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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. “I know that’s part of the misinformation issue,” Tzoc said.

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Backlash as a university says its library will be 'all digital'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Articles with titles such as “ Academic Libraries Without Print ” may perpetuate fear that some institutions seek to reduce print to zero. But this and other articles focus on library services “centered on” e-resources but not to the exclusion of print. ” Besides, he suggests, context matters.

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Welcome to the February issue of Teaching Matters: Library and University Collections

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this introductory post, Christine Love-Rodgers, College Lead for Library Academic Support (CAHSS), provides an overview of Library and University Collections with a regard to learning and teaching… Library and University Collections supports teaching and learning for all of our students, staff and external users.

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5 High Tech Solutions that Enable High Touch Campus Experiences

University Business

Researcher and author Hana Ben-Shabat discusses this in her book, Gen Z 360. Library Services: An increasing number of automated and self-service solutions have hit the market to help manage library resources such as checking out books and devices.

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Dissertation Week in the Library: 11-15 November 2019

Teaching Matters Academic Support

This week was all about how the Library can support the student dissertation experience: from exploring what library resources are available to support a research question, to managing the bibliographic and research data students find. Found out so many things and places to research I didn’t think about”.