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Building the Ubiquitous Library in the 21st Century

On the basis of web-based library information architecture, this paper outlines the ubiquitous library’s most relevant concepts and features tied up with the internet platform. Utilizing successful library projects and applications from the real…

Tags: 21st Century, Design, Digital Age, Instructors, IT specialists, Librarians, Managers, Technical, Ubiquitous library, Web-based

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Emerging Technologies and Their Impacts on Academic Libraries, Librarians, and Library Services

This paper intends to overview most relevant emerging technologies and their impacts on academic libraries, librarians, and web-based library information services in the digital age.

Tags: Academic Library, Digital Age, Emerging Technologies, Information Services, Librarians, Web-based

Position: 192 (493 views)

Leveraging Academic Library Information Commons for the 21st Century

With the rapid development of modern sciences and technologies, all kinds of data and information from heterogeneous resources can be dynamically accessed, converted and disseminated in the digital world. To meet the challenges of today's information…

Tags: Academic Library, Cutting-Edge Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Information Commons, Reference Services, User Services, Web-based Information Technology

Position: 163 (507 views)

Enhancing Academic Library Information Literacy Instructions in the Digital Age

For over a decade, hundreds and thousands of researches have been made to initialize information literacy programs and leverage information literacy instructions. Facing up to the new information explosion in the digital age, many academic institutes…

Tags: Academic Instruction, Information literacy, Library Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Scale Effectiveness, Scale Instruction

Position: 447 (410 views)

Rethinking Information Literacy Instructions in the Digital Age

Over twenty years ago, the American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Committee on Information Literacy defined information literacy. Since then, numerous scholarly papers have been published which explored the best approaches for improving…

Tags: Academic Learning, Information literacy, Information Literacy Competency Standards, Information Literacy Instruction, Library Literacy

Position: 400 (426 views)

Emerging Technologies for Academic Libraries in the Digital Age

This book is written to promote academic strategic management and envision future innovations for academic library resources, services and instructions in the digital age. It provides academic executives, consultants, instructors, IT specialists,…

Position: 438 (414 views)

Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation, 1st Edition

Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation focuses on the practical applications of emerging technologies in libraries, defining the technologies in the context of their use in real situations. Each chapter includes an…

Tags: IT personnel working for libraries, Librarians, Library administrators, Library support staff

Position: 144 (517 views)

Next generation or current generation? A study of the OPACs of 260 academic libraries in the United States and Canada

Purpose– The study described in this paper aims to identify the progress made in the efforts to model current online public access catalogs (OPACs) after the next generation catalog (NGC) in academic libraries in the USA and Canada.

Tags: Academic Libraries, Catalogues, Online catalogues, Search engines

Position: 132 (524 views)

Captivating the students: online library instruction for a psychology class and lessons learned

This paper presents the first attempt of teaching library instruction via a Web-based tutorial for a Psychology and Law online course taught during the summer of 2009 at Rider University. Students received information literacy instruction through the…

Tags: Captivate, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Information literacy, Online Tutorials, Psychology

Position: 218 (483 views)

Comparative study of academic digital copyright in the United States and Europe

The advent of Internet and digital media has added more complications to the already complex copyright laws. This paper will first summarize the history of copyright laws in the United States and Europe. It will then analyze and compare the digital…

Tags: Copyright, Digital copyright law, European, Fair dealing, Fair use, United States

Position: 223 (481 views)

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