A Work in Progress: February Catalog Updates
The catalog update launched just over a month ago, and we would like to share some new updates and information on feedback you have sent us.
The catalog update launched just over a month ago, and we would like to share some new updates and information on feedback you have sent us.
The collections budget of the university libraries is subject to enormous inflationary pressures for scholarly content. This issue is of supreme importance to universities around the globe, with libraries in many countries working on strategies to provide greater access to information without monopolizing their entire budgets on a small number of for-profit journal publishers. This year, we have worked with other universities in the state to analyze our own journal subscriptions, particularly those subscriptions which we have with the top academic publishers in the world.
For four days, Tijeras Avenue and 2nd Street in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico was immersed with people who worked in libraries, and most were people of color.
October 21 is the start of Open Access Week, that time every year when we salute all things open access. This year, W&M Libraries is focusing on Open Education Resources (OER), which are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.
TDM helps us discover, through the analysis of complex data sets, new information in the form of trends, patterns, and relationships.
Many students are intimidated by making a research appointment because they don't know what will or can happen.
Recently I had the opportunity to attend a conference at Radford University called The Innovative Library Classroom, or TILC.
Did you know that May is National Photography month? Well if you didn’t, now you do! I bet you’re wondering -- what sorts of resources does Swem have for budding young students of photography?
By Kristy Borda