Dissertations / Theses: 'Consortium of University Research Libraries'

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Fargier, Nathalie. "Consortium de bibliothèques et acquisition de périodiques électroniques : l'exemple de la bibliothèque de l'Université de Yale et du North East Research Libraries Consortium /." Villeurbanne : ENSSIB, 2001. http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/documents/dcb/fargier.pdf.

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Namaganda, Agnes. "Institutional repositories and Higher Education in Uganda. The role of the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL)." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622572.

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Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).
Objective: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the progress so far made by Uugandan universities in establishing Institutional Repositories (IRs) Methods: A questionnaire was designed and distributed among the member institutions of the Consortium of Uganda Uuniversity Librarries (CUUL). Data received from the questionnaires was augmented by osite visits, discussions and interviews with the university libraries. Results: Despite numerous benefits associated with IRs, few institutions have established IRs in Uganda due to certain barriers. This paper argues that although these imbalances are manifested, opportunities still exists for the establishment of IRs for national development. Recommendations: The paper emphasizes the need for partnerships with the different stakeholders in the planning and developing institutional repositories. Conclusions: Insitutional repositories should be considered as principal benchmarks of digital scholarship. Originality/value – It is believed that higher institutions of learning and communities would benefit substantially from establishing IRs. However, it can only be possible with well developed infrastructure, increased funding, coordination and advocacy.

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Almotawah, Wafaa. "The role of Kuwait university libraries in supporting graduate students' research." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15186/.

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Cawthorne, Jon Edward. "Viewing the Future of University Research Libraries through the Perspectives of Scenarios." Thesis, Simmons College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3578093.

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This research highlights the scenarios that might serve as a strategic vision to describe a future beyond the current library, one which both guides provosts and creates a map for the transformation of human resources and technology in the university research libraries. The scenarios offer managerial leaders an opportunity to envision new roles for librarians and staff which brings a much needed focus on the development of human resources as well as a thought-stream to understand decisions which effectively and systematically move the organization toward a strategic vision.

These scenarios outline possible future directions research libraries could take by focusing on perspectives from library directors, provosts, and administrators for human resources. The four case study scenarios introduce potential future roles for librarians and highlight the unsustainability of the current scholarly communications model as well as uncertain factors related to the political, social, technical, and demographic issues facing campuses. Given the changes institutions face, scenarios allow directors to include more uncertainty when developing and articulating a vision. These scenarios may start a discussion, before a strategic planning process, to sharpen the evaluations and measures necessary to monitor achievements that define the value of the library.

This dissertation highlights the importance of research library managerial leaders developing a strategic vision and introduces scenarios as way to communicate that vision with provosts, the senior leadership team, librarians, and staff. How the library directors approach the strategic vision scenario provides insight into the challenges and barriers identified within the existing organizational culture.

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Ssebulime, Joseph. "The role academic libraries could play in developing research data management services : a case of Makerere University Library." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74961.

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Research data management (RDM) focuses on the organization and description of data, from its entry to the research cycle through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results. RDM entails storage, security, preservation, compliance, quality, sharing and jurisdiction. In the academic world, RDM can support the research process by searching for relevant data, storing data, describing data and advising researchers on good RDM practice. This study focused on developing RDM services. The aim of the study was to establish the role Makerere University Library could play in developing RDM Services. A number of questions were formulated to guide the researcher in finding answers to the research questions. A literature review, based on the research sub-questions, was carried out. The review covered the concept of RDM, academic libraries and their RDM practices, various RDM services in academic libraries, RDM services that require sustainability and how current researchers, in general, manage their data. The research undertaken took a qualitative approach with a case study design. This was due to the need to gather in-depth and comprehensive views and experiences regarding RDM at Makerere University. A purposive sampling technique was used to identify researchers who are actively involved in managing research data at Makerere University. Data were collected using semi structured interviews, from eight participants; one from each college. The participants were selected because of their knowledge about RDM and semi-structured interviews were preferred due to their flexibility. An interview schedule was used as the data collection instrument. Data was transcribed into Microsoft Word for easy analysis. Findings that addressed the research question and sub-questions were presented and interpreted in chapter four and conclusions as well as recommendations were discussed in detail in chapter five of this research report. In summary it is possible to say that although researchers, from across the entire university, generate big volumes of research data it appears that researchers themselves manage, control and store their data making use of different removable devices. This is risky. So there is a need to develop RDM skills for all stakeholders. It does appear though that the researchers at Makerere University would be willing the support of RDM services if these are developed by the library.
Mini Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Information Science
MIT
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Jones, David Edgar. "Relentless Accumulation : a Critical History of Collection Growth in American Research University Libraries, 1945-1979." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521979.

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Myers, Joseph. "Creating Collaborative Spaces at the University of Arizona: Ways to Encourage Interdisciplinary Research and Ideas." The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/552634.

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Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone
This case study examined the potential of creating collaborative co-working spaces at the University of Arizona. Through qualitative research on the effectiveness of co-working spaces already in place at three different universities across the nation, this study identified key features that could successfully be implemented at the University of Arizona. These features were a co-working space built around a student organization centered on collaboration and innovation. The latest in technological resources to aid in project execution and learning. Lastly, a partnership with a local makerspace providing students of all backgrounds and interests to collaboratively work on building physical items in a space they might not have had previous access to. While research was limited to university affiliated websites and articles on co-working spaces, scholarly articles on this specific subject where not found to further back conclusive findings and recommendations.

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Naphtali, Happy Kuteesa. "The Role the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL) can play in the Implementation of Successful Institutional Repositories in its Member Institutions in the Central Region of Uganda." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62106.

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The Consortium of Uganda University Libraries' (CUUL) primary objective is to provide a forum for addressing issues that face Ugandan university libraries. Other objectives are: to standardise operations and promote the adoption of new library-related developments. One of these developments is establishing institutional repositories (IRs). Institutions of higher learning worldwide embrace IRs as a way of disseminating institutional scholarly output at a globally. Ugandan institutions are not exceptional. However, despite the level of interest and the rate of adoption by university libraries in Uganda, only one institution and one research organisation in the Central Region of Uganda have managed to implement their IRs to meet Open Directory of Open Access Repositories' (OpenDOAR) standards. The aim of this study was to investigate the role that CUUL could play in helping member institutions establish successful IRs that meet OpenDOAR standards. The objectives of the study included finding out what defines a successful IR project internationally, the state of IR implementation in the Central Region of Uganda and what CUUL could do to implement successful repositories in the member institutions in the Central Region of Uganda. The study was qualitative, carried out in the central region of Uganda as a case study targeting CUUL member institutions. Respondents were purposively sampled, results were thematically analysed using spreadsheets and results presented in tables in chapter four. Conclusions and recommendations were made according to the findings. It was revealed that most of the CUUL member institutions had embarked on the process of IR implementation developing them in-house without the necessary skilled technical personnel. Consequently, they had many challenges both technical and operational. Conclusively, many institutions had not successfully implemented IRs. CUUL could assist in the implementation of successful IRs by either offering Software as a Service (SaaS) or by assessing individual institutions and help each at their point of need. For any approach chosen, members were willing to actively work with CUUL to have better and successful IR services.
Mini Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
Information Science
MIT
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Stewart, Lewis E. "Factors contributing to download activity for applied research projects completed at Texas State University in the Master of Public Administration program /." View online version, 2009. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/306.

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Shepheard-Walwyn, Emma Jane. "Usage and impact factor correlations in electronic journals submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1265.

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Kleinveldt, Lynn. "Academics' experience of and perceptions of the role of the academic library in research at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7861_1297770699.

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The study investigates the role of CPUT libraries in supporting research and how academics perceive this role. CPUT is a new university of technology and aims at improving its research record. Research is crucial to South Africa to develop economically, socially and to compete globally. Research is fundamental to the existence of universities. Universities of technology libraries face the challenge of providing support for research. Previously the colleges / technikon libraries provided support for undergraduate and underdiplomates only. Today, they have to provide support for researchers at masters, doctoral, and post-doctoral levels.

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Ling, Zhang, Cong Wang, and Austin McCarthy. "Knowing our users and responding to their needs-The impact of research on services in two university libraries." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106105.

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In an earlier paper the authors discussed reference services in two university libraries and suggested changes to the services based on a user survey. They also quoted research into staff and student use of information resources. Although libraries have no difficulty in compiling quantitative data, the use of such qualitative research to delve beyond the statistics, in order to better understand user needs, perceptions and behaviours, is a recent development at Harbin Engineering University Library, China. However, at the Library of the University of Northumbria in England there is a long history of using research to evaluate services. This paper gives a very brief introduction to the value of qualitative re-search in evaluating services and providing a sound basis for management decisions about staffing and service delivery. Some of the methods used at the two universities are outlined. Finally, two case studies of research projects, one from each university, will be described and the extent to which they have resulted in changes to policies or practices will be examined.

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Wema, Evans F. "Developing information literacy programmes for public university libraries in Tanzania : a case study of the University of Dar es Salaam." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10918.

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The aim of the research was to develop a training course that inculcated infonnation literacy that could be implemented by staff at the University of Dar es Salaam library (Tanzania), in order to provide students with appropriate infonnation literacy skills to meet their educational goals. The course was developed from an integration of knowledge from infonnation behaviour research and educational theory with current perspectives of infonnation literacy from Infonnation and Library Science (ILS). The ultimate goal of the research was to create a framework that would be used by public university libraries in Tanzania to teach infonnation literacy courses. The study was carried out in two parts. In the first implementation "pilot" programme, the course was tested by involving librarians who took the entire course, in order to see whether the same course structure could be used to implement to the Masters of Education students. Following adaptations made on the first course, a second course programme was implemented to Masters of Education students by two librarians who attended the first implementation "pilot" programme. Therefore, the success of the course was partly judged on whether it effectively enabled knowledge transfer from the librarians to students. Data collection methods were predominantly qualitative, although quantitative methods in tenns of diagnostic tests were also used. The tests were used to evaluate trainees' knowledge ofinfonnation literacy before and after the course to provide an indication of changes in knowledge. Qualitative methods used included semistructured interviews with librarians and academic staff at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in order to make sure that assumptions made about students' knowledge of infonnation literacy and the kind of problems experienced by students were correct. Other methods included quizzes, exercises, group reflection and presentations that related to each stage in the course. These methods served to indicate trainees' understanding of what was taught, reflections on the leaming process and provided feedback for improvements on the course. The major findings showed that there was a recognized need for infonnation literacy and that problems such as unfamiliarity with categories of infonnation sources, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and use, were experienced in Tanzania as was the case in other "Western" countries. In addition, librarians were able to transfer skills learned to students, who in turn used the same course materials to teach fellow students who did not participate in the course. Furthermore, the design of the course was facilitated by the integration of Information and library science (ILS) approaches to information literacy with the knowledge of information behaviour and pedagogic theory. The thesis provides recommendations for the library and information curricula to introduce information literacy, teaching information literacy in a holistic way and with librarians participating in teaching and research. In addition, the study recommended that librarians should facilitate the development of information literacy in primary and secondary schools.

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Griffin, Shauna A. "An Analysis of Research Guides at UNC-Chapel Hill." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/211.

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This paper addresses inconsistencies in the research guides created by University Librarians at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Based on an analysis of descriptive data collected from a sample of guides, as well as search log data collected in the Fall 2004 academic term, it identifies elements that lack consistency, and gives an overview of guide content and format.

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Malenfant, Kara Josephine. "Understanding Faculty Perceptions of the Future: Action Research for Academic Librarians." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1317308285.

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Cook, Karen. "The role of the academic library in supporting postgraduate students and researchers within the Community and Health Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7287.

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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl
Research, aimed at strengthening the economy and driving development, with the view to address South Africa’s numerous challenges and/or advance knowledge, generally, exists in abundance. It has highlighted the crucial role played by institutions of higher learning, such as universities, in this regard. In particular, the contribution of academic libraries in supporting the country’s agenda, with regard to its teaching and research goals, has come to the fore. Academic libraries have been portrayed, quite correctly, as the legitimate heart of the university, for majority of scholars rely heavily on their collections and services in their quest to develop new knowledge. However, the role played by these important facilities in supporting postgraduate students and researchers in South Africa is yet to be comprehensively examined. With a view to partly address this existent knowledge gap, this study examines the interaction between the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC’s) library and the institution’s Faculty of Community and Health Sciences’ postgraduate students and researchers. In accomplishing this task, I explore the skill set and competencies required of the subject librarian to best support the research needs of postgraduate students and researchers at UWC’s Faculty of Community and Health Sciences. I also investigate the perceptions and expectations of postgraduate students and researchers vis-à-vis the institution’s library. Additionally, this study explores the innovative measures adopted by UWC’s library in its quest to provide competent and satisfactory services to its postgraduate students and researchers. For its theoretical framework, this study employs the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI), also known as Roger’s model. This framework has been used to explore how innovative research services can be established and offered to support postgraduate students and researchers’ needs. This study employs a mixed methods approach and makes use of various data collection instruments, namely, survey questionnaires and interviews. The collected data has been analyzed through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The transcribed interviews have been analyzed thematically. The findings indicated some gaps between postgraduate students’ and researchers’ expectations for library’s research support services, research workshops and skills and competencies of a subject librarian. The findings also revealed postgraduate students’ and researchers’ perception of the library’s research support services, research workshops and subject librarians’ skills and competencies to be fulfilled. Even though many of the identified needs are currently being addressed by UWC library, several potential areas for improvement were identified. One of the major challenges is the awareness of the library services and facilities the library offers to support research. Other challenges that postgraduates’ students and researchers are facing is that they are often not aware how to search for information, easy access to the library’s resources and the expertise of the subject librarians.

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TAKEUCHI, Hiroya, and 比呂也竹内. "大学図書館における研究開発機能を強化する大学間連携の必要性." 名古屋大学附属図書館研究開発室, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/14593.

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Davids, Marion. "Evaluating an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7041_1297853081.

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The aim of the research project is to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Information literacy has been identified as a necessary outcome of tertiary education. It refers to the life-long learning competencies of finding and using information in order to solve problems, to make decisions and to create new knowledge. Information literacy education has evolved from earlier forms of library user education, such as bibliographic instruction, and is central to the mission of academic libraries. However, librarians responsible for information literacy programmes seldom evaluate the effectiveness of their interventions. In today&rsquo
s climate of accountability and outcomes-based education, it is necessary to provide evidence of the benefits of the user education that libraries provide. The researcher uses the American College and Research Library (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, which are internationally recognized and widely used by South African academic librarians, as a benchmark to evaluate an intervention for a group of first year students enrolled for a mechanical engineering course. The intervention consists of two workshops which aim to teach the students to find information relevant to their essays via the university&rsquo
s OPAC, various engineering databases and to teach them how to reference and cite their sources in their essays. The research methodology assessed students&rsquo
information literacy before and after the two workshops with the use of a questionnaire consisting of a set of questions based on some of the ACRL standards. The questionnaire also gathered data on students&rsquo
prior experience of libraries, reading and computers, which might impact on their information literacy...

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KOGA, Takashi, and 崇. 古賀. "京都大学附属図書館研究開発室の活動について." 名古屋大学附属図書館研究開発室, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/14594.

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De, Jongh Martha Susanna. "A national electronic database of special music collections in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2370.

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Thesis (MMus (Music))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
In the absence of a state-sponsored South African archive that focuses on collecting, ordering, cataloguing and preserving special music collections for research, the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) was established in 2005 as a research project at the University of Stellenbosch. Music research in South Africa is often impeded by inaccessibility of materials, staff shortages at archives and libraries, financial constraints and time-consuming ordering and cataloguing processes. Additionally there is, locally, restricted knowledge of the existence, location and status of relevant primary sources. Accessibility clearly depends on knowing of the existence of materials, as well as the extent to which collections have been ordered and catalogued. An overview of repositories such as the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkundige Museum and Navorsingsentrum (NALN), the now defunct National Documentation Centre for Music and the International Library of African Music (ILAM) paints a troubling picture of archival neglect and disintegration. Apart from ILAM, which has a very specific collecting and research focus, this trend was one that ostensibly started in the 1980s and is still continuing. It could be ascribed to a lack of planning and forward thinking under the previous political dispensation, aggravated by policies of transformation and restructuring in the current one. Existing sources supporting research on primary materials are dated and not discipline-specific. Thus this study aims to address issues of inaccessibility of primary music materials by creating a comprehensive and ongoing national electronic database of special music collections in South Africa. It is hoped that this will help to alert researchers to the existence and status of special music collections housed at various levels of South African academic and civil society.

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Sidler, Elizabeth D. "Ideal Learning Spaces: the Student Perspective." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801917/.

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Classrooms, libraries, student unions, and university campuses shape students’ learning experiences. These physical learning spaces set the stage for college student engagement and academic performance. Most of the research about the role of physical spaces in learning lacks the student perspective. The goal of this study was to offer a student-centered vision of ideal learning spaces. Students are the learners for whom learning spaces are designed, and this thesis examines the way students of one summer class at Oklahoma Baptist University conceptualized and interacted with their learning spaces. Data collection included surveys of the students, a focus group with members of the class, participant observation in the classroom, and interviews with students and the professor. Students viewed physical spaces as the backdrop for human action and chose spaces that supported their learning styles and goals. Students described supportive spaces as warm, purposefully crafted spaces, and full of other people who were seriously pursuing the same goals. This thesis explores the ways students conceptualized and interacted with learning spaces as a network of support for their learning and provides recommendations for the design of learning spaces that facilitate this support.

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ITSUMURA, Hiroshi, and 裕. 逸村. "筑波大学附属図書館研究開発室." 名古屋大学附属図書館研究開発室, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/14595.

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Caetano, Ana Carolina de Souza. "Discussão de uma agenda pública para bibliotecas universitárias federais: o foco na pós-graduação e pesquisa pelo olhar mineiro." Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/6976.

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Trata do levantamento de temas para a formação de uma agenda pública para as bibliotecas universitárias federais brasileiras, no que concerne ao atendimento das necessidades informacionais da pós-graduação e da pesquisa. Utilizou-se por método a revisão bibliográfica do tema das políticas públicas para as bibliotecas universitárias, recuperando a visão dos bibliotecários e a dos pesquisadores sobre estas no prisma abordado, e também um estudo investigativo que teve por subdivisão as áreas de fontes de informação e seu acesso, atendimento da biblioteca, planejamento e ação da biblioteca e formação de agenda. Os participantes da pesquisa foram alunos, professores e bibliotecários de três áreas do conhecimento e de dez universidades federais mineiras. Foram identificados e analisados os principais problemas que a biblioteca universitária sofre atualmente para atender a pósgraduação e a pesquisa e se construiu uma proposta de agenda baseada nesse panorama. Mapearam-se como possíveis ações para minorar a problemática, com alguns indicativos de sua efetivação, a capacitação dos bibliotecários, a constituição de infraestrutura para construção de repositórios institucionais acadêmicos, a elaboração de critérios para avaliação de bibliotecas acadêmicas, o desenvolvimento de coleções para pesquisa e pós-graduação, o planejamento de serviços, a capacitação de usuários, o registro de políticas da biblioteca e meios de quantificação de seus efeitos.
This survey of the themes for the formation of a public agenda for brazilian federal university libraries in regard to meeting the information needs of graduate studies and research. Method was used by the bibliographic review of public policies for university libraries, recovering the vision of librarians and researchers on these approached the prism, and also had an investigative study by subdividing the areas of information sources and their access, call the library, planning and action library and training agenda. Survey participants were students, teachers and librarians three knowledge areas and ten mining federal universities. Were identified and analyzed the main problems that the university library currently suffer to meet the postgraduate and research and built a proposed schedule based on these figures. Is mapped as possible actions to alleviate the problem, with some indications of its effectiveness, the training of librarians, the creation of infrastructure for construction of academic institutional repositories, the development of criteria for evaluating academic libraries, collection development for research and graduate, planning services, user training, registration of library policies and means of quantifying their effects.

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Darch, Colin. "The Research Libraries Consortium: a Project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222243.

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'A New Model for Research Support: Integrating Skills, Scholarship, and Technology in a South African Library Consortium' Poster presentation from the Living the Future 7 Conference, April 30-May 3, 2008, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ.
The project - A New Model for Research Support: Integrating Skills, Scholarship, and Technology in a South African Library Consortium - aims to model the transformation and enrichment of support to researchers offered by South African academic libraries. The guiding premise of this project is that the three institutions should take advantage of existing strengths as South Africa’s leading academic libraries to sustain, improve, and consolidate the troubled research enterprise in South Africa. Funded by the Carnegie Corporation this innovative program seeks to achieve its objectives through a multi-pronged project with three closely interrelated components: 1. Building a sophisticated Web-based shared portal which will provide access to a wide range of international and local electronic content for postgraduate students and academics; 2. Enhancing the skills of existing library staff in order to create a critical mass of support for research to be offered by librarians with real subject expertise (the South African Library Academy at the Mortenson Center and observation at a major US research library). 3. Creating a technologically sophisticated physical space - a 'one-stop shop' - for postgraduates and academic staff who need assistance with research.

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Suwannarat, Patha. "Library leadership in research university libraries." 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32021606.html.

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Ho, Adrian K. "Collaborations between Research Libraries and University Presses." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106323.

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This is the summary of a study about the collaborations between research libraries and university presses. The study was conducted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Association of Research Libraries' 2007/08 Leadership and Career Development Program.

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Huang, Li-Min, and 黃麗(王民). "Research on Fundraising for University Libraries in Taiwan." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69455730630857188746.

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碩士
國立臺灣大學
圖書資訊學研究所
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Fundraising is a new way to help university libraries to fight for limited budget since the official support from the government and universities is gradually declining over the last two decades. There is little research on this topic in our country, so this study aims at revealing current situation of university library fundraising in Taiwan, and find out the possible solutions on library fundraising work. The research methods applied in this study include literature review, web-content analysis and in-depth interview: the literature includes fundraising theories, methods and successful case studies of the university libraries in the United States. The web-contents being analyzed are retrieved from 12 university libraries in the “Aim for the Top University Plan” administered by the Ministry of Education (Taiwan). As for the in-depth review, the interviewees are 12 university librarians and 10 managers from these 12 university libraries. This study finds four major general principles for university libraries when doing fundraising work: first, establishing a team to undertake library fundraising, second, seeking potential donors, third, participating in other fundraising activities, and the final step is maintaining a good fundraising management. Furthermore, some essential elements commonly mentioned by the fundraising experts: support from university principal, commitment of librarian, fundraising goals that live up to donors’ expectations, and an extensive fundraising network. Based on the interview result, most university libraries in Taiwan have not focused on fundraising work, and there are relatively few donors who are willing to donate to university libraries. Although almost every library has general guidelines on fundraising, few of them actively promote the need of fundraising. It may result from the lack of professional fundraisers in the libraries or proper fundraising training to library staffs. The most common practices on fundraising are: promoting fundraising news via library websites, attracting funding with needing on library collection and space, encouraging donors give small amounts of money to support academic journals, and cooperating with enterprises and companies. However, there are three difficulties on fundraising work mentioned by the 12 university librarians: for one, most librarians and even university librarians are not aware of the necessities and the imperative of fundraising, and librarians also lack of fundraising training; for another, the universities usually do not support library fundraising; for yet another, the donors’ motivation to give to university libraries is not strong. From the research result, the researcher have some suggestions to universities and university libraries: the university chairperson or financial manager should give more support to libraries; the university librarians need to lead the whole library to learn how to be a fundraiser, and they also have to market their libraries to attract gifts; the staffs have to be more open-minded and understand the need on fundraising. This paper is a preliminary study on fundraising for university libraries in Taiwan. The research explores possible ways to address fundraising challenges and hope to build a prospective fundraising program. Further studies on a larger scale investigating on other university libraries, or the studies on donors’ motivation, will be recommended.

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Crowley, William A. "A draft research model of the research university library exploring the scholar-librarian partnership of Jaroslav Pelikan in The idea of the university, a reexamination." 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/34314803.html.

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Tsao, Shu-Chuan, and 曹淑娟. "The Impact of the Operation Model of Taiwan Academic E-Books Consortium on Collection Development of University Libraries in Taiwan." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68703578118459143558.

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Huang, Shih-Ping, and 黃絲苹. "Research of the Reference Type Multimedia CD-Titles Applied in University Libraries and Public Libraries in Taiwan." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20732256374896844574.

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Huang, chao-lan, and 黃超蘭. "The survey research of reserve service in college and university libraries in Taiwan." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43654274517082989861.

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國立政治大學
圖書資訊研究所
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Reserve services have existed in libraries for many years. They provide special access to a limited number of materials. Photocopied articles , library books and non-library items such as instructor-owned book are often placed on reserve to support class assignments or supplemental course reading. This thesis describes the current status of the reserve service in the college and university libraries in Taiwan based on responses to questionnaires sent to the directors of such libraries. The survey was conducted in March 1999. The questionnaires were sent to ninety-six college and university libraries , and ninety-one institutions participated. The questionnaire had six main components : (1)librarian opinion about reserve service, (2)whether the library provide reserve service, (3)management of reserve collection, (4)copyright protective policy, (5)automation, and (6)difficulties.

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Chang, Hsiu-chin, and 張秀琴. "The Research of the Relationship between the Directors'' Leadership Style and the Organization Climate of University Libraries in Taiwan." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15514621603938192929.

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國立臺灣師範大學
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The purpose of this research is to explore the directors’ leadership style, organization climate, and the relationship between the two in domestic university libraries. To achieve the purpose, the researcher conducted a questionnaire survey investigating 1045 university librarians. Among them, 666 questionnaires were returned and 637 were usable ones. The usable return rate of the survey is 61%. Several statistics methods, including item analysis, factor analysis, t-test, one- way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation and chi-square test, were used to evaluate the validity and reliability of the research tool and analyze the returned data. The conclusions of this research are： Directors tend to put more emphases on achievement of institutions’ objectives and lack consideration. “Directive behaviors of directors” and “intimate behaviors of librarians” are the most significant behaviors in organization climate of university libraries. Most Directors’ leadership styles are “high-initiating structure and high-consideration” and “low-initiating structure and low-consideration”. “high- initiating structure and low-consideration” and “low- initiating structure and high-consideration” are the minorities in rank. Organization climate of university libraries are distributed into four types equally, they are “open climate”, “closed climate”, “disengaged climate” and “engaged climate” in rank. The leadership style of “high- initiating structure and high-consideration” tends to lead to “open climate”, and the leadership style of “low-initiating structure and low-consideration” tends to lead to “closed climate”. The “consideration” behaviors of directors affected the organization climate of university libraries the most. There are significant relationship between directors’ leadership style and organization climate of university libraries. Directors’ leadership style varies with several “library”, “director” and “librarian” variables, include: collection scale of libraries, sex, diploma, professional status of library and information science, full or part time of directors, and sex, frequent contact with library readers , professional status of library and information science of librarians. Organization climate of university libraries varies with several “library”, “director” and “librarian” variables, include: status, collection scale of libraries, sex, age, diploma, working years as directors’ position, professional status of library and information science, full or part time of directors, and sex, age, working years in libraries, professional status of library and information science of librarians. According to the conclusions of the research, the researcher proposes six suggestions for university library directors as following： 1. To emphasize and improve the profession of leadership. 2. Perform “high-initiating structure and high-consideration” leadership style. 3. Develop “open climate” in the library. 4. Improve the communication with librarians and convey consideration to them. 5. Rotation rate of directors should not be too high. And try to shorten the disengaged period between librarians and new directors. 6. Pay attention to the individual differences among librarians. Besides, the researcher also gives some suggestions about research topics, methods, targets and tools for further research.

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Kercival, Claudette. "Experiences of end-users of the Research Commons as a learning space: a case study of the Howard College Library." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5199.

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The landscape of learning spaces in academic libraries is undergoing continual change, re-adaptation and reconfiguration. These winds of change are ushered in by the very nature of the dynamic information economy. Globally, information needs of end-users in academic libraries have dictated the changing space trends as in this case study of the Research Commons of the Howard College Library at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The demands of the changing information economy have directed institutions of higher learning en route to tailoring their outcomes with the view to increasing research output and productivity. In view of this, Academic libraries are finding themselves increasingly becoming significantly involved in the process of research support. The Research Commons (RC) is one such research support initiative of UKZN Libraries. This RC opened its doors, offering research facilities to a designate cohort of Master’s, Doctoral students, Researchers and Academic staff on the 01st of October 2008. Three years to date, the facility has grown in its popularity and patronage. The study of the end-users of the RC emanated from an express interest of the researcher who supports EUs in the capacity of a Senior Librarian. Time spent in the RC further, piqued the interest of the researcher, who was particularly keen about how EUs interacted with the elements of this space and their experiences thereof. This study was conducted with the express aim of understanding, through a qualitative inquiry the experiences of the end-users of the (RC) situated at the Howard College Library of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. I the researcher in attempting to examine these experiences found myself having to address the following key research questions: What are the experiences of the end-users of the learning space? Who are the end-users of the Research Commons? With what elements of the Research Commons do the end-users interact? In what ways do the end-users interact with the different elements? The survey methodology approach was employed using the following instruments: Online and manual survey questionnaires Interviews Observations The different data collection techniques served to generate the richest data for the researcher to use in the interpretation of the results. An important element of this survey was an attempt to ascertain as deep an understanding of the experiences of the EUs in relation to their interaction with this designated space and its elements in their research journey. The findings of the survey demonstrated that the EUs of the RC did indeed encounter experiences that were precipitated by their interaction with the elements of this space. Significantly, it was revealed that EUs found that their time spent in the RC contributed positively to their research experiences. It was further established that interaction with the space and its elements influenced the way in which EUs work. In disclosing the desirability of the RC in meeting their research needs, the EUs were keen to render suggestions for changes and enhancements to the RC. Overall, it was verified that this study shed valuable evidence on how the EUs experienced the RC. Consequently, emanating through the interpretation of the data, the researcher was able to identify possible gaps in the provision of this research support unit which has perhaps added value to this study in providing library management with the necessary understanding in addressing the research needs of the EUs of the RC more than adequately.
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Kibakaya, Naendwa Timothy. "The use and effectiveness of the East Africana collection in the provision of information and resources for teaching and research at the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3667.

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This study investigated the use and effectiveness of the East Africana Collection in the provision of information and resource for teaching and research at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The East Africana Collection is mainly used as a source of obtaining information by students, lecturers and researchers in and off campus. The Collection's goal is to meet user needs and make available valuable materials and services for the purpose of supporting the learning, teaching and research needs of the University of Dar es Salaam community. Special collections in academic libraries especially in the so-called Third World countries have been suffering from financial constraints. The reduced government budget and the economic problems, have forced some special collections to operate ineffectively without any new incoming materials to supplement the old ones. The East Africana Collection of the University of Dar es Salaam Library which operates as a defacto national research collection in the country has also been affected by the government budget cut. In order to find out the use and effectiveness of the East Africana Collection in the provision of information and resource for teaching and research at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, a study sample consisting of 52 teaching and research staff was chosen from four faculties and three Institutes of the University of Dar es Salaam. The teaching and research staff was surveyed by means of a self-administered questionnaire to investigate the user satisfaction, availability of materials, resources and effectiveness of the services to cater for the information needs of users. Other information requested from respondents related to the East Africana services was library staff services and what problems teaching and research staff encountered when using the Collection's materials and services. A total of36 teaching and research staff (representing 64.9%) responded. The results were analysed manually. Content analysis was used to analyse open ended questions. The results were shown in the form of tables and elaborations. The study revealed that East Africana Collection had experienced heavy use of its materials, services and resources by both students, teachers and researchers within the University community and outside the campus. It is an indication that Collection usage among teaching and research staff was generally very high. However, the Collection faces the problem of lack of sufficient facilities and resources. Whatever the problems users experienced, the majority of the teaching and research staff were aware of the East Africana Collection and its information materials and services. Recommendations and suggestions for the future betterment of the services were made by both researcher and respondents with regard to the findings of the study and the literature reviewed.
Thesis (M.I.S.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2000.

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Afrane, Daniel Akwasi. "Access to and impact of information technologies at Balme Library, University of Ghana." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26661.

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Libraries, particularly academic libraries implement technologies to enhance their services to promote teaching, learning and research. In this thesis the impact of information technologies (library technologies) on delivery of services at the Balme Library of the University of Ghana was evaluated. The researcher adopted the multi-methods approach to the research by using a semi-structured questionnaire to collect data from users (students) of the library and para-professional staff of the Balme Library of the University of Ghana who formed one group of the study. The interview was used to collect data form professional staff of the library who on the other hand formed the second group of the study. Responses of the data collected from the two groups formed the components of the study and data collected quantitatively were analysed using univariate analysis method and interpreted by the descriptive and inferential statistics method. The qualitative data, on the other hand, was analysed using the narrative analysis approach. The findings of the study reveal that a variety of IT facilities such as computers, internet, photocopiers, scanners, braille embossers, magnifiers for reading, reference management software, video conference facility, electronic theses, electronic databases, automated library system, electronic past questions and the library website are available at the library and are very accessible to all users (students) and staff of the library. Students and staff of the library have good IT skills to utilise those resources. The findings also reveal that the IT infrastructure had positive impacts on the delivery of library services ensuring that users received the appropriate services they needed at the right times and places The study found challenges of slow internet connectivity, unstable power supply, lack of IT skills, inadequate IT infrastructure among others and these hinder the maximum utilisation of IT in and out of the library and recommends periodic training of staff and users, proper maintenance of facilities, increase of internet bandwidth and better marketing of library services
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Bang, Kyong-A. "Synthesis and analysis of libraries of potential flavour compounds : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1500.

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The goal of this project was to synthesise potential flavour compounds combinatorially and identify key components for further investigation as flavourants in dairy products. This thesis describes the design and synthesis of libraries of ketones and γ-lactones that will be evaluated for flavour potential. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS), the Fox, and gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O) were used throughout this study. Ketones were synthesised individually via a two-step sequence: a Grignard reaction followed by the oxidation of the resulting alcohol in Chapter 2. Some compounds selected from the Fox analysis were assessed by GC-O. The analysis gave promising results for aromatic and cyclopropyl ketones and a library of cyclopropyl ketones was prepared. Individual racemic lactones were synthesised via a two-step sequence: the Linstead modification of the Knoevenagel reaction and subsequent lactonisation in Chapter 3. Libraries of racemic γ-lactones (C8-C12), including α-substituted γ-lactones, were produced combinatorially. Further, synthesis of a library of γ-thionolactones was achieved by treatment of a library of γ-lactones with Lawesson's reagent. The libraries were analysed by GC-O. A (R)-dodecalactone was synthesised from L-glutamic acid and the (S)-enantiomer was synthesised by the same sequence from D-glutamic acid in Chapter 4. Asymmetric syntheses of both enantiomeric series of γ-lactones utilizing the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation reaction was employed to give the libraries in Chapter 5. Libraries of a-substituted and β-substituted γ-lactones were synthesised combinatorially and analysed by GC-O.

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Němečková, Lenka. "Analýza informační podpory uživatelů z oblasti technických oborů a věd s důrazem na vysokoškolské prostředí a opírající se o výzkum informačního chování a informačních potřeb provedený na ČVUT v Praze a VŠCHT Praha." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-349685.

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Mgr. Lenka Němečková An analysis of research support in engineering with the emphasis on a university environment and based upon a survey of information behavior and information needs at the CTU in Prague and UCT Prague (dissertation thesis) Analýza informační podpory uživatelů z oblasti technických oborů a věd s důrazem na vysokoškolské prostředí a opírající se o výzkum informačního chování a informačních potřeb provedený na ČVUT v Praze a VŠCHT Praha (disertační práce) Abstract This thesis is focused on the analysis of researchers' information behavior and information needs in engineering in academia and in industry. It is aimed at identifying trends in research support by university libraries based on research of information behavior and information needs that has been conducted at the CTU in Prague and UCT Prague and by a brief insight into industrial environment. Initial parts of the thesis provide an overview of classification schemes in engineering. It also describes brief differences between university and industry environment with the aim at defining the differences in user information needs. It further provides brief summary of theories and models of information behavior and identifies differences between information needs of students and researchers concluding in defining research skills as basic...

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Adeogun, Margaret Olufunke. "Managing resource sharing in selected Seventh-day Adventist tertiary institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: problems and prospects." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1910.

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Universities in the new millennium find themselves in a knowledge-driven economy that is challenging them to produce a qualified and adaptable work force if they are to contribute to societal development. Owing to the structural change in the economy, entrepreneurs require high level scientists, professionals and technicians who not only have the capability to create and support innovations by adapting knowledge to local use but also people with managerial and lifelong learning skills. Such are they who can accelerate changes and make organizations more productive and efficient in the services they render. Consequently, universities in Sub-Saharan Africa are challenged to transform learning so as to produce graduates who have both knowledge and competencies. Such a system will create a balance between university education and the changing labour market. Satisfying these new educational demands are only possible through research and unhindered access to global information resources. Paradoxically, some private university libraries, because of limited funding, find themselves fiscally constrained in the provision of unhindered access to global stores of information particularly at a time of exponential growth both in number and cost of information resources. This had led libraries to re-examine resource sharing as a viable option to meeting the new demands placed on universities. It is for the reasons above that this study examines the practice, problems and prospects of resource-sharing in selected Seventh-day Adventist university libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa. It examines scientifically the causes of poor sharing practices that are unique to each library, the situational and environmental factors that can enhance resource sharing. It provides also research-based information that will help to determine the best ways by which each library can have greater access to information resources. There are proposals for resolving the problems, and there are recommendations for dealing with the matter on a more permanent basis. The study advances resource-sharing model called Consortium of Adventist University Libraries in Africa (CAULA) as a resource sharing network for Seventh-day Adventist libraries in Africa. The organizational structure for CAULA are outlined and discussed. The proposed cooperation is not only sustainable but also structured to provide efficiency and greater regional cooperation of SDA libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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