EDUCAUSE | EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Libraries and Technology

A Steady Vision for Libraries

elilly — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:01:04 -0500

The following excerpt is based on an interview conducted by Gerry Bayne, EDUCAUSE multimedia producer, with James G. Neal,Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University.

If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?

drupal — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:20:59 -0600

The author provides a glimpse into the future without academic libraries and how that will affect the students and faculty.

Advancing Scholarship and Intellectual Productivity:

drupal — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:02:54 -0500

"Tremendously exciting large-scale digitization projects are opening up cultural memory as embodied in our library special collections, our museums and archives, and the public-domain segment of our published literature to unprecedented levels of access and use."

Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog

drupal — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:32:29 -0500

Experiments are underway to provide library users with a browsable, electronic Table of Contents for books that are shared in a distributed collection environment.

Advancing Scholarship and Intellectual Productivity: An Interview with Clifford A. Lynch (Part 1)

drupal — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:17:06 -0600

"Informatics support has some elements of IT knowledge, some elements of library and information science expertise, and some elements of data management skills.... This calls for a team approach including both libraries and IT organizations but also going beyond both at some level."

Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination

drupal — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:21:40 -0600

Deep into the digital age, academic libraries have relinquished much of their fundamental and sustaining role. For most people, including academicians, the library—in its most basic function as a source of information—has become overwhelmingly a virtual destination.

Net Generation Students and Libraries

drupal — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:47:57 -0600

Technology has led to more modernization than transformation of the library, resulting in some major disconnects between many of today's academic libraries and Net Gen students.

Course-Management Software: Where's the Library?

drupal — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:55:20 -0500

The author argues the point of view that librarians and university libraries need to get more involved in the selection, content development and resource access decisions being made regarding course management software.

From Automation to Transformation: Forty Years of Libraries and Information Technology in Higher Education

drupal — Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:24:10 -0600

This article examines the ways in which information technology developments have changed the academic library over the last few decades, and speculates about further changes to come.

Panel on the Future of Libraries

drupal — Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:26:34 -0600

Clifford Lynch, Patricia Battin, Richard E. Lucier, Carol A. Mandel, Deanna B. Marcum, and Duane Webster respond to questions regarding the future of libraries.