Resources of canadian academic and research libraries.

Authority control in an academic library consortium using a union catalogue maintained by a central office for authority control

Academic librarians3 working in Canadian universities have been mostly informed about the concept of academic status by the predominantly American library literature that focuses on faculty status for librarians. !us, when asked, many Canadian academic librarians assume that they have faculty status. However, the overwhelming majority of Canadian academic librarians do not o#cially have faculty status, the single documented exception being the librarians at Laurentian University.4 Technically, faculty status equates to the status held by teaching faculty in terms of rights (entitlement to ranks, promotion, tenure,5 compensation, leaves, and research funds), responsibilities (the same processes of evaluation and comparable standards for promotion and tenure), acceptance of the status by the institution as a whole, and participation in the governance of the institution.6 Academic status, on the other hand, is recognition that the duties performed are integral to the academic mission of the institution but that Academic Status for Canadian Academic Librarians: A Brief History

Academic status for Canadian academic librarians: a brief history

Purpose – This study aims to map the current resource-sharing environment in Canada through the lens of its research libraries in general and the University of Alberta in particular. The findings present an interesting view of changing resource sharing patterns and trends. Design/methodology/approach – Interlibrary loan (ILL) transaction data were compiled from annual data reported to the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and a case study of the University of Alberta is presented. Findings – The current trend shows declines in both borrowing and lending transactions. Research limitations/implications – Validity of the CARL ILL transactional data is subject to consistency in institutional reporting and accuracy of the data. The trends portrayed in the data are deemed realistic of the Canadian experience. Originality/value – This is an original study of CARL ILL transactional data, providing an aggregated view of 13 years of annual data, and an analysis of this data. It updates previous rese...

CARL Libraries – a Canadian resource-sharing experience

Analyses the mainly American practices of blanket orders and bibliographers, and considers their implications for the larger English libraries. The paper indicates that research libraries are tending to become more influenced by the area approach to acquisition than the subject approach. Much will depend, however, on the Government's detailed reaction to the Dainton Committee Report for any project comparable to the American National Program for Acquisitions and Cataloguing.

Blanket Orders and the Bibliographer in the Large Research Library

UNDER THE INSPIRATION of such factors as the Library Services and Construction Act, increasing state aid for public and school libraries, various types of cooperative programs, federal legislation affecting libraries, and new trends in library architecture, library surveys have proliferated. The library surveyor is being called upon to advise and consult on building plans, development of collections, personnel problems, administrative organization, schemes for library cooperation, and applications of automation and mechanization to libraries. Library surveys and consulting assignments are most commonly concerned with detailed studies of individual libraries related to specific local needs or problems. Examples are numerous. The present study, however, deals with more broadly based investigations, such as groups of libraries in a state, city, region, or nation. The primary focus will be on library resources, i.e., collections or holdings, and closely allied matters. Published surveys of library resources vary widely in thoroughness, amount of detail, care in planning, form and arrangement of data, background of the surveyors, and other aspects. Because some have been sketchy, incomplete, and not well organized for use, doubts have been expressed about their value. Among the purposes that resource surveys are designed to serve are to aid the research worker in locating materials which might otherwise be overlooked or found with difficulty; to provide leads for interlibrary loan inquiries; and to furnish a basis for

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Consulting for Large Geographic Areas.

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Resources of canadian academic and research libraries.

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Authority control in an academic library consortium using a union catalogue maintained by a central office for authority control

Academic status for Canadian academic librarians: a brief history

CARL Libraries – a Canadian resource-sharing experience

Blanket Orders and the Bibliographer in the Large Research Library

Consulting for Large Geographic Areas.

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