The UNIVERSITY of WESTERN ONTARIO
Faculty of Information and Media Studies

LIS 514 - Academic Libraries

Winter 2003

Selected readings are provided. Students are encouraged to explore additional sources in print and electronic format, and to share new and unusual items during class.
 

January 16 - The University: Structure, Vision and Trends

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada provides information on higher education in Canada.  Web site at  http://www.aucc.ca/  [2002, December 30]

Budd, John.  (1998).  The Academic Library:  Its Context, Its Purpose, and Its Operation.  Englewood, CO:  Libraries Unlimited.  GRC  Z675.U5B865 1998

Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning and Research. (1997). Edited by Lawrence Dowler. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. DBW  Z675.U5 G39 1997

Leadership and Academic Librarians. (1998). Edited by Terrence F. Mech and Gerard B. McCabe. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. DBW  Z682.4.C63 L4 1998

Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities' Web site http://www.edu.gov.on.ca is a source of publications (resource documents, reports, discussion papers) related to post secondary education in the province. [2002, December 30]

See the Web sites for various universities and colleges, including The University of Western Ontario's planning documents: 

Making Choices: Western's Commitments as a Research-Intensive University [Online]. (2001, June). Available: http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/SPTF/report/june01/ [2002, December 30]

Western's Response to the Increased Cohort?: Provost's Discussion Paper [Online] . (1999, June 22). Available: http://www.uwo.ca/western/cohort99/ [2002, December 30]

For links to other UWO documents and data http://www.uwo.ca/western/ [2002, December 30]

January 23 - Scholarly Communication

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Office of Scholarly Communication's Web site is a good source for links to papers on scholarly communication, intellectual property, libraries and consortia. Available: http://www.arl.org/scomm/ [2002, December 30]

The Changing World of Scholarly Communication, Challenges and Choices for Canada: Final Report of the AUCC-CARL/ABRC Task Force on Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communication [Online] (1996). Ottawa: Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. [Note: Although not a current publication, this is still worth looking at because of the good ideas and the Canadian perspective.]
Available: http://www.aucc.ca/en/publications/carl_aucc/aucccarl.htm [2002, December 30]

Meadows, A. J. (1998). Communicating Research. San Diego: Academic Press. DBW Q180.55.I45 M43 1998

Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing [Online]. (2000, May). Available: http://www.arl.org/scomm/tempe.html [2002, December 30]

Technology and Scholarly Communication. (1999). Edited by Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. DBW, GRC Z479.T43 1999

"To Publish and Perish." (1998, March). Policy Perspectives [Online] 7(4),12 pp. Co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of American Universities, and the PEW Higher Education Roundtable. Available: http://www.irhe.upenn.edu/pp-pubs/V7N4.pdf [2002, December 30]

January 30 - Planning and Budgeting

Association of College and Research Libraries.  Strategic Plan 2005 [Online].  (2000, January 16).  Available:  http://www.ala.org/acrl/plan2005.html   [2002, December 30]  [A good model of a strategic plan, as well as an introduction to an important organization for academic librarians.]

Bolt, Nancy and Sandra S. Stephan. (1998). Strategic Planning for Multitype Library Cooperatives: A Planning Process. Chicago: Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies, American Library Association. DBW Z672 S772 1998

Baughman, Steven A. and Elizabeth A. Curry (Eds.). (1997). Strategic Planning for Library Multitype Cooperatives: Samples & Examples. Chicago: Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies, American Library Association. DBW Z672 S772 1997

(Note: Bolt and Baughman are useful sources for examples of the planning process.)

Feinman, Valerie Jackson.  (1999).  “Five Steps Toward Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Needs.”  Computers in Libraries, 19 (1), 18-21.  GRC, TAY periodical Z678.9 A1C66  Available via link from catalogue. [2002, December 30]

Melville, Annette. (1994). Resource Strategies in the 90s: Trends in ARL University Libraries. Washington: Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Services. DBW Z675.U5 M43 1994

Stueart, Robert D. and Barbara B. Moran.  (2002).  Library and Information Center Management.  6th edition.  Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.   GRC Z678 S799 2002

February 6 - Collection Development in A Digital World

Branin, Joseph, Frances Groen and Suzanne Thorin. (1999, June). The Changing Nature of Collection Management in Research Libraries: A Discussion Paper, [Online]. Washington: ARL Research Collections Committee, Association of Research Libraries. Available: http://www.arl.org/collect/changing.html [2002, December 30]

Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP). (2001). Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), [Online], 2 pp. Available: http://www.library.dal.ca/news/cnslp/cnslpfaq.htm  [2002, December 30]

Fosmire, Michael and Song Yu. (2000, Summer). "Free Scholarly Journals: How Good are They?" Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship [Online], 12 pp. Available: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-summer/refereed.html [2002, December 30]

"The future of the electronic scientific literature." (2001, September 6). Nature, 412 (6851), 1-3. TAY periodical Q1 N2  http://www.nature.com/nature/archive or via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Gordon and Breach Science vs American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society, [Online]. (1997). 2 pp. Available: http://barschall.stanford.edu [2002, December 30]

Hawbaker, Craig and Cynthia K. Wagner. (1996). "Periodical Ownership versus Fulltext Online Access: A Cost-Benefit Analysis." The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 22(2), 105-109. DBW, GRC periodical Z675.U5 J683  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Journal of Electronic Publishing [Online]. Available: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/ [2002, December 30]

Kaser, Richard T. (2000, May). "If Information Wants to Be Free... Then Who's Going to Pay for it?" D-Lib Magazine [Online], 6(5), 10 pp.  http://www.dlib.org or via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Ketcham-Van Orsdel, Lee and Kathleen Born. (2000). "Pushing Toward More Affordable Access." Library Journal, 125 (7), 47-52. DBW, GRC periodical Z671.7 L7  Available via link from the catalogue  [2002, December 30]

King, Donald W. and Carol Tenopir. (1998). Economic Cost Models of Scientific Scholarly Journals, [Online], 10 pp. Available: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/icsu/kingppr.htm [2002, December 30]

Lee, Stuart D.  (2002). Electronic Collection Development: A Practical Guide.  New York: Schuman.   DBW ZA4080 L44 2002

Lynch, Clifford. (1998). Access Management of Networked Information Resources, [Online], 7 pp. Available: http://www.arl.org/newsltr/201/cni.html [2002, December 30]

Parker, Kimberly. (1998). Developing E-Collections: It's Not the Years, It's the Internet Mileage, [Online], 5 pp. Available: http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/DevelopingE.html [2002, December 30]

Peters, Thomas A.  (2002, November).  “Digital Repositories: Individual, Discipline-based, Institutional, Consortial, or National?” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 28(6), 414-417.  DBW, GRC  periodical Z675.U5 J683   Available via link from the catalogue. [2002, December 30]

Sanville, Tom. (2000) "Initial Implementation Issues: Migrating Electronic Journal Licenses from Print-Plus-Electronic Pricing to Electronic-Plus-Print Pricing." The Charleston Advisor [Online], 5 pp. Available: http://charlestonco.com/features.cfm?id=70&type=np [2002, December 30]

Scigliano, Marisa.  (2002, December).  “Consortium Purchases: CASE Study for a Cost-Benefit Analysis.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 22(2), 105-109.  DBW, GRC  periodical Z675.U5 J683  Available via link from the catalogue. [2002, December 30]

Tennant, Roy. (2000). "Beg, Buy, Borrow, License, or Steal." Library Journal 125 (11), 30-32. DBW, GRC periodical Z671.7 L7 (Available online via link from the catalogue)  [2002, December 30]

Tenopir, Carol and Jeff Barry. (2000). "Are Online Companies Dinosaurs?" Library Journal, 125 (9), 44-50. DBW, GRC periodical Z671.7 L7 (Available online via link from the catalogue)  [2002, December 30]

Walker, Thomas J. (1998, September-October). "Free Internet Access to Traditional Journals." American Scientist [Online], 10pp. Available: http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/articles/98articles/Walker.html [2002, December 30]

See issues of the electronic bulletin produced by the UWO Taylor Library Newsflash [Online]. Available: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/taylor/newsflash.htm [2002, December 30] 

February 13 - Service Delivery in A Digital World

Coffman, Steve and Susan McGlamery. (2000). "The Librarian and Mr. Jeeves." American Libraries, 31(5), 66-69. DBW, GRC periodical Z673 A5B82  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Eichler, Linda and Michael Halperin. (2000). "LivePerson: Keeping Reference Alive and Clicking." Econtent, 23 (3), 63-66. TAY periodical Z688 A1D37 Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Ferguson, Chris D. (2000). "Shaking the Conceptual Foundations: Integrating Research and Technology Support for the Next Generation of Information service." College & Research Libraries, 61(4), 300-11. DBW, GRC periodical Z671 C6

Ferguson, Chris D. and Charles A. Bunge. (1997). "The Shape of Services to Come: Values-Based Reference Service for the Largely Digital Library." College & Research Libraries, 58(3), 252-265. DBW, GRC periodical Z671 C6

Fritch, John W.  and Scott B. Mandernack.  (2001, Fall).  “The Emerging Reference Paradigm: A Vision of Reference Services in a Complex Environment.” Library Trends, 50 (2), 286-305.  DBW, GRC periodical Z671.L74  Available via link from catalogue. [2002, December 30]

Lankes, R. David, John W. Collins III, and Abbey S. (2000). Digital Reference Service in the New Millennium: Planning, Management, and Evaluation. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers. DBW reserves Z711.45.D54 2000

Lipow, Anne Grodzins. (1999). "In Your Face Reference Service." Library Journal, 124(13), 50-52. DBW, GRC periodical Z671 L7  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Lipow, Anne Grodzins. (1997). "Thinking Out Loud: Who Will Give Reference Service in the Digital Environment?" Reference and User Services Quarterly, 37(2),125-129. DBW, GRC periodical Z711.R6  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

People Come First: User-Centered Academic Library Service. (1999). Edited by Dale S. Montanelli and Patricia F. Stenstrom. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries. DBW  Z674.A75 No. 53 1999

Rockman, Ilene F. (1998). "Challenges and Opportunities in Reaching the Remote User." In Cheryl LaGuardia (Ed.), Recreating the Academic Library: Breaking Virtual Ground (p. 241-255). New York: Neal-Schuman. DBW  Z675.U5 R4425 1998

Tenopir, Carol and Lisa A. Ennis. (July/August 2001). "Reference Services in the New Millennium." Online, 25(4), 40-45. Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

February 20 - Information Seeking Behaviour of Researchers

Adams, Judith A. and Sharon C. Bonk. (1995). "Electronic Information Technologies and Resources: Use by Faculty and Faculty Preferences for Related Library Services." College & Research Libraries, 56 (March), 119-131. DBW, GRC periodical Z671.C6

Bates, Marcia J. (1996). "Learning About the Information Seeking of Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students." Library Trends, 45 (2), 155-164. DBW, GRC periodical Z671.L74  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid. (1996). "Student Use of Online Catalogs and Other Information Channels." College & Research Libraries, 57 (3), 161-75. DBW, GRC periodical Z671.C6

Kuhlthau, Carol Collier. (1999). "Accommodating the User's Information Search Process: Challenges for Information Retrieval System Designers." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 25 (3), 12-16. GRC periodical Z699 A1B4  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Leckie, Gloria J. et al. (1996). "Modeling the Information Seeking of Professionals: A General Model Derived from Research on Engineers, Health Care Professionals, and Lawyers." Library Quarterly, 66 (2). GRC periodical Z671.L713  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Wilkins, Janie L. Hassard and Gloria J. Leckie. (1997). "University Professional and Managerial Staff: Information Needs and Seeking." College & Research Libraries, 58 (6), 561-574. DBW, GRC periodical Z671.C6

March 6 - The College Library

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is a division of the American Library Association (ALA). Web site at http://www.ala.org/acrl/ [2002, December 30]

Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (CACUL) is a division of the Canadian Library Association (CLA). Web site at http://www.cla.ca/divisions/cacul/cacul.htm  [2002, December 30]

Formal Planning in College Libraries. (1994). Compiled by Sarah Barbara Watstein, Pamela L. Wonsek and Paula Matthews. Chicago: Association of College & Research libraries, American Library Association. DBW  Z675.U5 F67 1994

Gertzog, Alice. (1992). A Casebook in College Library Administration. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. DBW  Z675.U5 G47 1992

Johnston, Wanda. (1994). Administering the Community College Learning Resources Program. New York: G.K. Hall. DBW  Z 675.J8 J64 1994

Kalick, Rosanne. (Ed.) (1992). Community College Libraries: Centers for Lifelong Learning. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. DBW Z675.J8 C66 1992

Standards for Canadian College Learning Resource Centres. (1992). Ottawa: Canadian Association of College and University Libraries. DBW Z675.U5 S73

March 13 - Information Technology

Access Conference [Online]. These conferences have been held on an annual basis since 1993 as a project of the Emerging Technologies Interest Group of CLA. Current and past conference programs available: http://www.access.uwindsor.ca/   [2002, December 30]

Computers in Libraries Annual Conference [Online]. 2002 Web site also includes links to previous conferences. Available: http://www.infotoday.com/cil2002/default.htm [2002, December 30]

Crawford, Walt. (1999). Being Analog: Creating Tomorrow's Libraries. Chicago: American Library Association. DBW Z665.2.U6C73 1999

Dorman, David. (1999, November). "E-book Conference Illuminates Issues." American Libraries, 30 (10), 72-73. DBW, GRC periodical Z673 A5B82  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Goetsch, Lori A. (Ed.) (1999). Information Technology Planning. New York: Haworth Press. DBW Z678.9.A4 U639 1999  Published simultaneously as Journal of Library Administration 26 (3/4) 1999. DBW, GRC periodical Z678 J68  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Halal, William E., Michael D. Kull, Ann Leffmann. (1999, November/December). "Emerging Technologies: What's Ahead for 2001-2030?" The Futurist, 31 (6), 20-28.  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Hardesty, Larry (ed.). (2000). Books, Bytes and Bridges: Libraries and Computer Centers in Academic Institutions. Chicago: American Library Association. DBW Z675.U5.B66 2000

Lavagnino, Merri Beth. (1999). "Authentication, Bandwidth, and Collaboration: the Library Systems Directors' ABCs." Library Hi Tech, 17 (4), 396-402. TAY, GRC periodical Z671 L696  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Lavagnino, Merri Beth. (1998). "How Can Technology Help? Interviews with Library Directors." Library Hi Tech, 16 (3/4), 156-160. TAY, GRC periodical Z671 L696 Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Lavagnino, Merri Beth. (1999). "Librarians and Information Technologists: More Alike Than Different? Interviews with CIOs." Library Hi Tech, 17 (1),114-120. TAY, GRC periodical Z671 L696 Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Library Trends. (1999, Spring). The main focus of the 47(4) issue is technology and its impact on libraries. DBW, GRC periodical Z671 L74  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Press, Larry. (2000, May). "From P-books to E-books."  Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the ACM, 43 (5), 17-21. TAY periodical QA76 A882 Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Top Technology Trends [Online]. Since the 1999 ALA MidWinter conference, LITA (Library and Information Technology Association of ALA) has made these trends a regular feature. Available: http://www.lita.org/committe/toptech/mainpage.htm [2002, December 30]

Wilson, Thomas C. (1998). The Systems Librarian: Designing Roles, Defining Skills. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. DBW, GRC Z678.9.W55 1998

March 20 - Faculty Status for Librarians

Association of College and Research Libraries.  (2002).  Guidelines for Academic Status for College and University Librarians [Online].  Available:  http://www.ala.org/acrl/guides/acstatus.html [2002, December 30]

Association of College and Research Libraries.  (2001).  Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians [Online].  Available:  http://www.ala.org/acrl/guides/facstat.html  [2002, December 30]

Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)'s Web site http://www.caut.ca/ leads to several references about faculty status for librarians. [2002, December 30]

Crowley, Bill. (1996). "Redefining the Status of the Librarian in Higher Education." College & Research Libraries, 57 (March), 113-121. DBW, GRC periodical Z671.C6

Leckie, Gloria J. and Jim Brett. (1996). "Academic Status for Canadian University Librarians: An Examination of Key Terms and Conditions." Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 20 (1), 1-28. GRC periodical Z1007.C28

Mech, Terrence F. and Gerard B. McCabe. (Eds.). (1998). Leadership and Academic Librarians. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. DBW  Z682.4.C63 L4 1998

Riggs, Donald E. (1996). "The Intellectual Side of Academic Librarianship." College & Research Libraries, 57 (July), 314-315. DBW, GRC periodical Z671.C6

"Selected Readings on Faculty Status for Librarians", [Online]. (1999, August). Available:
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/lfa/faculty.html [2002, December 30]

March 27 - Performance Measures and Indicators

Association of Research Libraries (ARL)'s LibQUAL+ is a research and development project undertaken to define and measure library service quality across institutions and to create local quality assessment tools for local planning. See: http://www.arl.org/libqual/ [2002, December 30]

Baker, Sharon L. and F. Wilfrid Lancaster. (1991). The Measurement and Evaluation of Library Services (2^nd edition). Arlington, VA: Information Resources Press. GRC Z678.85 L36 1991 [Don't be discouraged by the imprint; this is a classic.]

Hernon, Peter and Ellen Altman. (1998). Assessing Service Quality: Satisfying the Expectations of Library Customers. Chicago; American Library Association. DBW  Z711 H45 1998

Lancaster, F. W. (1993) If You Want to Evaluate Your Library...(2^nd edition). Champaign: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. GRC Z678.85 L358 1993

Morgan, Steve. (1995). Performance Assessment in Academic Libraries. London: Mansell. DBW reserves Z675.U5 M64 1995

Phipps, Shelley. (2001). "Beyond Service Quality: Learning From the Voices of the Customers, the Staff, the Processes and the Organization." Library Trends, 49(4), 635-661. DBW, GRC periodical Z671 L74  Available via link from the catalogue  [2002, December 30]

Smith, Ken R. (2000, May). New Roles and Responsibilities for the University Library: Advancing Student Learning Through Outcomes Assessment. Paper prepared for the Association of Research Libraries. Available: http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/outcomes/heo.html [2002, December 30]

User Surveys in College Libraries. (1995). Compiled by Mignon S. Adams and Jeffrey A. Beck. Chicago, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association. DBW  Z678.88 U85 1995

Van House, Nancy A., Beth T. Weil and Charles R. McClure. (1990). Measuring Academic Library Performance: A Practical Approach. Chicago; American Library Association. DBW  Z675.U5 V35 1990

April 3 - Information Literacy

Association of College and Research Libraries. (2000). Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Chicago, IL: The Association. Available: http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html [2002, December 30]

Breivik, Patricia Senn (1998). Student Learning in the Information Age. Phoenix, AZ: American Council on Education/Oryx Press. DBW  Z711.2 B755 1998 

Bruce, Christine. (1997). Seven Faces of Information Literacy. Adelaide: Auslib Press. DBW  Z711.2.B827 1997

Dewald, Nancy H. (1999). "Web-based Instruction: What is Good Pedagogy?" Information Technology and Libraries, 18 (1), 26-31. GRC periodical Z678.9 A1 I546  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Fowler, Clara S. and Elizabeth A. Dupuis. (2000). "What have we done? TILT's impact on our instruction program." Reference Services Review, 28(4), 343-349. DBW, GRC periodical Z1035.1 R43  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

La Guardia, Cheryl, Stella Bentley and Janet Martorana (Eds.). (1995). The Upside of Downsizing: Using Library Instruction To Cope. New York: Neal-Schuman. DBW  Z675.U5 U67 1995

Leckie, Gloria J. (1996). "Desperately Seeking Citations: Uncovering Faculty Assumptions about the Undergraduate Research Process." The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 22, 201-208. DBW periodical Z675.U5J683  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Leckie, Gloria J. and Anne Fullarton. (1999). "Information Literacy in Science and Engineering Undergraduate Education: Faculty Attitudes and Pedagogical Practices at the University of Waterloo and The University of Western Ontario." College & Research Libraries, 60 (1), 9-29. DBW periodical Z671.C6

Snavely, Loanne and Natasha Cooper. (1997). The Information Literacy Debate. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 23(1), 9-14. DBW, GRC periodical Z675.U5 J683  Available via link from the catalogue [2002, December 30]

Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is a good starting point for teaching and learning topics with a Canadian focus, including T&L Centres.  Web site:http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/stlhe/ [2002, December 30]

April 10 - The Library of the Future

Bloch, R. Howard and Carla Hesse. (Eds.). (1995). Future Libraries. Berkeley: University of California Press. DBW  Z678.9 F88 1885

Branin, Joseph J. (Ed.) (1996). Managing Change in Academic Libraries. New York: Haworth Press. DBW  Z675.U5 M3285 1996 (Published simultaneously in Journal of Library Administration, 22 (2/3). DBW, GRC periodical Z678 J68)

Crawford, Walt and Michael Gorman. (1995). Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality. Chicago: American Library Association. DBW  Z678.9.A4 U6175 1995 

Dougherty, Richard M.  and Carol Hughes.  (1991).  Preferred Futures for Libraries: A Summary of Six Workshops with University Provosts and Library Directors.  Mountain View, CA:  The Research Libraries Group.  DBW Oversize Z675 U5D584 1991

Dougherty, Richard M.  and Carol Hughes.  (1993).  Preferred Library Futures II: Charting the Paths.  Mountain View, CA:  The Research Libraries Group.  DBW Oversize Z675 U5D5842 1993

Johnson, Peggy and Bonnie MacEwan. (1999). Virtually Yours: Models for Managing Electronic Resources and Services. Chicago: American Library Association. DBW  Z692 c65 1997

LaGuardia, Cheryl (Ed.). (1998). Recreating the Academic Library: Breaking Virtual Ground. New York: Neal-Schuman. DBW  Z675.U5 R4425 1998

Lancaster, F.W. (Ed.). (1993). Libraries and the Future: Essays on the Library in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Haworth Press. DBW  Z665 L575 1993