Patron-driven acquisitions, continued budget pressure, “explosive” growth of mobile devices and apps, and more digitization of special collections: Those are some of the top trends in academic ...

Many academic planners assumed that the coming of the Internet would lead to the decline of the library as we know it. To the contrary, many academic libraries have experienced significantly increased ...

Research and academic libraries are moving quickly in many directions in response to expectations of patrons who are growing accustomed to the consumer technology experience and digitization of ...

February 9-13, 2026 is International Love Data Week, an initiative of ICPSR at the University of Michigan. This year’s theme, ...

Virtual reference services have increasingly become an integral component of academic libraries, offering researchers and students immediate, remote access to expert assistance. These services utilise ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Q: From what I understand, the IPEDS data that I highlighted are inadequate for telling the story of ...

These trends will certainly shape the way students and librarians interact with library resources. How will they affect accessibility? Melissa Green, academic technologies instruction librarian at the ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Sarah R. Fitzgerald, an assessment and planning librarian at the University of Massachusetts at ...

A New Adults Advisory Board at the Kingston Frontenac (Ontario) Public Library brings together patrons ages 18–30 to offer insights for better serving this category of library user. Students at Furman ...