While some research guides simply provide unannotated links to online resources, others seek to engage the user by incorporating features that correspond directly to elements of a library instruction session.
explores specific ways in which guides can be constructed to serve as tools of library instruction.
pathfinders were to focus on specific topics
subject-level research guides
Course-level guides
subject-level research guides are more prevalent on library web sites.
how principles of face-to-face instruction can be incorporated into a research guid
one guide provided a welcome, introduction, overview, and contact information with an introductory paragraph in which the author of the guide identified herself as the forestry liaison, explained the purpose of the guide, and provided an e-mail link and phone number.
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table of content
showing the users the sources available to them and demonstrating how to use them.
research guides have great potential as one approach to educating library users, and standard classroom practices, such as those provided in LaGuardia and Oka's Becoming a Library Teacher, can be adapted to the research guide format.
introducing
outline
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Discusses how the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) moved from an outdated, paper-driven collection development process into a streamlined, automated model.
ntegrated selection and acquisitions system that
staff cooperation and input, hands-on materials selection and review, and lots and lots of paper. T
process demanded lots of organization and hard work.
address two key issues: printing costs and the multiple steps from materials ordering to arrival at the branch.
Any automated system for selection would have to maintain that collaborative environment.
CARL.Solution Serials and Acquisitions software
Online Selection and Acquisitions (OSA) produc
Orders for multiple agencies are now placed with the click of a button,"

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Through their own deep, historical collections and far-reaching services like interlibrary loan and email document delivery, libraries can offer their customers access to an extensive number and variety of materials.
For "niche reading," as well as for audiovisual, historical, scholarly, or other unique material, a person tapped the vast resources of the library.
best sellers actually drive demand toward special interests.
And as libraries get better at using readalike software like that of Amazon, etc., the potential for patrons will get even better.
In other words, niche sales are sustaining Amazon, although best sellers sales are thought to account for a more significant portion of consumer interest.
BE RESPONSIVE TO YOUR CONSUMERS, THE LIBRARY'S PATRONS.
LOCATE, DEFINE, AND REACH UNDERSERVED (READ: UNTAPPED) COMMUNITIES (READ: MARKETS)
FIND WAYS TO SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS RELATING TO ACCESS
LIBRARIANS ARE NOT "INFORMATION BROKERS," BUT WE CAN BE INFORMATION "FILTERS"
"YOU CAN COMPETE WITH FREE"
EMBRACE THE PARADOX THAT THE INTERNET (GOOGLE, WIKIPEDIA, ETC.) IS BOTH OUR COMPETITOR AND NOT OUR COMPETITOR
CAPITALIZE ON ALL TYPES OF SERVICE POINTS, "REAL" AND VIRTUAL, TO THE PATRON-CONSUMER'S GREATEST END
USING GOOGLE FOR RESEARCH IS LIKE "WORKING FOR LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE"

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removing the overhead of bilateral license negotiation.
The efforts to create standard agreements have been successful in creating shared understanding of common license terms for electronic publications and have assisted in many areas in moving libraries and publishers toward mutual agreement on many issues.
no single agreement a publisher can offer that all libraries can accept.
Equally, there is no standard agreement a library could offer that would be agreeable to all publishers,
Since it is not a contract, the statement would not attempt to resolve disagreements
a significant opportunity for at least occasionally stepping away from the inherently antagonistic negotiating process, new emphasis is placed on shared perspectives and common concerns. There is good reason to think that SERU use offers that rare option, the win-win strategy.