Academic Libraries Research Perspectives (Book Review)

Book Review Perspectives

Book Review: Privacy in the 21st Century: Issues for Public, School, and Academic Libraries

It's not surprisingly when entering this site to get the book. One of the popular books now is the privacy in the 21st century issues for public school and academic libraries. You may be confused because you can't find the book in the book store around your city. Commonly, the popular book will be sold quickly. And when you have found the store to buy the book, it will be so hurt when you run o...

Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries

Libraries have long stood on the shifting sands of change. The key to survival has been to understand that change and meet it at the point of need. Starr Hoffman's work provides a road map to that change as academic reference librarians make the shift to academic research support librarians. She emphasizes that the traditional role focused on discovery and instructional services has moved into ...

Fostering Research and Publication in Academic Libraries

Catherine Sassen is Principal Catalog Librarian and Diane Wahl is User Experience Librarian at University of North Texas Libraries; e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected]. © 2014 Catherine Sassen and Diane Wahl, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. This study concerns administrative support provided to encourage the research and ...

Innovation in academic libraries: An analysis of university librarians' perspectives

Through a series of structured interviews, university librarians at six institutions provided their perspectives on innovation in academic libraries. The literature on leadership styles and organizational change provides insight into the roles of these leaders in the innovation process. Leadership was cited by many researchers as being a critical factor for organizations to innovate. University...