Evaluating IT and Library Services with the MISO Survey
This ECAR research bulletin offers a detailed look at the Measuring Information Service Outcomes (MISO) Survey. Following a description of the underlying survey methodology, this bulletin highlights...
View ArticleERIAL Project
The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project is a two-year study of the student research process. The project is funded by an LSTA grant awarded to Northeastern Illinois...
View ArticleTune In October 28 -- What's at Stake in the HathiTrust Lawsuit?
In this free hour-long session, “What's at Stake in the HathiTrust Lawsuit?,” Marc Hoit, Jonathan Band, and James Grimmelman will discuss the legal questions on which the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust...
View ArticleMerging User Support Services: Technology Help and Library Circulation
SUNY Cortland IT and Library Services report to the CIO. User support was distributed across the whole organization. Users, especially students, asked for assistance wherever they were, most often in...
View ArticleLibrarian and Instructional Technologist: A Natural Pairing
With a diminishing budget and a hiring freeze, K-State Salina embraced the emerging trend of a combined position that pairs library services and instructional technology. This budget friendly position...
View ArticleKuali Open Library Environment: Reflections on Our First Year of...
The Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) has just completed its first year of building a community-source library management system. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and part of the Kuali...
View ArticleKuali Open Library Environment: A Look at the 0.6 Release and a Roadmap to...
Kuali OLE is in the second year (2011̫12) of building a community-source library management system that takes advantage of existing Kuali Foundation software for middleware (RICE) and finance (KFS)....
View ArticleAdoption of E-Book Readers among College Students: A Survey
Author Nancy Foasberg, looks into the use of E-Readers on a college campus. This article was published in the September 2011 issue of Information Technology and Libraries. To learn whether e-book...
View ArticleJust What Does Someone Have to Do to Gain Access to a Computer in the Library?
Find out how authentication is being used in the North Carolina academic libraries (including all community colleges, private colleges, and the UNC system) to control the use of their computers in...
View ArticleCNI Podcast: An Interview with Shirley Baker, Vice Chancellor for Scholarly...
In this podcast interview, Shirley Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of libraries at Washington University in St. Louis, shares insights from her career in library IT. Baker will...
View ArticleThe Kuali OLE: Deep Library Collaboration and the Release of a...
The Kuali OLE Partnership, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is in the second year of a two-year project to build a community-sourced library management system. In this session, we...
View ArticleConnect, Collaborate, and Communicate: A Report from the Value of Academic...
As part of ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries Initiative, a multiyear project designed to assist academic librarians in demonstrating library value, ACRL joined with three partners—the Association for...
View ArticleSpecial Collections and Archives in the Digital Age
This issue of Research Library Issues (no 279) from the Association of Research Libraries, is focused on legal concerns and evolving professional practices around digitizing special collections and...
View ArticleLeading the Student Experience: Super-Convergence of Organisation, Structure...
This group of case studies from the United Kingdom organization, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, focuses on the UK higher education student experience. "The student experience represents...
View ArticlePathways To Best Practice guides
This JISC funded project pulls together guides that focus on mobile technologies relatd to the library. Each one provides an overview of options, some examples of projects, lessons learned from work so...
View ArticleIf You Build It, Will They Come? Library Learning Spaces and Technology
Like many institutions, the Shapiro Library invested in a space renovation of its lobby to support student learning by fostering collaboration, offering technology-rich resources, and connecting to...
View ArticleTechnology Meets Anthropology: Improving Student Learning
The use of ethnographic research methods in the area of information science and technology is a relatively new phenomenon that goes beyond mere bean counting. Because many of these methods are...
View ArticleThe Library as API
Home to robust academic collections and a suite of information services, the library is often seen as a useful but isolated resource on campus. However, with the power and interoperability of APIs...
View ArticleThirteen Ways of Looking at Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog: Scale,...
The author uses Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird to discusse the position of the catalog and uses it to illustrate more general discovery and workflow directions.read more
View ArticleGoing Mobile: iPad Pilot Program for Library Staff
Faced with an increasingly mobile environment, the Northeastern University Libraries initiated a pilot program to distribute iPads among reference and liaison librarians to improve awareness and...
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