Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Confronting the challenges to any academic institution posed by the revolution in information resources since the appearance of the Internet can be a daunting task. Providing the financial and human resources required to provide reliable and secure access can alone be a major hurdle. The specialized equipment needed to effectively incorporate the new resources into student learning environments present an additional burden. The need to collaboratively manage the systems and adapt staffing patterns to the new resources can challenge the skills of the best administrators. The patterns of information seeking behavior exhibited by students in today's richly diverse information environment can frustrate the assumptions that both faculty and librarian have long held about the research process. For those colleges who have made significant strides in addressing these challenges the last one may be the most important from a pedagogical perspective.
Author: Steven L. Baker
Institutions: Union University, Union University
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2994511985