Academic Library Regional Accreditation

Ontology for Academic Program Accreditation

Many educational institutions are adopting national and international accreditation programs to improve teaching, student learning, and curriculum. There is a growing demand across higher education for automation and helpful educational resources to continuously improve student outcomes. The student outcomes are the required knowledge and skill set that graduates of any accredited program have ...

Evolving academic library specialties

Book Availability: Academic Library Assessment

In the climate of increasing calls for academic assessment, the authors undertook a study to ascertain book availability in an academic library. The study described here uses the methodology pioneered by Tefko Saracevic, W. M. Shaw, Jr., and Paul Kantor and is a follow-up of earlier research reported in College & Research Libraries in 1987. The authors designed the study to identify any improve...

Terms for Academic Library Directors

IN 1973, ARTHUR MCANALLY AND ROBERTDOWNSauthored a seminal article on the changing role of the university library director. This article takes a look at McAnally and Downs’s findings twenty years later to determine whether the changes outlined in 1973 are still valid today. Additional sources of strife for university library directors are outlined and requirements for today’s library directors ...

An analysis of reference services usage at a regional academic health sciences library.

serials in favor of electronic: criteria for decision making. Libr Coll Acq Tech Serv. 2002;26:369–78. 4. Wulff JL, Nixon ND. Quality markers and use of electronic journals in an academic health sciences library. J Med Libr Assoc. 2004 Jul;92(3):315–22. 5. De Groote SL. Citation patterns of online and print journals in the digital age. J Med Libr Assoc. 2008 Oct;96(4):362–9. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5...