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Frey, Nancy; Fisher, Douglas; Lapp, Diane – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2015
We explore the use of iPads in a diverse urban high school and the ways in which teachers and students were supported to integrate these tools into their instruction. We provided 4 English teachers with 20 iPads with little or no professional development about how to integrate them into their instruction. Using a formative experiment design, we…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Urban Schools, High School Students, Formative Evaluation
Magi, Trina J. – College & Research Libraries, 2010
Librarians have a long history of protecting user privacy, but they have done seemingly little to understand or influence the privacy policies of library resource vendors that increasingly collect user information through Web 2.0-style personalization features. After citing evidence that college students value privacy, this study used content…
Descriptors: Privacy, Policy, Content Analysis, Online Vendors
Hua, David M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2013
The demand for qualified information technology professionals remains high despite downturns in the economy. It is imperative to provide students with a curriculum that provides a broad foundation in information technology knowledge, skills, and abilities. Students also need access to specialized technologies and learning materials to develop the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Online Vendors, Instructional Materials, Information Technology
Tripathi, Manorama; Kumar, Sunil; Jeevan, V. K. J. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2012
The present study gives an account of how the e-resources in general and EBSCO, PROQUEST, Project MUSE, and JSTOR in particular were used in the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India. It studies and highlights the access pattern of the patrons in an open university. The study suggests consistency and uniformity in computing and…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Information Utilization
Milczarski, Vivian; Garofalo, Denise A. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
A desire for more functionality seemed to clash with the fiscal reality of limited funds, but after investigating alternatives, Mount Saint Mary College was able to provide its faculty and students with a more useful and function-rich electronic resource management through a move to a hosted open source service. (Contains 8 figures.)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Internet, Higher Education, Electronic Journals
Pearring, John – American School & University, 2012
The education sector remains abuzz with cost-cutting expectations despite pressures to increase services. Automation of costly manual tasks could save funds for many of these institutions, specifically in data protection. The IT departments of schools and universities can take advantage of a proven cost-savings opportunity in data protection that…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Automation, Technological Advancement, Computer Security
Lupton, Aaron; Davidson, Catherine – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
This article describes how York University analyzed the results from its 2010-11 implementation of the Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services for Libraries survey to measure value of investments in e-resources. The results were assessed through two variables: e-resources used by faculty when carrying out funded and non-funded…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Library Services, Use Studies, Library Research
Kaser, Dick – Computers in Libraries, 2009
According to the recent survey of Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), one of the several top trends in publishing nowadays is the licensing liberalization among publishers. Licensing options now abound and there are various price points for libraries considering new collections. One such example is how SAGE offers…
Descriptors: Certification, Library Services, Online Vendors, Information Policy
Lamie, R. David; Barkley, David L.; Markley, Deborah M. – Journal of Extension, 2011
Rural small businesses struggling against the current of competition from "big box" retailers, weak consumer demand, and on-line shopping options must find strategies that work. Many are finding that adoption of e-commerce strategies is a key to survival, even prosperity. This article highlights the lessons learned from a recent case study…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Small Businesses, Internet, Online Systems
Kolowich, Steve – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Early this decade, the number of Web-based documents stored on the servers of the University of Florida hovered near 300,000. By the end of 2006, that number had leapt to four million. Two years later, the university hosts close to eight million Web documents. Web sites for colleges and universities everywhere have become repositories for data…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Online Vendors, Information Management, Navigation (Information Systems)
De Fino, Melissa; Lo, Mei Ling – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
Collection development librarians have long struggled to meet user demands for new titles. Too often, required resources are not purchased, whereas some purchased resources do not circulate. E-books selected through patron-driven plans are a solution but present new challenges for both selectors and catalogers. Radical changes to traditional…
Descriptors: Library Services, Selection Tools, Library Materials, Electronic Libraries
Maceviciute, Elena; Borg, Martin; Kuzminiene, Ramune; Konrad, Katie – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: Our aim is to compare the advantages and problems of e-book acquisition identified in research literature to those experienced by two Swedish university libraries. Method: A literature review was used to identify the main issues related to acquisition of e-books by academic libraries. The data for comparison were collected through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Learning
Van Ullen, Mary; Kessler, Jane – Public Services Quarterly, 2012
In 2005, the authors reviewed citation help in databases and found an error rate of 4.4 errors per citation. This article describes a follow-up study that revealed a modest improvement in the error rate to 3.4 errors per citation, still unacceptably high. The most problematic area was retrieval statements. The authors conclude that librarians…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Databases, Followup Studies, Citation Analysis
Yasenchock, David A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Eighty to ninety percent of e-mail is considered unsolicited commercial communication, or spam. Not only does spam violate the privacy of users, but it also incurs societal costs associated with time-related losses, serves as a vehicle for cyber-crime, and threatens the success of e-commerce by lowering consumer confidence. This quantitative…
Descriptors: School Districts, Public Schools, Electronic Mail, Information Security
Musto, Ronald G. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
In this article, the author discusses a mutilation that he has encountered involving Google Book Search. That massive text-digitization project, working in collaboration with several of the world's most important library collections, has now made available, in both PDF and text view, tens of thousands of 19th-century titles while it awaits the…
Descriptors: Archives, Electronic Libraries, Video Technology, Online Vendors