Current workflow management systems do not provide adequate support for workflow modeling. Real life work processes are much richer in variations and more dynamic than is expressed in a typical workflow model. Users need to be able to adjust workloads and modify workflow models on-the-fly. In addition, data about workflow executions are analyzed with process analysis/simulation tools to evaluat...

Journal use studies provide meaningful data to consider in shaping a library's journal collection. The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library undertook such a study of 2,552 print subscription titles over one year, gathering data on circulation, in-house use, and interlibrary loan (ILL) use. Objectives focused on gathering practical data to support c...

Charlene Kellsey is Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Acquisitions Department, and Jennifer Knievel is Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Research and Instruction, at the University of Colorado Boulder; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. © 2012 Charlene Kellsey and Jennifer Knievel, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

In 1983, the National Hellenic Documentation Centre started the development of the Union Catalogue of Periodicals in the Hellenic Scientific and Technological Libraries. The union catalogue was developed in a database form. Today (January 2000), the union catalogue includes 206 Hellenic scientific, technological and medical libraries, two of which are located in Cyprus. These libraries belong t...

EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT RESOURCE SHARING, a long time goal of libraries, is at last becoming a reality in many current and planned projects. Access to OPACs and the development of rapid delivery systems are changing the way information can be delivered. At the same time, traditional interlibrary loan remains a strategic service. The social, economic, and technological complexities of both the n...

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David C. Tyler is Reference Librarian and Professor in Libraries, Joyce C. Melvin is Interlibrary Loan Manager, MaryLou Epp is Serials Records Specialist, Technical Services, and Anita M. Kreps is Database Project Specialist, Technical Services, in University Libraries at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. ©2014 Davi...

With the huge increase in online learning at colleges around the country, libraries need to consider how to serve the growing contingent of online students. Some typical library services include a Web site, remote access to databases, e-mail assistance, a toll-free phone number, a procedure for supplying library materials to students, FAQs, interlibrary loan, and online tutorials. Tutorials com...

Among academic librarians, collection development has long been considered a vital duty, if not something of a nigh-sacred trust and exercise of librarians' authority and judgment.1 Over the decades, selecting librarians have done their level best, by identifying the best materials and by being familiar with the faculty and students that they served, to build useful and coherent collections tha...