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Baumbach, Donna J. – Knowledge Quest, 2009
The World Wide Web has come a long way in a very short time. A little more than a decade ago, with the invention of Mosaic, the first browser to display images inline with text instead of displaying images in a separate window, and Netscape, the first graphical user interface (browser), people began to experience a rapid expansion of information.…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Internet, Professional Development
Greyson, Devon; Vezina, Kumiko; Morrison, Heather; Taylor, Donald; Black, Charlyn – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2009
The advent of policies at research-funding organizations requiring grantees to make their funded research openly accessible alters the life cycle of scholarly research. This survey-based study explores the approaches that libraries and research administration offices at the major Canadian universities are employing to support the…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Research Administration, National Surveys, Librarian Attitudes
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Templeton, Thomas Clay – Library Quarterly, 2008
Place reminds us to tailor our professional work to the shifting concerns, and indeed the shifting criteria, of our shifting constituencies, rather than to a placeless professional vision of what librarianship, society, and literacy should be. Every place maker must make do, make sense, and make place in an environment that is technologically…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Human Geography, Familiarity, Phenomenology