Near the end of the fiscal year, many libraries face the opportunity and challenge of needing to spend a lot of one-time money in a hurry. This scramble becomes more daun[...]

This paper is based on part of the “Two lively discussions in one room: Forecasting for uncertain futures; creative alternate funding options for library subscriptions” s[...]

Open educational resources (OERs) are teaching and learning materials that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use.[1] OE[...]

The status of librarians as faculty in academia continues to evolve. There are many campus models for library faculty with variations on rank, promotion and tenure guidel[...]

For the past three decades, companies in Greensboro, North Carolina, that want to export products overseas have had a valuable resource to turn to—students at the Univers[...]

This is a report from UNCG University Libraries' Liaison Collection Responsibilities Task Force on the liaison organizational model and collection development.

Founded in 1997 as the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers with the mission of serving as the "premier leadership organization addressing the emerging topics [...]

Liaisons (subject specialists) keep getting busier. Research instruction, embedding in classes, outreach, collection development, weeding, assessing teaching and collecti[...]

Problem-based learning is a big trend in academia. Instead of writing “research papers” on “topics,” faculty are now asking students to solve problems. The problems are o[...]

The Liaison Team Structure Review Task Force was convened in the 2017 fall semester, with the purpose of examining the liaison functional and subject team structure imple[...]

The roles of library liaisons (subject specialists assigned to academic disciplines) continue to evolve. This document describes both ongoing and new roles in order to as[...]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the question and answer (Q/A) to provide an opportunity for two seasoned academic business librarians to share their expe[...]

This chapter explores aspects of librarians co-teaching research-intensive undergraduate classes. An opening review of the rather limited literature on embedded librarian[...]

Students will learn how to conduct the research necessary to make informed decisions for an entrepreneurial venture and how to measure and assess economic development opp[...]

The status of librarians as faculty in academia continues to evolve. There are many campus models for library faculty with variations on rank, promotion and tenure guidel[...]

In many kinds of research projects—entrepreneurship, marketing, public policy, and other social sciences—students need to segment a population and then measure those segm[...]

The Small Business Institute (SBI) held its 40th anniversary conference in New Orleans in February. According to its constitution, the mission of SBI "is to be the premie[...]

This report addresses the University Libraries' significant role in participating in the high impact initiatives identified by the AACandU's LEAP Report and adopted by UN[...]

The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) bills itself as the "largest independent, professional, academic organization in the world [...]

Library organizations exist to provide professional development, networking, and service and presentation opportunities to librarians. Yet membership in many library orga[...]