NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lowry, Charles B. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
Where library budgets are concerned, there is every evidence now, after three years, that research libraries have arrived at "the new normal." That is, they do not expect a return to systematic and regular additions to Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) budgets in order to support ever-increasing prices that are out of proportion to…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Budgets, Economic Climate, Context Effect
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rudasill, Lynne Marie – Public Services Quarterly, 2010
The concept of the embedded librarian takes subject specialization to another plane. The article that follows discusses the embedded librarian as an evolutionary product and speculates on the reasons driving the change from the library to the department or center for the delivery of information services. Four drivers for change are explored with…
Descriptors: Library Services, Librarians, Specialists, Outreach Programs
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1988
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) Kit on serials control and deselection projects provides a timely review of the efforts of research libraries to control the increasing costs of serial subscriptions. This kit contains documents from 13 libraries: University of California at Los Angeles and Riverside; Universities of Florida,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Budgets, Competition