...Nathan Brown; Ana Roeschley Purpose The purpose of this study is to inform special collections and archives professionals about the perceptions and needs of a previously understudied group – members of the general public who are not already actively using archives and special collections. Survey...

...Bradley Wiles Purpose This paper aims to provide a critical perspective on emergent issues in the Trump era directly or indirectly relevant to academic archives. It describes current operational characteristics and trends in academic archives and considers the implications of the “Trump Effect...

... Section and the Society of American Archivists. The paper offers research and practical implications for librarians and instructors interested in strategies to teach information literacy. For instance, the paper includes a review of literature on “archival intelligence” or “primary source literacy...

... access concepts are clarified and critiqued. New organizational roles for reference libraries are suggested that build on their current functions. Findings The IR concept is defined, and IRs are shown to be different from scholars' personal web sites, academic department/unit archives, institutional...

... with other departments. The implications and value for other libraries to become involved in such repositories are also discussed. […] digital archive of the intellectual product created by the faculty, research staff, and students of an institution and accessible to end users both within and outside...

...); and disciplines that are performance based (i.e. dance). Reference services Knowledge management Electronic publishing Archiving Academic libraries Librarians In the last few years, the institutional repository (IR) has emerged as an important new model in scholarly communication. An IR...

... and improve our IR, a highly customized installation of the DSpace software (https://dspace.lib.rochester.edu/index.jsp). Academic libraries Reference services Librarians Electronic publishing Knowledge management Archiving The transformation underway in scholarly communication touches...

... and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS), London, available at: www.palsgroup.org.uk . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Reference services Academic libraries Librarians Electronic publishing Knowledge management Archiving This special issue is focused on the role of the reference...

...Ilene F. Rockman; Marianne A. Buehler; Adwoa Boateng Purpose The paper's purpose is to share the insights that the staff of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Libraries (Wallace Library, RIT Archives, and the Cary Collection) gained into the role of reference librarians in establishing...

... archives and repositories may contain other types of digital materials. As outlined in the “Budapest Open Access Initiative” (www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml), there are two basic strategies used to achieve open access: (Mis)leading open access myths – www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess...

... that concepts found in the IR literature can be grouped into five major themes – definition, implementation, management, outcomes, and librarian's role. The analysis also indicated that there is only a limited discussion of the librarian's role particularly with regard to the relationship with self‐archiving...

... in recruiting content. The strategies include encouraging researchers to self‐archive papers, scanning web sites, capturing pre‐existing collections of grey literature, and downloading from open access sources. Findings The paper illustrates how the roles of reference librarians are changed in the process...