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Collaborating with Faculty in Preparing Students for the Asynchronous Classroom

Harvey, Kay E.; Dewald, Nancy H. (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

If the academic library is at the center of a liberal education, then librarians must be proactive and aggressively pursue opportunities to collaborate with teaching faculty and technical support personnel in the new ...
The Gods Never Had It So Good: Partnerships, Standards, and Navigational Tools for Access to Images

Austin, David L.; Hodson, James (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)
Expanding the Role of the Library in Teaching and Learning: Distance Learning Initiatives

Snyder, Carolyn A.; Logue, Susan; Preece, Barbara (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

For years some libraries have provided library services to faculty and students involved in distance education, an environment in which students were not physically on the originating campus of the course. The authors will ...
Who? Whom? Or, Who's Teaching What to Whom and What Information Services Will They Need

de Jesus Ayala Schueneman, Maria; Schueneman, Bruce C. (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

This paper examines the university in the context of postmodernism. The integrated ideal of the past is contrasted with the fragmentary reality of the present, both in terms of educational institutions and individual ...
Libraries and the Post-Job Organization

Goetsch, Lori A. (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

Technology has had a profound impact on libraries, and they have responded by adopting various organizational strategies. However, many libraries continue to organize by functional units, and job responsibilities remain ...
The Role of Recruitment in Achieving Goals Related to Diversity

Winston, Mark (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

One of our diversity-related goals is to broaden the number of perspectives represented in academic library decisionmaking, administration and library services. The literature related to recruitment theory addresses the ...
Ethnic Cyber-Communities

Lam, Kwan-Yau (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

The diverse ideas and information found on the World Wide Web can be important information and educational resources for an ethnically diverse student population. This paper examines the kind of information and support ...
The Productivity Paradox: Implications for Libraries

Greer, Gary; Hare, Chris (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

For more than a decade, business and economics researchers have written and discussed the term "productivity paradox." Economist Robert Solow's often quoted remark "we see computers everywhere but in the productivity ...
Beyond Bibliography: Advanced Information Technologies, the Humanities, and the Library

Kibbee, Jo (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

In keeping with ACRL's theme of "partnerships," this paper explores an evolving partnership between the library and computer-savvy humanities faculty regarding the use of advanced technologies for research and instruction. ...
Academic Use of Electronic Publications in Social Sciences and Humanities and Changing Roles for Libraries

McCann, Linda (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

Results of a faculty survey show that there is significant interest in electronic publication of research and that the library can play an important role in the venture. This research project identified perceived obstacles ...
Books Not for College Libraries: A Singular Proposal

Farber, Evan (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

Most college librarians agree that weeding their collections is important, yet few do it -- time and potential faculty objections are the main reasons for such neglect. One way to help the situation would be to provide a ...
The Nature of the Electronic Journal: Structure and Use of Information in Scholarly Electronic Journals

DeFelice, Barbara (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

The nature of the information in scholarly electronic journals and the use made of that information needs to be better understood by academic librarians seeking to serve faculty and students effectively. This paper is based ...
Small-College Library Directors: Getting in the Door and Surviving on the Job

O'Keeffe, Julie (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

This paper reports findings from a 1996 survey which examined job preparedness of library directors at four-year colleges in twelve Midwest states. The survey measured: a) qualifications possessed at the time each person ...
The Library and Academic Computing Center: Cultural Perspectives and Recommendations for Improved Interaction

Favini, Robert (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

Technology has become a dominant factor in the daily operation of academic libraries. In small-to-medium-sized institutions the introduction of technology could not have happened with out the assistance of the academic ...
Can We Still Do Business as Usual?: Adult Students and the New Paradigm of Library Service

Fidishun, Dolores (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

Adult students are the newest clientele that many of us have noticed in our libraries over the past three to five years. As demographics declined for the traditional eighteen to twenty-one year old college students, more ...
Challenges to the Professional Control of Knowledge Work in Academic Libraries: A Proposed Agenda for Organizational Research and Action

Day, Mark Tyler (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

This paper examines contemporary challenges to the professional claims of academic librarians, who historically have been granted authority to organize academic library work. Many arguments for reorganizing library work ...
Philosophical Shift: Teach the Faculty to Teach Information Literacy

Smith, Rise L. (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

Integrating information literacy throughout the undergraduate curriculum is limited as long as librarians insist on doing the instruction themselves, because staffing is inadequate to support full-fledged, integrated ...
Go for the Gold: A Web-based Instruction Program

Cameron, Lynn; Evans, Lorraine (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

Go for the Gold is a Web-based instruction program developed at James Madison University to teach beginning students how to find and evaluate information. The 17 instructional modules that comprise the program are based ...
Building Partnerships: A World Wide Web-based Information Management/ Preprint Tool for Research Scientists, Government Researchers, and Industrial Partners in the Phase Separation Project

Bartolo, Laura; Casson, Robert (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

This paper describes on the development of a Web-based information management and communication tool to facilitate work remotely among research scientists, government agencies, and industrial partners. Implications of the ...
Assessment of Information Literacy Programs: Lessons from the Higher Education Assessment Movement

Pausch, Lois M.; Popp, Mary Pagliero (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1997)

Assessment in institutions of higher education is being driven by demands for accountability from legislators, trustees, and accrediting agencies. These assessment efforts are now expanding to library instruction programs. ...

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