Academic libraries are libraries with the primary purpose of serving members of their post-secondary educational institutions rather than, e.g. members of the general public or another sort of institution. (Libraries for primary and secondary education fall under [school-libraries].) This tag should ...
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The manuscript Summa Logicae (William of Ockham)
The Summa Logicae (Latin, in English it's the Sum of Logic) is a textbook on logic by William of Ockham. There are articles about the Summa Logicae in Wikipedia and in Logicmuseum.
It was published ...
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Are volume numbers on article citations reliable? Are they predictable?
Scientific journal articles usually appear in one dedicated issue of a journal. There are cases they are split over more than one issue, too. In citation, this is referred to as issue number.
Aside ...
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Information literacy instruction classes without course credit - are badges the answer?
I'm looking for examples of successful library instruction programs that are not offering course credit. Have any institutions created a multi-session program that students attend without earning ...
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How have personas been used in successful library web design?
"Personas" are detailed research-based profiles of typical or target users of a web site, created so that people building the site build it for those people, with their particular needs and goals, ...
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Help locating a library [closed]
This question may be deemed off-topic, but I am looking for the location of a particular library.
I have tried reverse image searches and following the picture back through various websites/tumblrs. ...
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What classification system would be a optimal choice for a school library?
What would be the most effective classification to shelf books in a small library of a school? I think LCC and Dewey Decimal would be "overkill" for just textbooks for grades.
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Why should university undergraduates care about open access?
Open Access Week will be happening 22 - 28 October. At the university where I work librarians are planning a variety of events.
We want to do something for undergraduates, to tell them about open ...
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How are academic libraries addressing the student textbook crisis?
Has anyone developed a successful model for making student textbooks available in the library, either on reserve or via e-book access?
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How to generate a cutter number for a book
I am new to Library of Congress Classification system and trying to understand how would I create a cutter number for a particular book manually. In fact, I am trying to build a software for library ...
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How to catalogue zines?
Books and periodicals, etc. are relatively easily catalogued in an academic setting. What about alternative materials, such as zines? Is there an easy way to catalogue those sorts of materials?
Note: ...
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What makes a successful digital scholarship centre?
Where I work, at the library for a large research university, we're investigating the creation of a digital scholarship centre. Some examples:
Brown's Center for Digital Scholarship
U Michigan's ...
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What are the most effective practices for holding job interviews at academic libraries?
At the university library where I work we have been discussing how to improve what happens when we interview candidates for a librarian position.
Our usual routine:
a short presentation, perhaps a ...
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Are there indices/bibliographies or databases of foreign science papers in English? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How To Find Old Russian Physics Papers In English?
Foreign-language science papers are frequently difficult to come by in translation. Is there any sort of ...
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How To Find Old Russian Physics Papers In English?
Russian science papers may or may not have been translated into english. If they have been translated, where would they be available?
Are there general methods or resources that can be used to find ...
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What are the main difficulties of handling ejournals and ebooks compared to print journals?
Besides the difficulty of managing ejournals and ebooks compared to print versions. Why is eresource management, keeping a accurate knowledge base etc is so hard?
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Why is there no coordinated action of libraries to negotiate jointly prices and the transformation to Open Access?
The mathematician Gowers recently wrote in his much-noticed blog post "Elsevier - my part in its downfall" about the absurd situation in academic publishing:
A possible explanation is that to do ...
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What policies/practices do research libraries have for collecting faculty members' personal papers and research materials?
The personal collections of research materials, notes, papers, and documentation that faculty members accumulate over the course of a research project can be rich, interesting, and unique. ...
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What's a good elevator pitch to a layman asking “What's digital humanities/humanities computing/[insert local jargon here]?”
As my profile (and business card) currently state, I'm a "Digital Human(ist)," but I've never found a good way of explaining what that means in ~15–30 seconds that makes me sound like something more ...
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iPads in Library Instruction
Is the iPad a good tool to use in a library instruction session for a freshman composition class? We are thinking of using 25 or so in our new "instruction room" in the library. We will be using it ...
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What methods have you effectively used to keep online tutorials up to date?
My digital library department is starting up an effort to create more online tutorials (text and video) on how to do common tasks in digital scholarship - using Google Maps to post a set of data ...
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Viability of Virtual libraries
Are there any academic libraries that have gone completely virtual (book-less) with the entire collection digital/online? Is this actually possible?
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Re-classification of small (<25,000 items) library from Dewey to LC…thoughts?
I'm the director of two community and technical college libraries- one is Dewey, the other LC. We are going to make the switch to LC next summer, but in the meantime, I'm trying to find out some ...
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What changes have academic libraries made in response to the ARL's 'Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries'?
ARL recently published the "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries" which they describe as:
a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to ...
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If a book is open access online is a university library less likely to buy a copy?
One of the claims against open access books is that university libraries won't use their budgets to purchase a copy. (I have heard this from a few different academic book publishers.) Is this true? Do ...
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What happens to the private archives of old professors once they retire or die? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What policies/practices do research libraries have for collecting faculty members' personal papers and research materials?
One physics professor at the University of ...
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What do university libraries do to their extremely old books?
For example - books published before the 1950s.
University libraries will continue to purchase more and more books, but there is only so much space that is available in each university libraries. ...
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Is it possible to check out someone's PhD student thesis from another university through interlibrary loan?
And are there any restrictions on this sort of behavior? Are some universities somewhat more reluctant to let students from other universities loan the PhD theses of their students?
