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These guidelines asserted that, "members of the distance learning community are entitled to library resources equivalent to those provided for students and faculty in traditional campus settings". [2] July 1, 2008, the ACRL Board of Directors approved the "Standards for Distance Learning Library Services". [3] The Standards are divided into two ...
The bipartisan SKILLs Act would further amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) by requiring state and school districts plan to address the development of effective school library programs to help students gain digital literacy skills, master the knowledge and skills in the challenging academic content standards adopted by the ...
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship. [1] The coalition currently includes some 800 institutions [1] in North America, Europe, Japan, China and Australia.
Academic libraries have transformed in the 21st century to focus less on physical collection development, information access, and digital resources. Today's academic libraries typically provide access to subscription-based online resources, including research databases and ebook collections, in addition to physical books and journals. Academic ...
ARL member libraries make up a large portion of the academic and research library marketplace, spending approximately $4.5 billion every year on information resources and actively engaging in the development of new models of scholarly communications.
In January 2016, the "voting members" included 77 large corporations, mostly publishers, and large library organizations such as the American Library Association. [2] Voting members elect Directors and comment and vote on standards. [5] The "Library Standards Alliance" included 135 members, primarily university and large public libraries. [2]
The International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organisations (ISIL), ISO 15511, assigns unique identifiers to libraries and related organisations, such as archives and museums. [ 1 ] The Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces is the international authority for maintaining the standard and its registry.
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) were an international library cataloging standard.First published in 1967 and edited by C. Sumner Spalding, [1] a second edition (AACR2) edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler was issued in 1978, with subsequent revisions (AACR2R) appearing in 1988 and 1998; all updates ceased in 2005.