Main library for Southern Illinois University Carbondale [2] Holds more than 2.6 million volumes, 200,000 e-books, 43,000 current periodicals and serials, and over 3.6 million microform units Provides access to I-Share [3] (the statewide automated library system) and to a comprehensive array of databases and other electronic data files Offers a wide range of services, including Reference assist...

Main library for Southern Illinois University Carbondale [2] Holds more than 2.6 million volumes, 200,000 e-books, 43,000 current periodicals and serials, and over 3.6 million microform units Provides access to I-Share [3] (the statewide automated library system) and to a comprehensive array of databases and other electronic data files Offers a wide range of services, including Reference assist...

Lewis Guodo Liu is an Associate Professor in the Newman Library at the Baruch College of the City University of New York; e-mail: [email protected]. The author would like to thank Dr. Richard E. Quandt, an emeritus professor of economics at Princeton University, and Dr. Robert M. Hayes, an emeritus professor of library and information science at UCLA, for their valuable comments and con...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2013 (“The Impact of Gaming on Libraries,” edited by Scott Nicholson), pp. 802–813. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Academic libraries not only need to focus on instructing students about library resources but also need to actively reach out to them. One way to accomplish this is to integrate gaming into library programming and instr...

Main library for Southern Illinois University Carbondale [2] Holds more than 2.6 million volumes, 200,000 e-books, 43,000 current periodicals and serials, and over 3.6 million microform units Provides access to I-Share [3] (the statewide automated library system) and to a comprehensive array of databases and other electronic data files Offers a wide range of services, including Reference assist...

Edward T. O’Neill, Senior Research Scientist (Retired), OCLC Research; e-mail: [email protected]. Julia A. Gammon, Professor Emeritus of Bibliography (formerly Head of Acquisitions) University Libraries, University of Akron; e-mail: [email protected]. ©2014 Edward T. O’Neill and Julia A. Gammon, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC The OhioL...

Main library for Southern Illinois University Carbondale [2] Holds more than 2.6 million volumes, 200,000 e-books, 43,000 current periodicals and serials, and over 3.6 million microform units Provides access to I-Share [3] (the statewide automated library system) and to a comprehensive array of databases and other electronic data files Offers a wide range of services, including Reference assist...

Main library for Southern Illinois University Carbondale [2] Holds more than 2.6 million volumes, 200,000 e-books, 43,000 current periodicals and serials, and over 3.6 million microform units Provides access to I-Share [3] (the statewide automated library system) and to a comprehensive array of databases and other electronic data files Offers a wide range of services, including Reference assist...

In today's knowledge-based economies, appropriate Knowledge Management (KM) has proved a strategic management tool to survive and thrive in the ever-changing global market. Therefore, increasingly, all types of organisations including tertiary institutions are adopting KM. This paper focuses on university libraries and presents the partial ̄ndings of a study carried out to investigate and explo...

The application of mobile phone technology in all aspects our everyday life cannot be ignored institutions and establishments including libraries. Therefore libraries developed economies have embraced the revolution are utilizing them for effective efficient services. In contrast, however, - based services not pervasive among academic India. They yet to by research This paper reports findings a...