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The Numbers Game: Collecting, Compiling, and Utilizing Usage Data in an Academic Library
(2013-06-04)
As our academic library budgets evolve, librarians have to make difficult decisions about what
resources to spend that money on every year. Looking at patron usage of our resources, both tangible
and electronic, can help ...
Transfer 2.0 and Beyond! An Update
(2013-06-04)
e-Journals often get transferred between publishers, whether because of change in commercial ownership (by acquisitions
and disposals) or because the owner (frequently a society) takes the opportunity to partner with a ...
Keep the Change: Clusters of Faculty Opinion on Open Access
(2013-04-08)
The authors discovered faculty opinions about open access by employing Q methodology, a research method combining qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze subjects' attitudes about a given topic. Q methodology, using ...
Technical Services Transparency: Using a LibGuide to Expose the Mysteries of Technical Services
(2013-06-04)
Technical services departments in academic libraries have long struggled to communicate effectively with other library departments, particularly public services departments. As academic libraries acquire large numbers of ...
The Value of Purchasing E-book Collections from a Large Publisher
(2013-06-04)
The academic e-book market is in the midst of rapid change and development. While e-books are still a relatively small
percentage of library collections, sales are growing and libraries appear ready to ramp up their e-book ...
Privacy and Sharing: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
(2013-08-01)
Increasingly, our digital lives have moved off hard drives and into the cloud. What are the privacy implications of cloud-based services such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter? Who is watching us, and – more importantly – ...
Copyright: Protecting Yours, Fair Use of Others
(2013-03-21)
Confused about copyright? Do you know if you hold copyrights to your own work or wondering how to use copyrighted materials in your teaching?
Copyright is a valuable asset for academic authors, so it benefits faculty ...