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Category Archives: collections
Deepening the ChatGPT Conversation with an Expert
The library provides access to over 3 million e-books (based on our 23-24 reporting to ARL). Most of that access is acquired through e-book packages and EBSCO is a big one, with over 370,000 titles in a range of subject … Continue reading
Posted in collections, digital collections, statistics
Tagged ai, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, collection use, generative ai, statistics
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Assessing the Impact of Purchasing (and Promoting) Etextbooks
We start the semester off with a post from Karen Kohn and members of the Open Education Group (Steven Bell, Andrew Diamond, Courtney Eger, Kristina De Voe, Janeen Lamontagne, Alicia Pucci) that describes in detail how Karen and the team … Continue reading
Working with Faculty to Meet Their Library Collection Needs
Scholarship and teaching about the performing arts is continually changing. Temple Libraries’ new librarian for Music Performance, Becca Fulop, has worked hard to get to know her faculty – in particular their needs in library collections. She wanted to learn more … Continue reading
Assessing Library Services with a DEI Lens
The annual American Library Association conference returned (at last!) to an in-person format this year. It was great to meet up with colleagues, and miraculously, the heat and humidity of Washington DC were bearable, even at the end of June. … Continue reading
Posted in access, collections, conference reports, library spaces
Tagged accessibility, DEI, diversity equity inclusion
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Notes from the Field: Collections and Collective Action
Last week I participated in a symposium on the changing mission of academic libraries. While not directly related to assessment or strategic planning, those practices are implicit as we explored together “the mission of academic and research libraries in the … Continue reading