A Review of: Popoola, B., Uzoagba, N., & Rabiu, N. (2020). “What’s happening over there?”: study of the current state services, challenges, and prospects in Nigerian medical libraries. Journal Medical Library Association, 108(3), 398–407. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2020.607 Abstract Objective – This examined field librarianship as it is currently practiced Nigeria. Design Mixed methods: e...

Based on the speaker's book,' the following is a summary of her paper. The title of this talk comes from the inscription over the entrance to the ancient library at Alexandria which can be translated as "nourishment for the mind" or "medicine for the soul". The oldest surviving medical library in Scotland is that of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh founded in 1681, but there were me...

BACKGROUND Two new directors were each charged by their institutions to catalyze transformational change in their libraries and to develop dynamic and evolving information ecosystems ready for the information challenges of the future. The directors approached this transformational change using a strategic, forward-looking approach. RESULTS This paper presents examples of actions that served a...

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During the fall of 2015, the Augusta University Libraries began the process of implementing Ex Libris’ nextgeneration library management solution, Alma. This process is occurring in various phases, with the initial steps being data clean-up and migration. As part of the migration process, cataloging records that are currently created and maintained by both university libraries will be migrated ...