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Being 'In The Room Where It Happens:' Supporting Information Needs of Students in Experiential Learning Programs
(2016-06-22)
As business schools embrace experiential learning, many service units have grown their offerings to better serve students in these programs. An important role needed to support experiential learning programs is to ensure ...
Where is the Hospitality in Your Library?
(2020-03-06)
In the library and information fields, we spend countless hours focusing on making our world a more self-service environment. While many patrons much prefer to work independently and easily find resources on their own, we ...
Collection finances in Koha for new users : we did it--and you can, too!
(2017-09-08)
Come learn more about one academic library’s recent experience in implementing and migrating collection finances into Koha! Topics to be covered include basic configuration, fund accounting, invoice payment, standing ...
Creating The Ethereal Library: Thinking Creatively When You Have No Space To Think.
(2014-10-15)
Today’s library operates in two distinct spaces. First, there is the physical space, where we provide our community a place to work, where we provide access to print materials, and where we can provide a place to provide ...
“Where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives:” What a future library really looks like.
(2015-07-17)
In the notably bad 1959 film, Plan 9 from Outer Space, filmmaker Ed Wood, Jr. opened with Criswell making the prophetic statement: “We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the ...
“No One Gets Left Behind:” Managing Library Human Resources During Dramatic Shifts in Academic Libraries
(2015-05-18)
One of the greatest challenges facing academic libraries is maintaining necessary space for collections and services. Academic administrators are forced to balance the need for space to support new and expanded programs, ...
Change, Crisis & Counting: Thoughts on Library Assessment in Fluid Times
(2020-11-04)
Abstract - offers the perspective of a library leader who dramatically transformed a full-service library with a 70,000 volume collection to one that is almost completely digital in 2013-14. What kind of data has Corey ...
Getting in on the Conversation: Implementing and Leveraging Embedded Librarianship
(2017-08-29)
Three panelists from the University of Michigan share their strategies for leveraging embedded librarianship, including “don’t wait for the invitation: crash the party,” “forget the elevator speech: focus on troubleshooting,” ...
Critical Business Collections: Examining Key Issues Using a Social Justice Lens
(2017-11-08)
All academic librarians perform a balancing act between the needs of patrons, licensing restrictions, and the missions of our libraries. As part of the work to develop our campus collections, academic business librarians ...
What's Past Is Possible: Opportunities and Perspectives for Library Alumni Resources
(2017-11-09)
When considering the theme "What's Past is Prologue," there might not be a better application than to think of former students at our colleges and universities. As they venture off into the role of campus alumni, their ...