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Training Needs and Preferences for Librarians Supporting Systematic Reviews in the Sciences, Humanities, and Social Sciences
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Mê-Linh Lê; Janice Winkler; Christine J. Neilson – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Systematic reviews, and other forms of knowledge synthesis, are an increasingly popular research methodology being used in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Librarians are being called upon to support this work through consultation, instruction, and/or performing the systematic search on behalf of the research team. Professional…
Descriptors: Librarians, Librarian Attitudes, Academic Libraries, Educational Needs
The Role of Synchronous Virtual Reference in Teaching and Learning: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Instant Messaging Transcripts
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Passonneau, Sarah; Coffey, Dan – College & Research Libraries, 2011
Electronic communication technologies continue to change the landscape of reference services. For many users, virtual communication is the preferred means of conversing. Synchronous virtual reference, similar to other synchronous means of communication, is an important method for reaching students and for providing teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Online Systems, Reference Services, Grounded Theory
Virginia Tech's Innovative College Librarian Program.
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Seamans, Nancy H.; Metz, Paul – College & Research Libraries, 2002
Describes a program developed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) libraries that moved librarians from the centralized main library to college departments that are not served by branch libraries. Topics include remote access capabilities; librarians' roles, including reference librarian, instructor, Web master,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Librarians, Library Administration
Future Historians: Their Quest for Information.
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Delgadillo, Roberto; Lynch, Beverly P. – College & Research Libraries, 1999
Examines how history graduate students seek information and how they use the university library in their information-seeking process, based on interviews at UCLA. Explores the use of new technologies and the reliance that history graduate students place on reference librarians and librarians in special collections. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Graduate Students, Higher Education, History
Making Academic Reference Services Work.
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Lewis, David W. – College & Research Libraries, 1994
The new roles that reference librarians are being asked to play require that reference librarians should be given clear budgetary and programmatic authority; placed closer to the top of the organization; relieved of nonprofessional tasks; brought out of isolated departments; allowed to plan services and set priorities. (Contains 56 references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Change, Higher Education, Horizontal Organization
The Shape of Services To Come: Values-Based Reference Service for the Largely Digital Library.
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Ferguson, Chris D.; Bunge, Charles A. – College & Research Libraries, 1997
Argues that while academic libraries should integrate technology, maintain holistic computing environments, deliver core services through networks, make technology work for everyone not just the technologically adroit, and collaborate across administrative lines, reference services should retain traditional values such as equity of access,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society)