The library as strategic asset in the information chain : an evolving paradigm for library roles in a digital age

Trends for distributed, open, and increasingly collaborative models of information delivery challenge the library's classic roles. In addition, trends within the research community for more interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship create an opportunity for more enabling information infrastructure. In an age of Amazon, Google, and "social" tools, how should the library respond? My presentation will focus on strategies for bringing the library's "assets" into the flow of researchers' work. How can the library integrate its resources into the scholar's workflow? What are the emerging challenges of this integration

The Diffuse Library Revisited: Aligning the Library as Strategic Asset

Purpose: Originally a keynote speech to the 9th International Bielefeld Conference exploring the shifts in roles evident in the research library community, with illustrative case studies from the University of Minnesota Libraries. Design/methodology/approach: A review of environmental forces that are fueling changes in research methodologies and scholar behavior. Changes in research library roles are explored in the context of three case studies, highlighting new forms of engagement with the scholar community. Findings: Three University of Minnesota Libraries' initiatives illustrate: the use of behavioral data to design a customized discovery environment for scholarship, new organizational constructs to engage the community in issues related to control of scholarship, and strategies to develop a virtual community in the field of bioethics. Originality / value: The paper presents the original perspective of a University Librarian of a large research library and draws on earlier analyses of research behaviors, technology, and research library roles

New American Heritage: Designing Digital Collections for User Collaboration

ABSTRACT Our project aims to develop guidelines for curating interactive, community-based digital collections for groups and institutions with limited resources. Many small, local cultural heritage organizations would like to develop an internet presence and display their collections online. These collections may include various kinds of media and much of the material may be usercontributed or user-edited, making the needs of these institutions complex. Though limited resources tend to be the norm, the potential and necessity for collaboration across scholarly and professional disciplines makes this area ripe for exploration, and development of such guidelines can help to offset these resource shortages. We will use a specific institution, the folk life program of the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI), as a case study to explore the decisions, issues, and challenges that such collections should address when implementing a web-based collection

The Diffuse Library Revisited: Aligning the Library as Strategic Asset

Purpose: Originally a keynote speech to the 9th International Bielefeld Conference exploring the shifts in roles evident in the research library community, with illustrative case studies from the University of Minnesota Libraries. Design/methodology/approach: A review of environmental forces that are fueling changes in research methodologies and scholar behavior. Changes in research library roles are explored in the context of three case studies, highlighting new forms of engagement with the scholar community. Findings: Three University of Minnesota Libraries' initiatives illustrate: the use of behavioral data to design a customized discovery environment for scholarship, new organizational constructs to engage the community in issues related to control of scholarship, and strategies to develop a virtual community in the field of bioethics. Originality / value: The paper presents the original perspective of a University Librarian of a large research library and draws on earlier analyses of research behaviors, technology, and research library roles

Mémoires historiques sur la révolution d'Espagne

Copia digital. Madrid : Ministerio de Cultura. Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria, 2007Antep

Examen del plan presentado a las Córtes, para el reconocimiento de la independencia de la América española

Copia digital. Madrid : Ministerio de Cultura. Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria, 200

De las colonias y de la revolución actual de la América

Encuadernado con: De los tres meses últimos de la América Meridional y del Brasil / por M. de PradtCopia digital. Madrid : Ministerio de Cultura. Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria, 200

De la révolution actuelle de l'Espagne et de ses suites

Copia digital. Madrid : Ministerio de Cultura. Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria, 2007Antep