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Profiles of Academic Libraries Mohammed M University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons School of Information Studies Faculty Books Information Studies (School of) 2010 Profiles of Academic Libraries Mohammed M. Aman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/sois_facbooks Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Aman, Mohammed M., "Profiles of Academic Libraries" (2010). School of Information Studies Faculty Books. 2. https://dc.uwm.edu/sois_facbooks/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Information Studies Faculty Books by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MOHAMMED M. AMAN, PhD About the Author of Academic Profiles Dr. Mohammed Aman is Professor of Information Studies at the University of PROFILES OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). He has worked in academic libraries at Duquesne University, Allegheny Community College and the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and has taught academic library L courses at St. John’s University, N.Y., Long Island Univers¬ity and for the past thirty years ibraries at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a frequent invited speaker, lecturer and international consultant. Professor Aman is the Editor-in-Chief of the Digest of Middle East Studies and author of more ten books and hundred articles and research papers dealing with various aspects of library and information planning and management and distance learning. Dr. Aman joined UWM in 1979 as Dean of the School of Information Studies (SOIS) a position he held until 2002. He was also the Interim Dean of the School of Education. Prior to joining UWM, Prof. Aman was the Dean of the Palmer Graduate Library School at C.W. Post Center of Long Island University from 1976 to 1979 and Director of the Division of Information Science at St. John’s University from 1973 to 1976 and member of its faculty since 1969. Dr, Aman consulted on numerous library and information management projects in Alexandria, Egypt; Kuwait; Bahrain; Tunisia; Africa, Mexico, and others. He is a member of the Planning Committee of the Arab Union Catalog, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Hon. VP of the Policy Studies Organization (PSO), Washington, DC. He is the recipient of many national and international awards including the OCLC/Humphry Award for Contributions to International Librarianship; the P. N. Kaula Gold Medal Award from the Indian Library Association; The Wisconsin Librarian of the Year Award; the Association for Library and Information Science Education Service Award. His biography appears in a number of international biographical dictionaries including Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in the World, among others. M ohammed Recently published by Prof. Aman is The Academic Library Management: Issues and Practices, available from [email protected] M . Aman, Ph D ISBN 978-1-4507-2887-4 90000 > 9 781450 728874 Mohammed M. Aman, PhD. Editor Global Information Company, Inc. Mequon, Wisconsin Published by Global Information Co. (GIC) Copyright © 2010 Mohammed M. Aman All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any Form or any manner, electronic or mechanical, including Photocopying, recording or by any information storage and Retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. To m y wife and our parents Blank TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................ VII CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ..................................... 1 CARROLL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY....................................................... 13 EGYPTIAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES CONSORTIUM ....................... 35 THE HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ......................................... 57 UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL LIBRARY SOUTH AFRICA .. 73 MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ....................................... 97 NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ............................ 127 SAINT OLAF COLLEGE LIBRARY ...................................................... 143 SAUDI ARABIAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ..................................... 177 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE LIBRARIES* ............. 199 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PARKSIDE LIBRARY ...................... 215 About the Authors ................................................................................... ..231 Index……………………………………………………………….……..235 INTRODUCTION This book was inspired by my involvement with my students in the academic libraries course, which I have taught for more than three decades, as well as the many students I supervised as interns in academic libraries. As part of the requirement for the course, each of my students is required to develop a profile of an academic library in which s/he works, or is most familiar with as a user. Their description and analysis of the historical background of the institution, its library operations and services is based on class materials and guided by an outline that follows the sequence of the class lectures and discussions. As part of this assignment and the required field research work, theses students are required to gather information that answers a number of questions about their chosen institution‘s history, mission, goals and objectives, strategic planning, organization, human resources, diversity, budget and fiscal planning, collection development, special collections, access and reference services, marketing and outreach, and finally, physical facilities and buildings. In addition to the few select profiles written by these former students, now practicing librarians, and in some instances, in collaboration with the library leadership, I received profiles of university libraries written by deans and directors of these libraries specifically for inclusion in this monograph. Collectively, the profiles included in this book are designed to give a bird‘s eye view of the various aspects of academic librarianship, not only in the United States, but in other countries as well, such as Egypt, Jordan, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia. These profiles enable the reader to compare the various aspects of academic librarianship on a national as well as international level. These comparisons may also lead to identifying best practices used by college and university libraries in such areas as management, marketing, information fluency and the like. Reading the chapters, the reader can draw examples of best practices in academic library management. Another unique feature of this book is the inclusion of profiles of academic libraries outside the United States. The intent is to highlight areas of shared experiences as well as differences between them as we embark on a more aggressive plan of global cooperation among centers of higher education. The numbers of foreign universities could have been larger, but due to space limitations, only a small sample was used. It is my hope that this monograph will encourage other academic librarians and library science educators to view their libraries and instruction from a global perspective. We are now witnessing INTRODUCTION viii an expansion of international college education unparalleled in the history of higher education. Major universities are now branching out in other countries. The Chinese University in Hong Kong (CUHK), for example, has recently established a graduate business program in Kuwait; American universities such as Carnegie-Mellon University; Johns Hopkins Medical School; the University of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and others have established branches in other countries in Asia and the Middle East. These are not to be confused with the well-established and locally rooted American University in Cairo (AUC) and the American University in Beirut (AUB). To place the academic library in the context of higher education and the broader community, the authors were asked to examine, not just the history, vision, mission, goals and strategic planning of the parent institution, but also those of the library and how they relate to the parent institution and the role of the library in fulfilling the institution‘s instructional, research, and outreach missions to the local and broader/global community. The academic library mission should tie in with the mission of the university in that all of the major focuses are in line with those of the university‘s mission. Both missions usually focus on faculty, staff, students, and those in the surrounding community. They incorporate, not only those affiliated with the university, but also with their community and that part of the world in which they operate. They both try to accomplish their mission by providing an environment in which individuals can learn. With the emergence of new private colleges and universities in many countries overseas, there is a strong belief in, and recognition of the value of quality assurance, assessment, and even international accreditation of institutions and programs of higher education. This is one of the reasons why the above-mentioned examples of American or American-affiliated campuses overseas require their academic library staff to have an ALA accredited master‘s degree in library and information studies. Many of the public and private universities overseas are now, more than ever, pursuing accreditation of their academic programs and
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