This study stems from a simple question: how do libraries reflect the communities they serve? The research analyzes a subset of periodical literature to measure how women are reflected, specifically women of color, in ...

How can the library community best promote large-scale access to heterogeneous digital records such as the materials found in organizational and personal archives? As a springboard to answering that question, this presentation ...

The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (or CARLI) is comprised of 130 libraries, a majority of which participate in the union catalog I-Share for resource sharing. The consortium implemented VuFind ...

We have many choices to make about the future as we strive to make valuable content and services available to more people with less effort. Every library will take the path it thinks will best meet its mission and goals. ...

The UK Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Dame Janet Finch, report, “Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications,” helped to crystallize ...

As reference models change in response to technology and the emerging needs of scholars, academic libraries are exploring innovative ways to more broadly support research activities. The Scholarly Commons (SC) at the ...

In the fall of 2002 the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to implement a collection registry and item-level metadata repository for ...

Workshop on the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting given for METRO on December 8, 2006.

Discussion of cases and the issues surrounding the theft and international traffic of rare books and documents.

Providing electronic document delivery (EDD) services to off-campus students can be a challenge. Methods of delivery that work well for one group of users might not work at all for another group. Knowing and using the ...