through the transition period between permanent directors; lists the challenges met by interim directors and presents their advice for succeeding in this difficult role. Studies the career paths for academic library directors based on a survey of 21 library directors across the country, with a focus on factors such as gender, education, age, tenure, professional experience, and internal vs. external candidates. Identifies critical criteria for recruiting library leaders for the 21st century. Should your library hire a manager or a leader? Provides a unique, non-librarian perspective on the establishment of a newly configured position of Vice Provost for Information and Dean of University Libraries at a large university. Discusses the perceptions recently appointed academic library directors have about collegiate life vis à vis the realities they’ve encountered since assuming their positions. Shows how a library can thrive in a not-for-profit culture by embracing for-profit principles. The Academic Library Director: Reflections on a Position in Transition will help prepare you and your library for the only sure thing in the future--change. Successful library directors will be the ones who can recognize and thrive on the “management of change.” Unsuccessful directors will find themselves unable to adapt. Use this book to ensure your library comes out on the right side of the line.
Book Synopsis Practical Strategies for Academic Library Managers by : Frances C. Wilkinson
Download or read book Practical Strategies for Academic Library Managers written by Frances C. Wilkinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for tips on how to work towards your overall vision while remaining productive on the frontlines? The book gives you fresh ideas for balancing your managerial duties with day-to-day responsibilities in the academic library. A compilation of ideas from noted leaders in academic librarianship, this book explores a wealth of topics, including budgeting, human resources, facilities, collections, and IT. There is also helpful advice that will help you navigate emerging areas of librarianship, such as blended librarianship, cross-institutional collaboration, and marketing the library. You will learn how to manage, lead, and address specific library areas—all at once. Practical Strategies for Academic Library Managers: Leading with Vision through All Levels is ideal for current professionals with an expanded scope of responsibilities and those who have had administrative duties for some time, but are looking for new techniques for being a better manager. The book includes an introduction written by the editors, who are both associate deans in university libraries. Each chapter is written by a different expert in the field, providing a rich array of approaches and perspectives.
Book Synopsis Library Collection Development for Professional Programs: Trends and Best Practices by : Holder, Sara
Download or read book Library Collection Development for Professional Programs: Trends and Best Practices written by Holder, Sara and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection development, the process used by librarians to choose items for a particular library or section of a library, can be time-consuming and difficult due to the many factors that must be taken into consideration. Library Collection Development for Professional Programs: Trends and Best Practices addresses the challenging task of collection development in modern academic libraries, which is largely learned on the job. This publication contains practical advice and innovative strategies essential for current collection development librarians and future librarians seeking guidance in this complex position.
Book Synopsis Current Practices and Future Plans of Public Library Webmasters by : Primary Research Group
Download or read book Current Practices and Future Plans of Public Library Webmasters written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new report from Primary Research Group is based on interviews with webmasters from the San Jose Public Library, the Salt Lake City Public Library, the Alexandria Library, the Los Angeles Public Library, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Public Library, the Houston Public Library, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Colorado Virtual Library and the Boston Public Library. A free sample chapter is available for download. A few of the report?s conclusions are summarized below:CONTENT MANAGEMENTLibraries take widely varying approaches to the issue of how should control the website and who should be empowered to add content to the site. Some libraries prefer to centralize access in the hands of just a few librarians who act as gatekeepers to the website. Others prefer to empower as many librarians as possible to contribute to the site, and to oversee their own contributions to the site. To achieve this, some libraries have purchased off the shelf content management systems, while others have developed in-house content management systems that allow non-technical librarians to function independent of the need for technical help. THE IMPACT OF CASCADING STYLE SHEETS (CSS)Cascading style sheet, that allow librarians to edit entire sites, or subsets of site, with one click of the mouse, have become popular ways to introduce some uniformity and lower the labor demand of editing public library websites. Cascading style sheets are important because librarians are finding more and more reasons to add more and more content to their sites. Public library websites have often quickly become unwieldy monsters that voraciously eat up librarian time. Correcting and editing these beasts by hand is dangerous and cascading style sheets allow proper measured feeding without loss of limb. MOST POPULAR PAGESSome of the most popular pages on the public library websites surveyed were the events calendar, basic library info page, database gateways and children?s and teen pages.STAFFINGRelative to the importance of the library website to the overall success of the library, the size of most library web staffs, when such staffs exist, is quite small. Usually one to three individuals run the website, and they often have other responsibilities. The strategy that most have pursued to overcome their small staffs is to devolve responsibility for content to subject specialist librarians, and to empower them to be able to edit the portions of the website for which they are responsible. UNIQUE CONTENTMost librarians interviewed stressed the need to develop unique content that would draw traffic to the website. Among the type of content mentioned were: interactive storytelling and educational games, reading lists and contests, book reviews by librarians posted online, subject guides, and events calendars. CHILDREN?S & TEEN SERVICESOne of the most vibrant areas for website development has been services for children and teens. This age group grew up with access to the world wide web and it is truly the only generation for which web use and communication is as natural as turning on the television for most Americans. Libraries have responded with books clubs, personalized spaces, interactive stories and games, and other features aimed at this audience. Nonetheless, many libraries have just scraped the surface of their potential in this area. We like what the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Public Library has done in this area, developing unique content, focused marketing and web teams to create a unique site for Charlotte area children. SPECIAL COLLECTIONSMany libraries have plans to digitize their special collections, or at the very least, to digitize finding aids for those collections and increase access to them through the library website. We expect that this will soon become a major area of public library investment and a challenge for website administrators who must devise access schemes to digitized resources.
Book Synopsis Trends in the Management of Library Special Collections in Film and Photography by : Primary Research Group, Inc
Download or read book Trends in the Management of Library Special Collections in Film and Photography written by Primary Research Group, Inc and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special report looks at the management and development of America[alpha]s thriving special collections in .lm and photography. The report pro.les the following collections: The University of Louisville, the Photographic Archives; the University of Utah[alpha]s Multimedia Collection; The American Institute of Physics[alpha] Emilio Segre Visual Archives; The News.lm Library at the University of South Carolina; The University of California, Berkeley Paci.c Film Archive; the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Vanderbilt University Television News Archive; The National Archives and Records Administration[alpha]s Special Media Preservation Laboratory; the University of Washington[alpha]s Digital Initiatives. The report covers digitization of photographs and .lm, special collection marketing, collection procurement, funding and .nancing, approaches for optimizing both sales revenues and educational uses, development of web-based sale and distribution systems for photography and .lm, systems to assure copyright compliance, the development of online searchable databases, and many other aspects of .lm and photography special collection management.
Book Synopsis The Marketing of Historic Sites, Museums, Exhibits, and Archives by :
Download or read book The Marketing of Historic Sites, Museums, Exhibits, and Archives written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defining Relevancy by : Janet M. Hurlbert
Download or read book Defining Relevancy written by Janet M. Hurlbert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connection. Competition. Collaboration. These three words define management of college libraries, today and in the future. They also describe the contents of this book, which focus on planning for the multiple directions that college library managers must consider and act upon. Contributed chapters cover the challenges nearly all must face, such as understanding users, information literacy, staff alignment, and the integration of physical building and function. Some chapters contain studies and models that can be replicated at similar institutions. Others offer documentation that can be used in reports or presentations to administrators and boards. Together, they convey a plethora of good ideas for responding to customers, competitors, technologies, and stakeholders.
Book Synopsis The Value of Academic Libraries by : Megan J. Oakleaf
Download or read book The Value of Academic Libraries written by Megan J. Oakleaf and published by Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr. This book was released on 2010 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) leaders and the academic community with a clear view of the current state of the literature on value of libraries within an institutional context, suggestions for immediate "Next Steps" in the demonstration of academic library value, and a "Research Agenda" for articulating academic library value. Its focus is to help librarians understand, based on professional literature, the current answer to the question, "How does the library advance the missions of the institution?" This report is also of interest to higher educational professionals external to libraries, including senior leaders, administrators, faculty, and student affairs professionals.
