«Rather
than university librarians, it was the presidents of the universities doing the negotiating,» he says.
Not exact matches
Palfrey's audience, more
than 100 college and
university librarians, curators, and directors with managerial duties, were in Cambridge for Programs in Professional Education's annual summer Leadership Institute for Academic L
librarians, curators, and directors with managerial duties, were in Cambridge for Programs in Professional Education's annual summer Leadership Institute for Academic
LibrariansLibrarians.
We [college and
university librarians] see that many college freshmen are poorly prepared to conduct college - level research, requiring professors and
librarians to spend more time
than they should on basic skills.
Earlier this year more
than 60 science and math faculty members signed a letter to
university librarian M. Elizabeth Cowell complaining they hadn't been adequately consulted on which books could be discarded and which ones had to be saved She said all of the books that were moved or destroyed — about 60 % of the library's collection — were used infrequently and could be accessed online or through UC interlibrary loans.
At colleges and
universities where professors remain engaged in several activities other
than teaching,
librarians play a vital role to help students with Writing Assignments.
We [college and
university librarians] see that many college freshmen are poorly prepared to conduct college - level research, requiring professors and
librarians to spend more time
than they should on basic skills.
In fact, I would argue that as time goes on,
universities will be hiring less and less law
librarians (in fact
librarians of any sort) because they cost so much more
than library technicians or assistants.
For this reason, McMasterUniversity has for more
than eighteen months rejected all demands and considerable pressure from the Edwin Mellen Press to repudiate the professional opinions of
university librarian Dale Askey, notwithstanding the fact that those opinions were published on his personal blog several months before he joined McMaster.
-LSB-...] including the Canadian Library Association, Progressive
Librarians Guild Toronto Area Chapter, the Canadian Association of Professional Academic
Librarians, the library chapter of the York
University Faculty Association, BoingBoing, Gawker, and more
than -LSB-...]
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.