Archive for the 'Academic Libraries' Category
HPU Libraries Utilize Social Media And Late Night Hours To Help Students Stay In Touch
March 16th, 2010High Point University News – ” In the old days, a card catalog and a microfilm reader were considered high-tech in terms of tools in the library, but students today need much, much more – and thanks to ever-growing services in the High Point University libraries, students have everything they need and more. Case in [...]
Purdue cuts in libraries’ periodicals painful for researchers
January 30th, 2010JCOnline – “The libraries of Purdue University are feeling the economic pinch. As administrators grapple with finding millions in savings across the campus, the library system is expecting another year of price increases from print and electronic journal publishers.”
IU Lilly Library marks 50 years with rare items
January 17th, 2010AP – “Indiana University’s Lilly Library in Bloomington will host an exhibition of rare books and manuscripts to mark its 50th anniversary.”
More here, from the Lilly Library Blog.
Listen to an interview with Cherry Williams, Curator of Manuscripts.
Library group offers text search to 4.6M books
November 20th, 2009AP – “A group of major national research libraries says users now can search the full text of 1.6 billion pages from 4.6 million digitized volumes. Last year, the University of Michigan and 24 other research libraries launched the HathiTrust Digital Library. The consortium said Thursday it’s offering full-text search capability to all digitized works. [...]
New Report, “Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto”
November 11th, 2009OCLC – “This brief call-to-action document includes a list of ten action items for libraries in today’s rapidly changing scholarly research landscape.”
Read the report
Can libraries, bookstores, and Kindle peacefully coexist?
November 6th, 2009CSMp – “Having fun isn’t hard when you have a library card.” Or so Peter Daining reminds us in his worthy post today on Tainted Green entitled “Libraries: The cheaper, greener alternative to book stores” in which he notes that, “it takes around 30 million trees to produce all the books in the US.” [...]
Fresno State library welcomes new generation with no shushing
November 1st, 2009Fresno Bee – “At Fresno State’s new Henry Madden Library, the whirr of a blender and hum of conversation are the sounds of evolution. Here, visitors eat, drink and speak above a whisper. Trade ideas. Polish off a sandwich. Sip a latté — heck, they’ll make it for you at the in-house Starbucks. In short, [...]
Remodeled OSU library a joy for readers, rovers
November 1st, 2009Columbus Dispatch – “One of these gray days, I’m going to spend a good, solid eight hours in the newly remodeled William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library at Ohio State University — just for the sheer pleasure. The place has everything: reading material, curios, terrific views and coffee. What else do I need?”
Cornell and Columbia Prepare for Library Collaboration
October 21st, 2009Cornell Daily Sun – “Last Monday, Cornell and Columbia University announced “2CUL” — a collaborative program between the two libraries involving their collections, digital infrastructure and administrative functions. In the face of budget constraints and an ever-evolving system of accessing academic material, 2CUL — pronounced “too cool,” an acronym for both Cornell University Library and [...]
UCLA’s Clark Library receives unique Shakespeare collection
October 12th, 2009UCLA – “William Shakespeare’s characters could be described as “adulterous,” “depraved,” “scandalous” and “miraculous,” but the Bard himself did not use those words until they appeared in a 1603 English translation of the works of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. A first edition of the translation, which scholars have credited with introducing 750 new words [...]
The Truth About Libraries
September 13th, 2009How A College Library is used. Heh.
Cuts, Freezes Widespread in Academic Libraries
May 14th, 2009American Libraries – “Many academic libraries are facing major planned or potential budget cuts as the nation’s economic meltdown plays itself out. Online reports and announcements from major U.S. universities show that significant budget cuts may be widespread among members of the Association of Research Libraries and other college and university libraries across the country”
After 400 years, health and safety bans stepladders from historic Oxford library… but nobody can reach the books
May 8th, 2009Mail Online – “Stepladders have been banned from part of Oxford University's historic Bodleian library – because of health and safety fears. The ruling by officials means that students cannot use items on the higher shelves of the Duke Humfrey reading room. However, the university is standing its ground and refusing to move the books [...]
Book numbers can be staggering at UI libraries
April 29th, 2009The Daily Iowan – At the Main Library, checkout-desk employees said they’ve seen people come in with bags, suitcases, and boxes stuffed with books to renew. “I’ve had people bring in, literally, more than 100 at once to renew,†said UI senior Jessi Phillips, who works at the circulation desk. But for some, 100 books [...]
Christmas Trees Banned At UNC-Chapel Hill Main Libraries
December 5th, 2008MyNC.com – “Associate provost Sarah Michalak decided against the trees. Michalak said she eliminated the displays after getting questions and complaints from employees and library users about the Christian display.”
Princeton’s Gehry Library Banishes Stacks, Encourages Talking
October 14th, 2008Bloomberg – “The stacks you’d expect to find in a building housing collections as varied as astrophysics, biology and statistics have largely been banished to a surprisingly small high-density storage space in the basement.”(via)
College libraries win back search primacy
October 12th, 2008Information World Review – “A three-year study into how users navigate scholarly content reported that nearly 60% of respondents recognised library technology played a role in their navigation 95% of the time.”
My Thoughts on ACRL’s Springboard Event
April 2nd, 2008Melissa Mallon – “ACRL listened to the needs of their members and offered their first ever free webcast. Only members were able to participate in the webcast, something that I think is completely reasonable. As Steven mentioned in his post announcing the event, it’s only right that we get something back for the hefty dues [...]
Libraries Can Beat Google at Its Own Game
March 9th, 2008Dean Giustini – “During the sabbatical, I began to contemplate how it was that Google could pose such a threat to the future of academic libraries.”
McMaster University Libraries receive 2008 Excellence in Academic Libraries
January 29th, 2008Congrats!
Academic Librarians and Graphic Novels
December 10th, 2007Academic Librarians and Graphic Novels
