virtual library

• Profiles web-services librarians in all types of settings, from veterinary medicine and law to astronomy, market research, and cataloging
• Offers insights into career opportunities in the library world by challenging traditional notions of what a librarian does
• Shows examples of real-world librarianship in the fields of technology instruction, digital futures, virtual libraries, and even librarians as entrepreneurs

• Learning from the best—a showcase of 28 LibGuides with exceptional design and pedagogy


• Collaborating with faculty to embed LibGuides in course management systems


• Creating a customized look to your LibGuides with design flair and enhanced functionality


• Getting ready for smart-phone users with a plan for the mobile web


• Setting up Google Analytics on a LibGuide site


• Teaching with LibGuides

• Examine the current state of the library, summarizing existing literature on the topic to sketch in historical background
• Project into the future, using SWOT analysis, environmental scans, and other techniques to posit how library infrastructure (such as staff, collections, technology, and facilities) can adapt in the decades ahead
• Construct potential scenarios that library leaders can use to forge paths for their own institutions

• Reflective Practice: tools for improving learning in the moment and developing a teacher identity, as well as approaches to collaboration and creating communities of practice
  
• Educational Theory: evidence-based strategies in learning and instructional research
  
• Teaching Technologies: evaluating and integrating technology in learning using a practical toolkit approach
  
• Instructional Design: a systematic and outcomes-based strategy for developing and assessing learning experiences

This book covers the five points of the e-resources lifecycle in a readable and accessible manner, providing valuable information that is applicable to real-world situations. Each of the working chapters covers one of the five lifecycle points (Acquisitions, Access, Administration, Support, and Evaluation), and supplies suggested readings and thought-provoking questions. Additionally, there are two chapters that guide readers from learning about the work to actually doing it.

Electronic Resources Management in the Academic Library: A Professional Guide is full of practical assignments that teachers of e-resources management will appreciate. This guide will also be immensely beneficial to library and information science school students and independent learners who need immediate, practical knowledge from the field to get them started in a position which requires them to manage electronic resources.

The goal of the learning-commons strategy is to provide a centralized, "go-to" location for all users seeking help on the complex issues of teaching, researching, and being a global citizen in our changing world. A library organized around the learning-commons construct fosters collaborative work and social interaction between users during research and learning. This paradigm also encourages use of innovative technologies and information resources. Transforming a traditional library into a thriving learning commons does take some planning and effort, however.

Each of the seven chapters in this book explains a simple step that a librarian can take to improve their facility. Photographs and concrete examples of the suggested strategies are included; checklists at the end of each chapter serve as indicators for measuring progress. This text is useful for library administrators in school settings (both public and private, K-12) as well as academic, public, and special libraries.