Category: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

A summary of the remainder of ACRL’s 2015 Environmental Scan is below. The full report can be read at http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/EnvironmentalScan15.pdf. Discovery Services Shared Integrated Library Systems (ILS)/Resource Management Systems (RMS) In an effort to make all parts of the collection as accessible as possible, regardless of the type of item (print, electronic, media, etc.), libraries are…

An overview of the middle section of ACRL’s 2015 Environmental Scan is below. (The full text of the document can be found here.) I’ll have an overview of the last part of the report later this week. Research Data Services Responses to U.S. Government and Funding Agencies’ Policies Recent years have seen increased efforts by the federal government,…