21世纪的图书馆参考咨询工作

本文从参考咨询服务在图书馆的重要地位出发，阐述了对21世纪参考咨询工作要加大力度，有针对性地优先调配人力物力，使之能发挥积极作用。     

Adjunct Faculty and the Library: A Challenge for Change

As the number of adjunct faculty in academia grows, libraries must be increasingly cognizant of their important role. Adjuncts often teach a large number of first-year students, and, as a result, they can have a significant impact on whether or not students persist in their education. Working with adjunct faculty presents unique challenges to libraries. Discovering who adjunct faculty are and understanding their working conditions are a first step in building awareness of this population. This article examines the wide spectrum of adjunct faculty and provides suggestions to encourage libraries to broaden their services to meet the needs of all faculty.     

Globetrotting Students and Faculty: Adapting Library Instruction to Global Sites

ABSTRACT

As e-resources become more ubiquitous, and the technologies available to access them more sophisticated, libraries have greater opportunities to reach out to global users. However, this same distance means that some users never even set foot in a physical library. This case study will describe how one large academic library started a business, economics, and marketing library online instruction pilot for global users in an effort to replicate library instruction offered at the home institution. Librarians assessed global library use and research needs; prepared unique lesson plans for each global site; and created digital learning objects using synchronous and asynchronous methods to establish an instruction strategy for Business and Economics courses. The goal was to test instruction practices and develop an online instruction template that would be replicable and sustainable for library instruction in other subject areas in New York University Libraries and other institutions.     

Building Community: Partnering with Students and Faculty to Design a Library Exhibition Space

ABSTRACT

An academic library's space has traditionally operated as a repository, but with the proliferation of new media and interactive technologies, libraries now also serve as incubators of ideas. Architecture students at Auburn University recently took part in renovating the design library. With the librarian acting as client, they were asked to investigate diverse materials and design methods to create a dynamic and interactive exhibition wall which would showcase the creation of new knowledge and facilitate the dissemination of new information. This article discusses how the plug-in wall acted as a catalyst for the school's renewed communal investment in the library.     

To Infinity and Beyond: Reducing Textbook Costs Through Librarian/Faculty Collaborations

As subject and distance learning librarians, we have a special interest in supporting our faculty and their needs as they explore alternative and more affordable textbook options for their students. In an increasingly digital environment, there are a wealth of resources available at little or no cost to students. Unfortunately, finding these resources can be challenging and time consuming for faculty. This is where librarians step in. Through careful planning and collaboration with faculty, we can help transition course reading to online and open resources. Librarians can assist in this process by helping faculty identify appropriate resources, helping integrate resources into online learning environments, and providing support for student access to materials. This paper will describe this process from start to finish, utilizing our experience supporting a faculty member with an Ethnobotany course textbook as it was transitioned to an online textbook option.     

Faculty Services in the 21st Century: Evolution and Innovation

SUMMARY

Law faculty in the 21st century present new challenges for law librarians. Traditional services such as document delivery and interlibrary loan are improved. New services are developed to meet the needs of law faculty researching in disciplines other than law and facing a changing environment of publication of legal scholarship. Faculty services in 2000 and 2006 are compared and trends for the future analyzed.     

Let's Get Cozy: Evolving Collaborations in the 21st Century

ABSTRACT

As new digital technologies make the storage of redundant print copies less important, as strained budgets can support fewer subject specialists, and as demands for new services such as data stewardship rise, it is clearer now than ever that libraries’ traditional consortia and their places and roles within academic institutions must be rethought and changed expeditiously if academic libraries are to be vitally important. This article, a companion piece to Joan Giescke's article in this issue, explores this concept and offers some possible models for collaboration.     

Providing Library Instruction to Distance Learning Students in the 21st Century

ABSTRACT

This study examines the variety of instructional practices employed in distance learning librarianship from the end of the 20th Century through the early beginnings of the 21st Century. The authors provide a thorough review of the literature on distance learning library instruction, and the study highlights the instructional services provided at two academic institutions with distinctly different clienteles and missions-one a large American university and the other a large Caribbean university.     

Managing the 21st Century Reference Department

Abstract

The reference department of the 21st century has to provide services, which are constantly being shaped by the changes in the information environment and the expectations of patrons of the fast-paced era. The presence of a visionary and dynamic leader to direct and influence the behaviors and activities of the staff who must provide the reference services is an important component in the delivery of quality services. This article focuses on the competencies that the leader must possess in order to get the job done well and influence and direct the employees' abilities towards the achievement of the department's predetermined goals. Some of the core competencies considered valuable for the reference leader are identified, defined and discussed.     

It Takes a Village to Manage the 21st Century Reference Department

Abstract

Reference services at Oregon State University's Valley Library have undergone several reorganizations in response to institutional changes, shifting service needs and patron demands. Part of this history includes training for and functioning in team-based management. We have now evolved to a management model that utilizes workgroups and an advisory and coordinating council to assist in running the department. We find this model provides flexibility, sharing of the workload and professional development opportunities, all of which are essential in today's tumultuous reference environment. We will describe the functioning, potential hazards and multiple advantages of this model.     

新世纪馆员与图书馆方法论

图书馆方法论研究是一个新课题，与当前探讨较多的图书馆学方法论的区别在于它不仅包括图书馆学的研究方法，也包括图书馆工作方法，将理论与实践密切结合。在新的世纪里，由于我国入世，科学技术的高度分化高度综合以及图书馆现代服务方式的产生等原因，客观上要求图书馆员掌握方法论，才能适应社会发展的需要。为此从什么是图书馆方法论、新世纪馆员为什么需要方法论、图书馆方法论的内容与特点三方面论述了新世纪馆员与图书馆方法论之间的关系。     

新世纪图书馆形象塑造

从图书馆建筑的外观，内环境、装饰与功能布局，技术与设备等七个方面对新世纪图书馆建设的形象进行论述，探讨新世纪图书馆的形象塑造。     

21世纪的参考咨询工作

文章探讨了２１世纪参考咨询的新观念、新需求和队伍建设。     

21世纪的图书馆文化竞争

21世纪图书馆的竞争是图书馆文化的竞争，探讨了图书馆文化竞争的含义、内容和战略管理。     

21世纪图书馆形象探新

21世纪图书馆形象有明显的新特征，分析和把握这些变异现象和特征，进而提出进一步完善的策略，是适应图书馆未来发展和信息服务业竞争态势的需要。     

Digital Library Consortia in the 21st Century

Abstract

The article outlines the initiatives of the local consortia of the eight academic institutions funded by the University Grants Committee (UGC) of the Hong Kong SAR Government. The role and services that this consortium provides for its members, especially with respect to consortial electronic purchasing agreements and joint licensing, are examined. The paper addresses many of the problems, difficulties, and challenges within consortia when coping with their internal needs, facing the need to both cooperate and compete with other consortial members, and making individual and consortial decisions in an environment of increasing budgetary constraints and technological advances. Case studies are used to illustrate each of the challenges mentioned above.     

21世纪图书馆发展趋势

由于现代信息技术的飞速发展及其在文献处理工作中的广泛应用,使图书馆发生了形与质的变化,本文从图书馆建筑、馆藏结构、信息资源、用户服务、馆员素质等五个方面对21世纪图书馆的发展趋势作了展望.     

21st Century Learning: Providing Academic Library Services for Ohio's First STEM-Focused High School

The Metro Early College High School is the first Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics-based high school program in Columbus, Ohio, and was developed in partnership with The Ohio State University and other major institutions. One feature of Metro Early College High School was that it would not provide a library on site, but rather would use the collections and services of The Ohio State University library system. This article examines the resources and services that have helped the school and discusses various approaches to improve off-campus online library access and research instruction. A student survey and in-person teacher interviews were conducted to address access issues and to consider new approaches to research instruction.     

建立21世纪的学习型图书馆

本文论述了建立学习型图书馆的重要意义、理论基础和具体措施。     

21世纪的图书馆职业展望

从图书馆工作范式变化的主要内容、图书馆职业的变化趋势、新的工作背景下优秀图书馆从业人员的评价标准的变化等,探讨图书馆学人才的教育方向。