• Introduction
• 57 min
  1. Libraries in a digital age: fundamentals and latest thinking - an introduction

  • Prof. Derek Law
• Management Issues
• 62 min
  2. Sustainability of digital libraries: economic issues and business planning

  • Prof. Mel Collier
• 20 min
  3. Convergence

  • Ms. Anne Poulson
  • Mr. Gary Horrocks
• 43 min
  4. Supporting research: new opportunities for 'subject librarians' and other staff

  • Mr. Antony Brewerton
• 33 min
  5. Library as place?

  • Mr. Les Watson
• 38 min
  6. Customer value discovery

  • Dr. Sue McKnight
• Content
• 26 min
  7. The future of university medical librarianship

  • Ms. Beverly Murphy
• 30 min
  8. From here to there: library content in the digital age

  • Mrs. Wendy Evans
• 52 min
  9. Institutional repositories

  • Dr. Alma Swan
• 31 min
  10. Ensuring continuity of access to resources for scholarship

  • Mr. Peter Burnhill
• 30 min
  11. Social web and libraries

  • Mr. Brian Kelly
• 24 min
  12. Vendor supplied MARC records for online collections

  • Ms. Catelynne Sahadath
• Services
• 17 min
  13. E-learning and the digital library

  • Prof. Andrew McDonald
• 22 min
  14. Research services

  • Ms. Liz Chapman
• 28 min
  15. Introduction to systematic reviews for librarians

  • Ms. Lindsey Sikora
• 51 min
  16. Libraries in a digital age: access

  • Dr. Simon Ball
• 41 min
  17. What color is your paratext? trust metrics

  • Mr. Geoffrey W. Bilder
• Case Studies
• 28 min
  18. Transforming a mediaeval university

  • Mr. John A. MacColl
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 43 min
  19. Scenario planning for libraries

  • Mr. Steve O'Connor

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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. Papal bull of foundation, 1413
3. Early history
4. King James library
5. 'Elegant and luminous'
6. Library history (1)
7. The 'old library'
8. The 'new library'
9. Library history (2)
10. Transformation no. 1
11. Transformation no. 2
12. Content in the cloud
13. Our contemporary main university library
14. Location
15. St Andrews cathedral ruins
16. Main Library environment
17. Digital transformations in research universities
18. JISC banding scheme
19. Holdings and access
20. St Andrews university library e-resources
21. The 'online library' arrives
22. From the online to the digital library
23. From scarcity to abundance
24. Scale leaps forward
25. Open access repository
26. Special collections blog
27. Special collections at St Andrews
28. Financial investment
29. Acknowledgments

Topics Covered

• Ancient and mediaeval universities
• Scottish ancient university libraries
• University library history
• Digital resources
• The digital revolution
• Cloud libraries
• From library 'holdings' to licensed content
• Publisher pricing policies
• Scholarly journals
• From 'the online library' to resources on the web
• Open access repositories
• Hybrid libraries
• Special collections
• Rare and unique materials
• University archives
• Scale developments in library operations
• History of legal deposit
• National and international library cooperation
• Global competition in higher education
• Cataloguing of special collections
• Digitization of special collections
• Contrast with US research university libraries
• Library branding

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Publication History

• Published on March 29, 2012