476 research outputs found
Economies of scale in the library world: the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Library in San Jose, California
Discusses the new Dr Martin Luther King Jr Library in San Jose´, California, which will house the collections of the San Jose´ Public Library’s main branch and the San Jose´ State University’s Library system in one new building. Outlines the conception of the project, the site selection and the planning process. Considers the communities served, usage patterns and services. Focuses on the management structure and operations in light of a, perhaps controversial, aspect of mixing city and university library staff under the same roof, some performing similar functions, but with different supervisors and employing agencies. Discusses the new library in the context of other joint-use libraries and in the context of economies of scale and future trends. Evaluates the arising challenges and opportunities
Forty-Two: The Hitchhiker\u27s Guide To Teaching Legal Research To The Google Generation
Students are coming to law school increasingly dependent on computers to serve their research needs. And they expect that computerized legal research will be both more efficient and more effective than book-based research. These expectations place students in conflict with traditionalists who point to the inherent limitations of computer-assisted legal research and the dangers in relying on legal research conducted entirely in electronic databases. These traditionalists favor a “books first,” if not a “books only,” approach. This paper explores the cultural conflict between the traditionalists and the “Google generation,” evaluates the dangers associated with computer-assisted legal research, and proposes a pedagogical approach to research training that stresses a client-based approach over the more familiar medium-based approach presently employed by many law schools
Information Outlook, June 1997
Volume 1, Issue 6https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_1997/1005/thumbnail.jp
Information Outlook, January 1997
Volume 1, Issue 1https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_1997/1000/thumbnail.jp
Issue 44
Designs of Duty exhibit; 1 Million Downloads for The Keep; Welcome new reference librarian Andrew Cougillhttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/notebooth/1002/thumbnail.jp
Information Outlook, October 1999
Volume 3, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_1999/1009/thumbnail.jp
Street Lit Novels and Triangle-Area Public Libraries: A search through the OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs)
Street lit novels are reemerging in popularity. Their content is as controversial as it was in the late 1960s and early 1970s when Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines were writing their similar black experience novels. Despite their controversy, major publishers sign the authors and bookstores carry the titles. Public libraries also strive to provide popular books for their patrons. This research examines whether public libraries in the Triangle-area of North Carolina own bestselling street lit titles
Information Outlook, February 2001
Volume 5, Issue 2https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_2001/1001/thumbnail.jp
The Digital Reference World of Academic Librarians.
Throughout the 1990s, the reference departments of academic libraries have seen a rapid evolution from a print-centered world to a digital-intensive one. Online, CD-ROM, and World Wide Web resources are often the first choice of both library users and reference librarians. For the latest measure of how academic libraries incorporate electronic information sources into their reference activities and the effect on library services, a questionnaire was sent to all academic members of the Association of Research Libraries in the 4th quarter of 1997. Over 73% of ARL libraries report more than 100 workstations or terminals. Not surprisingly, the big growth area between 1994 and 1997 is in end-user access to the World Wide Web. Intermediary search services are not dead in academic research libraries, but they are dwindling in numbers, and most services are experiencing sharp declines in the number of searches performed. End-user online searching on commercial search services continues to grow in popularity, beyond the rates predicted at the beginning of this decade - primarily due to OCLC\u27s FirstSearch service
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