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Making our communities greener: A case study of promoting biogas energy by Tongwei Evergreen Libraries in China
Promoting the consumption of new energies, particularly of biogas, in rural areas is a strategic initiative of the Chinese government. The government has incorporated this initiative into many of its rural development plans. Likewise, Tongwei…
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Using blogs for knowledge management in libraries
This paper describes the concept of knowledge management and its twofold mission in libraries. It introduces the definition and types of blogs and analyzes their technical and cultural characteristics; it also makes a comparison between blogs and…
Tags: Blogs, Knowledge management, Libraries
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Building an institutional repository at a liberal arts college
Institutional repositories (IRs) are being used increasingly as infrastructures for self-created digital collections at large academic and research libraries. This paper demonstrates how a small liberal arts college can build an institutional…
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Celebrating diversity, welcoming the world: Developing a Chinese webpage at Rutgers University Libraries
Growing out of a recent project to create multilingual online Welcome pages at Rutgers University Libraries, this paper describes the project, from its origin to the public release of the first group of webpages, with a special emphasis on the…
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Involving Users in the Library Space Planning: a Case Study of a Branch Library in a Research University
As library functions are evolving, many academic libraries are redesigning or renovating their library space to meet the changing needs of their users. This case study describes how a branch library in a Canadian research university reached out to…
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Organizational and operational optimization of academic library and information technology
In light of the development of the digital library, the deficiencies of collaboration and integration between the Information Technology unit and the Library on campus have created numerous obstacles to maintaining high-quality and effective digital…
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A study of subject service in Chinese academic libraries
This article explores the current status and challenges of subject service in academic libraries in mainland China. The authors selected top thirty universities nominated by Chinese University Alumni Association (CUAA) in 2009 and examined their…
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The CUNY-Shanghai Library Faculty Exchange Program
The librarian exchange between The City University of New York (CUNY), Shanghai University, and Shanghai Normal University took place spring 2010-fall 2011. Eight faculty from each country participated. Discussion and dialogue with Chinese visiting…
Tags: Academic Library, American, Chinese, Exchange, Faculty, International, Librarian
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Using internal grant to foster faculty-librarian collaboration
As colleges and universities begin to globalize their curriculums and to include global readiness in their institutional missions, New Jersey City University (NJCU) has provided grants that strongly encourage faculty and librarians to collaborate on…
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From the Ground to the Cloud: A Practice at California State University, East Bay
Cloud computing has been actively discussed in recent years, and is making its way into the library field. It has advantages when libraries work with constrained financial resources. This article describes the procedures that the University Libraries…
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New Directions in Information Organization-A Linked Data Model with BIBFRAME
Discussion on BibFrame, a new direction for organization of information, a linked data model.