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Monroe-Gulick, Amalia; Petr, Julie – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
Academic librarians provide information literacy instruction and research services to graduate students. To develop evidence-based library instruction and research services for incoming graduate students, the authors interviewed fifteen incoming graduate students in the social sciences and analyzed the interviews using the Association of College &…
Descriptors: Evidence, Graduate Students, Library Research, Social Sciences
American Association of School Librarians, 2021
This report features syntheses of select Causality: School Libraries and Student Success II (CLASS II) research findings as they relate to the Shared Foundations of Inquire, Include, Collaborate, Curate, Explore, and Engage from the The American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) "National School Library Standards for Learners, School…
Descriptors: Educational Research, School Libraries, Library Research, Learning Activities
American Association of School Librarians, 2021
The American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) Causality: School Libraries and Student Success II (CLASS II) project was the first step in developing a long-term, three-phase school library research agenda to investigate causal relationships between school libraries staffed by professionally prepared school librarians and student learning.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, School Libraries, Library Research, Learning Activities
Genoni, Paul; Wright, Janette – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2011
This paper reports on the results of an overlap study of Australian research library collections. The study used OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis software to mine data recording Australian holdings on the WorldCat database. The data is analysed according to the results obtained for six "groups" which represent various coalitions of…
Descriptors: Special Libraries, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries, Library Materials
Kumar, Shiv – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to study the impact of internet search engine usage with special reference to OPAC searches in the Punjabi University Library, Patiala, Punjab (India). Design/methodology/approach: The primary data were collected from 352 users comprising faculty, research scholars and postgraduate students of the university. A…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Engines, Research Libraries, Search Strategies
Ivins, Tammy – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2013
There is a lack of information in the literature about the sources used for research by modern Master of Library and Information Science students in the United States, and so the objective of this project is to understand the use of periodical articles by these students. Specifically: do articles play a major role in student research, how current…
Descriptors: Library Education, Information Science Education, College Students, Periodicals
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2013
In previous editions of the CAUT Almanac, data for provincial postsecondary education expenditures, total expenditures and university and college revenues and expenditures was reported from Statistics Canada's Financial Management System (FMS), which Statistics Canada last published for the 2008-2009 fiscal year. Statistics Canada will be adopting…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Money Management, Statistics
Lantzy, Tricia – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2022
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, college students across the United States temporarily became online learners regardless of their learning modality preferences. Academic libraries and the student support they offer also went entirely online for extended periods. How did this involuntary online environment affect students' library research?…
Descriptors: College Students, Pandemics, COVID-19, School Closing
Jarrett, Kylie – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2012
In September 2011, Flinders University Library launched FindIt@Flinders, the Primo discovery layer search to provide simultaneous results from the Library's collections and subscription databases. This research project was an exploratory case study which aimed to show whether students were finding relevant information for their course learning and…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Services, Feedback (Response), Usability
Mallon, Melissa, Ed. – Public Services Quarterly, 2012
In their Top Trends of 2012, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) named data curation as one of the issues to watch in academic libraries in the near future (ACRL, 2012, p. 312). Data curation can be summarized as "the active and ongoing management of data through its life cycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Library Services, Librarians
Sawant, Sarika – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The present study aims to investigate the experience, contribution and opinions of users of respective institutional repositories (IRs) developed in India. Design/methodology/approach: The survey method was used. The data collection tool was a web questionnaire, which was created with the help of software provided by surveymonkey.com…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Indians, Surveys
McBurney, Jenny; Hunt, Shanda L.; Gyendina, Mariya; Brown, Sarah Jane; Wiggins, Benjamin; Nackerud, Shane – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
To create more direct and equal collaborations with faculty, the University of Minnesota Libraries in the Twin Cities adapted a new model of engagement: the "Research Sprints." Research Sprints place librarians in direct proximity with faculty to rapidly and collaboratively work on a component of a research project in less than a week.…
Descriptors: Library Research, Academic Libraries, Librarians, College Faculty
Tumbleson, Beth; Burke, John; Long, Jessica – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2019
Librarians are committed to supporting teaching, learning, and research. They are equally committed to supporting student success and retention. Demonstrating the impact that learning management system (LMS) embedded librarians make on student learning has been difficult to correlate, however. Studies that assess this connection, using qualitative…
Descriptors: Librarians, Academic Libraries, Integrated Learning Systems, Information Literacy
Clarke, Janet H. – Public Services Quarterly, 2012
This case study will describe how the Stony Brook University Libraries instruction program partnered with another student support service (student computing office) to nurture a relationship with the Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) over several years to provide their students with the library research and computer skills needed to succeed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Research Libraries, Educational Opportunities, Distance Education
Ilesanmi, Titilayo Comfort – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2013
This article describes the roles of librarians in a research library, particularly in the digital era. Librarians' roles vary from the custodian of resources to providers of a diverse nature of activities ranging from collection development, organization of knowledge, information services, preservation and conservation, and management. Librarians…
Descriptors: Library Role, Librarians, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries