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Academic Librarians' Development as Teachers: A Survey on Changes in Pedagogical Roles, Approaches, and Perspectives
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Baer, Andrea – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
This article reports on findings of an online survey of teacher librarians about their instructional work, approaches, and roles and how these aspects of their teaching have changed over time. Academic librarians who had at least one year of library teaching experience and who had been actively involved in library instruction within the past two…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Teacher Role, Role Perception
Reflections on What Happens When Librarians Become Teachers.
Donnelly, Kimberley – Computers in Libraries, 2000
Offers insight from academic librarians into changes that occur when librarians become teachers. Discusses the rewards of developing long-term relationships with and a better understanding of students; effects of librarians having less time at the reference desk because of spending time on teaching; teaching as a focus of professional development;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Interpersonal Relationship, Librarian Attitudes
Automation Change: A Survey of Authority Control/Database Maintenance Librarians.
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Rogers, Shelley L. – Library and Information Science Research, 1992
Reports results of a survey of authority control/database maintenance librarians in 151 major academic and research libraries in the United States and Canada that investigated the current state of automation change, reactions of technical services staff to changes, and methods used to train staff in the changed technology. List of surveyed…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Changing Reference Service Environment: A Review of Perspectives from Managers, Librarians, and Users.
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Rieh, Soo Young – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1999
Reviews the literature on academic library reference service, and examines changes in the traditional reference desk model. Based on the review from the perspectives of managers, librarians, and users, new research directions are proposed in which users' information-search processes and librarians' intervention in reference service are integrated.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrator Attitudes, Change, Higher Education
Of Sundials and Digital Watches: A Further Step toward the New Paradigm of Reference.
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Mood, Terry Ann – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1994
Describes the changing role of the library and the reference librarian and the effects of new information technology, changing demographics of student populations, and patrons' expectations for personalized service versus library instruction. Fees for meeting rooms, photocopying, videos, printouts of articles from online full-text, information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, College Students, Demography
Constancy and Change in the Worklife of Research University Librarians. ACRL Publications in Librarianship No. 51.
Watson-Boone, Rebecca – 1998
Based on interviews with 29 librarians at a midwestern research university, this publication serves as a benchmark for what it is like to work as an academic librarian in a U.S. research university in the mid-1990's and considers changes occurring within the wider field of librarianship. Chapter 1 begins with a broad overview of the concept and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Change, Futures (of Society)