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Fall 2004 - Volume 10 - Number 2 |
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The UTA Libraries Online: A New Year, a New Web Site
by Sarah Jones
A Scholarly Communication Crisis
by Gerald Saxon
Evolution of Technological Infrastructure in the UTA Libraries
by Bob Samson
Friends of the UTA Libraries The Friends Advisory Council met on September 28 to discuss plans for the year. Perhaps the most important item on the agenda was a proposal for the Friends to sponsor a McNair Award. The Council approved the creation of the Friends of the UTA Libraries McNair Award.
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So, there you are, at home on a Saturday afternoon .
. . Maybe you’re writing a paper for a class, or want to catch up on
reading in your field of research, or you’ve just discovered some
books that will be overdue tomorrow. . . 
In this column I wanted to write about something that has been on my mind, and the minds of many in the academic community of late, and that is the crisis in scholarly communication. Yes folks, there is a crisis, and it is impacting everyone on college campuses—the students, faculty, and library staff—though many might not be aware of it. My purpose in this column is to shed some light on the subject.
In the UTA Libraries one is less likely to find researchers engaged in quiet study with a stack of books open on their desk, than it is to see hundreds of students tapping away on computer keyboards as they conduct their research through the power of the Internet. The muffled whispers of the past have been replaced with the hum of computers and printers, and independent study has been superseded by collaborative research.
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