Category Archives: collections

Assessing the Impact of Purchasing (and Promoting) Etextbooks 

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Nancy Turner

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 →

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Working with Faculty to Meet Their Library Collection Needs  

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Nancy Turner

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 →

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Assessing Library Services with a DEI Lens

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Nancy Turner

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 →

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Notes from the Field: Collections and Collective Action

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Nancy Turner

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 →

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