Print & Electronic

Collections - Current
Challenges for
Academic Libraries

Lib. Gabriel Graves

Different tools, different solutions, similar problems
BARRILDO - So many volumes are in print
today
The multitudes imagine they are wise.
LEONELO - Yet they know less, it saddens
me to say,
For so much wisdom’s hard to summarize
And all their vain attempts to find a way
Just make the letters swim before their eyes.
(...)
We’ve lived for centuries without the press
And I don’t see these modern times more full
Of St. Augustines or Jeromes, do you?
Lope de Vega. Fuenteovejuna (1619)
International Standards

Dewey Decimal
Classification
Universal Decimal
Classification
Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules
MARC 21
Z39.50
…
 Current Challenges for Academic Libraries
Career development

Support of new users

Access to information Repositories and copyright issues

Current and reliable information

Mass digitalization and access versus closed archives

Adequate description according to the type of users and standards of the institution

Metadata and digital curation

Systematic reviews

Better distribution of the money and time invested to get the right piece of
knowledge to the right user

Creation, control and preservation of digital resources

Respect for the traditions and history of the institution

The digital curation lifecycle model by Sarah

Higgins, IJDC Issue 1, Vol. 3, 2008
References
Cox, C. (2020, June 5th). Changed, changed utterly. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved March 1 2022, from
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/05/academic-libraries-will-change-significant-ways-result-pandemic-opinion

Digital Curation Centre. (n.d.). DCC Because good research needs good data. DCC. Retrieved March 1, 2022, from
https://www.dcc.ac.uk/

Lope de Vega, F., Racz, G.J. (2010) Fuenteovejuna. Yale University Press.

Ortega Y Gasset, J. (2005). Misión del bibliotecario. Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.

Plato. (2002) Phaedrus. Oxford University Press.