Sentences with phrase «small academic library»

I also know that one small academic library is the equivalent of anecdata in the grand scheme of libraries.

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«It was a really small bill with a potentially really big impact,» said panelist Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an international coalition of academic and research liAcademic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an international coalition of academic and research liacademic and research libraries.

As we turn our efforts to respond to patron demand and begin buying more e-books, and with only a small number of e-book vendors (mostly academic) allowing for any sort of ILL, the more our book collections go digital, the less we will be able to loan to other libraries or borrow from other libraries.

All of these circulation totals are substantially smaller than the average collection listed by each type of academic library.

This applies in academic libraries, small law firms, barristers» chambers, smaller court systems, etc..

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.

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.

As our community of academic law libraries becomes smaller and more anemic, our university libraries may be able to provide us with a transfusion of new skills and influence within a wider information environment with greater collaborative potential, which we could use to further and promote legal information initiatives in our institutions and nationally.

But these projects — in both the academic and private law libraries — are small - scale, serving small audiences with specific needs.