In the last few years, the acceptance and adoption of eBooks in libraries has gained considerable momentum. As platforms become more user-friendly, tablet readers proliferate, and, most notably, aggregators ramp up their ...

This presentation illustrates two local projects that have greatly enhanced OPAC use: (1) handling duplicate and obsolete authority records; (2) creatively making use of local subject data. The multi-step processes involved ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the key components of building good digital collections. Design/methodology/approach – Different categories of digital collections based on guidelines defined by the ...

With the development of RDA and recommendations from the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, the presentation analyzes the future of cataloging standards and the recommendations from the Working Group.

The authors investigated quantitative methods of collection use analysis employing library data that are available in ILS and ILL systems to better understand library collection use and user needs. For the purpose of the ...

In an effort to ascertain where future eBook purchases would be most appropriate, librarians at the TCNJ Library ran reports on Voyager to generate lists of heavily-circulated monographs, heavily-browsed monographs, and ...

FRBR -- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, a bibliographic framework developed by IFLA. This is a Chinese translation of its 1998 English edition.

The behavior of academic library users has drastically changed in recent years. Internet search engines have become the preferred tool over the library online public access catalog (OPAC) for finding information. Libraries ...

Public services (PS) and technical services (TS) librarians play equally crucial roles in providing library services to meet user needs to support institutional goals. For PS and TS librarians to develop effective workplace ...