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Academic Libraries: Overview

The enduring purpose of academic libraries is widely understood to be information sharing for learning and research and knowledge creation. This entry provides a survey of the functions and operations of the academic library. It provides an overview of academic libraries and guide to professional associations.
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Technology integration for students’ information and digital literacy education in academic libraries

, 2019
Digital literacy has become a widely studied topic for connecting people, participation in government and public affairs. It encourages library professionals to train students and effectively acquire, preserve and disseminate knowledge.
Muhammad Rafi, Zheng Jian-ming, K. Ahmad
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Material Acquisitions in Academic Libraries

2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, 2008
As the population of books and other materials increases explosively, an effective plan for material acquisitions becomes an emergent and significant need for most modern academic libraries. However, there are few researches on this topic in the past decades.
Tsu-Feng Ho, Shyong Jian Shyu, Yi-Ling Wu   +2 more
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Accepted and Emerging Roles of Academic Libraries in Supporting Research 2.0

The journal of academic librarianship, 2019
This paper identifies some of the tasks and roles that academic libraries have to fulfil in order to react to the appearance of Research 2.0 that materialises in data intensive research and requires supporting activities.
T. Koltay
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Technology and privacy in the academic library

Online Information Review, 2002
Adoption of technology in academic libraries sets up circumstances for collection of personal patron information and records of patron information seeking behaviour not possible in the pre‐digital library. Even if collected unintentionally, this information may then be seized by law enforcement officials for criminal investigations.
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Standards Collections for Academic Libraries

Science & Technology Libraries, 1990
The need for standards in the academic library collection is explained and guidelines are given for the development of a standards collection. Methods and tools to identify and acquire standards are described along with resources to support standards education.
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Inhouse binding in academic libraries

Serials Review, 1989
As the costs of periodical subscriptions and the concomitant costs to preserve these types of materials have escalated, librarians have been challenged to balance ever increasing needs for binding with demands for new acquisitions. Due to budgetary restrictions at the Eastern Michigan University Library, we have been forced to find more economical ...
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The strategic evaluation of academic libraries

Library Hi Tech, 2007
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyse the network strategies of academic libraries and presents an approach to the evaluation of strategic plans and their implementation.Design/methodology/approachThe balanced scorecard approach is used as a framework for organisations to communicate and implement their strategic plans.FindingsIt is shown in ...
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The engagement of academic libraries in open science: A systematic review

The journal of academic librarianship, 2023
Li Liu, Wen-Ya Liu
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The Academic Library Online: Is the Future of Academic Libraries a Virtual Reality?

Technical Services Quarterly, 2012
Can academic libraries be a place of learning without any physical materials? Gone are the paper journals and book of old, replaced with study carrels, meeting rooms, and wireless access to a vast collection of knowledge residing in expensive databases and online resources. Is it possible to go paperless in a library? Is this happening today? Should it?
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