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Salisbury, Fiona; Dollinger, Mollie; Vanderlelie, Jessica – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2020
Across the sector, universities are transforming the student experience by reconceptualising the ways in which they partner with students. The academic library is at the heart of the university experience and libraries have a long history of collaboration and engaging with their communities. As such academic libraries are the perfect next frontier…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, College Students, Design
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Salisbury, Fiona; Peseta, Tai – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
One of the most enduring and controversial metaphors to describe the academic library is this: "The academic library is the heart of the university." For 150 years, librarians have both embraced and rejected this metaphor in equal measure. For some, the metaphor is old, dusty, and ignorant of contemporary library practices; for others,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Figurative Language, Universities, Discourse Analysis
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Salisbury, Fiona; Karasmanis, Sharon – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2011
How information literate are the Google generation, and what information literacy skills do they bring to university? For university libraries, understanding student prior knowledge provides a foundation on which to introduce appropriate learning activities during the first year. In 2009, in response to a new pedagogical model in health sciences,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, College Freshmen, Generational Differences