1. Academic Resources &
Activities Center
- Viewing the Trend of Academic Libraries
Sharon Hu
Library and Instruction Services
Chicago State University
Chinese-American Librarians Association-Midwest
Dominica University, Chicago
May 22, 2010
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2. Outline
I. Purpose of Presentation
II. Historical View of Library Development
III. Academic Libraries (AL) in 21st Century
- Missions, Functions, Development
- Academic Resources Center
- Academic Activities Center
I. Challenges, Changes and Concerns for
AL Future
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3. Purpose of Presentation
 Libraries in 21st Century
 Collections: E-Resources
 Information Access: Wireless/Mobile Technology
 Services: Social Technology
 Career: Information Organizer/Provider
 Building: Digital  Virtual
 Library and Information Science
 Discipline – Core Disciplines
 Inter-Disciplines
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4. Purpose of Presentation
 Librarian’s Career Concern: - Competitors
 Information generators
 Information Generators and Scholars
 Information organizers
 Experts of Disciplines & Inter-disciplines
 Automatic Process instead of Human Operations
 Information providers/distributers
 Vendors based on Technologies & Networks
 End Users with Web & Social Technology
 Instructions based on Multimedia and Mobile Technology
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5. Purpose of Presentation
 Librarian’s Professional Status in AL
 Academic Faculty or Administrators
 Teaching, Research vs. Services
 Academic Activities vs. Management Operations
 Knowledge and Subject Field
 Discipline vs. Support/Associate Fields
 Academic Degree Requirements
 Academic department vs. Administrative
division
 Organization Structure
 AL in the Academic Institute
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6. Purpose of Presentation
Explore In the 21st Century:
 What should AL be?
 What should AL Librarians do?
 How to do?
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7. Historical View - Library
Development
 Archives (1,500 – 750 B.C.)
 Historical Collections (documents, acts, etc.)
 Storage of Collections
 Use for Historical Records
 Library-Archives (668 B.C.)
 Collections in Subject
 Various Collections
 Use for Knowledge Besides of Historical Records
e. g. Ashurbanipal – tradition of library – archive in Mesopotamia
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8. Historical View - Library
Development
 Library - Museum (300 B.C.)
 Collections in Subject
 Various Collections in Storage
 Use for Research / Cultures
e. g. Ptolemy I of Alexander : Library in Egypt (Greek writings)
 “Historical” Library (200 B.C.)
 Collections Organized in Subject
 Bibliographic Control of Collections
 Use for Learning, Research, Knowledge for Limited
Users, Besides of Storage of Collectins
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9. Historical View - Library
Development
 Library
 Collections Organized in Subject
 Bibliographic Control of Collections
 Classifications
 Use for Learning, Research, Knowledge, Culture
 Modern Library – Use of Libraries
 Academic Libraries – Academic Institutes
 Public Libraries – Open for Public
 Circulation and Reference Services
 Open Shelves Services
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10. Card Catalogs
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11. Historical View - Library
Development
 Library – Information Services (1970 -)
 Automatic / Online Cataloging
 Networked Library Services
 Integrated Library Management System
See Marshall Breeding’s
History of mergers and acquisitions in the library autom
ILS --
 Started in the end of 1960s and 1970s (NOTIS, Innovative,
CLSI, VTLS, etc.)
 Popularly developed and applied in 1980s and 1990s
 Mergers and Acquisitions since the end of 20th Century
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12. Historical View - Library
Development
 Libraries in 21st Century
 IT based Collections and Services
 Information Resources Center
 Information Services / Delivery / Distribution
 Academic Libraries (AL) in 21st Century
 Information Resources
 Information Services
 Educational Activities and Services
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13. Academic Libraries in 21 st Century
 Mission
 Serve and Support
Teaching, Learning and Research
 Functions
 Provide Information Resources
 Provide Educational Environment
 Provide Learning Environment
 Development
 Academic Resources Center
 Academic Activities Center
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14. Academic Libraries in 21 st
Century
 Collections
 Various Collections Mixed
 Printed, other media, and electronic format (text based as
main resources, e-resources increased)
 Local/remote access resources through networks
 Centralized databases and distributed databases through
internet (OpenURL link, etc.)
 Digital Collections as Majority of
Collections
 Mixed Institutional Resources and
Library Information Resources
- Institutional Digital Repository Systems
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15. Academic Libraries in 21 st
Century
 Organization of Resources
Various Descriptive Systems/Schema/Standards to
organize and describe bibliographic resources
 MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) 21 / AACR (Anglo-
American Cataloging Rules) II
 The major standards to describe bibliographic materials in
machine-readable form in ILS
 Printed materials based descriptions
 Metadata – The data about data. New descriptive schema
started to describe digital collections
 Dublin Core (OCLC DCMI) e.g., CARLI Digital Collection
 EAD (Encoded Archival Description - be used to describe
manuscript / archival collections)
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16. Academic Libraries in 21 st
Century
 Services
 Information Services
 Instructional Services vs. Reference Services
- Education Oriented
 Information Delivery
 Merge with Education for Information
Delivery
 Information Distribution
 Social Networks
 IT Based Educational Information
Distributing
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17. Academic Libraries in 21 st
Century
 Information Delivery - Merged with
Education
 Online Courses
 Liaison for Education
 Consultant for Education
 Information Distribution
 Network based Information Distribution
 Merged with Educational Network
 Convenient for Education
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18. Figure: Structure of CSU ILS and Associated Systems to
Provide Information Resources
CSU ILS (Voyager from CARLI)
Sys Admin (Various databases of MARC based) Sys Reports
Circulation Acquisitions Serials Cataloging OPAC (Web Voyager)
Through Web Access
E-Reserves LARS OpenURL
(Binding) Link (856)
Various OpenURL
Circ Related: ILL, ACQ Serials Bib Control E-Resources Link (SFX)
Reserves, Patron, Related: Related: Related: Bib,
ASRS
Call Slip, etc. Funds, EDI, Check-in, MFHD, Item,
Ordering, Binding, Authority
Purchasing, Etc. Control, etc.
RFID Applications etc.
Self-Check, Check-in / out
on Circ desk, Sorter, ERM (Electronic Resources Management)
Security Gate, (Inventory)
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19. Academic Libraries in 21 st
Century
 Provide:
 Educational Environment
 Learning Environment
 Academic Activities Environment
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20. Academic Libraries in 21 st
Century
 Librarians in AL
 Tranditional:
 Information Collectors
 Information Analyzers
 Information Organizers
 Information Providers
 Information Delivers
 Information Distributors
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21. Academic Libraries in 21 st
Century
 Librarians in AL
 Information Instructors
 Information Literacy
 Educators
 Courses
 Educational Activities
 Academic Activities
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22. Challenges, Changes and
Concerns
 Challenges
 Traditional Library Organization – Educational
Division
 Traditional Library Services – Academic Activities
 Traditional Library Collections –
Digital/Institutional Resources
 Traditional Library Career – Academic Educators
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23. Challenges, Changes and
Concerns
 Changes
 Traditional Library Building – Educational
Environment
 Traditional Library Services – Academic Activities
Center
 Traditional Library Collections – Institutional
Resources
 Traditional Library Career – Educators
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24. Challenges, Changes and
Concerns
 Concerns
 How to Make These Changes
 Education of Library and Information
Science
 Economic Concerns
 Organization Concerns
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25. The End
Thank you !
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