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University Libraries and digitaL Learning environments This page has been left blank intentionally University Libraries and digital Learning environments edited by Penny daLe Bournemouth University, UK JiLL beard Bournemouth University, UK matt HoLLand North West Ambulance Service, UK © Penny dale, Jill beard and matt Holland 2011 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Penny dale, Jill beard and matt Holland have asserted their right under the Copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing Limited ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court east suite 420 Union road 101 Cherry street Farnham burlington surrey, gU9 7Pt vt 05401-4405 england Usa www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data University libraries and digital learning environments. 1. education, Higher--digital libraries. 2. academic libraries--information technology. 3. electronic information resource literacy. 4. education, Higher-- digital libraries--administration. 5. education, Higher-- digital libraries--employees--training of. 6. academic libraries--relations with faculty and curriculum. i. dale, Penny. ii. beard, Jill. iii. Holland, matt. 027.7’0285-dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data University libraries and digital learning environments / by Penny dale, Jill beard, and matt Holland. p. cm. includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-7957-8 -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9897-5 (ebook) 1. academic libraries--effect of technological innovations on. 2. academic libraries--informa- tion technology. 3. academic libraries--Collection development. 4. Libraries and electronic publishing. 5. electronic information resources--management. 6. digital libraries. 7. Commu- nication in learning and scholarship--technological innovations. i. dale, Penny. ii. beard, Jill. iii. Holland, matt. Z675.U5U5475 2010 027.7--dc22 2010035143 ISBN 9780754679578 (hbk) ISBN 9780754698975 (ebk)II Contents List of Figures and Tables vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xvii Editors’ Introduction xix 1 Here today and Here tomorrow 1 Sue McKnight 2 it’s all about social media, stupid! 15 Peter Godwin 3 information Literacy in the digital environment 33 Jacqui Weetman DaCosta 4 Professional education for a digital World 49 Sheila Corrall 5 the Library Chameleon: Physical space 69 Liz Waller 6 virtual advice services 87 Rachel Geeson 7 the reading e-volution 105 Jill Beard and Penny Dale 8 institutional repositories – now and next 119 Alma Swan 9 Making the Repository Count: Lessons from successful implementation 135 Matt Holland and Tim Denning 10 building Useful virtual research environments: the need for User-led design 151 Melissa Terras, Claire Warwick and Claire Ross vi University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments 11 the He in Fe digital dilemma 169 Jane Russ 12 online support offered to international students by UK University Libraries – What are we doing, and why are we doing it? 183 Frank Trew 13 Library Performance measurement in the digital age 201 Angela Conyers and Philip Payne 14 Library resources: Procurement, innovation and exploitation in a digital World 215 Emma Crowley and Chris Spencer 15 Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning 239 Sheila Corrall 16 Librarians as midwives of Change in scholarly Communication 259 David Ball Index 273 List of Figures and tables Figures Figure 7.1 social study space in the sir michael Cobham Library 109 Figure 7.2 technobooth in the sir michael Cobham Library 113 Figure 8.1 the growth of mandatory open access policies from research funding agencies, research-based institutions and departments/ schools/faculties in institutions 123 Figure 14.1 Benefits of vendor and libraries working together 232 Figure 16.1 total publishing and distribution cost incurred in the global scholarly communication process by activity 265 Figure 16.2 Funding contribution to meet global publication and distribution incurred cost (all journal types) 266 Figure 16.3 total annual access provision and usage cost incurred in the UK scholarly communication process 267 Figure 16.4 UK funding contribution to the total cost of scholarly communication UK 268 Tables Table 4.1 Subject knowledge and generic skills for library and information management 51 table 4.2 generalist and specialist academic library pathways 58 table 15.1 Continuing professional development activities 243 This page has been left blank intentionally notes on Contributors The Editors Jill Beard is Library and Learning support manager at bournemouth University, a service which includes librarians, learning technologists and specialists in academic skills development. She has written extensively over many years on a wide range of subjects. she was a project lead on the UK Higher education Academy funded e-Res project looking at innovative e-learning with e-resources (Bournemouth University 2008). She is currently a member of the SCONUL working group on space, and since The Sir Michael Cobham Library at bournemouth University won the sConUL Library design award in 2007 she has published and presented at conferences on libraries, space and pedagogy. Penny Dale was until recently a subject Librarian at bournemouth University where she worked in a number of different roles with all academic schools over almost 20 years. she also contributed to projects integrating aspects of technology and learning in a digital environment into the curricula. she is a Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Her professional interests include engaging students with information literacy, and mentoring accreditation and Chartership candidates for CILIP. She has written journal articles and book chapters and was co-editor of Subject Librarians: Engaging with the Learning and Teaching Environment published by ashgate in 2006. Matt Holland has 20 years experience in library and information work in higher education and more recently in the nHs. His interests are in the areas of media, broadcasting archives, subject librarianship in higher education and institutional repositories. Matt is currently working for the North West Ambulance Service NHS trust as an outreach Librarian. He was an advisor and board member on a number of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded digitisation projects in radio and television history including: the TV Times, the irn/LbC archive, independent Local radio Programme sharing archive, the south southern Local radio digitisation Project, the This Week Project and the BBC Radio 4 Analysis Project. He has published chapters in books and journal articles on a wide range of topics and was a co-editor of Subject Librarians: Engaging with the Learning and Teaching Environment published by ashgate.
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