The Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs, 2014 Edition

The Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs, 2014 Edition
Author: Primary Research Group
Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1574402633

The study examines how academic libraries are serving their institution’s distance and blended learning programs, including the impact of the rapid development of MOOCs and the increasing use of lecture capture in online courses. The study looks at staffing, budgets, salaries and other nuts and bolts aspects of college library programs to serve distance learners. It also probes how librarians communicate with distance learners – through online information literacy courses, online tutorials, instant messaging and a strong presence on course management systems, among many other ways. The study offers hard data on the percentage of distance learning librarians that archive and use lecture capture materials, their spending on licensed films and other intellectual property for distance learners, and the ways that librarians track contacts with distance learning students and much more.

Library Services for Online Patrons

Library Services for Online Patrons
Author: Joelle E. Pitts
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1440859523

"A practical blueprint for improving online services for library patrons who learn, study, and research online"--

The Survey of Academic Libraries

The Survey of Academic Libraries
Author: Primary Research Group
Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1574401025

This latest edition of The Survey of Academic Libraries presents data from more than 75 American and Canadian academic libraries. Data are broken out by size and type of library for easier benchmarking. Data coverage includes: trends in staffing and salaries, hiring plans, changes in the deployment of labor in the library, materials spending, including specific data on databases, traditional print books and journals; receipts from grants and endowments, trends in capital spending, spending on library learning centers, trends in spending through online booksellers, plans for digital repository development, and developments in special collections, among other areas. TABLE OF CONTENTS List Of Tables 3 SURVEY PARTICIPANTS 20 Introduction & Demographics 21 Chapter One: Summary Of Main Findings 23 Chapter Two: Staff 36 Chapter Three: Materials Spending 44 Chapter Four: Grants 50 Chapter Five: Capital Spending 64 Chapter Six: Technology Education Center 74 Chapter Seven: Books 78 Chapter Eight: Subject-Specific Investment 86 Chapter Nine: Journals 101 Chapter Ten: Information Literacy 111 Chapter Eleven: Special Collections 117 Chapter Twelve: Building Plans 127 Chapter Thirteen: Notable Library Science Schools 131 OTHER REPORTS FROM PRIMARY RESEARCH GROUP INC.

Survey of Academic Library Use of Instructional Technology

Survey of Academic Library Use of Instructional Technology
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Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1574401076

Survey of academic libraries, chiefly in the United States and Canada, on their use of classroom response systems (clickers); whiteboards, tablets, and other presentation aids; internet technologies such as instant messaging, blogs, wikis, podcasting, photo sharing, online simulations/tutorials, virtual classroom/reality software, virtual reference software, and course management systems; instructional budgets; instructional computer labs; and instructional furniture.

The Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs, 2011-12 Edition

The Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs, 2011-12 Edition
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Publisher: Primary Research Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN: 9781574401752

This report looks closely at how libraries are servicing distance learning programs. It looks at how these programs have impacted library purchasing, particularly of eBooks and audio visual resources, and at how libraries are providing information literacy courses and tutorials to students at a distance. The study also give detailed data on the size of distance learning library services staff, their salaries, whether they have independent budgets, and how they relate to the college distance learning program staff itself. Other issues discussed include copyright and licensing issues, shipping costs, assessment, role in student orientation and role in use of course management systems. Data in the report is based on a survey of more than 70 distance learning programs and is broken out by size of college, size of distance learning program and type of college.

International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects

International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects
Author: Primary Research Group
Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2008
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 157440105X

The International Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects presents detailed data about the management and development of a broad range of library special collection and museum digitization projects. Data is broken out by type of digitization project (ie text, photograph, film, audio, etc) size and type of institution, annual spending on digitization and other variables. The report presents data and narrative on staffing, training, funding, technology selection, outsourcing, permissions and copyright clearance, cataloging, digital asset management, software and applications selection, marketing and many other issues of interest to libraries and museums that are digitizing aspects of their collections.

Research Library International Benchmarks

Research Library International Benchmarks
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Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1574401033

Of main findings -- List of tables -- Participants -- 1. Intro -- 2. Staff -- 3. Capital budget -- 4. Materials spending -- 5. Grants -- 6. Collection digitization -- 7. Personnel changes -- 8. Technology investment -- 9. Intra-library employee communications -- 10. Relations with consortiums -- 11. Workstations and information literacy -- 12. Relations with college or institutional subsidiaries in foreign countries -- 13. Open access and digital repositories -- 14. Books and journals.

Library Use of E-books

Library Use of E-books
Author: Primary Research Group
Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1574401017

Data in the report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop their e-book collections, what they think of e-book readers and software, and which e-book aggregators and publishers appeal to them most and why. Other issues covered include: library production of e-books and collection digitization, e-book collection information literacy efforts, use of e-books in course reserves and inter-library loan, e-book pricing and inflation issues, acquisition sources and strategies for e-books and other issues of concern to libraries and book publishers.

The Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings

The Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings
Author: Patrick Mahoney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136435077

Learn how to provide better service to distance information users! This book is the result of the conference held in May, 2004 in Scottsdale, Arizona, focusing on librarians' challenges providing service to nontraditional faculty and students. Respected authorities discuss in detail specific problems—and fresh strategies and solutions—to further promote service to distance information users. Each chapter tackles a particular issue such as collaboration outside the contributor's organization or how services can be monitored and assessed to gauge quality, and fully explains what can be done to address those issues. Each distinguished contribution was carefully selected by a 26-member advisory board using a juried abstracts process. Thorough bibliographies, useful figures, tables, and graphs provide accessibility and clarify ideas. Some of the topics in this book include: the promotion of library services to Native American students the planning and development process of a project to create a Web-based multi-media instruction tool for off-campus graduate students an examination of direct linking tools provided by major aggregators distance learning for the learning disabled distance learning implementation strategies for institutions course management software (CMS) and library services integration a survey of Association of Research Libraries offered services the do’s and don’ts of videoconferencing on and off-campus an eBooks collection study one-on-one research coaching via digital reference service an online tool that assesses students’ research skills and attitudes creating a library CD for off-campus students expanding student and faculty access to information services the collaboration with faculty on electronic course reserves developing assessment questions for services supporting off-campus learning programs providing secure off-campus access to library services beyond proxy servers and much, much more! The Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings is an invaluable comprehensive resource detailing the latest challenges and solutions for on- and off-campus librarians.

The Teaching Library

The Teaching Library
Author: Scott Walter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317965396

How do you make the case that your library is a valuable instruction center? The Teaching Library helps librarians assess data on information literacy instruction programs so that they can better support the teaching role of the academic library in campus settings. This practical, professional resource features case studies from across the United States and Canadain both public and private institutionsthat offer a variety of evaluation methods. Here are the latest, easy-to-adopt ways of measuring your library's direct contribution to student learning, on-campus and off.