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The Academic Research Library in A Decade of Change
This book starts from the premise that the last decade has brought more changes for the academic research library than any ever previously known. The book provides an authoritative overview and analysis of the issues and challenges affecting academic research libraries from the closing years of the 20th century onwards. While the focus on this period of white water change is primarily British, with a number of case studies based on the transformative initiatives of the UKs Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and its seminal Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), as well as on the Bodleian Libraries far-reaching responses to the complex demands of the digital age, the issues themselves are presented in their global context, with implications drawn for research libraries everywhere. - Written by one of the worlds leading academic research librarians - Provides a comprehensive overview of the factors at work in an exceptionally significant and fast-moving decade of research library development - Contains personal insights into many of the key library and information initiatives of recent years
HEFCE call for evidence
Recommendations for structures and actions Recommendations for Research Support Libraries Group (RSLG) to investigate Recommendation 1 : Access to library collections · That the development of a nationwide library access scheme, integrating schemes such as UK Libraries Plus, Standing Conference of National and University Libraries (SCONUL) vacation scheme, M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries access scheme etc, with NHS and other relevant library access, with the aim of widening access to materials is vital for researchers. Recommendation 2: Collection development and preservation · That the British Library and the RSLG together examine the impact of the final report of the British Library New Strategic Directions exercise, to ensure that collection development and preservation gaps do not occur as a consequence of adjustments to policy. Stronger partnerships may need to be developed between national subject specific libraries and the British Library in light of the outcom ...
Dynamic Research Support in Academic Libraries
This inspiring book will enable academic librarians to develop excellent research and instructional services and create a library culture that encompasses exploration, learning and collaboration. Higher education and academic libraries are in a period of rapid evolution. Technology, pedagogical shifts, and programmatic changes in education mean that libraries must continually evaluate and adjust their services to meet new needs. Research and learning across institutions is becoming more team-based, crossing disciplines and dependent on increasingly sophisticated and varied data. To provide valuable services in this shifting, diverse environment, libraries must think about new ways to support...
Providing Effective Library Services for Research
Researchers rely on libraries to provide the information they need; equally, supporting research is a fundamental reason for libraries' existence. This book explores the crucial relationship between libraries and researchers, focusing on developing and managing effective library services to support research, and includes the authentic voices of researchers surveyed. This book will inform and advise all those who work with researchers in libraries, combining practical advice with an exploration of fundamental issues relating to the relationship between research and libraries. It is essential reading for all who work in academic and research libraries, and will be of particular value to newly qualified and practising liaison and research support librarians.
The Academic Library and Its Users
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 lea...
