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Judith L. Brink Drescher – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Academic libraries are largely comprised of white, middle-aged females, and as part of the overall diversity crisis within higher education, grapple with issues of racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, and ableism. This mixed-methods study uses an original theoretical framework of critical transcendence, based upon the philosophies of Carl Jung…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Advocacy, Social Justice
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Tella, Adeyinka; Tsabedze, Vusi; Ngoaketsi, Joseph; Enakrire, Rexwhite Tega – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2021
This study investigated predictors of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) utilization by distance education librarians and drew out implications on library services in distance learning in Eswatini'. Eswatini is a small country in the Southern part of Africa where only a few studies on MOOCs have been conducted focusing on perceived usefulness,…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Tutors
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Mercer, Holly – College & Research Libraries, 2011
Academic librarians are increasingly expected to advocate for scholarly communications reforms such as open access to scholarly publications, yet librarians do not always practice what they preach. Previous research examined librarian attitudes toward open access, whereas this article presents results of a study of open access publishing and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarian Attitudes, Librarians, Open Source Technology