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Presenting Open Access (OA) resources alongside licensed content provides many benefits to librarians, vendors, publishers, and library patrons. However, the tools and collection development practices designed to work with traditionally acquired materials often pose challenges for freely available resources. This paper will address managing open content library collections, and offer an assessment of current delivery models and opportunities for upgrading delivery in the future, including: How to integrate open content into collection development strategies; How to improve the data around open content; How MARC record changes will impact the way users find and access open content; and How library service providers are improving the OA user experience. This paper conveys valuable, up-to-date knowledge of today's OA landscape, and outlines best practices for integrating OA content into library collection development strategies. Related needs, like configuring metadata to maximize visibility of OA content and partnering with publishers and library service providers, are also addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the years, library collections have vastly changed due to an ever-growing presence of resources available online. Many libraries have experienced a dramatic decrease in the circulation of physical materials with the shift to online availability of materials. It is of great value to ensure libraries are meeting the needs of their users, and this can be accomplished by identifying their information-seeking patterns. The aim of this article is to examine how faculty use the library and to identify what services and resources are of value to their work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In May 2013, a space initiative project was launched in an effort to answer the following question posed by the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Library staff: With the increased use of mobile devices and the availability of information anywhere, anytime, what activities or tasks does our user community engage in while at the Library? Data were gathered in several ways— daily counts to determine client workstation occupancy, an informal survey interview conducted three times a day with walk-in clients, and staff observations. Data collection periods were scheduled in summer 2013, fall 2013, and winter 2014. Analysis of the information collected revealed that for many survey respondents, the space represents an extension of their work environment. Although most of the MSK Library’s collection is available electronically, the physical space is important and valued by this user community as a “go-to” place for leisure, work, or library-related activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University provides library services to meet the instructional and research needs of its students, faculty, and staff; to fulfill regional and national commitments to resource sharing; and, as resources permit, to meet the research needs of alumni and the Syracuse community. Visitors are welcome to use the Library's collections for research and study purposes. These materials include collections housed in Library stacks; government documents; reference collections; current periodicals and newspapers, except those held on reserve; and microform collections. Unless they are registered as guest borrowers, visitors may use Library resources only in-house. Depository collections of the U.S. government publications, and help in using them, are freely available to all visitors. With the exception of these depository collections, the Library may at times give priority in service to University-affiliated users, and may limit visitors' access to selected facilities, collections, and services.

This article focuses on the library of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Anyone may visit the Rutgers University Libraries, its online catalog and web pages. Use of licensed electronic resources is unrestricted on campus, but restricted off campus to Rutgers faculty, students, and staff. Roughly 40% of the circulating Slavic and East European collection pertains to Russian history and literature and is in the Alexander Library; the next largest group or roughly 8,000 volumes pertain to Hungarian literature and history. One-third of each of these collections is in Russian or Hungarian. There are smaller but undetermined Slavic collections at Rutgers in the Annex and the Dana Library in Rutgers-Newark, both of which are included in the estimate of 25,000 volumes. The Library of the American Hungarian Foundation at 300 Somerset Street in New Brunswick is affiliated with Rutgers University Libraries. Roughly one-fourth of its collection was cataloged in IRIS and RLIN by 2003 and available for circulation to Rutgers users and through interlibrary loan.

This article focuses on W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. The W.A.C. Bennett Library has a special Doukhobor Collection, which deals with the settlement of the Doukhobors in late 19th- to early 20th-century Canada. The database is comprised of approximately 120 primary source items such as manuscripts, photographs, books and book chapters, magazine articles, and financial documents dating from 1898 to 1930, and is brows able and searchable at www.lledocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/ Doukhobor-Collection. Access to the library collections and resources is available to members of the Simon Fraser University community members of the general public with purchased extramural library cards are welcome to use library resources within the Simon Fraser University Libraries.