A must for public and
academic libraries where there is a special interest in fashion; recommended for all libraries where the budget allows.
Not exact matches
I have been a librarian for 20 years, most recently at the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School in Jacksonville, Florida,
where I not only run the
library but also teach students modern learning skills and serve as the
academic coordinator for grades 3 - 5.
The
library is a place
where teachers,
academic coaches and admininstrators can visit and explore.
Much educational research has shown that student summer activities — whether pure
academic work, or just going to the
library or reading and writing anything — play a key part in whether those students avoid «summer slide,»
where students come back to school behind
where they were three months earlier.
They were inspired by a talk given by
academic and author David Vinjamuri at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago,
where he noted that
libraries were paying $ 84 for books that patrons could buy for $ 14.
Unlike LSCA
where only public
libraries were eligible for grants, LSTA funds are available to school
library media centers,
academic libraries, qualified private / research
libraries, special
libraries,
library consortia,
libraries in residential and correctional institutions as well as public
libraries.
In fact, every
academic department in the sciences had a preprint
library where people would read up on the latest results.
So the onus comes back to major
academic libraries (and national law
libraries where they exist) to take up the responsibility to purchase paper versions of key resources for as long as they are able to afford it.
History, business and English faculty do just fine with their research collections in the central
library; and in an
academic environment
where scholarship and research are increasingly interdisciplinary, this may be the more appropriate place for it.
By contrast,
academic libraries provide 24 hour online access to e-resources irrespective of
where the user is located, as well as extensive borrowing of materials.
This is especially so in
academic law
libraries,
where we are losing or have already lost our connection to the «technical» aspects of our profession and are unfamiliar with resources outside of law.