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Use of Open-Source Software to Enhance the Institution's Service

Choosing the right Integrated Library Management Systems (ILMS) software is the most important step in the library automation process. To choose the right software librarians, need to analyze features in the module of each software and choose the…

Tags: Academic Libraries, ILS, Open source Integrated Library System, Open source software

Position: 476 (93 views)

Assess and Improve: A Case Study at Georgia Southern University Library

Method, Analysis, and Finding (Research): Case study method using surveys. (2) Description of Work in Progress, or Best Practice, or Innovative Services, or Community Development: Over the years, Georgia Southern University’s Henderson Library has…

Tags: Academic Libraries, Continuous improvement, Georgia Southern University, Library assessment, Library evaluation

Position: 128 (213 views)

Help-seeking in the academic library in the digital age: a review of the research and a conversation

2016 CALA MW_Burns_HelpSeeking In the Library.pdf

Asking for help with library research can be difficult for students for many reasons. In this presentation, I will discuss some of the research on the topic of help-seeking. Many students still use a traditional approach by talking to a librarian at…

Tags: Academic Libraries, CALA, CALA Midwest Chapter, CALA Midwest Chapter 2016 Annual Program, Reference Services

Position: 168 (205 views)

Customer Relationship Management as an Imperative for Academic Libraries: A Conceptual Model-121 e-Agent Framework

This chapter proposes a conceptual model, the 121 e-Agent Framework, for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in academic libraries. Linked data and Semantic Web are the core components of this model. The implementation of the Framework will enable…

Tags: 121 e-Agent Framework, Academic Libraries, Customer relations, Customer Relationship Management, Linked Data, Management, Public relations, Semantic Web

Position: 212 (194 views)

Metadata Effectiveness in Internet Discovery: An Analysis of Digital Collection Metadata Elements and Internet Search Engine Keywords

This study analyzed digital item metadata and keywords from Internet search engines to learn what metadata elements actually facilitate discovery of digital collections through Internet keyword searching and how significantly each metadata element…

Tags: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Incidence, Information Retrieval, Internet, Metadata, Online Searching, Proximity, Search engines, Search Strategies, Usability

Position: 242 (184 views)

The State of Wireless Laptop Lending Programs: A Survey of Academic Libraries

Purpose – This paper seeks to learn, by way of a survey, what librarians at US colleges and
universities were doing and the issues they were encountering as they considered, developed, or
maintained wireless laptop computer lending programs (WLLP)

Tags: Academic Libraries, Internet, Laptops, Lending services, United States of America, Wireless

Position: 102 (218 views)

The Effectiveness of a University’s Single-Session Information Literacy Instruction

Purpose – The purpose of this paper it to determine the effectiveness of “single‐session” information literacy instruction as it was integrated into the curriculum of a general education course at Monmouth University, New Jersey.

Tags: Academic Libraries, Assessment, Information literacy, Library instruction

Position: 95 (220 views)

Next generation or current generation? A study of the OPACs of 260 academic libraries in the United States and Canada

Purpose– The study described in this paper aims to identify the progress made in the efforts to model current online public access catalogs (OPACs) after the next generation catalog (NGC) in academic libraries in the USA and Canada.

Tags: Academic Libraries, Catalogues, Online catalogues, Search engines

Position: 262 (180 views)

"Discovering" what's changed: A revisit of the OPACS of 260 academic libraries

This paper aims to determine the current usage of next generation online public access catalogs (OPACs) and discovery tools in academic libraries in the USA and Canada.

Tags: Academic Libraries, Canada, Discovery tools, Next generation catalog, Online catalogues, OPACs, United States of America

Position: 131 (212 views)

Promoting and teaching information literacy on the Internet: Surveying the websites of 264 academic libraries in North America

A survey was conducted between July and November 2012 to determine how academic libraries in the United States and Canada marketed and delivered information literacy on the Web. A random sample of 264 institutions was taken from Peterson's Four-Year…

Tags: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic instruction, Information literacy, Library instruction, Library Web sites, Marketing, Promotion

Position: 279 (177 views)

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