The intentional, systematic accumulation of books and other library resources in academic libraries.  Consistent evaluation of consumer interests, current resources, selection policies, coordination, storage, and sharing.


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- Institutional governance
- Administration 
- Funding & budgeting
- User services
- Collection development
- Academic librarians
- Open access
- Assessment
- Social Services

Topics in Academic Librarianship

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Collection Development Reference

All the services provided by academic librarians to students, faculty, and the larger community.

User Services in Academic Libraries

A Librarian that works within an institution of higher education. 

Academic Librarian

Tasks involving management, executive leadership, and creating an organizational framework. 

Library Administration

Management of Library funding, fulfillment of duties included but not limit to paying staff, supplementing materials, and updating the goods and services offered to keep patrons interested.

Funding & Budgeting

A set of principles and subsequent practices that seek to provide information, specifically research, online to all audiences while mitigating any barriers to inequitable access. An open license for copyright is used to diminish penalty for reuse, redistribution, and copying of material.

Open Access 

A series of steps used to evaluate any potential problems regarding the efficiency and success of the following: 
a)management and distribution of resources,
b) user satisfaction, including academic contributions

Assessment in Library Science

The way academic institutions are organized and managed depends on the standards set by accrediting agencies and the decisions made by a board. As part of an academic institution, academic libraries are impacted by these standards and decisions. 

Institutional Governance in Higher Education

Libraries and Librarians have a task of providing both information, literacy, and various other services. They may at times even be viewed as social workers. The reason this view occurs is that it is the Library and Librarian's job to make sure that they collaborate with social services. Why social services? Because individuals may come to the library seeking social services in the area such as healthcare, shelter, food, and jobs. 

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