Collection and Assets Management: One University Library’s Journey to the Future

Academic libraries worldwide have witnessed a number of trends and paradigm shifts over the last decade. It is vital for university libraries to develop a collection of high standards to satisfy academics and researchers for supporting the vision and mission of a university. The area of collection development and management is the most important part of any library. This paper reports on the problems and prospects of collection and asset management of the University Library of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). The insight for the paper comes from the authors’ first-hand experience supported by literature review. Detailed information regarding the purchase of books, serials, policies regarding the acquisition, and changing trends and problems were collected from the official records with the help of a structured data sheet. The study discovers the current trends in collection and asset management in CUSAT and point out the changes likely to be adopted in future.

From a traditional academic library to a modern learning environment : Dalarna University Library - expectations and results

This report describes the ideas and vision behind Dalarna University's award-winning library in Falun. A description of the planning and construction processes and an evaluation of the final outcome are presented together with experiences and observations drawn from the project.

“My universe is here”: implications for the future of academic libraries from the results of a survey of researchers

One of the major challenges of university libraries is to adequately support the information needs of researchers. This paper outlines the results of a survey conducted by Deakin University Library into the information needs of researchers and the library’s perceived role and performance. The survey consisted of twenty-three interviews conducted with researchers, and its results challenged established ideas regarding researchers’ preference for print, age of resources required, and reliance on specialist rather than general or cross-disciplinary databases. Of note were the decreasing physical use of the library, the increasing importance of online resources and the changing need for library support services. The study raises some key questions relating to the future of libraries and the role of librarians.

Academic libraries

Academic libraries are taken to refer here to two particular types of library: university libraries and those libraries which serve the vocational education and training (VET) sector through colleges or institutes of technical and further education (TAFE). (School libraries are dealt with in a separate chapter.) Universities cover undergraduate programs, principally Bachelors degrees, and postgraduate programs such as the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Masters degrees and doctoral programs. The main TAFE awards are Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma. Universities are largely funded by national government - the federal Commonwealth Government in Australia's case - although, as elsewhere, an increasing amount of university funding needs to come from non-government sources, particularly research funding. In Australia institutes of TAFE are funded by state and territory governments, although from 2005 the Federal Government began providing funding for the development of technical colleges outside the TAFE sector that would provide vocational education for secondary school age students. This latter development may well be affected by the change in federal government in late 2007.

The mission for academic libraries globally is to support the teaching, learning and (where appropriate) research activities of their parent institutions. In Australia and New Zealand, universities and their libraries have also had a long tradition of reaching out to the community, contributing to the cultural and intellectual life of the nation. Australia has thirty-nine universities; of which thirty-seven are public institutions and two are private. New Zealand has eight universities. The libraries supporting these institutions are diverse, of high quality and innovative. Based on 2005 figures, there are sixty-eight institutions in Australia's VET sector, with over 1,100 campuses, 1.7 million students and some eleven per cent of Australia's working age population accessing TAPE (Oakley & Vaugha 2007: 43).

Relationship between anxiety and chronic orofacial pain of temporomandibular disorder in a group of university students

Purpose: This study evaluated the relationship between anxiety levels and severity degrees of chronic orofacial pain of temporomandibular disorder in brazilian university students. Methods: 150 volunteers (117 men and 33 women), with age ranging from 17 to 30 years, were subjects to this study. Spielberger's trait-state anxiety inventory was used to evaluate trait and state anxiety of the students, while examination for chronic orofacial pain was performed in accordance with the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD). Association between anxiety levels and severity degrees of chronic orofacial pain was tested using the Chi-square test. The significance level was set at p<.05. Results: The results showed that 32.7% (n = 49) of the subjects exhibited TMD, and the intensity of chronic orofacial pain was classified as degree 1 in 85.7% (n = 42) and as degree 2 in 14.3% (n = 7) of them. Based on the results of the Spielberger's trait-state anxiety inventory, the majority of the students had moderate anxiety (48.6% and 48.1%, respectively). The correlation between trait-anxiety levels and chronic orofacial pain degrees was significant and positive (p<.05). However, no significant correlation was found to state-anxiety levels and chronic orofacial pain degrees (p>.05). Conclusion: It was concluded that chronic orofacial pain of TMD could be present in university students and anxiety may be related. © 2010 Japan Prosthodontic Society. Published by Elsevier Ireland. All rights reserved.

English collocations extracted from a corpus of university learners and its contribution to a language teaching pedagogy

Taking into consideration the relevance of foreign language teaching and the learning of collocations (ALTENBERG; EEG-OLOFSSON, 1990; FONTENELLE, 1994; MEUNIER; GRANGER, 2008), this paper aims at showing results of an investigation on whether the teaching of collocations should be implicit or explicit to the Brazilian university students. Furthermore, the research has the purpose of presenting some collocational aspects from a corpus of the written language learners made up of intermediate, upper intermediate and advanced university students' argumentative essays at a public university in Brazil. With the help of WordSmith Tools (SCOTT, 2007), it was possible to raise students' most frequent collocational choices and patterns, the most/least used type of collocations, the influence of the mother tongue on their choices, among other aspects. With the purpose of motivating and involving students in classroom research, it was also introduced The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), created by Mark Davies. By doing so, students could compare their collocational choices with the patterns found in the online corpus, extract more collocational patterns and, consequently, be aware of the potential of corpora for the foreign learning process, specifically for raising language awareness, with focus on prefabricated chunks.

O Doutorado em matemática no Brasil: um estudo histórico documentado (1842 a 1937)

Pós-graduação em Educação Matemática - IGCE

Serviço de Referência Virtual via chat: uma análise comparativa em bibliotecas universitárias norte-americanas e brasileiras

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Serviço de referência virtual via chat: uma análise comparativa em bibliotecas universitárias norte-americanas e brasileiras

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação - FFC

O contexto de indexação para catalogação de livros usando uma abordagem sociognitiva

We evaluated study of the indexing process in the cataloging at university libraries, using a socio-cognitive approach to analyze procedures, difficulties and perceptions of librarians, users, and managers. The methodology consisted of the Individual and Group Verbal Protocols applied in university libraries. The results were the absence of procedures for book subject analysis and representation, incompatibility of indexing language, and problems of subject retrieval from the catalog. We have concluded that is tendency of catalogs to act as databases. Therefore, the cataloguer should present a posture of commitment similar to that of an indexer who works in the production of these bases.

Serviço de Referência Virtual: implantação do serviço de chat

Introduction: With the invention of the Internet and the Collaborative Web, libraries had to rethink the way to offer their services. Thus, the U.S. libraries began a search for technological innovations in an effort to bring the library to the user through features that patrons commonly use. The Virtual Reference Service (VRS) through chat and reference services via videoconferencing are features that derived from this search. Objective: This article aims to outline the implementation process of Virtual Reference Services (SRV) libraries in American universities, particularly those for chat, as well as presenting the successful Brazilian experience. This paper also discusses factors to be considered for implementing virtual reference service via chat for libraries wishing to offer the service. Methodology: The research methodology is based on a theoretical search on international and national literature on the subject. The methodology also includes participant observation. Results: In Brazil the implementation of SRV in some university libraries has occurred and according to these institutions, the SRV is a service that benefits the community and puts the library in line with the demands of information technology and communication. Conclusions: It is concluded that online SRV is appropriate to the reality of university libraries in Brazil, since the institutions that offer the service have positive results from their assessments and believe they are adding value to their library.

Evaluación de la biblioteca universitaria brasileña : Situación actual y perspectivas

Trata de la evaluación de la biblioteca universitaria brasileña en el marco de la legislación y de la normativa del gobierno. Considera, desde un punto de vista teórico, las cuatro generaciones que establecieron las pautas de la evaluación en los últimos cien años, siendo que la última se refiere a los parámetros de modo negociado e interactivo con los partícipes del proceso. Presenta el Sistema Nacional de Evaluación de la Educación Superior (SINAES) creado en 2004, sus características y funciones, además de las modalidades e instrumentos evaluativos. En él, se pone de relieve la Evaluación de los Cursos de Grado (carreras), teniendo en cuenta que es donde se ve la posición de la biblioteca universitaria y las condiciones en que se la evalúa. Asimismo, se incluyen las actuales iniciativas que ocurren en el país, unas divergentes otras convergentes, siendoque las últimas son las que anuncian alguna posibilidad de establecerse (a) oficialmenteindicadores de rendimiento para las bibliotecas universitarias, por la labor de laAsociación Brasileña de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), y (b) la lucha por la creación de una red nacional de bibliotecas universitarias, a partir de un Forum de Dirigentes de Bibliotecas Universitarias en el ámbito de la Asociación Nacional de Dirigentes de las Instituciones Federales de Enseñanza Superior (ANDIFES), como una instancia de interlocución con el gobierno y de coordinación de las políticas y prácticas de planificación y gestión.

Evaluación de la biblioteca universitaria brasileña : Situación actual y perspectivas

Trata de la evaluación de la biblioteca universitaria brasileña en el marco de la legislación y de la normativa del gobierno. Considera, desde un punto de vista teórico, las cuatro generaciones que establecieron las pautas de la evaluación en los últimos cien años, siendo que la última se refiere a los parámetros de modo negociado e interactivo con los partícipes del proceso. Presenta el Sistema Nacional de Evaluación de la Educación Superior (SINAES) creado en 2004, sus características y funciones, además de las modalidades e instrumentos evaluativos. En él, se pone de relieve la Evaluación de los Cursos de Grado (carreras), teniendo en cuenta que es donde se ve la posición de la biblioteca universitaria y las condiciones en que se la evalúa. Asimismo, se incluyen las actuales iniciativas que ocurren en el país, unas divergentes otras convergentes, siendoque las últimas son las que anuncian alguna posibilidad de establecerse (a) oficialmenteindicadores de rendimiento para las bibliotecas universitarias, por la labor de laAsociación Brasileña de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), y (b) la lucha por la creación de una red nacional de bibliotecas universitarias, a partir de un Forum de Dirigentes de Bibliotecas Universitarias en el ámbito de la Asociación Nacional de Dirigentes de las Instituciones Federales de Enseñanza Superior (ANDIFES), como una instancia de interlocución con el gobierno y de coordinación de las políticas y prácticas de planificación y gestión.

Evaluación de la biblioteca universitaria brasileña : Situación actual y perspectivas

Trata de la evaluación de la biblioteca universitaria brasileña en el marco de la legislación y de la normativa del gobierno. Considera, desde un punto de vista teórico, las cuatro generaciones que establecieron las pautas de la evaluación en los últimos cien años, siendo que la última se refiere a los parámetros de modo negociado e interactivo con los partícipes del proceso. Presenta el Sistema Nacional de Evaluación de la Educación Superior (SINAES) creado en 2004, sus características y funciones, además de las modalidades e instrumentos evaluativos. En él, se pone de relieve la Evaluación de los Cursos de Grado (carreras), teniendo en cuenta que es donde se ve la posición de la biblioteca universitaria y las condiciones en que se la evalúa. Asimismo, se incluyen las actuales iniciativas que ocurren en el país, unas divergentes otras convergentes, siendoque las últimas son las que anuncian alguna posibilidad de establecerse (a) oficialmenteindicadores de rendimiento para las bibliotecas universitarias, por la labor de laAsociación Brasileña de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), y (b) la lucha por la creación de una red nacional de bibliotecas universitarias, a partir de un Forum de Dirigentes de Bibliotecas Universitarias en el ámbito de la Asociación Nacional de Dirigentes de las Instituciones Federales de Enseñanza Superior (ANDIFES), como una instancia de interlocución con el gobierno y de coordinación de las políticas y prácticas de planificación y gestión.

O serviço de disponibilização de e-books pelas bibliotecas universitárias: análise do ponto de vista da gestão de operações de serviços.

As bibliotecas universitárias brasileiras procuram oferecer o acesso de livros eletrônicos (e-books) aos usuários, contudo, o uso de e-books está aquém do esperado em bibliotecas, esta situação nos leva ao problema de pesquisa: haveria problemas na produção do serviço de disponibilização de e-books na biblioteca universitária que afetem o uso de e-books nas bibliotecas? Que tipos de problemas podem estar relacionados? Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a gestão de e-books em bibliotecas universitárias, com o propósito de compreender melhor o uso de e-books na biblioteca e detectar possíveis problemas na produção do serviço. A partir de um estudo de caso de uma rede de bibliotecas de uma universidade pública brasileira e de revisão de literatura, constatou-se que há quatro principais tipos de problemas na gestão de e-books: comerciais, institucionais, organizacionais e conceituais, os quais estão diretamente relacionados com o baixo uso de e-books nas bibliotecas universitárias. A base teórica em gestão de serviços permitiu identificar a relação entre a necessidade de revisão do conceito de serviço de biblioteca acadêmica em conjunto com a solução de questões pontuais de gestão, avançando no entendimento do problema.