Digital Library Services

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Digital Library Services

Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content

January 30, 2013

This UK report, commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance and undertaken by Ithaka S+R, "Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content", tells of how …

A Systems Approach: Expanding Access and Achieving Student Success through Support Services at Rio Salado College

March 12, 2012

This report covers how Rio Salado College (RSC) in Tempe, Arizona provides a full slate of support services to its online learners. The report was designed to capture the essence of a rela…

Digital Content in Higher Education – Practical Findings

March 7, 2011

Digital content growth is exploding in all facets of book publishing, including the higher education market. The digital reading universe is a maelstrom of formats, devices, digital rights mana…

Reshaping Information Services for Students of the iGeneration: Evidence and Insights from the MISO Survey

October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

IT organizations and libraries must transform their services for undergraduates who take online resources for granted and consider support services to be less and less valuable. When planning for t…

Now Just One Minute: Producing and Evaluating the Library Minute

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Marketing library resources, services, and personnel to information-overloaded university students can be a challenge. Learn how Arizona State University Libraries produces the fun and informative …

Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers

February 24, 2010

After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically. Readers should view this expansion with both excitement and wariness. Excitement be…

Mobile Devices in Higher Ed ... for Learning? You Bet (11:45 a.m. PT; 12:45 p.m. MT; 1:45 p.m. CT; 2:45 p.m. ET)

March 4, 2010 | A session at the ELI 2010 Online Spring Focus Session

Walk the halls inside your institution and you'll notice something: everyone has a mobile device. From feature phones to media players, mobile devices have quickly blanketed the higher ed la…

The Perfect Storm: Assessing Trends in IT and Library Services; MISO Survey Results from 2005 to 2009

March 9, 2010 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010

As demand for IT and library services expands, changing requirements for support make it critical to rethink the ways in which our organizations deliver fundamental services. Add budget constraints…

Moving Video Beyond Content Delivery: A Tool for Annotating Online Video

October 30, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Instructors are increasingly using web-delivered video to capture performances in courses. To facilitate assessment of recorded performances, Academic Technology Services at the University of Minne…

No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century

August 13, 2008

In February 2008, CLIR convened 25 leading librarians, publishers, faculty members, and information technology specialists to consider this question. Participants discussed the challenges and opp…