Fremont Rider Research Articles

Genealogy services at the Godfrey Memorial Library

Genealogy services at the Godfrey Memorial Library

Big Data, Data Analyst, and Improving the Competence of Librarian

Issue of Big Data was already raised by Fremont Rider, an American Librarian from Westleyan University, in 1944. He predicted that the volume of American universities collection would reach 200 million copies in 2040. As a result, it brings to fore multiple issues such as big data users, storage capacity, and the need to have data analysts. In Indonesia, data analysts is still a rare profession, and therefore urgently needed. One of its distinctive tasks is to conduct visual analyses from various data resources and also to present the result visually as interesting knowledge. It becomes science enliven by interactive visualization. (Thomas and Cook, 2005). In response to the issue, librarians have already been equipped with basic information management. Yet, they can see the opportunity and improve themselves as data analysts. In developed countries, it is common that librarian are also regarded as data analysts. They enhance themselves with various skills required, such as cloud computing and smart computing. In the end librarian with data analysts competency are eloquent to extract and present complex data resources as “interesting and discernible” knowledge.

Big Data, Data Analyst, and Improving the Competence of Librarian

Issue of Big Data was already raised by Fremont Rider, an American Librarian from Westleyan University, in 1944. He predicted that the volume of American universities collection would reach 200 million copies in 2040. As a result, it brings to fore multiple issues such as big data users, storage capacity, and the need to have data analysts. In Indonesia, data analysts is still a rare profession, and therefore urgently needed. One of its distinctive tasks is to conduct visual analyses from various data resources and also to present the result visually as interesting knowledge. It becomes science enliven by interactive visualization. In response to the issue, librarians have already been equipped with basic information management. Yet, they can see the opportunity and improve themselves as data analysts. In developed countries, it is common that librarian are also regarded as data analysts. They enhance themselves with various skills required, such as cloud computing and smart computing. In the end librarian with data analysts competency are eloquent to extract and present complex data resources as interesting and discernible knowledge.

Academic library data from the United States : an examination of trends

Abstract There is no doubt that there have been changes in recent years in academic libraries, their institutions, and the behaviors of their users. The literature in librarianship offers opinions and forecasts on a number of trends in services, resources, and personnel within libraries. Writings outside of librarianship also offer ideas about libraries and scholarship. The trends can be examined in the context of data reported by libraries. Data collected by the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics provide the opportunity for the analysis of a number of academic library service, collection and access, and personnel matters. Since the analysis can take into account changes over time, an integrated and holistic examination can be conducted. Introduction Occasionally, articles appear in the literature of librarianship (and sometimes higher education) that question academic libraries' being (see, for example, Campbell, 2006 and Wisner, 2001). Some of the points made can be valid; concern regarding the decline in reference transactions, for example, is not without foundation (this phenomenon will be discussed shortly). Such things as declines in reference questions asked and circulation can lead to concern about the place of academic libraries on their campuses. The concern is manifest in a number of ways and those ways might be located along a continuum. At one end of the continuum is evolution: those expressing concern in this way ponder the changes libraries undergo as a series of steps which, over time, can transform academic libraries (Abbott, 2008 and Martell, 2008). At the other end is revolution; those who see change as revolutionary may not want to proceed through stages, but leap to different states. Analysts must be careful to avoid overstating the locus of concern. That is, an individual may favor an evolutionary transformation for, say, the nature of a particular service, while simultaneously favoring a revolutionary transformation for the delivery of the service. Holding differing views regarding services and their operation is by no means inconsistent of necessity. Providing effective services in a specific college or university may require flexibility. There may be no virtue in adopting an absolutely evolutionary (or revolutionary) vision, and no vice in examining each element of the organization as it presently exists and could exist. The rhetoric of change that is frequently expressed in higher education writings (see Duderstadt and Womack, 2003, for instance) may be sometimes characterized by lack of rigorous examination. Claims about academic libraries' place (or absence of place) in the academy should be looked at closely. When the roles of colleges' and universities' libraries are discussed, one word tends to recur-transition. There has scarcely been a time since the middle of the twentieth century, though, when libraries have not been in transition. Fremont Rider's 1944 book, Scholarship and the Future of the Research Library, looks quaint now, but his central theme was not conceptually different from calls to provide all materials in digital media and not physical packages. Too often, perhaps, writings on academic libraries' present and future contributions to their institutions' missions are guided by opinion and selective glimpses of data. A more comprehensive examination is needed in order to understand the complex dynamics of libraries' activities within a transforming landscape of higher education. The present examination focuses on a large set of data on academic library operations, with the aim of discerning trends that could inform the ways we think about what libraries are and what they do. Since this aim is to provide benchmarks for trends (that can be used, along with other things, to envision the future), no hypotheses are stated. Recent Literature There has been speculation about causes for the decline in uses of such things as libraries' reference services. …

No easy Rider? The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library by Fremont Rider

Fremont Rider’s 1944 book, The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library, had a major impact on research library thinking. The issues raised by Rider, such as research library economics, collection, acquisition and management policies, and library cooperation still resonate today, although his technology solutions have long since been outdated. Rider’s thoughts and predictions on research library growth influenced, rightly or wrongly, generations of administrators and librarians, particularly in the United States. The article outlines Rider’s thesis and traces trends in research libraries from the 1930s to the present day when libraries will have to become much more proactive in their institutional roles to tackle the new paradigms for the creation, distribution and access of information. We return to the question of what is the future of the research library and its economics in the digital era - no easy Rider?

The Bottleneck in research communications

Researchers find it increasingly difficult to investigate the research literature as a result of sharply restricted university library budgest. Fremont Rider's barometer of the effectiveness of an educational institution is more relevant now, after fifty years, because it provides a clear measure of the deficits in university collections and can be corroborated by other evidence of reduced productivity in research. Librarians and faculty have been told there is no money for the library while growth of administrative expenditures has been well funded. Researchers have begun to call for reforms.

"The Future of the Research Library" by Fremont Rider: A Reprint of a C&RL Classic

"The Future of the Research Library" by Fremont Rider: A Reprint of a C&RL Classic

Rider's international classification. By Fremont Rider. Middletown, Connecticut, 1961. Preliminary edition

Rider's international classification. By Fremont Rider. Middletown, Connecticut, 1961. Preliminary edition

And Master of None: An Autobiography in the Third Person. Fremont Rider

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsAnd Master of None: An Autobiography in the Third Person. Fremont Rider Lewis C. BranscombLewis C. Branscomb Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Library Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2Apr., 1957 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/618413 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1957 University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Archival materials on microcards

American DocumentationVolume 1, Issue 1 p. 42-45 Article Archival materials on microcards Fremont Rider, Fremont RiderSearch for more papers by this author Fremont Rider, Fremont RiderSearch for more papers by this author First published: January 1950 https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.5090010107Citations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume1, Issue1January 1950Pages 42-45 RelatedInformation

MICROCARDS

SOME time has elapsed since the publication of Mr. Fremont Rider's article on Microcards in this Journal, but now, with the issue of The Microcard Bulletin, some interesting facts have become available. Technical development of these cards has reached a stage where they can be mass‐produced at a much lower cost than either books or microfilms, and this form of documentary reproduction has left the realms of theory for those of practical achievement.

The Great Dilemma of World Organization. Fremont Rider

<i>The Great Dilemma of World Organization</i>. Fremont Rider

American Philosophical Society

THE Year Book, 1944, of the American Philo sophical SocieM overs the year January 1, 1944–December 1944. During the year a radical change was made in the policy of the Society's library to exchange and distribution of the Society's puacptions, based on the conviction that acquisitions for the library and the distribution of the Society's publications can be more effectively promoted through subscriptions than by the system of exchange. Under the new policy, the library receives in exchange for the Society's publications relatively little, depending rather on subscription or direct purchase of materials vital to the development of its holdings. The Library Committee is also mindful of the possibilities of current trends in library and research disciplines like those started by Binkley and recently developed by Fremont Rider in his volume “The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library”. The problem of bringing the rich resources of the library to the attention of scholars and making them available for study and research has been a major concern of the librarian. Two special committees were set up during the year to assist in this way, in the special fields of American linguistics and archaeology and of Americana. Of exceptional in terest in this Committee's report are the notes by C. Dan Doren on the Franklin-Mecon correspondence, by G. Chinard on the strange fortune of two volumes of the Transactions associated with Franklin, and on the Elihu Thomson collection. The report of the Committee on Research includes a list of grants made from the income of the Penrose Fund and a summary of the grants made during the period July 31, 1933–December 31, 1944, together with reports from recipients of grants, arranged alphabetically under the classification of subjects represented in the membership of the Society. Because of the partici pation of many scientific men in research connected with the war effort, particularly in certain fields, the request for grants dui ing the past two years was not as large as previously, but the Committee has not lowered the standard set for making grants.

The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: A Problem and Its Solution. Fremont Rider

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsThe Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: A Problem and Its Solution. Fremont Rider William Jerome WilsonWilliam Jerome Wilson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 36, Number 1Oct., 1945 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/347915 Views: 2Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1945 History of Science SocietyPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:George Sarton, and Frances Siegel Sixty-ninth Critical Bibliography of the History and Philosophy of Science and of the History of Civilization (to December 1945), Isis 36, no.3/43/4 (Oct 2015): 170–248.https://doi.org/10.1086/347942

The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: A Problem and Its Solution. Fremont Rider

<i>The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: A Problem and Its Solution</i>. Fremont Rider

The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library. Fremont Rider

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Scholar and the Future of the Research Library. Fremont Rider Herman H. FusslerHerman H. Fussler Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 39, Number 2Second Quarter, 1945 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/pbsa.39.2.24298569 Views: 2Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

New books

From Art to Theatre. Form and Convention in the Renaissance. By George R. Kernodle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944; pp. 255, 62 illustrations. $5.00. Shakespeare and the Actors—The Stage Business in His Plays (1660–1905). By Arthur Colby Sprague. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944; pp. xxv + 440. $5.00. A Handbook of Classical Drama. By Philip Whaley Harsh. Stanford University: Stanford University Press, 1944, pp. xii + 526. $4.00. A Great Time to Be Alive. By Harry Emerson Fosdick. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944; pp. 235. $2.00. The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library. By Fremont Rider. New York: Hadham Press, 1944; pp. 236. $4.00. Representative American Speeches: 1943–1944. Selected by A. Craig Baird. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1944; pp. 360. $1.25. American Dialect Dictionary. By Harold Wentworth. New York: The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1944; pp. xv + 747. $6.00.

The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: A Problem and Its Solution. Fremont Rider

<i>The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: A Problem and Its Solution</i>. Fremont Rider

The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: A Problem and its Solution. By &lt;italic&gt;Fremont Rider&lt;/italic&gt;, Librarian, The Wesleyan University Library. (New York: Hadham Press. 1944. Pp. xiv, 236. $4.00.)

The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library: A Problem and its Solution. By &lt;italic&gt;Fremont Rider&lt;/italic&gt;, Librarian, The Wesleyan University Library. (New York: Hadham Press. 1944. Pp. xiv, 236. $4.00.)

The Research Library: The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library . By Fremont Rider. xiii + 236 pp. New York: Hadham Press. 1944: $4.00.

The Research Library: <i>The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library</i> . By Fremont Rider. xiii + 236 pp. New York: Hadham Press. 1944: $4.00.