Today’s Academic Library: Student Centered and Convenient
Column Editor: Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson (Library and Information Science Consultant and former Hong Kong University Librarian; now relocated to Sahuarita, Arizona) <anthony.ferguson185@gmail.com>
I was recently asked to go to Taiwan to speak about academic library trends in the age of globalization. I readily accepted for two [...]
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by Mark Y. Herring (Dean of Library Services, Dacus Library, Winthrop University) <herringm@winthrop.edu>
I hope you’ll indulge me in this, and it will be an indulgence, three parts’ worth.
In 2000, I wrote a piece called “10 Reasons [...]
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Big news that Koninklijke Brill NV and Taylor&Francis Group, part ofInforma PLC of London, have signed a purchase agreement for a journal and book program in science and engineering. This program was published by Brill under the VSP imprint. The transaction rounds off a strategic repositioning of Brill’s focus where the humanities and selected areas of the social sciences are [...]
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Annals of Search: Meta-Data 101
More information rather than less counts in book buyer’s decision. So claims a press release from NielsonBook. This UK Company, a subsidiary of the [...]
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by Adriana Parker (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)
Column Editor: Rick Anderson (Associate Director for Scholarly Resources & Collections, Marriott Library, University of Utah; Phone: 801-721-1687) <rick.anderson@utah.edu>
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