The Academic Library and Its Users

The Academic Library and Its Users
Author: Peter Jordan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351895273

The many recent changes in higher and further education mean that it is more important than ever to analyse the needs of academic library users, and both promote and provide the service they require. This constructive book, pervaded throughout by the impact of IT on the learning environment, surveys the influences on today's academic library, and explains how to increase user satisfaction through quality management. The author focuses particularly on users' behaviour in the library, the problems they cause or encounter, and how libraries cope. The book examines the varying needs of undergraduate and graduate, mature and part-time students, overseas students, franchised students, distance learners and other groups with special needs, explaining ways in which these needs can be identified and the service evaluated. One chapter is devoted to research and researchers' information demands. The particular requirements of subject communities and their consequences for academic libraries are also investigated, as well as the requirements of teaching staff and ways in which the library can work with them. The author emphasizes the importance of user education programmes and explains how to promote the library effectively with limited resources. For librarians, heads of services and senior library managers in further and higher education, and those, such as subject librarians, responsible for specific student groups, this book provides a comprehensive and realistic guide to providing and promoting a quality service. Students of librarianship and information management will gain valuable insight from this book into user analysis and improving the performance of information provision.

E-Learning and the Academic Library

E-Learning and the Academic Library
Author: Scott Rice
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2016-04-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1476624410

Focusing on academic libraries and librarians who are extending the boundaries of e-learning, this collection of essays presents new ways of using information and communication technologies to create learning experiences for a variety of user communities. Essays feature e-learning projects involving MOOCs (massive open online courses), augmented reality, chatbots and other innovative applications. Contributors describe the process of project development, from determination of need, to exploration of tools, project design and user assessment.

Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries

Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries
Author: John Wang
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-08-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0081020325

Library Supply Chain Management for Collection Services of Academic Libraries: Solving Operational Challenges and Enhancing User Productivity contains three sections, each comprised of several topical chapters on a particular subject. Part One explains why supply chain management is vital to libraries. Part Two builds on Part One, beginning with a classic supply chain model, including its brief history and current development. Part Three suggests a theoretical supply chain model based on emerging technological advancements of society. This model will develop based on four components, user goals, workflow efficiency, financial stewardship and core services. - Introduces supply chain management to library and information science - Provides the first study on supply chain integration for libraries to fulfill their mission in knowledge management and delivery - Provides practitioners and researchers with a model and theoretical framework of the supply chain to further study library science - Inspires researchers and practitioners to embrace or adopt emerging technologies for service and operational optimization

Reimagining the Academic Library

Reimagining the Academic Library
Author: David W. Lewis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-05-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1442263385

Academic libraries are in the midst of significant disruption. Academic librarians and university administrators know they need to change, but are not sure how. Bits and pieces of what needs to happen are clear, but the whole picture is hard to grasp. Reimagining the Academic Library paints a simple straightforward picture of the changes affecting academic libraries and what academic librarians need to do to respond to the changes would help to guide future library practice. The aim is to explain where academic libraries need to go and how to get there in a book that can be read in a weekend. David Lewis provides a readable survey of the current state of academic library practice and proposes where academic libraries need to go in the future to provide value to their campuses. His primary focus is on collections as this is the area with the greatest opportunity for change and is the driver of most library cost. Lewis provides an accessible framework for thinking about how library practice needs to adjust in the digital environment. The book will be useful not only to academic librarians, but also for librarians to share with presidents and provosts who a concise source for understanding where and how to focus their expenditures on libraries.

Implementation of Automation In Academic Libraries

Implementation of Automation In Academic Libraries
Author: Dr. Md. Zubair Ahmad
Publisher: BFC Publications
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2022-01-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9355095783

Library whether academic, special or a public library, being the backbone of any organization, the basic function of the library is to identify, select, collect, process, store and disseminate the information at right time to the right person as and when required. This book is helpful for students doing library and information science courses, research scholars, library professionals, knowledge managers, and other communities planning to implement modern tools and technology in their libraries. This book also provides a practical approach to various new technologies implemented in various libraries. In this direction this book provides ideas to its readers about the approaches pertaining to practical implementations of modern tools and technologies, software platforms to automate their libraries, and other related technical aspects required for libraries. The target audience of this book will be students doing library science courses; research scholars working in the field of library and information science and library professionals. It will also guide to professionals working that includes Librarians, Officers in libraries, Information Scientists, consultants, Trainers, Students, Researchers and other library communities who are planning to adopt and implement modern tools and technologies in their libraries.

Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection

Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection
Author: Suzanne M. Ward
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838912982

Is your institution’s library bursting at the seams with books that have not been touched for decades, microfilm that nobody uses, and print journals that have been superseded by electronic access? Have you wondered how best to identify what physical material to retain and what to withdraw to maintain an inviting collection of relevant material for your users? Then it’s time to rightsize! Ward identifies the challenges and proposes solutions to shaping physical collections for today’s academic library. Filled with sage advice and ready-to-implement guidance, this book Introduces the concept of rightsizing, a strategic and largely automated approach that uses continuous assessment to identify the no- and low-use materials in the collectionWalks you through crafting a rightsizing plan, from developing withdrawal criteria and creating discard lists to managing workflow and disposing of withdrawn materialsShows how to identify stakeholders, plus strategies for winning them overOffers tips for working with consortial partners on collaborative print retention projectsDiscusses how growing electronic collections can enhance legacy print collectionsAdvises what to do with print journals after your library licenses perpetual access rights to the electronic equivalentLooks ahead to the future of physical collections in academic librariesBy learning how to rightsize, you will ensure that your institution’s collection meets the needs of your library’s users.

Envisioning Future Academic Library Services

Envisioning Future Academic Library Services
Author: Sue McKnight
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1856046915

Edited by a thought leader with an international reputation, it brings together renowned authors from across the globe who are breaking traditional moulds and boundaries in a way that will have a profound impact on the way libraries and library services are conceptualized in the years to come. They represent the key links in the knowledge chain: authors, publishers, academics, community knowledge creators, librarians and institutions; the student perspective is also provided.

Quality Services in Academic Libraries

Quality Services in Academic Libraries
Author: Felicia Etim
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2016-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1524604712

There is great consistency throughout these articles, research projects, management schemes, and standards, in and out of librarianship. Does the repetition suggest that the lessons have not yet been learned? Rather, it may be that there is no new silver bullet or shortcut for academic libraries. Experience reveals that one may have the formal process without getting good results and vice versa; the determining factor is whether the library staff, managers, and stakeholders define certain fundamental assumptions about the nature of the enterprise. All the above have in common the following underlying components: The careful definition of goals or of some kind of criteria against which success can be assessed A focus on meeting the needs of the users, as defined by the library and the institution Leadership: a commitment from the top, conscious efforts at ensuring communication, the provision of training and resources for the process of evaluation, the active support of a process to promote shared values The involvement of all levels of staff in goal setting, evaluation, and the improvement of processes and services Integrating a process of evaluation that is continuous and adaptive, whether that process is based on the framework of TQM, strategic planning, or another model