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Libraries Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Grappling with Changing Realities
(2009-11-03)Imbued with the sense of mission to serve as cultural and intellectual bastions, research libraries have continued to build collections to meet both immediate and anticipated future scholarly needs across a broad range of ... -
A Carto-Bibliography of the Maps in Eighteenth-Century British and American Geography Books
(2009-11-02)This cartobibliography contains descriptions of approximately 6700 maps found in 470 books. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author/title, and each entry lists every map included in the book with the full title, ... -
Academic Libraries and the Remaking of the Canon: Implications for Collection Development Librarians
(Library Philosophy and Practice, 2009-06)An issue of central importance for academic librarians of the future will be how to perform successful collection development in a time of narrow budgets and a rapidly expanding universe of information. For librarians in ... -
A Library for Engineering Education: Frank O. Marvin and the University of Kansas, 1875-1915
(University of Texas Press, 2008)This article investigates the influence of developments in engineering education on the establishment of departmental libraries for engineering in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American universities. A case ... -
The E-Book Dilemma: a Study of Aggregator and Publisher Options to Deliver Electronic Book Content
(2009-05-28)The University of Kansas Libraries initially experimented with electronic books through a NetLibrary purchase of around 9600 books beginning in 2002. In subsequent years, collections of reference materials and historical ... -
Russo-Serbian Orthography: Cataloging Conundrum and a Proposed Solution
(2009-04-20)The author discusses the problem of cataloging books written in Russo-Serbian script, a mixed Russian, Serbian, and Church Slavic script used for Serbian in the 19th century. He gives a brief overview of the historical-linguistic ... -
Organizational Development, Leadership, Change, and the Future of Libraries
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F. W. Lancaster as Scholar, Teacher, and Mentor: Reflections of Students
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Introduction
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The Influence of F. W. Lancaster on Information Science and on Libraries: Notes on the scope of this Festschrift
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Evidence-Based Practice and Organizational Development in Libraries
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What are we getting ourselves into? KU Libraries investigates e-book vendors and publishers
(2009-04-01)The University of Kansas Libraries sponsored a special task force to investigate e-book vendors and models during the spring of 2008, comparing the services and technology, and proposing options for the KU Libraries. Task ... -
Weeding the Reference Collection: Adapting Current Spaces to Address User Expectations
(2009-03-27)An extensive review of the print Watson Library Reference Collection at the University of Kansas Libraries was conducted over the 2008 spring and fall semesters. As part of a major renovation of the library’s main floor, ... -
Open Access to Knowledge: What Comes of the Right to Know in Kansas and Kumasi
(2009-03-26)John Willinsky, Professor of Education at Stanford University, presents "Open Access to Knowledge: What Comes of the Right to Know in Kansas and Kumasi," February 19, 2009 at the University of Kansas. Presentation sponsored ... -
Comparing Approval and Librarian-selected Monographs: An Analysis of Use
(2009-03-09)This chapter will demonstrate that monographic material acquired at the University of Kansas (KU) through the approval plan and firm orders are, in some cases, being used for research more extensively than originally ... -
Improving Use of Resources through an Enhanced Information Management Library System
(2008-11-24)The explosion of information and “ease” of sharing information electronically has sparked an increase in information that libraries need to share internally, with partners, and customers in order to effectively provide the ... -
Global implications of Rapid: an international system facilitating inexpensive resource sharing
(2008-09-29)This paper will briefly describe the Rapid system which facilitates interlending of articles between libraries, and obtaining articles from document suppliers, and open access journals. A basic description of how the ... -
Developing New Skills And Expertise To Support Digital Scholarship And Scholarly Communication.
(2008-08-23)The growth of the Internet and digital technology has caused a dramatic and rapid change in scholarly communication practices, giving rise to new forms of digital scholarship and emerging scholarly publishing models. As ... -
"No two directions are ever the same": Transforming reference services
(2008-07-29)This poster provides information about the changes that have occurred in reference services at the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries since 2002. Our intent is to illustrate the evolution of thinking about reference ...