Document Type

White Paper

Publication Date

3-11-2010

Publisher

Greater Western Library Alliance; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

10

Abstract

This white paper provides background about the convergence of disparate undergraduate education movements in higher education that affect GWLA individual institutions, particularly those initiatives related to the reinvention of undergraduate education in research universities. It provides suggestions for how individual GWLA member libraries can take advantage of an unprecedented interested in education reform to assume leadership roles on our campuses, and in doing so, provide greater security for libraries during fiscal uncertainty as they position themselves, their collections, and their services as an integral part of the instructional agenda as well as the research agenda. Finally, it suggests some ways that GWLA as an organization might leverage its collective strengths to advance the educational role of libraries in higher education.

Keywords

Academic libraries; Education; Higher; Greater Western Library Alliance; Libraries and students; Research libraries; Undergraduates; Universities and colleges

Disciplines

Curriculum and Social Inquiry | Education Policy | Higher Education and Teaching | Library and Information Science | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education

Language

English

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