Magic Fulltext Access Cookie

In an oped piece for Inside Higher Ed, Alex Golub laments that he has lost access to full-text resources through his alma mater, the University of Chicago. He discusses how he used to view this access as a privilege that he enjoyed for having attended this elite school, especially given his current underprivileged position at [...]

If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist Would We Have to Invent It?

Every academic library dean or director has heard, at least once, the comment that the academic library has become obsolete. This is disheartening to hear and leaves one scrambling for an answer that doesn’t sound a bit desperate. This article in the latest EDUCAUSE Review takes an interesting approach by using an imaginary scenario to [...]

Strategies and Frameworks for Institutional Repositories and the New Support Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications

This article by Tyler O. Walters of Georgia Institute of Technology appears in the October D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/). I wanted to share it with our faculty and staff because it discusses an important shift in scholarly communication. Scholarly dialogue no longer takes place only in formal publications; the academy is beginning to recognize that important [...]

I Agree With Barbara Fister of ACRLog Re: Room of their Own

In a blog posting day (ACRLog » Blog Archive » Room of their Own), responding to a story in this week’s Chronicle about the library renovation at Cal-Poly, Barbara Fister says:
“But to my mind, we can’t all save everything. Storing print runs of JSTOR titles just in case seems to me to be a poor [...]

Georgia Tech Library :: Information Services

The Georgia Tech Library is a good example of an academic library that is providing some information management services for their campus.
Georgia Tech Library :: Information Services
The Information Services Department serves as the Library’s principal information gateway and is responsible for critical activities such as providing frontline reference services, assisting with research, and facilitating [...]

Library as Information Center

I have just spent the last two days meeting with the architects that are helping us to prepare a program plan to turn in to the state for funding for a library revitalization. These guys ask really good questions! They have been encouraging the campus to think about the library of the future as the [...]