Sentences with phrase «academic libraries who»

As more resources become available only electronically, there will be an even greater challenge for academic libraries who wish to provide meaningful public access to their materials.

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So, thank you to those students who understand that the expectations in the library are there for me to enforce to provide an academic place for high school students, yet as an individual, aside from my role in the library, I may be someone to get to know.

The channel, called Horizons TV, will telecast events such as lectures, academic debates, and literary readings from universities, museums, libraries, and arts centers around the country, said Lawrence K. Grossman, a former president of PBS and of NBC News, who is spearheading the venture.

The movement was inspired partly by the work of Salman Khan, who created a library of free online tutoring videos spanning a variety of academic subjects, known as the Khan Academy, which many view as a touchstone of the flipped - classroom technique.

This is exciting news not only for patrons who may wish to enjoy Japanese - language titles, but also for OverDrive's academic and K12 library partners.

This session will bring together a privacy law professor who is thinking about a world without intellectual privacy, an academic librarian who worked with an ALA committee to create Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors, and a public librarian working on a grant - funded project to help library professionals increase their knowledge of digital and data privacy concerns to better serve the patrons who access their library's technological resources

Amazon's description: «[This book] brings together 30 chapters from librarians and academics across the United States who've served as: board members for library organizations; heads of special collections; state library consultants; directors of state library associations; outreach coordinators; archivists; researchers; presenters at conferences; and other positions.»

Students who come into the public and academic library and try to use the resources we have but simply can't.

In my experience as a school librarian I found that students who interfaced with the school library media specialist via integration of library instruction were better equipped to connect lessons learned in the classroom with everyday life, by exploring information that interested them through the lens of academic research.

Of note is the information liberator Aaron Swartz, who allegedly committed suicide only two days after releasing thousands of documents from the academic online «library» JSTOR that requires fees for reading some publications, especially for those without academic affiliation.

Academics have full access to libraries and, um, a social network of colleagues and contacts who they can turn to for advice on what the key background papers are.

At the same time, don't assume that the student who claims to have spent 12 hours at the library is guaranteed academic success — they probably spent half that time on Facebook.

But most of these were smaller libraries in law firms and courthouses: most Canadian academic law libraries never did adopt KF Modified, and some of those who did have recently given it up, reverting to unmodified Library of Congress Classification, using KE for their Canadian law holdings.

The results of the ERIAL Project (Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries) are perhaps not very surprising to those of us who work with the students that the literature has dubbed «digital natives» — but they are nonetheless very interesting and instructive.

I have found many useful resources as I've embarked on learning law from scratch: court resources, Duhaime's online law dictionary, CanLII, law firms» newsletters, the academic literature, law libraries, and the time I've been able to afford with lawyers who kindly provide «coaching.»

i) Students who feel comfortable with the library agree more than those who do not that the library helps them with their academic work;

One of my colleagues among the Canadian academic law library directors recently conducted a survey of our libraries to discover who continues to subscribe to The Canadian Abridgment in print and why.

Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking... [more]

Though I lived my professional life in the rarified air of an academic library, I knew who was really on the front line of the profession.

Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking for an orientation to our legal system and advice on the best way to prove that income tax is illegal, or substitute whichever conspiracy theory you like in here.

I think it would be especially useful for academic librarians to have insight into the way in which lawyers use firm libraries, and the kind of information they seek — useful in that we would be better able to equip our students (who will be those lawyers) while in law school.

I hear from those in large law libraries that are somewhat open to the public, such as academic law libraries, that they get a number of pro se litigants — i.e. people who intend on representing themselves in court — trying to do legal research.

Designed to be «high level» these Institutes were to attract faculty who were otherwise respected professionals in the law library community, leading scholars, academics, authors, think tank specialists, futurists, philosophers, jurists, lawyers and historians.