List of Librarian Vacant Degree Colleges in Karnataka

		Librarian Vacant Degree Colleges
SL No	College ID	College Name	Vacant
1	52	Govt. First Grade College, Badavanahalli - 572 112, Madhugiri Tq.	1
2	56	Govt. Womens College, Chintamani - 563 125.	1
3	62	Govt First Grade womens College, Chikkaballapur-562101	1
4	64	Govt. College, Mulbagal - 563 131.	1
5	65	Govt. Womens College, Kolar - 563 101.	1
6	71	Govt. Law College, Kolar - 563 101	1
7	72	Maharanis Science College for Women, Mysore - 570 005.	1
8	75	Maharanis Arts, Commerce and Management College for Women, JLB Road,	1
9	80	Govt. First Grade Womens College, Vijayanagara, Mysore - 570 017	1
10	87	Govt. First Grade College, Siddartha Layout - 570 011, Mysore	1
11	97	Govt. College, Mandya - 571 401.	1
12	98	Govt. Womens College, M.C.Road, Mandya - 571 401.	1
13	99	Govt. First Grade College,Sreerangapatna - 571 438.	1
14	101	Govt. First Grade College, Malavalli - 571 430	1
15	107	Govt. First Grade College, Bharathinagara - 571 422, Maddur Tq.	1
16	136	Govt. Law College, M.G.Road, Vidyanagar, Hassan - 573 201	1
17	140	Govt. First Grade College,Hosanagara - 577 418.	1
18	142	Sir.M.Vishweshwaraiah Govt. Arts & Commerce College, New Town,	1
19	148	Govt. First Grade College, Thirthahalli - 577 432	1
20	151	Govt. Arts College, Chitradurga - 577 501.	1
21	157	Govt. First Grade College, Parasurampura, (Chellakere Tq.)	1
22	158	Govt. First Grade College, Baramasagara - 577 519, Chitradurga Tq.	1
23	163	Sri. Basaveshwara Govt. First Grade College, Mayakonda - 577 534.	1
24	166	Govt. First Grade Womens College, Davanagere - 577 002	1
25	175	D. S. Bele Gowda Govt. First Grade College,Mudigere - 577 132.	1
26	176	Govt. First Grade College, Narasimarajapura - 577 134.	1
27	186	Govt. First Grade College,Uppinangadi -574 241	1
28	205	Govt. First Grade College, Shankarnarayan - 576 227, (Kundapur Tq.)	1
29	211	Govt. First Grade College, Kundapura - 576 222	1
30	221	Govt. First Grade College, Vidyabhavan Campus, Near LIC Main Branch,	1
31	226	Sree Siddeshwara Govt. College, Nargund - 582 207.	1
32	227	Sri. Benkappa Shankrappa Simhasanad Govt. First Grade College, Gajendragada	1
33	236	Lalithadevi Gurusiddappa Singhura Govt. First Grade College, Savannur - 581	1
34	237	Govt. First Grade College, Akkialur - 581 102, (Hanagal Tq.)	1
35	241	Govt. First Grade College, Byadagi - 581 106	1
36	247	Govt Arts & Science College, Karwar - 581 301.	1
37	250	Govt. First Grade College, Yallapura - 581 359.	1
38	256	Govt. First Grade College, Sirsi - 581 401	1
39	257	Govt. First Grade College, Siddapura - 581 355	1
40	264	Govt. First Grade College, Hukkeri - 591 309	1
41	269	Govt. First Grade College, Chikkodi - 591 201	1
42	271	Govt. First Grade College, H.B.C Colony, Athani - 591 304	1
43	277	Sri. Shripadbhod Swamiji Govt. First Grade College, Moodalagi - 591 312,	1
44	291	Govt. First Grade College, Rabakavi banahatti - 587 311, Jamakhandi Tq.	1
45	292	Govt. First Grade College, Navabag, Khaza Colony, Bijapur - 586 101	1
46	299	Govt. College, Sedam Road, Gulbarga - 585 105.	1
47	309	Govt. First Grade College, Mahagaov Cross - 585 316, Gulbarga	1
48	315	Govt. First Grade College, Yadgiri - 585 202.	1
49	316	Govt. First Grade College, Gurumitkal - 585 214, Yadgir Tq.	1
50	317	Govt. First Grade College, Shahapur - 585 223.	1
51	319	Govt. First Grade College, Kembhavi - 585 216, Shorapur	1
52	322	Sri. Shankarappa Murigappa Khenda Govt. First Grade College, Devdurga - 584	1
53	327	Govt. First Grade College, Mudgal - 584 125, Lingasagur Tq.	1
54	339	Govt. First Grade College, Kudligi - 583 135.	1
55	344	Govt. First Grade College, Kurugod - 583 116	1
56	344	Govt. First Grade College, Kurugod - 583 116	1
57	347	Govt. First Grade College, Hospet - 583 201	1
58	354	Govt. First Grade College, Basavakalyana - 585 327	1
59	360	Govt. First Grade College, Byrapura	1
60	361	Govt. First Grade College, Dhandeli	1
61	362	Govt. First Grade College, Sagar	1
62	365	Govt. First Grade College, Mangalore, Yalburga Tq.	1
63	366	Govt. First Grade College, Midigeshi, Madhugiri Tq.	1
64	367	Govt. First Grade College, Satanur, Kanakapura Tq.	1
65	368	Govt. First Grade College, Saragur, HD Kote, Tq.	1
66	369	Govt. First Grade College, Talakadu, T.narasipura Tq.	1
67	370	Govt. First Grade College, Bettadapura, Periyapattana, Tq.	1
68	371	Govt. First Grade College, Arehalli, Belur Tq.	1
69	372	Govt. First Grade College, Terakanambi, Gundlupet Tq	1
70	373	Govt. First Grade College, Muniyalu, Karkala Tq.	1
71	374	Govt. First Grade College, Mudipu, Bantwala Tq.	1
72	375	Govt. First Grade College, Turuvanur, Chitradurga Tq.	1
73	376	Govt. First Grade College, Ayanur, Shimoga Tq.	1
74	377	Govt. First Grade College, Chithralli, Holalkere Tq.	1
75	378	Govt. First Grade College, Hunasagi, Surupura Tq.	1
76	379	Govt. First Grade College, Tavarageri, Kushtagi Tq.	1
77	380	Govt. First Grade College, Shiriwara, Manvi Tq.	1
78	381	Govt. First Grade College, Beedi, Khanapura Tq.	1
79	382	Govt. First Grade College, Kerur, Badami Tq.	1
80	383	Govt. First Grade College, Managuli, Basavana Bagewadi	1
81	384	Govt. First Grade College, Julaki, Indi Tq.	1
82	385	Govt. First Grade College, Devara Hipparagi, Sindhagi, Tq.	1
83	386	Govt. First Grade College, Rampura, Bagalkote Tq.	1
84	387	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Tumkur	1
85	388	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Chitradurga	1
86	389	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Shimoga	1
87	390	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Bellary	1
88	391	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Bidar	1
89	392	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Koppal	1
90	393	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Raichur	1
91	394	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Yadgir	1
92	395	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Chamarajanagar	1
93	396	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Madikeri	1
94	397	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Bagalkote	1
95	398	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Belgaum	1
96	399	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Bijapur	1
97	400	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Dharwad	1
98	401	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Gadag	1
99	402	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Haveri	1
100	403	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Karwar	1
101	404	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Chickmagalur	1
102	405	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Pavagada, Tumkur	1
103	406	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Chamarajapet, Bangalore	1
104	407	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Doddapallapur, Bangalore Rural	1
105	408	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Sindhanur, Raichur	1
106	409	Govt. First Grade College for Women, Puttur, Dakshina Kannada	1
107	410	Maharanis Commerce and Management College for Women, JLB Road, Mysore	1
108	411	Govt. First Grade College, Kanyana, Bantwala Tq.	1
109	412	Govt. First Grade College, Turuvihal, Sindhanur Tq.	1
		Total Vacants Source: http://www.dce.kar.nic.in/	109

Type of Answering in Interview

How and What shall I prepare for an interview?

How & What shall I prepare for an interview?

(Read with patience, hope it will be useful for young professionals)

Preparing for an interview is very interesting...most of the time we find our mind busy in searching the questions, how and what should I prepare for this interview? When I attended some interviews, I kept thinking about questions and answers till the last moment I entered the interview room. I would like to share some of the points with young professionals with hope that these tips will be useful for interview.

1. Knowledge Domain:
This is the main surface of everything which makes you strong and confident. But knowledge can not be gained in one day or two so one must develop the habit of reading of books at least for half an hour everyday and don't go to bed before finishing one topic whether short or long. Gradually, one will realize that he/she is more comfortable with others during discussion especially on subjects and your mouth will automatically open to speak something. After certain period of time, the percentage level of confidence will be really very high and it will go high & high. There is no limit of knowledge, try to keep yourself updated as much as possible in every field including your main domain.

2. Confidence:
A person or living being can gain the confidence only by performing & practicing. There is no alternate of this in my view. To become successful in any walk of life, one has to gain confidence which comes only by preparation.

3. Communication Skill: 
This skill really plays major role in any interview. But, most of the time we find difficult to speak fluently in front of interviewer. And, the reason behind this (in my opinion) is that we start preparing for an interview only at the time of an exam or an interview. One must avoid this habit and practice everyday to improve the communication skill.
If we talk about communication language, now-a-days, most of interviews are taken in English.

If one feels he/she is not good in communication so start practicing. Some of the way which I followed, would like to share with you all.

Speak infront of mirror loudly on any topic....in the beginning you will hesitate and will have fear in mind that if someone listens my mistake, he/she will laugh at me. I will suggest let him/her laugh. Just ask your close frinds or brother/sister/wife/husband/mammi/papa to listen to you and deliberately tell him/her everything. Just allow your thoughts to come out. Continue conversation even if you commit mistakes but observe your mistakes during discussion and don't allow yourself to commit the same mistake again. Whenever you go out just think how can I say this sentence in English like wise wherever you move, try to convert your thoughts in English and go murmuring.

Improve your vocabulary power. Keep dictionary with you always or those who are having net facility check the meaning of any word online. This dictionary can be used to check the meaning of any word and lot more. (http://www.macmillandictionary.com/).

Develop the habit of reading story books in the beginning and later news paper and collect difficult words and note down somewhere in the copy and find out the meaning of every word and apply them during discussion accordingly.

In the beginning, one will find difficult in framing the sentences but gradually you will observe that you will gain fluency in both writing as well as speaking.

You may laugh at this practice......but don't forget even Sachin Tendulkar when he got out on duck, he used to go back to pavilion and think over his mistake and used to practice on net so that he can not commit mistake again.

4. Presentation:
Presentation of your knowledge based on asked questions of Interviewer is very very important which plays major role in selection (as per my view). Present your thoughts before interviewer with full confidence. Always tell the pin pointed answer, don't drag the answer tool long so it becomes difficult to understand. If necessary, elaborate the remaining part. (This you have to decide how much you have to tell).

5. Demonstration:
As for as this part is concerned, this is applicable only in case you have practically implemented anything during your experince. If you have done practically, try to go with that and show that practically (if possible) to interview board. But, ensure it must be unique otherwise it may leave bad impression. 
Sometimes during interview, board asks to present the thing before them. Before you go to attend interview, keep full preparation for demonstration related to your domain and its practical aspects.

6. Social Awareness:
Most of the time when we prepare for an interview, we just avoid social issues. In my view this is also one major aspect to be taken care of. One should prepare and collect information on some social and current issues also because it will show your awareness about other social issues apart from your job.

7. Revision:
We have the habit of avoiding revision after reading or preparing any topic. And what happens......we forget after sometime. Revision of learned thoughts is very important. Even if you have good memory, don't take chance, everyday must revise what you prepared. This must be applied in our general day to day routine work of life also. This will keep boosting your confidence also and remain even after interview.

8. Control your emotion:
In my opinion, we all are emotional thinkers. Avoid emotional thoughts during interview and try to answer practically. Justify the reason why you are fit for the present job (if asked) with practical reasons and prove logically that you will be an asset for institute/organization. Here, your presentation skill has to be utilised. Never allow yourself to argue with Interviewer or Board, if you feel to answer, give logical reasons.

9. Don't Underestimate yourself:
Before attending an interview, generally we keep loosing confidence and get nervous. Don't underestimate yourself in any circumstances. Just keep boosting yourself by repeating this line “I have to do well, I can do this” and repeat as many times as you can. Don't allow your mind to attract negative thoughts. Enter the interview room with positive mind and smiling face. Follow all formalities before you take seat. Just remember the almighty and face the questions with smiling face. 
If you don't answer any question during interview, don't get nervous and accept it. Get yourself ready for next questions. 
When interview is over, come out of room with smiling face.

Hope these tips will help who are preparing for interview but my personal suggestion is that don't stick to these tips only and think beyond this also.

Source:

http://lislinks.com/forum/topics/how-and-what-shall-i-prepare-for-an-interview

Research Topics in LIS

Research Topics for Library & Information Science (LIS)

This listing is not exhaustive or complete. Almost all of the topics mentioned can be developed in many ways.

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

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

3.      Acquisition and deployment of technology in the library environment

4.      Adaptive equipment technology for supporting handicapped persons in the library environment

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

6.      Advances in search engine technology and their impacts on libraries

7.      Analyses and your libraryÂ’s use of an analysis, e.g., cost-benefit analysis, gap analysis, customer-satisfaction analysis, needs analysis, root cause analysis, SWOT analysis, what-if analysis)

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

9.      Articulation of an information policy for a campus

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

11.  Benchmarking as a means to achieve outcomes; your libraryÂ’s use of benchmarking and the results, problems, opportunities

12.  Campus community's perception of the library as a hospitable environment for reading, study, and research

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

14.  Challenges and opportunities in migrating to Web-based information services

15.  Challenges of implementing technology, including deployment, training, upgrading

16.  Change management in the library environment for organizational renewal

17.  Changing nature of circulation in numbers and ways to stimulate print and media circulation

18.  Changing nature of library space requirements to meet student and collection requirements

19.  Changing nature of reference questions in type and number

20.  Changing role and value of union lists with the availability of electronic full-text journal databases

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

22.  Clientele expectations as exacerbated by e-business practices: effect on library's business practices, business alliances and partnerships, vendor relationships, one-to-one relationship management with patrons

23.  Clientele expectations: librarians generally view our customers/patrons through the prism of our collections. What are effective strategies for flipping this to see our collections through our customer's eyes?

24.  Collaboration opportunities (or reports of such collaborations) with other educational/cultural institutions such as colleges and universities, historical societies, museums, professional or trade associations, public schools K-12, social agencies, etc.

25.  Collection development strategies for academic programs

26.  Common culture created/supported/enhanced by the academic library on campus

27.  Communications plan as a tool for developing community relations to connect with faculty and administrators, e.g., how to write, how to use, how to budget for expenditures for advertising, etc.

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

29.  Cooperative purchasing and shared collections between and among libraries

30.  Coping with tight budgets by eliminating the overlap between print and electronic subscriptions

31.  Copyright issues with interlibrary loan and electronic reserves

32.  Core collections for children's literature in a higher education library that supports a teacher education program of instruction

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

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

35.  Cost or time study of library programs, services, and collections, including description of the methodology and outcomes at your library

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

37.  Dealing strategies and outcomes for the difficult patron in the library environment

38.  Describing and giving examples that illustrate the difference between adequate and excellent library service(s)

39.  Developing a written library business plan that addresses business/technical goals, platform/storage technology requirements, and infrastructure topology

40.  Developing an annual academic agenda for the library, including benchmarks and performance measures

41.  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

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

43.  Discussion of information literacy as an educational reform for utilizing technology in the curriculum

44.  Discussion of one or more challenges and/or opportunities in some area of librarianship or information science

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

46.  Effective budgeting strategies linked to outcomes

47.  Effective library support for distance education programs; strategies for equalizing access to library resources for on-campus students and distance education learners

48.  Effectiveness of state and federal library grant programs (or any single program)

49.  Efficiencies achieved through consortium/consortia affiliation

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

51.  Electronic resources and their impact on the academic library as the social and intellectual heart of the campus

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

53.  Ethics of information

54.  Evaluating a library and useful performance measurements for evaluation

55.  Evaluating the effectiveness of bibliographic instruction with a focus on the student and/or teacher

56.  Fund raising and development programs for libraries

57.  GALILEO and how its impact on its users and the library as the social and intellectual heart of the campus

58.  Game theoryÂ’s “prisonerÂ’s dilemma” applied to academic library problems or situations

59.  Good faith communication as an essential component for strong employee relations

60.  Hub library networks

61.  Human resource requirements have changed in the academic library. Describe how staff retooling is happening, costs, opportunities, challenges since this is not a downsizing strategy; rather, it is a strategy to allow the library to be responsive to changes in its environment

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

63.  Impact of demographic and cultural changes on library services

64.  Impact of full-text databases on interlibrary loan services

65.  Impact of library budget shifts toward electronic resource access

66.  Implementing a new integrated information system in the library environment

67.  Implications for the library as accreditation shifts from an emphasis on library resources to information literacy

68.  Integrated information Systems offer advantages and disadvantages. Identify these and expand on the pros and cons of library managers supporting single management systems since one size rarely fits all needs, uses

69.  Intellectual property and copyright. Analysis of the libraryÂ’s role in assisting in understanding intellectual property in a college or university environment

70.  Intellectual property and copyright. Collection development and intellectual property and copyright in terms of topics such as what primary and secondary resources should the library own, best book and journal titles on the topic, identification of commercial databases featuring the topic

71.  Intellectual property and copyright. Collection development in terms of topics such as what primary and secondary resources should the library own, best book and journal titles on the topic, identification of commercial databases featuring the topic

72.  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

73.  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.

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

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

76.  Intellectual property and copyright. The libraryÂ’s role in assisting in understanding intellectual property in a college or university environment.

77.  Interlibrary loan of specialized materials such as audiovisuals, CDs, DVDs, VHSs, items from e-subscriptions, legal materials, medical materials

78.  Interlibrary loan service enhancement through use of technologies such as Ariel, Illiad, BlackBoard, or other open-source software

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

80.  Internet-based services, products, technologies and their impact on library management, service, and utilization: challenges and/or methodology to meet patron needs as libraries migrate to a digital/virtual environment

81.  Knowledge management and its application for developing a learning organization

82.  LibrarianshipÂ’s changing definition: In 2001, Steven L. Baker is credited with writing that librarianship is the discipline that promotes an integrated approach to preserving, identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing the significant knowledge and information assets of society. In 1964 Louis Shoreswrote that librarianship is the profession dedicated to the preservation, dissemination, investigation, and interpretation of the knowledge most significant to mankind.

83.  Libraries and life-long learning: what this means and steps to take to bring about

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

85.  Library implications of the growing power of information technology to transform the means of research, teaching, and scholarly communication

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

87.  Library instruction and training for students and faculty who are remote to the campus

88.  Library presence in spaces such as the campus portal, Facebook, iTunes, learning management systems such as Blackboard, MySpace, etc.

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

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

91.  Library services for virtual high schools, virtual colleges and universities, home schooled students

92.  Library services in a linguistically diverse community

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

94.  LibraryÂ’s value to society in digitalizing unique collections

95.  LibraryÂ’s value, strengths, and shortcomings in an electronic society?

96.  Library's changing role in the information economy

97.  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 and being seen, etc.). Many librarians have focused on collections and information technology to the exclusion of the many other positive things that take place in an academic library)

98.  Literacy programs in the library environment

99.  Management and operation of information systems

100.                      Marginalization of the library (academic, public, special)

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

102.                      Maximizing the value of (new, emerging) information technology in the library environment

103.                      Measuring the quality of library services

104.                      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

105.                      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

106.                      Models of library service through the use of computers, networks, and the Internet

107.                      Open-access data/collections and its value for providing context to local collections

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

109.                      Pareto's 80-20 rule applied to library problems and situations, and application of Chris AndersonÂ’s The Long Tail (2003) as a statistical concept applies to library collections

110.                      Position paper on a controversial topic, e.g., do we need academic libraries? or that libraries of the future were distinguished from one another only by their ownership of sole copies of locally-produced digital content not accessible elsewhere since books and journals were accessible digitally via fee databases and content publishers

111.                      Programming to attract students to the academic library (art exhibitions, book swaps, comfortable furniture, expresso bars, hosting campus meetings and conferences, lectures, poetry readings)

112.                      Providing academic library services in an environment where faculty are increasingly teaching a curriculum that draws less and less on library resources

113.                      Quality assurance, efficiency studies, and best practices – how they impact the library

114.                      RanganathanÂ’s (1931) fifth law of library science is “A library is a growing organism”; explain the meaning today as libraries become part of growing networked organisms such as OCLC

115.                      Renovating the library specifically to enrich its atmosphere to attract students

116.                      Restructuring access on Web pages to the libraryÂ’s programs, services, and collections on the basis of frequency-of-use rather than library organizational structure or alphabetical arrangement

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

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

119.                      Role of consortium membership for expanding access and resources

120.                      Role of electronic text-based collections with multimedia content

121.                      Role of the homepage as “The” platform for delivering library programs, services, and collections

122.                      Role of the library as an information resource in globalization

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

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

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

126.                      Search engines: making the libraryÂ’s Web pages (page titles, descriptions, article summaries) more friendly for indexing and retrieval by Google and Yahoo!

127.                      Shared storage facilities

128.                      Significance and strategic value of written procedures and standard operating procedures (SOP) for library operations

129.                      Strategic communicationÂ’s plan for enhancing the role of the library in its parent organization

130.                      Strategic planning in the library environment

131.                      Strategic role of the library on the college/university campus

132.                      Strategies and applications for bring bibliographic instruction into the classroom using Web-based resources

133.                      Strategy for libraries to evolve as a modern technological workplaces (staff skills and training issues)

134.                      Student acceptance of print vs. electronic resources and observations regarding students being willing to wait for digital resources that may be temporarily unavailable, such as the server is down, rather than use print indexes, abstracts, or journal articles

135.                      Students in the academic library: client, customer, or patron and the difference it makes in how we refer to our users and community of student/faculty scholars

136.                      Successful outsourcing activities: what they are, why they were successfully outsourced

137.                      Survey of consortia across the country: what they do, how they are organized, who belongs

138.                      Survey of libraries for emergency or disaster plans, e.g., fire, weather (hurricane, snow, tornado), flood, etc. (Model paper is by Kalyan, S., Xue-Ming Bao, and Marta M. Deyrup. "Academic Libraries' Emergency Plans for Inclement Weather," Library Administration and Management 15(4), 223-229, 2001.)

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

140.                      Survey of where students turn when they have a paper to write and what type(s) of resources they use

141.                      SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) analysis methodology and interpretation for an academic, health science, public, or special library

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

143.                      Trends (administration, budget, collections, customer service, staffing, staff supervision and management, technology)

144.                      Use of specific electronic resources (e.g., Dow-Jones, Gale Resources, etc.) in support of an academic program

145.                      Value and importance of library websites and importance to be as simple as Google to navigate

146.                      Value and ongoing usefulness of book collections in the library in face of trends toward electronic collections

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

148.                      Value proposition statement for libraries: what it is and how it is best determined and articulated

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

150.                      Web-based bibliographic instruction

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

152.                      Wireless connectivity: its transformative impact on the academic library

153.                      Writing a plan (action plan for some activity, advertising plan, communications plan, gap analysis and customer service quality plan, marketing plan, strategic plan, technology plan) for an academic library

Ref:

http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/ahafner/awh-th-researchtopics.htm