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Ruth Kitchin Tillman; Gala Campos Oaxaca – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Even as librarians have spent the past twenty years documenting the rich world of scholarly communication beyond the catalog, repositories and catalogs too often remain completely siloed from each other. Current practices and tools to unite the two focus entirely on matching names, an imprecise method requiring substantial time spent on review.…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Development, Naming, Library Services
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Michelle Blake; Manuhiri Huatahi; Rangihurihia McDonald; Sue Roberts; Kim Tairi – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
Across the globe universities are reckoning with issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. In Aotearoa (New Zealand), conversations have centered around decolonization and indigenization to assist with diversifying the workforce, reducing inequities and building inclusive cultures. This article presents case studies from three libraries and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Decolonization, Pacific Islanders
E. Nielsen; M. Pelczar – Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2024
This research brief describes recent methodological initiatives with the Public Libraries Survey. It describes how starting with the 2022 data, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) updated geographic identifiers to better align Census Bureau geography types with the library's legal service area, with the goal of enabling data users to…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Special Libraries, Museums, Library Role
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Jahnke, Lori M.; Tanaka, Kyle; Palazzolo, Christopher A. – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Beginning with a discussion of how collections diversity has been conceptualized and assessed within the literature, we then analyze four areas in which professional practices and modes of thinking create barriers to collecting materials from historically marginalized voices. Specifically, we discuss how metadata practices can obscure these…
Descriptors: Library Policy, Library Materials, Library Services, Academic Libraries
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Tulloch, Pamela – Childhood Education, 2023
An increasingly important element of the learning journey for children around the world is the vital role school libraries play in supporting literacy, health, and wellbeing, as well as improving attainment across the curriculum. The Scottish Government established the School Library Improvement Fund (SLIF) administered by the Scottish Library and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Libraries, Innovation, Financial Support
Odin L. Jurkowski – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
For school librarians, technology is an essential component of their work. To meet the growing need in this area, Odin Jurkowski first wrote Technology and the School Library in 2006. To address the technological advancements, Jurkowski provides an overview of the types of technologies used in school libraries, from traditional low-tech options to…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Automation, Library Development, Library Networks