Information in the ecosystem: Against the “information ecosystem”
Authors : Timothy B. Norris, Todd Suomela The “information ecosystem” metaphor is widely used in academic libraries and has become nearly ubiquitous when speaki...
Étiquette : academic libraries
The interactive library as a virtual working space
Author : Andreas Degkwitz The internet and the new digital media are challenging the traditional business model of academic libraries and enable new capabilitie...
Learning Analytics and the Academic Library: Professional Ethics Commitments at a Crossroads
Authors : Kyle M.L. Jones, Dorothea Salo In this paper, the authors address learning analytics and the ways academic libraries are beginning to participate in w...
Maintaining collections with a flat budget
Authors : Sara E Morris, Lea Currie This paper focuses on the various processes, methods and tough decisions made by the University of Kansas Libraries to provi...
Navigating the Political Waters of Open Access Publishing in Libraries
Authors : Carol Ann Borchert, Charlene N. Simser, Wendy C. Robertson In recent years, many libraries have forayed into the world of open access (OA) publishing....
Organization and Delivery of Scholarly Communications Services by Academic and Research Libraries in the United Kingdom: Observations from Across the Pond
Author: Christine Fruin INTRODUCTION The U.K. library community has implemented collaborative strategies in key scholarly communication areas such as open acces...
Developments in research data management in academic libraries: Towards an understanding of research data service maturity
Authors : Andrew M. Cox, Mary Anne Kennan, Liz Lyon, Stephen Pinfield This paper reports an international study of research data management (RDM) activities, se...