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Avery, Susan – Communications in Information Literacy, 2017
As the international student population continues to grow, librarians must adjust their instruction to meet the needs of students who are adapting to a new country, culture, and language. This study assesses first-year international students as they engage in the research process through the completion of concept maps that precede database…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Scientific Literacy, Search Strategies, English (Second Language)
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Abdul Kani Jabarali; Harish Sathya Kumar; Yusuf Sharukkhan Barak – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2024
The library and information services of the twenty first century are rapidly changing education learning patterns because of the rapid development of electronic publishing libraries. However, the literature reveals the considerable unpredictability in experience, challenges, and awareness about E-resources among college students during and after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Schools, Universities
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Michalak, Russell; Rysavy, Monica D. T.; Dawes, Trevor A. – College & Research Libraries, 2019
In 2018, after a failed search for the Executive Director of the American Library Association (ALA), ALA members put forth a ballot initiative to determine whether the educational requirements for the position should be modified, in part, to expand the potential applicant pool. With this research, the authors examined if current ARL administrators…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Library Administration, Administrators, Administrator Qualifications
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Willinsky, John; Rusk, Matthew – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Following the examples of SCOAP3, in which libraries fund open access, and eLife, in which funding agencies have begun to directly fund open access scholarly publishing, this study presents an analysis of how creatively combining these two models might provide a means to move toward universal open access (without APCs). This study calculates the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Research Libraries, Scholarship, Publishing Industry
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Oguz, Fatih – College & Research Libraries, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand the organizational level decision factors in technology adoption in the context of digital libraries. A qualitative case study approach was used to investigate the adoption of a specific technology, XML-based Web services, in digital libraries. Rogers' diffusion of innovations and Wenger's communities of…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Case Studies, Electronic Libraries, Adoption (Ideas)
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Bury, Sophie; Sheese, Ron – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
We discuss an educational development approach to embedding academic literacies instruction within disciplinary curricula. This developmental, embedded approach contrasts with the generic, extra-curricular, study-skills approach adopted in many universities. Learning Commons partners at York University, including librarians, writing instructors,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Partnerships in Education, Teaching Assistants, Literacy Education
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Achinewhu-Nworgu, Elizabeth; Azaiki, Steve; Nworgu, Queen Chioma – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
This paper aims to present the role, values, and legal policy issues facing public Library resources in supporting students to achieve academic success. Research indicates that majority of people that own or work in the Library tend to ignore some of the vital roles, values and legal policy issues paramount to libraries. Some of these issues are…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Materials, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Dressler, Virginia; Kristof, Cindy – College & Research Libraries, 2018
In the spring of 2017, digital librarians and digital collection managers at member institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) were surveyed on practices and policies surrounding takedown requests in openly accessible digital collections. The survey collected basic demographic information surrounding the digital repositories…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Research Libraries, Library Policy, Library Materials
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Novak, John; Day, Annette – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2018
This article describes the ongoing efforts at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries to evolve the role of the institutional repository (IR) and to effectively position it within the context of the Libraries' collections, research support, and scholarly communication services. A major component of this process is re-examining the…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Libraries, Archives
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Ly, Hieu; Irwin, Jennifer D. – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objectives: To study the influence of a multi-component poster-based intervention to promote stair climbing in a library on a Canadian university campus. Participants: Adults who ascended to upper levels via staircase/elevator. Methods: Individuals who used the staircase/elevators were counted by observers for 28 days, while either in the…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Health Promotion, Physical Activities, Intervention
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Lauren M. Young – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Digital badging has seen widespread adoption within the US higher education sector with continued growth predicted. Might digital badging present an underrealized opportunity for libraries seeking new vehicles through which to deliver information literacy instructional content? This paper offers an analysis of badging in higher education and…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Recognition (Achievement)
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Meehlhause, Kellie – Communications in Information Literacy, 2016
For almost 40 years, the Minute Paper has been a quick and easy means of learning assessment, both in the college classroom and in library instruction. More recently, the use of social media, particularly selfies, has gained popularity by connecting with students through the technology with which they are most familiar. This article makes the case…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Evaluation, College Students, Library Instruction
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Gärdén, Cecilia – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2016
Introduction: Self-guided learning has had a major impact on adult education, where information seeking and use are key aspects of learning. With their lack of experience in study contexts, the students are nevertheless assumed to develop information literacy. Method: The paper aims to create an understanding of how information literacy can be…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Educational Practices, Independent Study, Qualitative Research
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Arnone, Marilyn P.; Small, Ruth V.; Weng, Shicheng – School Library Research, 2016
Several instruments previously validated for use in school library research were tested for their appropriateness in the context of public libraries' summer reading programs for youth. The researchers were also interested in whether the connection between perceived competence in one's own information skills and perceived competence in one's own…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, School Libraries, Public Libraries
Kennedy, Mary Lee, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2019
This issue of Research Library Issues looks at the critical role and participation of libraries and librarians in supporting the data science revolution. The articles contained in this issue are: (1) Data Literacy as a Pathway to Data Science at Georgia Tech (Catherine Murray-Rust, with Ameet Doshi, Jay Forrest, Ximin Mi, and Alison Valk); (2) New…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Educational Trends, Data Analysis
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