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In June, 2001 the CITY2000 Foundation donated 500,000 photographic negatives, over 500 audio- and videotapes, and office archives to the University of Illinois at Chicago. The collection represents an image time capsule of a major American city during the year of the millennium. Every class of individual, event of the year, and neighborhood was explored by 200 professional photographers and brought together in this unique archive. As part of its agreement in accepting the archive, the UIC Library committed to making the collection available at least until the year 3000. This paper discusses the steps UIC is taking to make this possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the development of a comprehensive collections security plan by the Library of Congress in 1997 in the U.S. Use of limited library resources; Provision of a protection program for library collections; Framework of physical security control.

Despite the general consensus that field experience during library school is important for applying theory to practical situations, there is a lack of understanding about what students want from, and the barriers they face to acquire, graduate employment. A survey was sent to ALA accredited Master of Library Science programs in the United States, asking students about their library employment status and to rank factors that influenced their decision to accept their positions. Patterns emerged when results were grouped by various life factors. The results of this study show what students are looking for from employment, which could help employers recruit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the outreach to students taking classes over 80 locations within the State of Maine, as well as students taking classes nationally via the World Wide Web through the University of Maine System Network. Collections and services available through the University of Maine System's digital library and the Off-Campus Library Services Office; Reserve services for students at remote locations.

Ebooks pose many challenges in library collection development, mostly due to the lack of standards and the many different platforms available. These challenges are faced by both public and academic libraries, but the challenges inherent in collecting popular reading ebooks can be different from the challenges that come with collecting scholarly ebooks. This article describes the purpose and processes behind an academic library, University of Wyoming Libraries, providing popular reading ebooks to its faculty and students, and focuses on the experience of being a 3M Cloud Library early adopter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past ten years the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has developed new ways to support cooperative development of critical research collections. CRL has expanded its role as a centralized aggregator of tangible collections to facilitate collection development, digitization, and licensing of collections by individual libraries and interest groups. This has required CRL to adopt new funding models, from partnerships and coalitions with key organizations, and use technology to support community engagement. Funding essential to this transition was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the IMLS. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For academic libraries, sustainability may well require a radical recalibration of their historic value proposition. The “Great Recession” has accelerated profound changes in higher education funding and in the perception of higher education as a public good. Can libraries use scarcity to fuel the imagination? Can the singular strengths of libraries boost the ability of higher education to thrive, not merely survive? What can be learned from strategies employed in the Great Depression and other periods of severe constraint? Ultimately, how might libraries increase revenue, engender flexibility, foster collaboration, align activities, reduce costs, strengthen infrastructure, and encourage innovation within the framework of a sustainable academic business plan? This article examines these questions by using the University of Washington's 2Y2D (Two Years to Two Decades) initiative and the UW Libraries companion effort, Building Sustainable Futures, as a case study. 2Y2D provides an inclusive framework for near term action (two years) that will realize an aspirational future in the long-term (two decades). Building Sustainable Futures places a library lens over 2Y2D. The Libraries Research Commons exemplifies the synergistic intersection of the two initiatives and may be instructive for other environments and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The University Libraries' Information Commons opened its doors on January 2, 2002. Its mission is to create an inviting out-of-classroom environment for learning, growth, and enrichment through student-focused research assistance, outreach to all students, and innovative instructional services. This case study details the history of the Information Commons at the University of Arizona, the planning strategy, available services and high-tech equipment, partnerships with other campus units, staffing, lessons learned, challenges, policies, and assessment mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) E-Metrics project to measure the resources, uses and expenditures for supporting networked services in a research library setting in the United States. Knowledge inventory of ARL libraries; Organization of an ARL working group on database vendor statistics.

Focuses on the predictions for the digital age of public school education in the U.S. Age of television and radio; Assumptions on the academic importance of research libraries; Emergence of distance education marketplace.

Focuses on the significant shift of the attitude of the people toward online communication with the advent of the Internet in the U.S. Significance of the Internet to the libraries; Variation on pricing and payment for electronic books; Production of mass-market novel of author Stephen King.

Focuses on the establishment of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) for Afro-Americans in the U.S. Mission of HBCU; Creation of the organization; Challenges faced by HBCU in relation to information technology.

Examines the evolution of African-American libraries in colleges. Impact of racial discrimination on African-American universities; Collections of African history, literature and art; Review of the book 'Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship' edited by John Mark Tucker.

Focuses on the strategic planning of Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) in the development of cooperative projects for campus and distance learners. Promotion of UALC services to faculty and students; Significance of cooperation as a political strategy in gaining support for libraries.

Focuses on the planning, organization, and implementation of reference workshop for public services staff of Saint Louis Public Library in Saint Louis, Missouri. Creation of model workshop to increase knowledge of African-American reference sources; Participant evaluations of the workshop; Recommendations for model modification and follow-up.

Focuses on the change management on information access and local collection in research libraries in Connecticut. Shift of information access paradigms in higher education; Role of faculty in redefining expectations for information access and library collection; Importance of faculty collaboration for an effective change management.

Presents an example of new practices in acquisitions budgeting through a discussion of the Ohio State University libraries indexing system. Themes of the causes of the library fiscal crisis; Ohio State University's different approach to library materials funding; Issues to be considered in developing an index proposal for use of the institution rather than the library.

Highlights the issues related to libraries and the publishing industry in the United States. Effect of acquisition budgets on library collections; Trend of consistent publisher price increases; Changes brought about by consolidations, mergers and acquisitions of publishing companies; Impact of the growth of foreign-owned publishing companies; Formula for maintaining book collections.

Previews articles on the performance measurement of research libraries in the United States, published in the `Journal of Library Administration.' Context for the increased interest in performance measures within the higher education community; Need to balance continuing and emerging realities in the assessment of libraries; Individual institution efforts to assess networked information services.