The ubiquitous user: A reexamination of Carlson's Deserted Library

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Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 441-453

  Martell, Charles ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 27844529324     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2005.0057     Document Type: Review

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2. Andrew Robert Albanese, "Deserted No More," Library Journal 128 (April 15, 2003): 346.
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4. James G. Neal, "The Entrepreneurial Imperative: Advancing from Incremental to Radical Change in the Academic Library," portal: Libraries and the Academy 1,1 (January 2001): 1-13.
5. Ibid., 1.
6. Charles B. Lowry, "When's this Paradigm Shift Ending?" portal: Libraries and the Academy 2, 1 (January 2002): 79-97.
7. Larry Hardesty, "Future of Academic/Research Librarians: A Period of Transition-To What?" portal: Libraries and the Academy 1,1 (January 2002): 79-97.
8. Charles Martell, "The Disembodied Librarian in the Digital Age, Part I," College & Research Libraries 61,1 (January 2000): 10-28;-,
9. "The Disembodied Librarian in the Digital Age, Part II," College and Research Libraries 61,2 (March 2000): 99-113.
10. Albanese, 34.
11. Carlson
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Albanese, 36.
18. Martha Kyrillidou and Mark Young, ARL Statistics 2001-02: Research Library Trends, http:// www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/02pub/intro02.html (accessed July 17, 2005).
19. Ibid.
20. Texas Academic Library Statistics, http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/ als/2001 and http:// www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/als/2003 (accessed August 8, 2005).
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26. The Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information (New York: R. R. Bowker, 2002), 485.
27. Baumol and Marcus.
28. Kyrillidou and Young, table 3.
29. University of California Library Statistics (July 1981), 1;
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33. Martha Kyrillidou, "Journal Costs: Current Trend & Future Scenarios for 2020," ARL Bimonthly Report 210, Association of Research Libraries, http://www.arl.org/newsltr/210/ costs.html (accessed July 17, 2005).
34. "ARL Libraries Spend Nearly $100 Million on Electronic Resources," ARL Bimonthly Report 219, Association of Research Libraries (December 2001), http://www.arl.org/newsltr/ 219/eresources.html (accessed July 17, 2005).
35. Kyrillidou and Young.
36. Judy Luther, "White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics," The Journal of Electronic Publishing 6, 3 (March 2001), http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-03/luther.html (accessed August 5, 2005).
37. The ARL Statistics and Measurement Program and its advisory ARL Committee on Statistics and Measurement are exploring "new ways to describe and measure the performance of research libraries." The ARL New Measures agenda includes the Higher Education Outcomes Research Review Project. "The project's goal is to investigate strategies for assessing the library's value to the community." Kyrillidou and Young;
38. Julia Blixrud's articles "Mainstreaming New Measures," ARL Bimonthly Report 230/231, Association of Research Libraries, (October/December 2003), http:// www.arl.org.newsltr/230/mainstreaming.html (accessed July 17, 2005)
39. and "E-Metrics: Next Steps for Measuring Electronic Resources," ARL Bimonthly Report 230/231, Association of Research Libraries (October/December 2003), http://www.arl.org.newsltr/230/ emetrics.html (accessed July 17, 2005) are informative and provide evidence that the new measures process is moving along at a heartening rate. Another organization, the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), has issued "
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44. Charles Goldsmith, "Reed Elsevier Feels Resistance to Web Pricing," Wall Street Journal, January 19, 2004.
45. Ibid.
46. Neal, 2-3.
47. Ibid., 6.
48. William Miller, "The Library as a Place: Tradition and Evolution," Library Issues 22, 3 (January 2002): 2.
49. Lowry
50. Ibid., 4.
51. "The Myth Makers," Time, December 30, 2002, 88.
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53. Amanda R. Yoder, "The Cyborg Librarian as Interface: Interpreting Postmodern Discourse on Knowledge Construction, Validation, and Navigation within Academic Libraries," portal: Libraries and the Academy 3, 3 (July 2003): 381-92.
54. Martell, "The Disembodied Librarian."
55. F. W. Lancaster, Libraries and Librarians in an Age of Electronics (Arlington, VA: Information Resource Press, 1982).
56. Martha Kyrillidou, "From Input and Output Measures to Quality and Outcome Measures, Or, from the User to the Life of the User," Journal of Academic Librarianship 28, 1/2 (January-March 2002): 42.
57. Howard Billings, "The Wild Card Academic Library in 2013," College & Research Libraries 64, 2 (March 2003): 106.