Library in Transition

This is a chapter of book from the series "Advances in Library Administration and Organization, Volume 26, pages 71-149. ISSN: 0732-0671. This chapter discusses a study at an academic library in Illinois that looked at how well librarians adapted to changes in formats of information.

This is an article discussing how the University of Hong Kong Library manages their collections budget to get the best electronic and print resources on the same budget.

"Against the Grain (ISSN: 1043-2094) is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. It is a unique collection of reports on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals"

Pricing and product information for the Kindle at Amazon.com

A lot of headlines and blogs to the contrary, publishing isn't dying. But it is evolving, and so radically that we may hardly recognize it when it's done. Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological transformations since--well, since the early 18th century. The novel won't stay the same: it has always been exquisitely sensitive to newness, hence the name. It's about to renew itself again, into something cheaper, wilder, trashier, more democratic and more deliriously fertile than ever.

This article points the way to a study for review: Ithaka's 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education, but the link doesn't work.

The book is modernity's quintessential technology-"a means of transportation through the space of experience, at the speed of a turning page," as the poet Joseph Brodsky put it. But now that the rustle of the book's turning page competes with the flicker of the screen's twitching pixel, we must consider the possibility that the book may not be around much longer. If it isn't-if we choose to replace the book-what will become of reading and the print culture it fostered? And what does it tell us about ourselves that we may soon retire this most remarkable, five-hundred-year-old technology?

Available to students in residential and online studies, the Learning Resource Center (LRC) focuses on developing an extensive, integrated online collection of Evidence-Based resources. Accessed via this Web site the LRC's online full text collections include over 2400 journals, over 550 reference and textbooks, and point of care products. The LRC is also an active participant in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

This article describes exactly how to measure a sample size for any given library. However, it involves a lot of hands on counting which may not be feasible for our study.

info on economics of digital info

Blog posting re: the SUL library council's report

Blog entry about micro-publishing

access vs ownership

Volume 64 of the Encyclopedia of Library and information Science: Access Versus Ownership discussion. There are articles in this volume that touch upon all aspects of our project.

Historical perspective on research library--access vs ownership.

This is just the conclusion chapter of the book, "The Academic Library in the American University" bu Stephen Atkins and Charles Lowry. The recommend librarians become better advocates of the library in order to increase the stature of the library on campus.

A paragraph about the availability of new titles on iPhones ScrollMotion.

Audio. "Panelists Helen Tartar, Editorial Director at Fordham University Press; Sanford Thatcher, Director of Penn State University Press and past President of the Association of American University Presses; and Ree DeDonato, Director of Humanities and History and Acting Director of Union Theological Seminary's Burke Library of Columbia University Libraries/Information Services discuss the economics and process of scholarly publishing and the future of the monograph. Columbia's Deputy University Librarian and Associate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services Patricia Renfro introduces the panel, which is followed by a question-and-answer session."

Video: "...discuss the economics and process of scholarly publishing and the future of the monograph. Columbia's Deputy University Librarian and Associate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology Services Patricia Renfro introduces the panel, which is followed by a question-and-answer session." (quoted from webpage.)

This article was written in 1992, well before electronic journals and resources were common. This study examines the economic pressures on libraries, and embraces the possibility that new methods of electronic distribution of resources will help reduce these cost pressures.

2006-2007 statistics of the Association of Research Libraries. Graphs and tables detail trends in expenditures and collections development.