Electronic Reference Services: Opportunities and Challenges

Article presented at COMO/SELA Annual Conference, Jekyll Island, GA, October 12, 2000The contemporary academic library actively designs, implements, and markets alternative reference services to meet client needs and to retain its identity in the digital world. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the changing nature of reference services based on preferred information delivery styles, remote availability of information, and evolving technologies. The emphasis will be on electronic reference services such ASK, chat, and video/teleconferencing. The history, current models, collaborative services, marketing, advantages, challenges, and staff competencies required to succeed in the digital reference environment will be discussed

The Journal, Scholarly Communication, and the Future

The purpose of this article is to relate how new technologies are affecting the way scientists and technologists communicate. The discussion includes the origins of the scientific journal, the problems and promise of the contemporary journal and an exploration of developing technologies, such as electronic bibliographic data retrieval, personalized information systems, electronic mail, text editing, teleconferencing, electronic publishing, teleconferencing, optical and laser disc storage with an emphasis on their effect upon scholarly communication in the future

GKR Workshop: Governance / Sustainability

Presented at the Cooperative Curation Symposium and Workshop, Thursday, August 9, 2012 in the Clough Commons Auditorium, Georgia Tech Library.Cooperative Curation Workshop: Georgia’s Approach to Statewide Repository Services - Management Track: Governance/Sustainability - Breakout Session 1.Merryll Penson is the Executive Director for Library Services, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Jeff Carrico and Kathy Tomajko are Associate Deans at the Georgia Tech Library.Governance, identifying stakeholders, committee structure, partner institutions, staffing, sustainability, economic issues, potential plans and outcomes, due diligence and options considered and chosen was discussed

Women's History Month

Lost in the Stacks podcast #4Podcast version of March 12th, 2010, broadcast of Lost in the Stacks. Hosted by Ameet Doshi and Charlie Bennett. Produced by Kyle Tait. Includes interviews with Kathy Tomajko (Georgia Tech librarian), Joy Guan (Georgia Tech student), and Colleen Riggle (Acting Head of the Georgia Tech Women's Resource Center)

Commitment to Excellence: A Strategic Plan for the Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center, 2007-2011

Documents associated with the creation of the 2007 Library and Information Center Strategic Plan. Included are background documents and appendices, as well as the final versions of the plan