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ProQuest Drops Dissertation E-Submission Fees

New repository software efforts also point to a more fragmented future for dissertations and theses.

Bloggers vs. JSTOR: Complaints Provoke Interface Tweaks

Kerfuffle resolved in Internet time

Support Your Students, Support the Economy | From the Bell Tower

There's a direct link between the economy and higher education, says Steven Bell, and our academic libraries are part of the connection.

Turning Out the Lights | Peer to Peer Review

While societies defend their traditional publishing role, writes Barbara Fister, libraries are losing access to the scholarly record.

Harvard Library Labs Foster New Digital Library Projects

Collaborations with outside libraries could also produce innovative applications.

Best Sellers in Mathematics

November 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services.

Best Sellers in European History

November 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services.

Can Mobile Tech, Collaboration, and a Focus on User Experience Rejuvenate Reference Services?

Against a backdrop of shrinking budgets and unsteady usage statistics, librarians regrouped in Denver for the Reference Renaissance Conference.

UC Santa Cruz Students Protest Library Budget Cuts

Police called in when students remained in library until midnightLibrary staff, caught in the middle, say protests create a 'hardship"Facilitated dialogue helps end student actionMore than 100 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) students protested More...

Database Marketplace 2010: Feast and Famine

With fancy new software developments and growth in both the richness of content and delivery options for information resources, the Database Marketplace 2010 is a feast for buyers. Unfortunately, institutional budget cuts may force more More...

LJ Design Institute, Dallas: Hands-on Green

On December 11, 2009, the same weekend that the UN Climate Change Conference was taking place in Copenhagen, approximately 90 librarians, library board members, architects, and vendors from 12 states convened for their own ecominded More...

Let "Green" Creep

You've heard the buzz about building green libraries, but what about green library operations? You know, the things we do every day to give our customers a great library experience, like cleaning the floors, registering More...

LJ Design Institute, Dallas: Design Challenges

William T. Cozby Public Library Coppell, TXARCHITECT PSA-DewberryTHE CHALLENGE The William T. Cozby Public Library, Coppell, TX, has been at its current two-story, 28,000 square foot location since 1995 and was last renovated in 2005. More...

Lead with Green: Q&A with Louise Schaper

When Louise Schaper opened the new Fayetteville Public Library (FPL) in Arkansas in 2004, she brought the state's second LEED Silver-certified building to completion. The green building fulfilled a community expectation for sustainable innovation established More...

Integrated Art Spaces Support the Mission

The John Spoor Broome Library, completed in 2008, is the centerpiece and intellectual heart of the California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) campus located in Camarillo-and the display of art is a centerpiece of the More...

Not for Sale | Peer-to-Peer Review

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesEvery spring I teach a course for juniors and seniors who want to learn more about how information works. They tend to be on their way to graduate More...

Putting Students in the Debt Hole | From the Bell Tower

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesHigher education is full of inspirational stories, and we should celebrate them. Then we occasionally discover a story that is purely heart wrenching, and although we may be More...

ARL Embarks on Scenario Planning Exercise for 2030

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesWill be released in OctoberSimilar project in the UKOCLC Research recently reported on current risksFollowing the lead of library groups around the world, the Association of Research Libraries, More...

What They Think About Academic Libraries, a Deans'-Eye View

Barbara Fister takes the conversation about the value of academic libraries to the administration building in LJ's May 1 cover story, "Critical Assets." Her interviews with chief academic officers and perspective on an online survey More...

At LJ's Design Institute Atlanta, Challenges Seen as Opportunities

Atlanta-Fulton Public Library hosts LJ's latest Design InstituteEconomy, technology, and learning behavior all impact designFull report will be in fall 2010 issue of Library By Design supplementOn April 30, 2010, over 110 librarians and library More...

The Bursting of the Academic Library Bubble | From the Bell Tower

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesAs a higher education news junkie I eagerly look forward to the Education Life supplements published quarterly by the New York Times. It's always fun to see what More...

Washington, We Have a Problem | Peer to Peer Review

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesYou're in a place that seems strangely familiar. There' a slogan on the wall about freedom and access and principles, and you think 'ah, Budapest. Or is it More...

Critical Assets: Academic Libraries, a View from the Administration Building

Which of the following predictions about the future of libraries were made by university administrators?Within five years, libraries will focus exclusively on electronic resourcesAcademic computing and libraries will merge.Librarians who do not produce will be More...

Could Some Healthy Paranoia Have Helped? | From the Bell Tower

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesIn the overall scheme of things in the higher education industry, this story would hardly register a blip, but it certainly caught my attention and I shared the More...

What the Humanities PhD Crisis Means for Academic Librarians | From the Bell Tower

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesOver the past two years the job market for academic librarians offered nothing much to cheer. It's been tough on new-to-the-profession colleagues seeking to enter the workforce. The More...

Playing for Keeps | Peer to Peer Review

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesRecently there has been some heated discussion on Collib-L about the use of new social technologies as tools to promote information literacy.Some librarians argued we should be involved More...

Yale Drops Membership in Public Library of Science

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesIncreased number of Yale authors in PLoSLibrary hopes to continue support of OA journalsWill loss of discount on author fees affect submissions?In August 2007, the Yale University Library More...

OCLC Report Suggests Research Libraries Face Major Risks

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesBased on interviews with 15 directorsNew types of professionals neededUrgency of need to cooperateNot aimed to inform OCLC product strategy (but seems consonant)A new report, Research Libraries, Risk More...

No One Pays the Sticker Price | From the Bell Tower

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesIf you've been to a high school graduation in the last few years, did you catch the scholarship announcement? At some point during the proceedings the principal or More...

So Big It Fails | Peer to Peer Review

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesThis week Meredith Farkas asked 'Has EBSCO Become the New Evil Empire?'; at her blog. Its name, Information Wants To Be Free, is a phrase that publishers have More...

Faculty Survey Warns of Potential Irrelevance for Academic Libraries, Suggests New Roles

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesLibrary disintermediated from discovery processDigital preservation more importantLittle uptake on open accessIn its fourth survey of faculty members in the United States in a decade, Ithaka S+R warns More...

Symposium on Sustaining Digital Information, Part 2: Economics and Reflections

Need for multiple funding sourcesPortico model not perfectNo one is backing up TVFlexible, committed organizations needed(Also see the first half of this report: "At Symposium on Sustaining Digital Information, a Call for Libraries To Step More...

Liberation Bibliography

I've been thinking about the kind of freedoms embodied in the idea of the library and the plight of the book that cannot find its reader. What can librarians do to help readers and books More...

Now that It's the 21st Century… | From the Bell Tower

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesBack in the days of the 20th century, if you wanted to communicate that an idea or object was highly sophisticated, or to just emphasize its coolness factor, More...

Newsmaker Interview: Brian Schottlaender, 2010 ALA Melvil Dewey Medal Award Winner

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesSurviving a hate incidentThe impact of the Google settlementThe future of catalogingEvery year, the Melvil Dewey Award is given by the American Library Association (ALA) as a "citation More...

Breaking News | Peer to Peer Review

The 2010 State of the News Media Report released last week includes a telling anecdote: news carriers are complaining it's getting hard to throw lighter-weight papers hard enough to reach front porches. Newspapers have lost More...

In UK, Academic Libraries Face Budget Crunch, Seek Solutions

Cuts expected in next three to five yearsSavings on resources key, but not easy to implementOpen access offers no short-term savingsNeed to emphasize ROIA new guide from the Research Information Network-established by the higher education More...

The IPL: Still Alive and Well | From the Bell Tower

You remember the Internet Public Library (IPL). Of course you do. It was probably one of your go to sites, along with the Librarian's Index to the Internet (LII) and Scout Reports, for authoritative, subject More...

Free Higher Education Is What the People Want | From the Bell Tower

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesFree, according to Chris Anderson, is the new model for how business will work in the future.Could free, as in absolutely no cost to the student, ever work More...

Looking at Usage Data and Alternatives, Wellesley College Prepares for Journal Cancellations

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesCut of $200,000Focus on ongoing costs vs. one-time costsJSTOR, ILL, pay-per-use all helpfulLike a lot of academic libraries, the Wellesley College Library, MA, is conducting a journal cancellation More...

Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall | Peer to Peer Review

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesMaking the shift from traditional market-based forms of sharing information to open access will take more than tinkering at the edges. It means rethinking how we allocate our More...

Just One More Business | From the Bell Tower

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesWhat's the worst thing a faculty member or librarian could possibly say about their own college or university? That would be something along the lines of 'This place More...

In Survey of Academic Librarians and Ebooks, Pointers Toward a Better System

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesSelection needs to evolveMobile access loomsUnlike with journals, pay per use not embracedHighWire Press, affiliated with Stanford University Libraries, has released its 2009 Librarian eBook Survey (PDF) and, More...

Open Access or Open for Business? | Peer to Peer Review

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesI read an article in EDUCAUSE Review this week that gave me whiplash. Every time I started to nod in agreement, the sentence would round on me and More...

Signals that Help Students | From the Bell Tower

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesWhen I mentioned attending a presentation by Mark Milliron, where I learned about the BBS (Buy-Build-Share) model of developing curricular resources, I neglected to say that I learned More...

Hateful Act or Inadvertent? Noose in UCSD Library Part of Racial Uproar

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesSeries of incidentsStudent's explanation questionedLibrary involves student faith groups in responseA series of racially charged incidents has galvanized protests and teach-ins at the University of California, San Diego More...

The Inflatable CV | Peer to Peer Review

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesTwo recent stories in the Chronicle of Higher Education made me ponder one of the problems we face as we try to support the ongoing scholarly conversation. Though More...

New Mexico State Must Cut Materials Budget by 27%

Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesCost increases and revenue lossesPositions and salaries frozenDecisions comingby MayFacing a 'perfect storm'; of cost increases and revenue losses, New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, aims to More...

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