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Top ten assumptions for the future of academic libraries and librarians: A report from the ACRL research committee

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Title:Top ten assumptions for the future of academic libraries and librarians: A report from the ACRL research committee (ID: CSD5219)
Author(s):James L. Mullins (Purdue University), Frank R. Allen (University of Central Florida), and Jon R. Hufford (Texas Tech University)
Source:C&RL News
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (04/25/2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

"In 2006 the ACRL Executive Committee asked the ACRL Research Committee to determine ten assumptions about the future that would have a significant impact on academic libraries and librarians. In the ensuing months, members of the Research Committee reviewed previous similar reports; surveyed ACRL committees, councils, and sections; conducted literature reviews; and reviewed the ACRL Environmental Scan of 2003. What emerged was a long list of statements that, after deliberations, was shortened to the ten most pertinent assumptions. These assumptions identify present conditions that the committee feels will have a significant impact on how academic libraries and librarians plan for the next ten years."

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Coming Together around Library 2.0

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Title:Coming Together around Library 2.0 (ID: CSD4573)
Author(s):Peter Miller (Bowdoin College), Peter Miller, and Peter Miller
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:'Library 2.0' is a term that provides focus to a number of ongoing conversations around the changing ways that libraries should make themselves and their services visible to end users and to one another. Through white papers, articles, blog posts, podcasts, presentations and more, at Talis we are taking part in this increasingly global conversation. Library 2.0 is more, though, than just a stimulus to conversation. The phrase captures notions of disruptive change, and promises to challenge both the ways in which we consider our library services and the forms in which they are offered to potential beneficiaries.
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Libraries and the Long Tail

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Title:Libraries and the Long Tail (ID: CSD4574)
Author(s):Lorcan Dempsey
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:Some thoughts about libraries in a network age.
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University of Tennessee's Collaborative Digital Media Spaces

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Title:University of Tennessee's Collaborative Digital Media Spaces (ID: CSD3960)
Author(s):Barbara I. Dewey (The University of Tennessee)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2002)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:How can we provide access to several hundred songs to 1,300 students who enroll annually in the History of Rock course? This was the initial question to be answered by the University of Tennessee (UT). The answer ended up to be two workable models and accompanying collaborative spaces for production and creation of digital media content for the campus--the Digital Media Service and the Studio. Formulating the answer required close partnerships between the library, the Office of Information Technology, and faculty from across the campus.
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