Currents and convergence
Subtitle: navigating the rivers of change : proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries April 7-10, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota
By: edited by Hugh A. Thompson.
Contributors: Thompson, Hugh A., 1941-
Publisher: Association of College and Research Libraries
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Academic libraries -- United States -- Congresses; Research libraries -- United States -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A place to belong : the library as prototype for context diversity / Roberto Ibarra; title: Appreciating the best of our past to navigate the future / Cynthia Coulter; title: Embracing the challenge of change through collegial decision-making / Barbara Fister and Kathie Martin; title: Leadership dynamics in the libraries of the historically Black colleges and universities, 1947-2004 / James Neal; title: Motivating employees in academic libraries in tough times / Mihoko Hosoi; title: Patterns of conflict and convergence when proximal libraries serve distance students / Rita Barsun, Johanna Tunon, and Laura Ramirez; title: Sustainability : a context for achieving postive growth and viability / Lisabeth Chabot and Elizabeth Wavle; title: The young and the paperless : electronic information technologies and English graduate students at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus / Jenny Bruenger; title: Training the new-hire : the professional cataloging librarian in the 21st century / Janet Swan Hill; title: Working smarter : an applied model for "better thinking" in dynamic information organizations / Mary Somerville and Anita Mirijamdotter; title: The globalization of intellectual freedom in academic libraries / Barbara Jones; title: Trends in higher education : how will they impact academic libraries? / Maggie Farrell; title: ASERL's virtual storage concept : a new way to gain shelf space? / John Burger and Paul Gherman; title: From failure to success : creating a network of trusted print repositories / Catherine Murray-Rust; title: Managing knowledge to foster innovation in the academic medical center / Susan Kroll, Eric Schnell, and Timothy Cain; title: Supporting library, computing, and AV from a single desk / Michael Love ... [et al.]; title: The (changing) role of the library in the academic enterprise / W. Lee Hisle; title: The library and the academic enterprise : trends in Illinois / Jay Starratt and Bradley Baker; title: Changing roles for libraries : providing implementation and ongoing support for a shared ETD center at two Ohio universities / Corey Seeman, John Millard, and Lisa Santucci; title: Quality assurance in the age of author self-archiving / Gerry McKiernan; title: Supporting new models for scholarly publishing / Beth Haines, Kitty McNeill, and Ken Carter; title: Will libraries supplant publishers? or what value do publishers bring to the table in the electronic world? / Stephen Rhind-Tutt; title: Does format make a difference? : change in print and electronic journal impact factors, 1992 to 2002 / Jennifer Sweeney; title: E-matrix making the connections : managing resources in the dis-integrated library system / David Goldsmith and Greg Raschke; title: Is "quality" metadata "shareable" metadata? : the implications of local metadata practices for federated collections / Sarah Shreeves ... [et al.]; title: Knowledge "biodoversity" : the perilous economics of documentary heritage materials / Bernard Reilly; title: Mining for digital resources : identification and description of digital materials in WorldCat / Brian Lavoie, Lynn Connaway, and Edward O'Neill; title: When a librarian's not there to ask : creating an information resource advisory tool / Sarah Wenzel ... [et al.]; title: "eLibrarian II" : designing the smarter information partner / Eloisa Borah; title: Alone at the reference desk : an undergraduate student providing reference services / Keary Dennison; title: Rethinking reference : shaken foundations, predictions, and what really happened to reference and information services between 1988 and 2005 / Donald Frank ... [et al.]; title: Hybrid librarians in the 21st century university library : a collaborative service-staffing model / Lisa Allen; title: Raised by wolves : the new generation of feral professionals in the academic library / James Neal; title: Redesign your reference desk : get rid of it! / Joyce Meldrem, Lori Mardis, and Carolyn Johnson; title: The customer service imperative / Virginia Massey-Burzio; title: The Western Waters Digital Library : providing solutions through collaboration and technology / Susan Salem and Kenning Arlitsch; title: "Big picture" pedagogy : the convergence of word and image in information literacy instruction / Benjamin Harris; title: Adapting online instruction for a learning disabled audience / Nancy O'Hanlon; title: Braided streams : collections, connections, and information literacy in Asian studies at St. Olaf / Yunshan Ye and Kris MacPherson; title: Curiosity and motivation-to-learn / Kate Borowske; title: Fear of failure and fear of finishing : a case study on the emotional aspects of dissertation proposal research / Lise Dyckman; title: Instructional improvement in academic libraries : a national survey of professional practices / Scott Walter; title: Socratic inquiry and the pedagogy of reference : serendipity in information seeking / Jessica George; title: The importance of information literacy : insights from the next generation of scholars / Kimberly Franklin; title: University of Arizona's Einstein's Protégés Program / Sheril Hook and Maliaca Oxnam; title: What do first-year students know about information research and what can we teach them / Kate Manuel.