Workflows in Paradise: E-books, Acquisitions, and Cataloging

This article explores libraries’ technical workflow design and strategic considerations as various e-books business models and mobile devices and their management become a growing part of the information landscape.

Brave New World, 2050: The Implications of Shifting to Electronic Collections

This futuristic article discusses the shift in academic and research libraries to electronic collections in the context of information access, costs, publication models, and preservation of content. Certain factors currently complicate the shift to electronic formats and challenge their widespread acceptance. Future scenarios spanning skill ecosystems, technologies and workflows, and societal implications are explored as logical outgrowths of present circumstances.

Training New Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarians: Some Technical and Philosophical Guideposts

This article covers key competencies for success as acquisitions and collection development librarians, delineates between collection development's intellectual facets of curricular support and acquisitions' business functions and shows how the two interrelated. Also provided are best practices for training and mentoring and professional development information for new librarians entering acquisitions and collection development.

New Programs and Accreditations: Meaningful Measurement & Assessment

This article provides a blueprint for successful library strategies in support of accreditations for regional bodies as well as reviews of discipline-specific academic programs spanning a wide range of knowledge areas.

May 1994: Statewide Library Network Urged; WPA and Libraries in S.C.; Library Directors' Forum

Inside this Issue: WPADirector's ForumArchivesM. L King LibraryElectronic Info

February 2005: ARTstor Adds to Panoply of Databases

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March 2004: Film Festival Honors Brown v. Board of Education

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March 2001: A Gossamer of Light

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February 2001: The Staff of (Dacus) Life

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November 2000: Habent Sua Fata Libelli; Or, the Fine Art of DeselectionSeptember 2000: Dacus Moves

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October 1999: Like Belle, Librarians Do a Little of Everything

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May 2007: Gardening with the Department of Agriculture

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October 2008: The Architecture of the Capitol

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March 2011: Gardening with the Department of Agriculture

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Stop the Presses!

Last month a new study commissioned by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) issued one of those “Duh!” reports. The new study (available here http://www. bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf) found that the “Google Generation,” or those brought up by computer wolves, is not very Web-literate.