{*Editor’s note: Invitees who cannot attend the conference were invited to send an issues statement and/or respond to the the two Pre-Conference questions. Carolyn’s earlier post was on The Challenge of Datasets.}
The Changing Environment of Area Studies Collections
An important issue within Collections Development is how university and other research libraries will deal with the increasing […]
Recent years have seen a dramatic improvement in the speed and ease with which we move materials within our various networks, whether via interlibrary loan, within recently created user-initiated borrowing consortia, or between high-density storage facilities and campus libraries. That improvement has produced an equally dramatic reduction in the significance our users place on our […]
Aspiration for 2010: To have built general consensus around a conceptual framework that encourages cultural repositories of all sorts to characterize research resources, local and shared collections, and preservation activities by means of commonly understood, easily applied terms that are at once intellectually defensible and operationally viable. The broader goal is to facilitate […]
My 5-year change is the same (I think) as Ann Okerson’s but I’ll state it this way. The research library will have been transformed from a stand-alone, “comprehensive” research collection into an interdependant, complementary research collection. This means research libraries will, for example, collaborate on a national level to plan redundancy […]
I’ve polled our librarians and gotten several very interesting and thoughtful answers to your “five-years-out” question. However since the request is for one item only, let me give mine: In 5 years, I would like to see librarians cooperating and collaborating much more intentionally and intelligently to leverage our human and collections resources, […]
In five years I would like research libraries to have quick, effective and agile processes insuring that “transdisciplinary” materials in all formats are collected in research libraries. Research is becoming more and more transdisciplinary (i.e., how social change shapes the environment; how human body movements can encourage active learning in schools and improve movement […]
When there are electronic and paper versions of the same materials and the electronic versions are more heavily used, I would like libraries to take a firm decision to collect only the electronic version.
-Professor William Arms, Cornell University
One thing that comes to mind would be stable and effective business models for scholarly communications. It seems we are faced with new emerging models that are struggling for equilibrium in a dynamic and hostile environment. At the same time (it almost goes without saying) commercial publishers are still trying to hold libraries hostage with […]
We need a more perfect Union.
The initial formulation of “collection development” recognized profound changes in the academy and established a set of principles—activities, really—to bring library resources into synch with contemporary research and teaching. By 1980 collection analysis, use and user studies, policy statements, selection, and materials budgeting were widely adopted […]
I am not a librarian (even though some of my best friends are and I have
the highest appreciation for that wonderful profession); I am a teacher
and (hopefully) something of a scholar. It is important to preface my
remarks in this fashion before going on, if only to clarify the nature
of the ground I stand on.
My sense […]