New Library World: Volume 112 Issue 3/4
Table of contents
Canadian academic libraries and the mobile web
Robin Canuel, Chad CrichtonThe purpose of this paper is to assess how Canadian academic libraries have responded to the rapidly evolving mobile environment and to identify gaps in the services provided…
Facebook as a classroom management solution
Matthew Loving, Marilyn OchoaA recent for‐credit, library research class at the University of Florida experimented with the use of the social networking site Facebook as an online course management software…
Righting the academic paper: A collaboration between library services and the writing centre in a Canadian academic setting
Norma Estela Palomino, Paula Ferreira GouveiaThis paper seeks to report on the successful collaboration in an academic learning commons environment, established collaboratively between the University of Guelph and Humber…
Community users in North American academic libraries
Wanda V. Dole, J.B. HillThe purpose of this paper is to report the results of a two‐year experiment at one North American academic library with extending free borrowing privileges to community users.
User failure to find known library items
Nancy Kress, Darcy Del Bosque, Tom IpriThe purpose of this paper is to understand why users at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) are unable to locate locally held items from the university libraries'…
A year in the life of one Emerging Leader
Darcel JonesThis paper seeks to report on the American Library Association's Emerging Leaders program and its effectiveness.
“Serendipitous” browsing versus library space
Bruce E. MassisThe purpose of this column is to examine the issues between library space and the pursuit of serendipitous browsing.
American Library Association Conference 2010
Linda AshcroftThe purpose of this paper is to provide a flavour of the content of the American Library Association Annual Conference held in Washington DC in June 2010.