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Social networking and modern libraries

Role of library associations for professional development

Need for establishing a Library Council of India

e-reference service and academic libraries

Library consultancy

Re engineering public libraries in India

Collaboration with foreign LIS schools

Marketing of Library and Information Product through library webpage

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Where to find Ideas about topics to research and write:This listing is not exhaustive or complete. Almost all of the topics mentionedcan be developed in many ways.

Academic library as an essential service on a campus during emergenciessuch as fire and severe weather (rain, snow, floods)

Accreditation and the role of the academic library in undergraduate, graduate,and other teaching programs (adult, community, distance education)

Acquisition and deployment of technology in the library environment

Adaptive equipment technology for supporting handicapped persons in thelibrary environment

Administration and leadership of interlibrary loan departments, consortia,cooperatives, networks

Advances in search engine technology and their impacts on libraries

Analyses and your librarys use of an analysis, e.g., cost-benefit analysis,gap analysis, customer-satisfaction analysis, needs analysis, root causeanalysis, SWOT analysis, what-if analysis)

Art work display in the academic library to promote spirituality or to support
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liberal arts and the humanities among students/faculty

Articulation of an information policy for a campus

Bar codes and RFID tags: types, library and special collection applications,use in library asset tracking

Benchmarking as a means to achieve outcomes; your librarys use ofbenchmarking and the results, problems, opportunities

Campus community's perception of the library as a hospitable environment forreading, study, and research

Challenge of providing library services with shrinking resources; doing morewith what you have to improve programs, services, and collections

Challenges and opportunities in migrating to Web-based information services

Challenges of implementing technology, including deployment, training,upgrading

Change management in the library environment for organizational renewal

Changing nature of circulation in numbers and ways to stimulate print andmedia circulation

Changing nature of library space requirements to meet student and collectionrequirements

Changing nature of reference questions in type and number

Changing role and value of union lists with the availability of electronic full-textjournal databases

Changing role of the librarian from collection development specialists tospecialists who develop pathfinder guides (subject, topic) to harness theInternet's unstructured free-form information

Clientele expectations as exacerbated by e-business practices: effect onlibrary's business practices, business alliances and partnerships, vendorrelationships, one-to-one relationship management with patrons

Clientele expectations: librarians generally view our customers/patrons throughthe prism of our collections. What are effective strategies for flipping this to see


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our collections through our customer's eyes?

Collaboration opportunities (or reports of such collaborations) with othereducational/cultural institutions such as colleges and universities, historical

societies, museums, professional or trade associations, public schools K-12,social agencies, etc.

Collection development strategies for academic programs

Common culture created/supported/enhanced by the academic library oncampus

Communications plan as a tool for developing community relations to connectwith faculty and administrators, e.g., how to write, how to use, how to budgetfor expenditures for advertising, etc.

Consortia delivery systems for continuing education, books and journals,technical support services, training

Cooperative purchasing and shared collections between and among libraries

Coping with tight budgets by eliminating the overlap between print andelectronic subscriptions

Copyright issues with interlibrary loan and electronic reserves

Core collections for children's literature in a higher education library thatsupports a teacher education program of instruction

Core digital resources for small and/or medium size libraries (academic, public,special)

Core technology and/or emerging technology trends in the library environment

Cost or time study of library programs, services, and collections, includingdescription of the methodology and outcomes at your library

Cost-drivers and the criteria for selecting cost drivers for various libraryactivities, e.g., automation, communications, facilities and physical plant,human resources, public services, public and community relations, technicalservices, technology

Dealing strategies and outcomes for the difficult patron in the libraryenvironment


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Describing and giving examples that illustrate the difference between adequateand excellent library service(s)

Developing a written library business plan that addresses business/technical

goals, platform/storage technology requirements, and infrastructure topology

Developing an annual academic agenda for the library, including benchmarksand performance measures

Difference between serving students as customers (providing them a product)and serving students as learners whose job is to learn how to use the library

Digitization of local collections and its impact on scholarship in the library

Discussion of information literacy as an educational reform for utilizing

technology in the curriculum

Discussion of one or more challenges and/or opportunities in some area oflibrarianship or information science

Effective allocations strategies for collection development among academicand non-academic units in an academic, public, or special library

Effective budgeting strategies linked to outcomes

Effective library support for distance education programs; strategies for

equalizing access to library resources for on-campus students and distanceeducation learners

Effectiveness of state and federal library grant programs (or any singleprogram)

Efficiencies achieved through consortium/consortia affiliation

Electronic library reserves, e.g., part of the OPAC or through commercialsoftware such as Blackboard

Electronic resources and their impact on the academic library as the social andintellectual heart of the campus

Electronic resources and their impact on the academic library: library visits,reference service, and circulation

Ethics of information


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Evaluating a library and useful performance measurements for evaluation

Evaluating the effectiveness of bibliographic instruction with a focus on thestudent and/or teacher

Fund raising and development programs for libraries

GALILEO and how its impact on its users and the library as the social andintellectual heart of the campus

Game theorys prisoners dilemma applied to academic libraryproblems or situations

Good faith communication as an essential component for strong employeerelations

Hub library networks

Human resource requirements have changed in the academic library. Describehow staff retooling is happening, costs, opportunities, challenges since this isnot a downsizing strategy; rather, it is a strategy to allow the library to beresponsive to changes in its environment

Identifying the "sizzle" in the library's programs, services, and collections

Impact of demographic and cultural changes on library services

Impact of full-text databases on interlibrary loan services

Impact of library budget shifts toward electronic resource access

Implementing a new integrated information system in the library environment

Implications for the library as accreditation shifts from an emphasis on libraryresources to information literacy

Integrated information Systems offer advantages and disadvantages. Identify

these and expand on the pros and cons of library managers supporting singlemanagement systems since one size rarely fits all needs, uses

Intellectual property and copyright. Analysis of the librarys role in assisting inunderstanding intellectual property in a college or university environment

Intellectual property and copyright. Collection development and intellectualproperty and copyright in terms of topics such as what primary and secondary


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resources should the library own, best book and journal titles on the topic,identification of commercial databases featuring the topic

Intellectual property and copyright. Collection development in terms of topics

such as what primary and secondary resources should the library own, bestbook and journal titles on the topic, identification of commercial databasesfeaturing the topic

Intellectual property and copyright. Create a summary or annotation of the bestwebsites, or legal research guides, or colleges/universities that have a positiondevoted to this topic, or list of blogs, or newsletter

Intellectual property and copyright. For intellectual property and copyright,create a summary or annotation of the best websites, or legal research guides,or colleges/universities that have a position devoted to this topic, or list of

blogs, or newsletter.

Intellectual property and copyright. Listing and summary of the major cases inthe area of intellectual property and copyright argued in front of courts, such asthe U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, etc.

Intellectual property and copyright. Listing and summary or annotation of themajor cases in the area of intellectual property and copyright argued in front ofcourts, such as the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, etc.

Intellectual property and copyright. The librarys role in assisting in

understanding intellectual property in a college or university environment.Interlibrary loan of specialized materials such as audiovisuals, CDs, DVDs,VHSs, items from e-subscriptions, legal materials, medical materials

Interlibrary loan service enhancement through use of technologies such asAriel, Illiad, BlackBoard, or other open-source software

Interlibrary loan statistics used for acquisitions (books, journals, digital,audiovisual materials) or collections management (discarding materials)

Internet-based services, products, technologies and their impact on librarymanagement, service, and utilization: challenges and/or methodology to meetpatron needs as libraries migrate to a digital/virtual environment

Knowledge management and its application for developing a learningorganization

Librarianships changing definition: In 2001, Steven L. Baker is credited with


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writing that librarianship is the discipline that promotes an integrated approachto preserving, identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing thesignificant knowledge and information assets of society. In1964 Louis Shoreswrote that librarianship is the profession dedicated to the

preservation, dissemination, investigation, and interpretation of the knowledgemost significant to mankind.

Libraries and life-long learning: what this means and steps to take to bringabout

Library as place and access mechanisms to repositories of collectionswhereas large research libraries continue to struggle with providing print-centric and digital access to information

Library implications of the growing power of information technology to

transform the means of research, teaching, and scholarly communication

Library in higher education as an economic engine (agricultural stimulation,company/corporate creation and development, human capital development ofhundreds of thousands of people, stimulation and enhancement of the lives ofpeople within its sphere of influence)

Library instruction and training for students and faculty who are remote to thecampus

Library presence in spaces such as the campus portal, Facebook, iTunes,

learning management systems such as Blackboard, MySpace, etc.Library search tools in environments such as learning management systems(e.g., Blackboard) or social network infrastructure

Library services for disabled persons: facilities, equipment, funding, staffing

Library services for virtual high schools, virtual colleges and universities, homeschooled students

Library services in a linguistically diverse community

Library staff as emergency responders, e.g., organizing and running residentinformation centers during storms and emergencies

Librarys value to society in digitalizing unique collections

Librarys value, strengths, and shortcomings in an electronic society?


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Library's changing role in the information economy

Library's effective learning environment and its importance (e.g., research,socializing in the use of information resources, promotion of a common culture,

safe and relatively quiet study hall, a social sphere for meeting people andbeing seen, etc.). Many librarians have focused on collections and informationtechnology to the exclusion of the many other positive things that take place inan academic library)

Literacy programs in the library environment

Management and operation of information systems

Marginalization of the library (academic, public, special)

Marketing of library services, i.e., positioning the library as a destination forresearch, learning, and friends

Maximizing the value of (new, emerging) information technology in the libraryenvironment

Measuring the quality of library services

Metrics for evaluating library performance and services and when to use them-- such as input and output measurements, quality assurance measurements,impact and outcome measurements should both qualitative and

quantitative components be included and how

Mobile library services (problems, challenges, opportunities, technology)through using smart devices with small screens such as laptops, Pocket PCs,BlackBerrys, Palms, and data-enabled cell phones

Models of library service through the use of computers, networks, and theInternet

Open-access data/collections and its value for providing context to localcollections

Outsourcing of services (cataloging, janitorial, reference, serial check-in, etc.)

Pareto's 80-20 rule applied to library problems and situations, and applicationof Chris Andersons The Long Tail (2003) as a statistical concept applies tolibrary collections

Position paper on a controversial topic, e.g., do we need academic libraries?


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or that libraries of the future were distinguished from one another only by theirownership of sole copies of locally-produced digital content not accessibleelsewhere since books and journals were accessible digitally via feedatabases and content publishers

Programming to attract students to the academic library (art exhibitions, bookswaps, comfortable furniture, expresso bars, hosting campus meetings andconferences, lectures, poetry readings)

Providing academic library services in an environment where faculty areincreasingly teaching a curriculum that draws less and less on libraryresources

Quality assurance, efficiency studies, and best practices how they impactthe library

Ranganathans (1931) fifth law of library science is A library is a growingorganism; explain the meaning today as libraries become part of growingnetworked organisms such as OCLC

Renovating the library specifically to enrich its atmosphere to attract students

Restructuring access on Web pages to the librarys programs, services, andcollections on the basis of frequency-of-use rather than library organizationalstructure or alphabetical arrangement

Rethinking the academic library's functions not to provide print collections butfor its media center and computer labs for access to digital environment

Revenue opportunities for libraries, e.g., advertisements on computer screens

Role of consortium membership for expanding access and resources

Role of electronic text-based collections with multimedia content

Role of the homepage as The platform for delivering library programs,services, and collections

Role of the library as an information resource in globalization

Role of the library as an information resource in promoting human rights

Role of the library in the ubiquitous computer (information technology)environment


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Search engines: how those that charge allow those that pay to rise to the top

Search engines: making the librarys Web pages (page titles, descriptions,article summaries) more friendly for indexing and retrieval by Google and

Yahoo!

Shared storage facilities

Significance and strategic value of written procedures and standard operatingprocedures (SOP) for library operations

Strategic communications plan for enhancing the role of the library in itsparent organization

Strategic planning in the library environment

Strategic role of the library on the college/university campus

Strategies and applications for bring bibliographic instruction into theclassroom using Web-based resources

Strategy for libraries to evolve as a modern technological workplaces (staffskills and training issues)

Student acceptance of print vs. electronic resources and observationsregarding students being willing to wait for digital resources that may be

temporarily unavailable, such as the server is down, rather than use printindexes, abstracts, or journal articles

Students in the academic library: client, customer, or patron and the differenceit makes in how we refer to our users and community of student/facultyscholars

Successful outsourcing activities: what they are, why they were successfullyoutsourced

Survey of consortia across the country: what they do, how they are organized,

who belongs

Survey of libraries for emergency or disaster plans, e.g., fire, weather(hurricane, snow, tornado), flood, etc. (Model paper is by Kalyan, S., Xue-MingBao, and Marta M. Deyrup. "Academic Libraries' Emergency Plans forInclement Weather," Library Administration and Management15(4), 223-229,2001.)


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Survey of students and faculty as part of a quality assessment program

Survey of where students turn when they have a paper to write and whattype(s) of resources they use

SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) analysis methodologyand interpretation for an academic, health science, public, or special library

Three fundamental problems that libraries must solve in the next five years(identification of those problems and how to approach?)

Trends (administration, budget, collections, customer service, staffing, staffsupervision and management, technology)

Use of specific electronic resources (e.g., Dow-Jones, Gale Resources, etc.) in

support of an academic program

Value and importance of library websites and importance to be as simple asGoogle to navigate

Value and ongoing usefulness of book collections in the library in face oftrends toward electronic collections

Value or significance of remote access to the library's electronic resources(academic, municipal, public libraries)

Value proposition statement for libraries: what it is and how it is bestdetermined and articulated

Virtual reference: what it is, how to do it, examples, types of questions

Web-based bibliographic instruction

White paper on a topic, such as outcomes assessment, future of cataloging,interlibrary loan, e-journal usage, fines for students and faculty, etc.

Wireless connectivity: its transformative impact on the academic library

Writing a plan (action plan for some activity, advertising plan, communicationsplan, gap analysis and customer service quality plan, marketing plan, strategicplan, technology plan) for an academic library

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