This paper contends that US federal policy with regard to the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) must change and that ERIC will need massive restructuring in order to continue to meet the information needs of the education community. Four arguments are presented: ERIC is the most...

Time is of the essence for librarians to review the pace of change occurring within higher education and how information will be provided in academic libraries to their vastly changing student population. The integration of technology in higher education has an impact on academic libraries in...

Public libraries providing family literacy programming make a sound investment in the future, by developing the future of the family, the community, the library and the nation. Family literacy programs help the adult parent or caregiver to successfully fulfill his role as the first and foremost...

Over the past several years the price of science, technical and medicine (STM) materials has been increasing steadily at a rate unimaginable and unexplainable in economical terms. Over the same period of time, there has been a technological revolution that would change the way libraries deliver...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to encourage annual dramatic visual change. Design/methodology/approach – The author incorporates principles of retail merchandising and his experience in retail grocery to make the argument for annual dramatic visual change. Findings – A recent reset...

Describes how J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, had to cut approximately $200,000 from its materials budget, necessitating the cancellation of 454 titles. The faculty was promised free document delivery in exchange for cancelled journal titles. Outlines the...

Compares New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore College, two very different institutions with very different libraries. Both libraries are challenged by higher costs for serials. Both have cancelled serials. Although very different, both libraries are moving in the same...