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"The Internationalization of the Academic Library presents a theoretically informed, empirically grounded analysis of the process of academic library internationalization. Drawing on interviews with library personnel from around the world, Lombard analyzes internationalization at the departmental level of an academic library. Demonstrating that college and library personnel have positive intentions when it comes to internationalization, the research presented nevertheless reveals that there was little commitment to an intentional, holistic role in the libraries studied. Drawing on internationalization expertise and models of prominent scholars, the book argues that libraries need to be more deliberate in their internationalization efforts and collaborate with other college personnel and departments outside the library. Lombard asserts that internationalization can facilitate a better understanding of the potential for transformation of the library's mission, vision, and policy. The Internationalization of the Academic Library cuts across the fields of library science and higher education administration, ensuring that the book will appeal to researchers and students working in these disciplines. Library professionals around the world will also find much to interest them within the book." --

Academic libraries --- International education. --- Aims and objectives. --- Administration. --- Global education --- Education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Education and globalization. --- Libraries and colleges. --- Education, Higher

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Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries examines the library’s role in the development, implementation, and instruction of successful digital humanities projects. It pays special attention to the critical role of librarians in building sustainable programs. It also examines how libraries can support the use of digital scholarship tools and techniques in undergraduate education. Academic libraries are nexuses of research and technology; as such, they provide fertile ground for cultivating and curating digital scholarship. However, adding digital humanities to library service models requires a clear understanding of the resources and skills required. Integrating digital scholarship into existing models calls for a reimagining of the roles of libraries and librarians. In many cases, these reimagined roles call for expanded responsibilities, often in the areas of collaborative instruction and digital asset management, and in turn these expanded responsibilities can strain already stretched resources. Laying the Foundation provides practical solutions to the challenges of successfully incorporating digital humanities programs into existing library services. Collectively, its authors argue that librarians are critical resources for teaching digital humanities to undergraduate students and that libraries are essential for publishing, preserving, and making accessible digital scholarship.

Library automation --- Higher education --- Academic libraries --- Humanities libraries --- Humanities --- Relations with faculty and curriculum --- Digital libraries. --- Research --- Data processing. --- Electronic information resources. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Digital libraries --- Special libraries --- College libraries --- Libraries, University and college --- University libraries --- Libraries --- Libraries and colleges --- Public libraries --- Services to colleges and universities --- Humanities Study and teaching (Higher) --- Humanities United States --- United States

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"This book explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of libraries work together, usually in an existing library consortia, to leverage size to support acquisitions in each individual library. In cross-functional acquisitions, acquisitions collaborates to support other library functions. For the library acquisitions manager, technical services manager, or the library director, awareness of different options for effective consortial and cross-functional acquisitions allows for the optimization of staff and resources to reach goals. This work presents those options in the form of case studies, as well as useful analysis of the benefits and challenges of each. By supporting each other's acquisitions services in a consortium, libraries leverage size to get better prices, and share systems and expertise to maximize resources while minimizing costs. Within libraries, the library acquisitions function can be combined with other library functions in a unit with more than one purpose, or acquisitions can develop a close working relationship with another unit to support their work. This book surveys practice at different libraries and at different library consortia, and presents a detailed description and analysis of a variety of practices for how acquisitions units support each other within a consortium, and how they work with other library units, specifically collection management, cataloging, interlibrary loan, and the digital repository, in the form of case studies. A final sections of the book covers fundamentals of collaboration"--

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This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to teaching information literacy and writing studies in upper-level and graduate courses. Contributors to the volume describe cross-disciplinary and collaborative efforts underway across higher education, during a time when "fact" or "truth" is less important than fitting a predetermined message. Topics include: working with varied student populations, teaching information literacy and writing in upper-level general education and disciplinary courses, specialized approaches for graduate courses, and preparing graduate assistants to teach information literacy.

Information literacy --- English language --- Academic libraries --- College libraries --- Libraries, University and college --- University libraries --- Libraries --- Libraries and colleges --- Public libraries --- Germanic languages --- Literacy, Information --- Information science --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Rhetoric --- Relations with faculty and curriculum --- Services to colleges and universities --- Literacy

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"Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use of e-books reveals about reading habits and disciplinary differences. Finally, in the case study section, discover how to promote scholarly e-books, how to manage an e-reader checkout program, and how one library replaced most of its print collection with e-books. These and other examples illustrate how innovative librarians use e-books to enhance users' experiences with scholarly works"--

Libraries --- Academic libraries --- Scholarly electronic publishing. --- Libraries and electronic publishing. --- Bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Edition électronique savante --- Bibliothèques et édition électronique --- Special collections --- Electronic books. --- Collection development. --- Fonds spéciaux --- Livres numériques --- Développement des collections --- College libraries --- Libraries, University and college --- University libraries --- Libraries and colleges --- Public libraries --- Electronic publishing and libraries --- Electronic publishing --- Electronic scholarly publishing --- Learning and scholarship --- Scholarly publishing --- Collection development (Libraries) --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Services to colleges and universities --- Library special collections --- Special collections in libraries --- Library resources --- Special collections. --- Electronic books --- Scholarly electronic publishing --- Libraries and electronic publishing --- Collection development --- Libraries - Special collections - Electronic books --- Academic libraries - Collection development --- Academic libraries - United States - Case studies