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Eighteenth-Century Catalogues of the Yale College Library

James E. Mooney

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Convergence and Collaboration of Campus Information Services

Peter Hernon, Ronald R. Powell

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Convergence and collaboration enable an academic library to be more fully engaged with its campus. In its simplest form, convergence is defined as joint activities of a campus's units to further their shared mission of supporting teaching, learning, and inquiry. Convergence, which involves collaboration in both organizational structures and service delivery, leads to users benefiting from contact with individuals who have relevant expertise. Collaboration also may lead to convergence of collections, thereby enhancing library service to an institution's constituents. Specific examples of convergence/collaboration include centers for teaching excellence, tutor and writing centers, information arcades, facilities for multi-media production and delivery, information and learning commons, cafes, photocopying centers; centers for distance education, participation in the use of course management software (e.g., Blackboard) to make library resources available to classes digitally and to make students more information literate, publishing (e.g., university presses and digital collections, including institutional repositories), counseling and career centers, and services for students for whom English is a secondary language (mostly in community colleges). For anyone interested in how academic libraries can be more closely tied to the various missions of the colleges/universities in which they reside.

The Management of College and University Archives

William J. Maher

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Excellent treatment 5 out of 5 stars.
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Maher's book was a classic from the moment it was released. As an archivist in a theological school library, this guide has been indispensible to me. The book covers a variety of subjects: description, arrangement, records management, electronic records, student workers, etc. Maher's discussions are never too technical, yet they avoid being over simplistic. His discussion of classification guides and provenance should be read by all academic archivists.

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Maher introduces the basic elements required for an archival program to meet the documentary needs of a college or university. Both archivists and their administrative superiors can obtain a thorough understanding of archival work and its importance to their institution. Beginning archivists, experienced academic archivists, archivists outside academe, and related professionals will all benefit from this book, which assesses the current status and conditions of academic archives, articulates the basic principles that should determine the operating goals for academic archives, and synthesizes external professional standards and techniques with a systematic overview of what is practical for academic archivists.

Fostering Community through Digital Storytelling: A Guide for Academic Libraries

Anne M. Fields, Karen R. Diaz

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Digital stories are brief multi-modal digital videos, which libraries can use to engage their staff members with one another, to market library services and collections, to attract donors, and most importantly, to engage students and faculty with the library. Fields and Diaz address the "how-tos" of creating digital stories, as well as the challenges of building a digital storytelling program and creating partnerships across campus. Of primary interest to academic librarians and instructional technology staff.

Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views

Robin Kinder

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In Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views, you'll travel to four different university libraries-Miami (Oxford, Ohio), Colorado at Denver, Montana at Missoula, and Purdue-and discover which questions and developments in document delivery are most pressing in the profession of library science. You'll see why you can't forget the "invisible" user majority of undergraduate students when considering budget issues and collection development, and you'll also find out how the dynamic relationship between faculty and library administration can impact events such as serials cancellations, alternative access to materials, and the reorganization of libraries to incorporate enhanced services to users.

Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views addresses the paradigm of access versus acquisition. In its compact and accessible chapters, you'll find plenty of information about how document delivery can move to a more integrated place in the library, right alongside full-text databases, Internet access and delivery, interlibrary loan, consortial lending, and reference services. In addition, you'll find useful information and proven methods concerning these topics:
- re-engineering library services
- restructuring a traditional Interlibrary Loan Department into an Information Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Department (ID/ILL)
- criteria for document delivery vendor selection
- delivering electronic tables of contents and search strategy outputs to faculty desktops
- document delivery in academic fee-based information services.

With Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views you won't see document delivery as simply an acquisitions tool or a necessary service to replace serials, cut costs, and maintain a collection. Instead, this handy and complete volume expands your vision of the role of document delivery in your own library setting and helps you see document delivery for what it is-an enhanced access service that lends greater perspective to library staff and users alike.

Working With Faculty to Design Undergraduate Information Literacy Programs: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (How to Do It Manuals for Librarians)

Rosemary M. Young, Stephena Harmony

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This is an excellent book for the beginning information literacy professional. Not only do the authors discuss background and points of view that you should consider when working with faculty on IL programs, but many sample materials are reproduced that you can easily tailor to your situation.

Brief discussions of the types of surveys and programs you can implement are included, as well as ways to promote an IL program with your faculty and students.

Overall, an excellent and practical overview of the topic.

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Whether the aim is to develop a course unit, a stand alone session, or a credit course, here is the philosophy, the specifics, and practical information needed. Included are numerous ready-to-copy or adapt forms, surveys, evaluation instruments, sample assignments, and more.

Useful for the novice or the experienced bibliographic instruction librarian seeking new ideas, programs, and ways to integrate information literacy into the curriculum, this teaching guide focuses on partnering with the faculty to ensure information literate undergraduates.

A Houghton Library Chronicle, 1942-1992 (Houghton Library Publications)

Hugh Amory, Elizabeth A. Falsey, Nancy Finlay

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Harvard's home for rare books and manuscripts opened in 1942, and thanks to the energy of a small group of librarians and the creativity and generosity of its benefactor, Arthur Houghton, it quickly emerged as a center of inquiry and memory without equal. This 1992 volume, compiled by senior Houghton librarians, blends documentary with oral history to look back on the library's origins, the growth of its collections, and the activities of the staff who made it a home for precious books and original scholarship.

Lyle's Administration of the College Library

Caroline M. Coughlin

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Created in response to requests from library science faculty for a student edition with a focus on the planning and policy issues germane to all academic libraries, this new text is a revised and abridged version of the fifth edition of Lyle's Administration of the College Library.

Future Teaching Roles for Academic Librarians

Alice Harrison Bahr

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Future Teaching Roles for Academic Librarians helps you understand how the librarian can play a central role in the new university paradigm that emphasizes student-centered, collaborative learning. College librarians and library administrators will learn the kinds of library service that will be required, from helping students learn to use bibliographic databases to real-time online interactive information assistance -the cyber equivalent of the reference desk. This vital guide offers the specific techniques you need to create a seamless learning environment, take on new roles and challenges, and meet the needs of students in an era of networked information and instant access.

The Upside of Downsizing: Using Library Instruction to Cope

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Many academic libraries are currently struggling with funding, and the new technological needs of libraries, plus dramatic increases in serials prices, have created even larger budget strain. This work offers librarians a number of ways in which to cope with this disturbing trend.