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Hostetler, Kirsten; DeSilva, Michele – Public Services Quarterly, 2016
Librarians at Central Oregon Community College's Barber Library explored how to best serve the needs of three satellite campuses across a large geographic region. While initially intending to start an embedded librarianship program, a pair of surveys showed the relationships and awareness necessary for the foundation of such a program were…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Academic Libraries, Community Colleges, Consciousness Raising
Klassen, Timothy W. – College & Research Libraries, 2020
After instituting major cuts to discipline-specific science abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases at an ARL library due to significant budget cuts, the author sought to determine if such cuts were being made by other academic libraries and what trends could be found in holdings of such databases. Annually, over the course of eight years,…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Budgeting
Hammons, Jane – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This article considers the role of teaching and learning departments within academic libraries and how they may differ from reference and instruction departments. The author used website analysis to profile and compare the two types of departments across multiple institutions. Initial findings indicate that the two have several roles in common,…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Learning, Library Instruction, Departments
Kong, Ningning; Fosmire, Michael; Branch, Benjamin Dewayne – College & Research Libraries, 2017
In the academic libraries' efforts to support digital humanities and social science, GIS service plays an important role. However, there is no general service model existing about how libraries can develop GIS services to best engage with digital humanities and social science. In this study, we adopted the action research method to develop and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Library Development, Geographic Information Systems, Academic Libraries
Keller, Valerie A.; Kendall, Beatrice Lin – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Science educators strive to teach students how to be well-rounded scientists with the ability to problem solve, anticipate errors, and adapt to unexpected roadblocks. Traditional organic chemistry experiments seldom teach these skills, no matter how novel or contemporary the subject material. This paper reports on the success of a quarter-long…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Library Research
Okon, Henry Itohowo; Simon, Jehu S.; Akai, Iniobong – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study reports the results of a survey of the available holdings of information resources on Ibibio culture in the University of Uyo Library and Akwa Ibom State Library. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the different size of information resources on funeral, fattening (Mbobo), taboos, myths as well as dissemination in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Resources, Access to Information, Cultural Background
Lee, Shari A.; Chancellor, Renate; Chu, Clara M.; Rodriguez-Mori, Howard; Roy, Loriene – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) appointed a five-member Taskforce in 2011 to pursue the development of an ALISE Statement on Diversity. Two years later, the ALISE membership voted unanimously to adopt the statement. In an effort to move the statement from mere words on paper, the Taskforce provided actionable…
Descriptors: Library Education, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Awareness, Introductory Courses
Rinehart, Amanda; Sharkey, Jennifer; Kahl, Chad – College & Research Libraries, 2015
Do librarians with different characteristics, such as type of work responsibilities or age, have different learning styles? The authors analyzed results from over 1,500 responses to a version of the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) questionnaire based on the Felder-Silverman Learning Styles model. This model consists of eight dimensions paired on…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes, Cognitive Style
Urbano, Cristóbal; Zhang, Yin; Downey, Kay; Klingler, Thomas – College & Research Libraries, 2015
Patron-Driven Acquisitions (PDA) is a new model used for e-book acquisition by academic libraries. A key component of this model is to make records of ebooks available in a library catalog and let actual patron usage decide whether or not an item is purchased. However, there has been a lack of research examining the role of the library catalog as…
Descriptors: Catalogs, Use Studies, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
Derr, Janice; Tolppanen, Bradley P. – Journal of Access Services, 2015
This article presents the results of a Web-based survey regarding the circulation of tablets in academic libraries. The survey, which was completed by 61 respondents, identifies the most common circulation policies and procedures used. These results will help other academic institutions develop their own policy or update existing ones. Areas of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Research, Library Services, Handheld Devices
DeFrain, Erica Lynn; Thoegersen, Jennifer; Hong, Miyoung – College & Research Libraries, 2022
As more campus locations establish intentional informal learning spaces, what, if anything, is the unique value of these spaces within the physical academic library? Using mixed methods, this study examines the relationship between students' use, satisfaction, and productivity needs at five discrete locations at a large public university. Findings…
Descriptors: Interior Space, Educational Facilities, Library Facilities, Educational Needs
Rachel Wilder Gammons – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the intersections of neoliberalism, learning analytics, and middle management within academic libraries. Utilizing a qualitative collective case study methodology, it examines how nine women-identified academic librarian middle managers at U.S. public research institutions interpreted and responded to the integration of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Learning Analytics, Middle Management, Academic Libraries
Priddle, Charlotte; McCann, Laura – College & Research Libraries, 2015
Special collections libraries collect and preserve materials of intellectual and cultural heritage, providing access to unique research resources. As their holdings continue to expand, special collections in research libraries confront increased space pressures. Off-site storage facilities, used frequently by research libraries for general…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Archives, Library Materials, Library Development
Kennedy, Mary Lee, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2021
This year has been dominated by discussions of infrastructure--social, technical, and physical. Concerns over the sustainability of scholarly infrastructure are complex and urgent for research library leaders, with issues of openness, inclusivity, and, of course, financing in the forefront of many conversations. Research libraries are engaged in…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Scholarship, Sustainability, Inclusion
Ma, Yan – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2015
This article examines visual literacy education and research for library and information science profession to educate the information professionals who will be able to execute and implement the ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Visual Literacy Competency Standards successfully. It is a continuing call for inclusion of visual…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Library Education, Information Science Education, Competence