Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; Faculty - Library Collaboration; and Electronic Resources

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Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace

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Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace (ID: CSD4922)

Author(s):

Philip Davis (Cornell University) and Matthew J. Connolly (Cornell University)

Source:

D-Lib Magazine

Origin:

Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2007)

Type:

Articles, Papers, and Reports

Abstract:

This article reports on a three-part evaluative study of institutional repositories. We describe the contents and participation in Cornell's DSpace and compare these results with seven university DSpace installations. Through in-depth interviews with eleven faculty members in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, we explore their attitudes, motivations, and behaviors for non-participation in institutional repositories.

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Embedding online information resources in Virtual Learning Environments: some implications for lecturers and librarians of the move towards delivering teaching in the online environment

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Embedding online information resources in Virtual Learning Environments: some implications for lecturers and librarians of the move towards delivering teaching in the online environment (ID: CSD2927)

Author(s):

Margaret Markland (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Source:

Information Research

Origin:

Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003)

Type:

Articles, Papers, and Reports

Abstract:

A short study of the use of online information resources by university lecturers using Virtual Learning Environments as a teaching tool for the first time provided insights into the strategies they use to select those resources, and into some of the difficulties they encountered when using online materials in their teaching. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, and the interview results were then taken to a group of subject librarians and library managers for comment. Skills training emerged as a key issue for both teachers and learners, and some interesting observations were made on the working relationships of lecturing staff and librarians. The study concludes that the need for 'new alliances' frequently raised in current literature is indeed very apparent, but that to be most effective such co-operation may need to be at individual as well as at group level.

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