for more than a decade, academic libraries have been wrestling with the thorny issue of managing the acquisition of electronic resources. where are we in the continuum from paper lists to vendor-designed management systems? this paper takes a look at several in-house initiatives around the country, commenting on the successes and failures of the homegrown programs built to track. update and man...

John J. Regazzi is Professor in the Palmer School of Library & Information Science and Department of Computer Science and Management Engineering at Long Island University; e-mail: john.regazzi@liu. edu. © 2012 John J. Regazzi The study provides an analysis of U.S. academic library spending, staffing and utilization trends from data collected during the period between 1998 and 2008. Data used in...

Executive Summary For academic librarians seeking to demonstrate the value of their libraries to their parent institutions, it is important to understand not only the current climate. We must also know what will be valued in the future so that we can begin to take appropriate action now. This document presents 26 possible scenarios based on an implications assessment of current trends, which ma...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 64, No. 2, 2015 (“Social Justice in Library and Information Science and Services,” edited by Bharat Mehra), pp. 246–284. © 2015 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article examines racism and the culture of Whiteness in academic libraries in three major areas of public services: space, staffing, and reference service delivery. The authors perform a c...

Introduction Demonstrating the value of libraries in an academic setting has long been a topic of research and comment among librarians. Libraries are in a sustained state of proving their contributions to the academic missions of universities which do not necessarily recognize the broader value of libraries. This trend will most likely continue because of budget decreases and changing perspect...

late 2010. The reader may also find that the final essay on organization development, Elaine Z. Jennerich and M. Sue Baughman’s “Creating Smooth Sailing,” although logically appropriate to include, does seem slightly out of place when considering the content of the other essays. Eric Bartheld’s “Listen Up Librarian,” on marketing and outreach, does spend time exploring the importance of an acad...

the explosion of information communication technology (ict) since the beginning of the 20 th century has been rendering manual-based library system in academic, research, special and public libraries less relevant. this is because using and implementing information communication technology in the library depend largely on the librarian attitude toward the current digital age. this study examine...