Collection Condition Assessment in a Midsized Academic Library

In 2014, Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks conducted its first collection condition survey. The institutionally significant Alaska Collection was chosen as a manageable project. Research design based on the literature review led the researcher to conduct two surveys: one examining the entire collection and one looking at only those books most recently circulated. The combined surveys revealed that the circulating books are much more badly damaged that the books in the collection that do not circulate, across a variety of attributes.     

Barcoding a Small Academic Library:

Barcoding problems are universal to recently-automated small academic libraries. This article chronicles one library's experience and provides practical advice for others facing the same task. A barcode plan and worker guidelines are included. The authors offer the following suggestions for a successful project: (1) Read the shelves first. (2) Create a written plan. (3) Test in advance. (4) Get additional workers if you can. (5) Stress accuracy. (6) Regularly check the work being done. (7) Keep error correction and book repair to a minimum.     

Building an Academic Library Collection in a Developing Country

The University of Namibia was established in 1992 and started as a one-campus institution with fewer than 2,500 students to a university with twelve (12) campuses and nine (9) centers and more than 25,000 students. This study examines the profiles of the UNAM Library collections and the historical dynamics that have impacted it. New programs, schools, and campuses were introduced at a rapid pace and the library could only attempt to keep track with all new developments surrounding it. The role of collection assessment, collection development policy, and e-books were investigated within this scenario.     

Distance Education Librarians in the United States: A Study of Job Announcements

This study analyzes the position announcements published in American Libraries between 1970 and 2010 for the purpose of documenting trends and changes in distance education librarianship in the United States. Findings include the first announced library distance education related job, total number of positions, titles, academic ranking, salary, educational background, roles/duties, and minimum qualifications.     

高校图书馆文献采购招标释疑

针对近年来高校图书馆招标采购中所出现的问题,加以总结、整理和分析并结合本馆招标采购工作的实践提出应对措施.     

高校图书馆开展大学生就业信息服务研究——基于安徽省高校图书馆的调查

根据大学生就业信息需求和高校图书馆的信息服务优势,课题组在服务理念、就业信息服务、就业信息资源建设、未来计划等五个方面对安徽省高校图书馆开展大学生就业信息服务状况进行了调查。调查统计说明:目前高校图书馆在大学生就业信息服务方面存在诸多不足。文章对调查结果进行了分析并就高校图书馆如何做好大学生就业信息服务提出了几点建议。     

核心价值视角下高校图书馆核心竞争力的提升

文章介绍了高校图书馆核心价值的内涵,阐述了高校图书馆核心价值的定位,高校图书馆只有通过开发知识资源建设、高素质人才队伍、先进技术、科学的知识管理、优质的知识服务、优秀的图书馆文化、优美的阅读环境这七个要素,才能提高自身的核心竞争力。参考文献5。     

网络时代合作馆藏发展与学术图书馆之构建

文章就网络环境对合作馆藏发展的影响、学术图书馆构建的基础和国内外学术图书馆合作馆藏发展的经验进行探讨与研究。     

高校图书馆学术类刊物助力科研支持服务探究——以北京大学图书馆《未名学术快报》为例

《未名学术快报》是北京大学图书馆创办的第一个面向科研的常规性信息产品,是其科研支持服务体系中的重要组成部分,也是高校图书馆创办学术类刊物的积极尝试。《快报》立足科研支持、突出学术性;关注人文社会科学学科发展,多维度展现北大科研成果和学科发展等,都是对高校图书馆创办学术类刊物的重要启示。     

高校图书馆为农民工提供信息服务的探索

农民工是一个特殊的社会群体,他们为城市的建设和社会经济的发展做出了积极贡献,但他们的文化素质偏低、文化生活枯燥,严重影响了其生活质量及社会的和谐发展。高校图书馆应适应信息和知识经济社会的发展,拓展其社会教育职能,充分发挥其资源优势,探讨创新的信息服务模式为农民工服务,为提高他们的生活质量和构建和谐社会做贡献。参考文献7。     

高校图书馆开展经典阅读指导工作之研究

阅读是人类获取知识的基本手段和重要途径,是民族文化、人类精神传承的重要方式之一。针对高校所面临的各种＂阅读危机＂现象,探索对大学生阅读指导的新模式,以实际、实用的方法来引导大学生养成阅读习惯,从而使学习专业知识与人文知识结合,培养民族道德与提升个人健康素质相结合。     

影响高校图书馆学科服务工作因素分析及对策研究

文章从个人和组织两个角度阐述影响学科服务工作的因素,并提出建设特色馆藏和打造团队等相应策略。参考文献5。     

大学图书馆现代化的前沿课题和时代命题——《大学图书馆现代化指南针报告》解读

文章从大学图书馆现代化的六个前沿课题入手,对教育部高等学校图书情报工作指导委员会和北京大学图书馆合作研制的《大学图书馆现代化指南针报告》进行内容解读,并提出大学图书馆现代化的三个时代命题,以期为全国高校图书馆从业人员和研究人员深入理解和全面应用《大学图书馆现代化指南针报告》,开展大学图书馆现代化建设、规划、研究与评估提供重要参考。     

Patron Preferences: Recreational Reading in an Academic Library

In 2014, Sam Houston State University Library librarians distributed a survey to students, faculty and staff to better understand how the university community was using library materials for recreational reading. The survey found that patrons had preference for print materials with a growing interest in other formats. A significant number of respondents did not view the library as a source of recreational reading materials; those who did read across a broad swath of genres. Greater understanding of patron recreational reading preferences empower the library to expand the library collection to meet all patron demands.     

关于高校图书馆在消除校园不和谐因素中作用的若干思考

在综述相关研究的基础上,论文联系学校图书馆工作实际,提出高校图书馆可以从编制并大力推荐专题书目等方面出发,在消除校园不和谐因素、构建和谐校园中发挥积极作用.     

数字图书馆时代高校图书馆人力资源的建设

本文从数字图书馆与传统图书馆区别入手,重点论述数字图书馆对其工作人员的素质要求;通过分析目前高校图书馆人力资源现状,提出强化高校图书馆人力资源建设的几项措施.参考文献4.     

Bibilometrics Services and the Academic Library: Meeting the Emerging Needs of the Campus Community

The increasing importance of research assessment is but one factor within the ever-changing scholarly communication landscape that is challenging libraries to develop new services to serve the needs of their academic communities. Institutional budget allocations, grant funding, and faculty tenure and promotion increasingly depend on performance indicators, including bibliometrics such as citation counts, impact factors, the h-index, and other quantitative measurements of research output. With their longstanding expertise in collecting, categorizing, and analyzing data, not to mention their familiarity with scholarly databases and indexes tracking cited references, librarians are well qualified to meet the emerging demand for bibliometrics services.     

The Difficult Patron in the Academic Library

Summary

Faculty members depend on the resources and services provided by the libraries to teach, satisfy the curricular needs of the students, and conduct their research. Students need the library for many reasons, among which are to complete their assignments and to expand on what faculty covers in class. The patron/librarian relationship in the academic library is not always perfect. Issues which students and faculty face in the academic library environment are completely different from those in the public library. Identifying the characteristics of the difficult or problem patron in academia is a little more difficult than in the public library. Are what librarians face when dealing with faculty and students more issue-related than just dealing with problem patrons? The authors will identify, from the librarians' perspectives, some of these often called difficult patron issues and offer solutions to try and preempt these issues before they become problems.     

基于联合索引的下一代图书馆学术资源搜索研究

首先对图书馆的学术资源搜索的三种工作模式——本地实时检索模式、本地索引模式和远程联邦检索模式进行了回顾,认为这三种模式只是部分解决了图书馆的需求。紧接着评介了一种对图书馆本地和远程学术资源联合索引的检索模式,认为这是图书馆未来将广泛采用的检索模式。最后,对下一代图书馆学术搜索引擎的三个典型代表SUMMON、Google Scholar学术搜索和SCIRUS等进行了案例分析。     

Designing Search: Effective Search Interfaces for Academic Library Web Sites

ABSTRACT

Academic libraries customize, support, and provide access to myriad information systems, each with complex graphical user interfaces. The number of possible information entry points on an academic library Web site is both daunting to the end-user and consistently challenging to library Web site designers. Faced with the challenges inherent in designing online search interfaces and the ever-growing amount of resources available online, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries sought to explore how to build effective search interfaces that, at the same time, support a wide variety of computer users and provide comprehensive access to assorted collections of electronic resources. Over a nine-month period, the libraries designed, implemented, and tracked the usage of two different search interfaces on their home page. Each interface allowed users to choose between four different search targets. In this case study, the authors discuss the complexities of designing search interfaces, outline findings from the nine-month study, evaluate the effectiveness of the two interface designs, and talk about future research in these areas.