Cambridge, MA About Blog The Harvard Library is
the largest academic library in the world.
With an endowment of 32 billion dollars growing in 2011 at a meager 21.4 %, Harvard simply can no longer afford to maintain the best and
largest academic library collection in the world.
eBook Platforms: Lessons Learned from Managing Multiple Providers — p. 12 by Trey Shelton, Tara Cataldo, and Amy Buhler — Gives an overview of multiple eBook platforms from the perspective of
a large academic library.
For
large academic libraries, it's simply cheaper and easier to use unmodified Library of Congress classification schedules to organize their law collections, despite the disadvantages for Canadian researchers.
Not exact matches
Consortia of
academic libraries (includes groups of universities that share access or
large state ‐ wide licenses)
Utilizing sophisticated technology to analyze student feedback against a
large library of aggregate data, YouthTruth also consults and informs school leaders to make meaningful decisions on other important issues such as social - emotional learning, school safety and bullying, and
academic rigor.
The go - to resource for students doing research on poetry technique and terminology, the fourth edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics features many new and valuable updates and is an essential purchase for
academic and
large public
libraries.
Definitely the source for all things American music, this set is highly recommended for music collections in
academic and
large public
libraries.
As
library ebook lending for both
academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress,
libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the
largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.
OverDrive, the world's
largest provider of digital content to
academic and public
libraries, announced a new partnership today that will increase its catalog of offered titles, specifically in key areas of business, science, and research.
OverDrive, whose ebook borrowing app continues to be the top - rated
large - scale lending app by iOS and Android users, has enjoyed a fairly solid run as not only a content provider to
academic and public
libraries, but also in other ways.
OverDrive, one of the world's
largest digital content and media suppliers to
academic and public
libraries, has rolled out a new update to its web interface that will make searching for content even more streamlined.
First of all we have unlimited access to the
largest libraries and other
academic sources, which are not available to average users.
Imagine if the endowment helped the public and
academic systems buy out an aggregator and reseller of e-books and audio books like OverDrive, the
largest / leading e-book reseller in the public
library market.
If the
largest libraries lead the way — both public and
academic — backed by the
largest library associations (ALA) then while
libraries will certainly find themselves embroiled in a lawsuit from major publishers for years I strongly believe the outcome will favour freedom of information, accessibility and centuries old precedent.
At Bloomsbury, Kathryn Earl is responsible for
large - scale digital products for the
academic library market.
While it is too early to speculate on the composition of the new company's
library marketing teams, it would make sense on the adult side if they combined each group's expertise in
academic and
library marketing into two new
larger departments.
Unlimited access to the world's
largest document
library which includes government reports,
academic dissertations, detailed scientific studies, and more.
Unlike most other POD imprints, UP enjoys distribution through BOTH of the world's
largest wholesalers: Ingram, the leading supplier of major bookstore chains; and Baker & Taylor, which is strong in
library and
academic markets.
Expanded Distribution offers you the opportunity to access a
larger audience through more online retailers, bookstores,
libraries,
academic institutions, and distributors within the United States.
Even higher
academic gains were evident among student subgroups if their schools had more
library staff,
larger library collections, and greater access to technology, databases, and the
library itself.
«Researchers will seek out this well designed selection.Recommended for American art museum,
academic, art school and
large public
libraries.»
A significant collection housed at York University
Libraries, it will allow
academics to study the development of Planet in Focus, Canada's
Largest Environmental Film Festival, as it responded to the dynamic social, political and economic conditions since 1999.
The
largest customer of many science journals are government funded university
libraries and
academics.
I have referred to this earlier postings, but this is part of a
larger initiative from north american research
libraries called «The Scholarly Publishing &
Academic Resources Coalition» or SPARC..
The discussion was mostly around digital preservation, in the course of this it became apparent that the biggest growing concern in
academic law
libraries is wholesale tossing of print book and journal collections in favour of databases such as the «Making of Modern Law» [http://www.galeuk.com/trials/moml/] in addition to the plan of Google and
large research
libraries (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc.) to digitize their entire collections.
The greatest impediment to the Osgoode
library's goal of fully integrating itself into the
academic and social fabric of the law school was physical: Though the
library was
large and spread over five floors in the law school building, the entrance to the
library was poky and hidden in a remote corner of the basement level.
The Harvard law
library is the
largest academic law
library in the world.
In fact, one author has argued that
academic libraries in small communities are more important to their local populations than
academic libraries in
large communities, as
larger communities can support public
libraries that fulfill their needs.»
There is probably always a role for
academic libraries to play in the surrounding community, whether
large or small, but there are also legitimate reasons for
academic libraries to restrict public access.
The case law seems to suggest that, rather than deciding public access policies based solely on considerations of the public or private nature of their universities, the amount of public funding received, or their
library's depository status, librarians can consider the individual characteristics of their own universities — the university's mission, their patrons» needs, their financial circumstances, and the place they see for their
academic library in the
larger community.
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.
Work included: a
large growth in
library work; establishment of a semi-autonomous test division; conferences of test users; research into test theory; Australia - wide curriculum survey; university study to determine predictions of
academic success; and the beginning of studies into adolescence and unemployment.