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Leanna M. Barcelona; Paula R. Dempsey – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Current literature outlines the importance of--and strategies for--collecting student life material in institutional archives but does not address the inclusion of this material within collecting statements. This study examines publicly available collecting statements from Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions' university archives,…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Archives, College Students, Library Policy
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Benson, Sara R.; Stitzlein, Hannah – College & Research Libraries, 2020
This article summarizes the results of interviews with Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) service hub participants to determine whether and how standardized rights metadata is included in their digital collections. Providing accurate standardized rights metadata is crucial to communicating with patrons regarding how they can use objects in…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Electronic Libraries, Policy Formation, Library Policy
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Jahnke, Lori M.; Tanaka, Kyle; Palazzolo, Christopher A. – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Beginning with a discussion of how collections diversity has been conceptualized and assessed within the literature, we then analyze four areas in which professional practices and modes of thinking create barriers to collecting materials from historically marginalized voices. Specifically, we discuss how metadata practices can obscure these…
Descriptors: Library Policy, Library Materials, Library Services, Academic Libraries
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Knoff, Meredith; Hobscheid, Maya – Public Services Quarterly, 2021
Libraries should begin to revise service policies to include cultural competency approaches to ensure they provide students a reliably inclusive experience with our services. Many non-LIS disciplines have established easy to borrow practices that libraries can adapt for these purposes. Revision of policies is not enough, however, and inclusive…
Descriptors: Library Policy, Policy Formation, Inclusion, Student Experience
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Angela Jones-Evans – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2025
This paper examines the impact of process mapping on the management of change in an academic library in a UK higher education institution. Book ordering has been highlighted by a group of subject librarians as being time-consuming and inefficient, detracting from their ability to respond to new challenges and opportunities. An action research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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Wilson, Katie; Neylon, Cameron; Montgomery, Lucy; Huang, Chun-Kai – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2019
Introduction: Open access to digital research output is increasing, but academic library policies can place restrictions on public access to libraries. This paper reports on a preliminary study to investigate the correlation between academic library access policies and institutional positions of openness to knowledge. Method: This primarily…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Library Policy, Foreign Countries
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Rebeka Barringer – Knowledge Quest, 2022
In a time where social-emotional learning (SEL) and best-practice initiatives can be found plastered over any and all education-related resources, how can one ensure that school librarians are living up to those expectations? School librarians are tasked with helping students to build a positive relationship with their library spaces and see the…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Libraries, Social Emotional Learning, Librarians
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Kaitlin Springmier; Catherine Fonseca; Laura Krier; Rita Premo; Hilary Smith; Mary Wegmann – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
For more than 30 years, Peter Senge's theory of learning organizations has influenced the study of leadership and organizations. Researchers have studied various components of his framework: team cognition and mental models, team learning, shared vision, systems thinking, and personal mastery. But few articles have explored what it looks like in…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Audits (Verification), Library Materials, Diversity
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Katherine E. DeVet – Journal of Access Services, 2024
With resource sharing staff staying an average of 3-5 years, capturing policies and procedures to facilitate onboarding and strengthen institutional memory is key in building consistent workflows. Creating documentation was a multi-stage process executed over several years. Initially, the staff supervisor wrote office policies and assigned staff…
Descriptors: Documentation, Shared Resources and Services, Library Personnel, Library Policy
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Urban, Sandra Gall – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2020
Accurate documentation is important in all library areas, especially as workflows change quickly to adapt to new technologies, policies, and practices. Many library faculty and staff use online tools and in 2019, the author conducted a survey to learn if and how colleagues use internal LibGuides to maintain accurate internal documentation. This…
Descriptors: Library Policy, Policy Analysis, Academic Libraries, Documentation
Cynthia M. Stogdill – ProQuest LLC, 2022
School librarians support access to information and resources in the school library. In a time of misinformation and fake news, access to accurate and timely information is key. School librarians work to serve the needs of all students in every learning environment including alternative, remote, and face to face. At the same time, school…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Librarians, Access to Information, Library Materials
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Matthews, Amber – Education for Information, 2021
While contemporary revisionist narratives frame the public library as a benevolent and neutral community resource, it has existed for over two centuries and has a deeply shaded past. Particularly, public libraries played key roles in projects tied to the industrialist mission of states and the education of select social groups during key…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Inclusion, Public Libraries
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Xiaojun Xu; Guanghui Cheng – College & Research Libraries, 2024
The purpose of this study is to explore the realization of users' information rights (IRs) in the smart service of university libraries. Based on the LibQUAL model, principal component analysis (PCA) is used to measure the quality of smart services in university libraries. The contribution weight of various services to the realization of IRs is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library Services
US House of Representatives, 2024
This document records testimony from a hearing held to examine combating graphic, explicit content in school libraries to protect kids. Member statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Aaron Bean, Chairman, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education; and (2) Honorable Suzanne Bonamici, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Early Childhood Education, School Libraries, Media Selection
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Helms, Conrad – Journal of Access Services, 2019
Effective for the 2012-2013 academic year, the Hilda C. Landers Library at St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) eliminated daily overdue fines for undergraduates on books and some other materials. In 2019, nine years of comprehensive data on overdue returns (comprising three years before and three years after the change) was extracted from the…
Descriptors: Fees, Academic Libraries, Undergraduate Students, Library Policy
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