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The article suggests practices for students, scholars, and librarians to convert from paper-full to paperless literature review to aid in the reading, analyzing, organizing and storing resources. Topics covered include a methodical, reproducible, process that harnesses the power digital tools bring to library research, tips and advice for storing and organizing, reading and annotating, and analyzing and writing, and techniques to help librarians become teachers and research partners.

Since their inception, virtual reference services have evolved considerably and are now a significant component of library services in many types of library environments. The current paper reports on a study undertaken at a research-intensive academic library that analyzed and evaluated a decade-old virtual reference service. The main goal of the study was to obtain a broad and comprehensive picture of the current service, grounded in the actual day-to-day provision, usage, and organization of the service. The group of librarians involved in the study developed a feasible, efficient, and adaptable methodology for assessing and evaluating a virtual reference service. The developed methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative methods can be used and applied for a similar evaluation of the service in any type of library environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based upon the subject librarian training practice of CALIS Phase III "Librarian Literacy Training and Qualification Certification" in the charge of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library, this paper elaborates upon a design for a subject librarian training system concerning objectives, methods, courses, tests, organization and management mechanisms. From November 2010 to December 2011, the program has held four phases of liaison librarian training respectively and trained 322 liaisons for 197 universities in China. Additionally, it analyzes major characteristics of the training program and points out what we should note in the training process in order to achieve success in the implementation of subject librarian training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on several aspects of interactive library spaces that use varying degrees of technology: the no-tech walk to the coffee shop, the low-tech use of whiteboard paint, and the high-tech video wall. It mentions about influencing student use of these new interactive spaces through social media feeds such as using Instagram hashtag. It also mentions that Whiteboard paint is an inexpensive alternative to purchasing large whiteboards for meeting spaces and study rooms.

The article discusses various ideas on how to engage faculty with the academic library. Topics include the suggestion to provide information literacy training to the faculty, reference to a paper by Marjorie V. White published in the 2003 issue of the journal "Reference Librarian," in which he discusses reasons why faculty members may be averse to attending library instruction sessions, and academic librarians more capable of teaching students and faculty about information literacy.