Table Of ContentUniversity Libraries and digitaL
Learning environments
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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
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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
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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.
