Ce rapport, le premier consacré à la question du dépôt légal d'imprimeur par l'inspection, met l'accent sur la réussite globale du dispositif en vigueur, qui privilégie un partenariat efficace entre la Bibliothèque nationale de France et les bibliothèques ou services d'archives dépositaires en région. Ainsi, annuellement, ce sont plus de 20 000 documents non répertoriés au titre du dépôt légal d'éditeur qui viennent enrichir les collections nationales.

La gestion du dépôt légal imprimeur

Nell McCreadie elaborates on the findings from a recent study on the exploring the value of academic libraries in developing countries. Case studies indicated that there is a clear need for better promotion of resources, awareness raising and skills development. However, this is not just a case of internal promotion, but also a case of developing external relationships with the scholarly community to promote advocacy for the library.
A common concern that our global library partners often raise with us is that the role of the academic library in supporting teaching and research staff is not fully understood. Too often, library patrons fail to fully understand the origins of the resources that they are using and how they are able to access them. A new study released by SAGE tells a similar story, with librarians in the developing world becoming increasingly aware of the need to communicate the value of their academic libraries. The study explored opinions of both the library and academic teaching and research community to understand how the library is perceived. More...

By Brian Mathews. A few weeks ago I purchased a premium WordPress theme for my campus. This isn’t something I typically do, but it fit nicely with an initiative I am building around supporting new types of learning interactions. A professor I’m working with uses blogs in her courses but wanted to push the experience further. I’m hearing this more often as faculty express interest in a more flexible and personalized learning environment as opposed to the LMS model. Sakai, Blackboard, and similar tools are seen as utilities rather than virtual communities. More...