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• Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon (PDF at Purdue)

• University Libraries and Scholarly Communication (1992), by Anthony Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, and Richard Ekman (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Quest for a Deeper Meaning of Research Support (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, c2015), ed. by Reggie Raju, Amina Adam, Glynnis Johnson, Caitlin Miller, and Jeremiah Pietersen (PDF with commentary at ifla.org)
• Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019), by Nancy Maron and Rebecca Kennison, contrib. by Paul Bracke, Nathan Hall, Isaac Gilman, Kara Josephine Malenfant, Charlotte Roh, and Yasmeen Shorish (PDF at ala.org)
• At a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2014), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Margaret Gallagher, Janet Hawk, Irene Hoffman, Renée Page, Lorraine J. Haricombe, and Deb Wallace (PDF at oclc.org)

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, 2012), contrib. by Association of Research Libraries, American University Center for Social Media, and Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (HTML and PDF with commentary at arl.org)

• Library Workflow Redesign: Six Case Studies (2007), ed. by Marilyn Mitchell (HTML and PDF at clir.org)

• New Roles for the Road Ahead: Essays Commissioned for ACRL's 75th Anniversary (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, c2015), by Steven J. Bell, Lorcan Dempsey, and Barbara Fister, ed. by Nancy Allen (PDF at ala.org)

• Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (2016-) (full serial archives)

• ARL Statistics (issues, tables, and supplementary materials), by Association of Research Libraries (partial serial archives)

• Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University (Chicago: Association for College and Research Libraries, 2009), by Char Booth (PDF at ala.org)

• The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report (c2010), by Megan J. Oakleaf (PDF with commentary at ala.org)
• New Roles for the Road Ahead: Essays Commissioned for ACRL's 75th Anniversary (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, c2015), by Steven J. Bell, Lorcan Dempsey, and Barbara Fister, ed. by Nancy Allen (PDF at ala.org)

• Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Wendy Lougee on the Occasion of Her Departure From the University of Michigan, ed. by Patricia Hodges, Mark Sandler, Maria Bonn, and W. John Price-Wilkin (HTML at Michigan)

• Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010), by David J. Staley and Kara Josephine Malenfant (PDF at ala.org)

• Ariadne (full serial archives)

• Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University (Chicago: Association for College and Research Libraries, 2009), by Char Booth (PDF at ala.org)

• Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings (2011-) (full serial archives)

• Your Books Are In the Mail: Fifty Years of Distance Library Service at Massey University (Palmerston North, NZ: Massey University Library, c2011), by Bruce White (PDF in New Zealand)

• Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings (2011-) (full serial archives)
• E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009) (full serial archives)
• College and Research Libraries (1939-) (full serial archives)
• Practical Academic Librarianship (2011-) (full serial archives)
• Choice (partial serial archives)
• College and Research Libraries News (2004-present) (partial serial archives)

• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin (partial serial archives)
• The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas (full serial archives)

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• ARL Statistics (issues, tables, and supplementary materials), by Association of Research Libraries (partial serial archives)

• Getting the Word Out: Libraries as Scholarly Publishers (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015), ed. by Maria Bonn and Mike Furlough (PDF at ala.org)
• The Once and Future Publishing Library (CLIR publication #166; Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources and Library of Congress, 2015), by Ann Okerson and Alex Holzman (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report (c2010), by Megan J. Oakleaf (PDF with commentary at ala.org)
• Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction (Champaign, IL: Windsor and Downs Press, c2020), by Laura Saunders and Melissa Autumn Wong, contrib. by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (HTML and PDF at Illinois)

• Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by John W. White and Heather Gilbert
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • PDF with commentary at Purdue
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Jake Carlson and Lisa Johnston (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Jake Carlson and Lisa Johnston (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Learning Spaces (Boulder, CO: Educause, 2006), ed. by Diana Oblinger (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)

• Reports of the AAU Task Forces: Acquisition and Distribution of Foreign Language and Area Studies Materials; A National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information; Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment, by Association of American Universities Research Libraries Project (page images at HathiTrust)

• Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon (PDF at Purdue)

• Origins of the American College Library, 1638-1800 (Nashville: George Peabody College, 1934), by Louis Shores (page images at HathiTrust)

• Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010), by David J. Staley and Kara Josephine Malenfant (PDF at ala.org)

• Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester (2007), ed. by Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons (PDF at ALA)

• Hate on the State: How British Libraries Encourage Islamic Extremism (c2007), by James Brandon and Douglas Murray (PDF in the UK)

• A Measuring Rod to Test Text Books, and Reference Books, in Schools, Colleges and Libraries (published by the United Conferate Veterans, ca. 1919), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• Books in Black or Red (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (second edition; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (London: J. Lane, 1920), by A. Edward Newton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Essentials of Book Collecting, by Robert F. Lucas (HTML with commentary at trussel.com)
• The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (London: G. Redway, 1885), by Charles Plumptre Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library, by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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