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Miller, William was born on January 9, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Julius and Norma (Frank) Miller.
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Find what you’re looking for with the best Internet resources for academic research in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences! Which academic resource deserves more of your budget: printed books and journals or softly glowing terminals? The answer differs depending on the subject area, the availability and reliability of Internet information in that field, and the comparative value of Internet research and traditional print media. Academic Research on the Internet: Options for Scholars and Libraries gives you the information you need to make those choices. This comprehensive book examines the usability of the Internet as a scholarly research and reference tool. Each chapter provides a snapshot of Internet information access and usability in a specific subject area, comparing it to traditional print media. In addition, each chapter includes a selected webliography of key resources-a time-saving tool for librarians on the reference desk. Experts in specific subject areas provide up-to-the-minute assessments of the usefulness of the Internet for research in their fields, including: • Arts and Architecture • Biology • Engineering • Chemistry • Physics and Mathematics • Music • Philosophy • English and American Literature • History • Political Science • Business • Education • Anthropology and Sociology • Health Sciences • Public Administration • Law • Environmental Sciences • ReferenceAcademic Research on the Internet is designed to provide the facts you need about the reliability, timeliness, and availability of Internet information. With this information, you can decide on the relative value of print subscriptions, assess the degree to which the Internet alone can satisfy users’ information needs, and make intelligent choices about budget allocation.
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In today's economic climate, many libraries are work cooperatively and sharing facilities, staffs, and resources. This book gives you practical examples of how to make joint use a POSITIVE reality! The first book of its kind, Joint-Use Libraries presents nine examples of situations in which libraries of different types share a building. In some cases one library takes the lead and staffs the operation. In other cases, two or more staffs inhabit the same building and divide the work. This essential book illustrates the variety of ways that public libraries, community college libraries, and college/university libraries have found to stretch their resources and better serve their users. This book explores team-based strategies for joint-use libraries and shows how various libraries have addressed questions such as, “Which library's online catalog will be used?” “How will costs for maintenance and utilities be shared?” and “Will there be one integrated staff, or separate staffs inhabiting the same building?” The libraries described range from a very small library shared by Front Range Community College and the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, to a mammoth new joint library now being built in San Jose, California. In Joint-Use Libraries, you'll encounter fascinating case studies of successful joint use that examine: • school libraries that double as public library facilities • a county-wide public library system in South Florida that has created partnerships with university, community college, public, and private school libraries • a joint library located on a Florida community college campus but also serving a major university • another joint library on a Washington state campus that is shared by both a university and a community college—with the university acting as primary provider of library services by contract with the community college • a three-way library in which a community college, a university, and a public library provide their own staffing, collections, and other resources to offer services in a small community where none of them alone could afford a first-rate facility • a complex situation in which St. Petersburg College and the City of Seminole, Florida are building a joint-use facility which will serve not only the city and the college, but will also serve the students of 14 other institutions of higher education • a joint-use library where one institution is clearly the senior partner, but a largely new, integrated staff has been hired to minimize resistance to the new joint mission and to serve all users equally • and more!
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Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiatives—at regional, statewide, and international levels! This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You'll learn how libraries are cooperating regionally, on the statewide level, and internationally to provide better service to all kinds of users. Cooperative Efforts of Libraries explores aspects of cooperation that include remote storage, virtual reference service, collection development, staff training and instruction, preservation, interlibrary loan, and international cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean. From the editors: “Cooperation used to mean primarily cataloging via OCLC, interlibrary loan, and perhaps mutual borrowing privileges, but economics and technology are combining to broaden the playing field considerably. This collection reflects this diversity.” Part one of Cooperative Efforts of Libraries highlights cooperation in regional and statewide activity. You'll learn about: • Metro, a multitype cooperative designed to coordinate the implementation of virtual reference among libraries in New York City • cooperation between remote, rural, and isolated libraries in the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West regions, including the creation of the Online Dakota Information Network (ODIN) and similar organizations • a Virtual Library of Virginia project in which the highly specialized skills of librarians were used to enhance vendor-supplied MARC records for a much more accessible full-text database • the efforts of each university within the state system in Florida to contribute digitized versions of rare and specialized Floridiana to a joint electronic collection which is available to everyone in the state • a centrally funded project to support the information literacy efforts of librarians at each campus of the California State University System and make all of them available at the other campus libraries • a joint collection development project within the state universities and community and technical colleges of Minnesota the successful lobbying effort which brought them a $3 million annual supplement to cooperatively redress past underfunding for collections • the history of resource sharing in Louisiana, Illinois, and Texas—detailed and extensive analyses Part two of Cooperative Efforts of Libraries presents a sampling of the wide variety of cooperative efforts that make libraries so unusual among institutions and librarians so unusual among professionals. In this section, the President of the Center for Research Libraries discusses the increasing cost and physical constraints that make it difficult for hundreds of libraries to store and preserve print copies of the same research materials. This section also examines: • a collaborative digital reference project among three small liberal arts college libraries in New England • the history of cooperative collection development among three Pennsylvania college libraries • the University of Kansas Libraries' efforts to establish cooperative education programs to microfilm brittle books and create microform masters of embrittled volumes—which are then made available for sale to other libraries • an American university's offer of interlibrary access to the students and faculty of an Armenian university where resources are severely limited • the challenges of providing interlibrary loan in Latin America • the planning of an international summit cosponsored by the Southeast Florida Library Information Network, a regional multitype cooperative in South Florida, and IFLA, designed to lay the groundwork for further cooperative efforts between U.S. libraries and libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Make separate library services for distance learners a thing of the past Internet Reference Support for Distance Learners takes a comprehensive look at efforts by librarians and information specialists to provide distance learners with effective services that match those already available on campus. With the development of the World Wide Web and the evolution of Web-based services, reference librarians are adding a human element to the virtual library, blurring the difference between distance learners and traditional users. This unique book examines how they deal with a wide range of related topics, including standards and guidelines, copyright issues, streaming media, and chat and digital references, and presents a historical overview of how reference and instructional services have been delivered to distance usersbefore and after the creation of the Internet. Internet Reference Support for Distance Learners reveals that librarians do not make a sharp distinction between reference and instruction within the context of distance learning, and that there is no clear boundary between true distance learners and more traditional students who might use services designed for nontraditional users. Online capabilities have allowed reference librarians to approximate services advocated by published guidelines and standards, including the ACRL Distance Learning Section’s Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services, to provide a framework for librarians to plan services for off-campus students. Internet Reference Support for Distance Learners provides practical information on: • how librarians can keep IT simple when designing methods to access reference support • why library Web sites are vital sources of communication between the distance learning student and the reference-based instructional component • how to set up a university chat service, including software selection, staff training and assessment • how to provide students services beyond traditional provision of resources, including advising, enrollment, and payment of fees • how to create an online assistance site that incorporates online versions of traditional print handouts, FAQs, subject guides, course-specific guides, learning modules, and instructional videos in one central location • how to work with faculty to create online support for students in Blackboard courses • the pros and cons of using open-source software • how to create an online library assistance site • how to create online information literacy course to teach independent research skills to remote students • how to avoid copyright infringement and how to educate library personnel about copyright law • how to use Camtasia Studio, a screen capture program to create audio and video for online presentationsInternet Reference Support for Distance Learners is an invaluable resource for librarians working in academic, school, special, and public settings, and for library science faculty and students.
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In their efforts to provide distance learners with the most effective services possible, librarians and information specialists are working more and more with faculty in academic departments, IT departments, and other librarians at cooperating institutions. Improving Internet Reference Services to Distance Learners chronicles how those efforts have seen librarians become actively involved in online course management and delivery systems, particularly Blackboard, Desire2Learn, and WebCT, or by embedding themselves into the online course structure to better learn where students need assistance. This invaluable resource also examines how librarians use Internet resources to support professional and continuing education and to establish university-wide information and referral services to provide quality service to distance learners. Improving Internet Reference Services to Distance Learners encourages librarians to think more broadly about working with outside individuals when designing and providing reference and other services to nontraditional users. The book examines why it’s best to consider user needs, funding, staff management, and collaboration development when planning Internet reference services, how to develop and implement a required, credit-bearing online information literacy course, and how to apply effective marketing techniques from the business world to increase awareness of reference support services available to distance learners. It also offers a look at the Walden University Library at Indiana University-Bloomington, which houses no print collectiononly online databasesand includes case studies that document the design and development of Internet reference services for the University of Illinois’ Fire Service Institute, and the efforts to provide support for doctor of pharmacy students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in their final year of study. Improving Internet Reference Services to Distance Learners provides practical information on: • monitoring online discussion threads devoted to library research • Web-based interactive tutorials • integrating library services in support of coursework • integrating library services into online courses • offering, promoting, and providing instruction to public users, as well as local and distance students • developing a web site that centralizes information about library services and resources • the potential of the academic library to be the central provider of information and referral services for an entire universityImproving Internet Reference Services to Distance Learners is an invaluable resource for librarians working in academic, school, special, and public settings, and for library science faculty and students.
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Miller, William was born on January 9, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Julius and Norma (Frank) Miller.
Bachelor, Temple University, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, University Rochester, 1974. Master of Library Science, University Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1976.
Reference library Albion (Michigan) College, 1976-1980. Head reference and government documents Michigan State University Library., East Lansing, Michigan, 1980-1984. Associate dean of libraries Bowling Green (Ohio) State University, 1984-1987.
Director libraries Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, since 1987.
(Find what you’re looking for with the best Internet resou...)
(Discover how your libraryand its patronscan benefit fro...)
(Make separate library services for distance learners a th...)
(Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiatives—at regi...)
(In their efforts to provide distance learners with the mo...)
(In today's economic climate, many libraries are work coop...)
(A good introduction to a variety of topics handled by col...)
Editor: College Librarianship, 1981, Academic Research on the Internet: Options for Scholars and Libraries, 2001, Joint-Use Libraries, 2003, Cooperative Efforts of Libraries, 2003, Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries, 2004, Internet Reference Support for Distance Learners, 2004, Improving Internet Reference Services to Distance Learners, 2004, Libraries Within their Institutions, 2004. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Member American Library Association (chair editorial board Choice magazine 1980-1982, other offices), Association College and Research Libraries (president 1996-1997).
Married Anne Hendry Hickok, July 20, 1983;children: Jessica, Miriam.