Academic libraries are going through what may be the most difficult period in their history. With more and more scholarly content available online and accessible almost anywhere, where does the ...traditional 'brick and mortar' library fit in?In this book, Jeannette Woodward attacks these and other pressing issues facing today's academic librarians. Her trailblazing strategies center on keeping the customer's point of view in focus at all times to help you: integrate technology to meet today's student and faculty needs; revaluate the role and function of library service desks; implement staffing strategies to match customer expectations; and, create new and effective promotional materials. Librarians are now faced with marketing to a generation of students who log on rather than walk in and this cutting edge book supplies the tools needed to keep customers coming through the door.
A textbook reserve program can be one way of helping students who are struggling with the high cost of textbooks, and this book spotlights a variety of examples that can be used as models.
Since 2015, there has been a rapid increase in academic libraries focusing their services on artificial intelligence (AI), immersive technologies (XR), big data, and other technologies that align ...their interests with corporations in the tech industry. However, there are broad ethical failures within this industry that libraries are not equipped to manage and instead risk importing those failures and discriminatory thinking into library services and technologies. This paper draws on the authors’ research on XR accessibility in academic libraries to illustrate how broader trends in technocratic thinking in academia are producing socio-technical configurations that often exclude disabled library users. It argues that critical failures in designing and implementing accessibility programs for emerging technologies in academic libraries point to the broader technocratic imperatives of contemporary universities operating under the logics of neoliberalism. Accessibility is an afterthought in this context, forcing users to adjust their bodies and senses to conform to the master plans of technology designers and evangelists.
Moving beyond simplistic equipment lists, this book provides contextual and practical information to help academic library personnel learn how to plan, collaborate, and sustain relevant makerspaces ...positioned within the broader ecology of campus innovation.The makerspace movement within academic libraries has largely focused on providing space and equipment for making. Academic libraries, however, have a unique opportunity to push beyond the 3D printer to create makerspaces that complement the broader ecology of innovation happening on campus. Intended for academic library personnel, this book is for those seeking guidance on how to establish a makerspace that is more than an equipment room. Katy Mathuews and Daniel Harper provide important context for the maker movement, a review of the process of making, and an overview of the various types of makerspaces, including the hub-and-spoke model, the centralized model, and the mobile makerspace. Additionally, the book provides practical steps to consider, including situating the academic library makerspace within the campus environment, creating valuable collaborations on campus, finding innovative ways to support the entire making process, programming, curriculum planning, and sustaining daily operations such as staffing, funding, and public service.Understand how making fits into the campus ecology of innovation and how academic libraries are naturally suited to support the maker movementUnderstand the history of the maker movement, makerspace typologies, and the making processLearn how to build sustainable relationships with campus and community collaboratorsLearn what to consider when establishing a library makerspace, including planning, staffing, and fundingUnderstand how traditional library services can complement the makerspace and making process, including programming and instruction
This book provides real-world advice and ideas drawn from case studies to help academic libraries support students academically, socially, and financially, especially those who are facing barriers. ...Academic libraries are confronting a myriad of challenges, including consequences stemming from the pandemic, the changing demographics of student bodies, and the financial obstacles that many students are struggling to overcome. What's needed is practical guidance on how to effectively serve students' needs amidst rapid change. The contributors in this collection share several approaches to bolstering their success, with guidance that can be tailored to your own institution. Inside, you'll learn about: (1) methods for reimagining learning and interactive programming during times of disruption; (2) using technology to provide personalized support for vulnerable students, from free wifi hotspots to inclusive programming; (3) promoting data skills through a makerspace; (4) facilitating information access and STEAM learning for first-generation students; (5) ensuring accessibility for rural community college students; (6) responding to challenges brought about by systemic racism and COVID-19; (7) impactful mentoring; (8) expanding an open textbook program; (9) supplying laptops for students through an academic/public library partnership; and (10) paid internships and work/study positions for low-income students.
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.
Trobar perfils personals d'investigadors a la xarxa és molt habitual, de fet, les mateixes institucions acadèmiques s'encarreguen de promocionar-ne les bondats, però la creació de perfils admet ...altres usos, com ara el perfil propi utilitzat per revistes que volen fer un seguiment dels articles que hi publiquen. En biblioteques d'institucions petites o mitjanes, els perfils institucionals també constitueixen una opció molt interessant per la gran quantitat de beneficis que se'n deriven, tot i que en aquests moments és un fet insòlit trobar perfils corporatius que aglutinin tota la producció científica de les institucions. En aquest article es presenta un cas basat en la creació d'un perfil institucional a Google Scholar. La biblioteca que ha dut a terme l'experiència pertany a la Facultat de Turisme i Direcció Hotelera Sant Ignasi que té 316 alumnes, 53 professors (PDI) i 17 membres de personal d'administració i serveis (PAS). L'objectiu de donar a conèixer aquesta experiència és transmetre els beneficis que implica comptar amb un perfil institucional per tal d'ajudar altres biblioteques petites o mitjanes que s'estiguin plantejant fer-ho.
