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O'Kelly, Mary; Garrison, Julie; Merry, Brian; Torreano, Jennifer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Academic libraries are well lauded for offering supportive spaces for students' self-directed study, and significant resources are dedicated to librarian instruction in the classroom. What many academic libraries lack, however, is a middle ground, a routine way for students to help one another using best practices in peer-to-peer learning theory.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Service Learning, Peer Teaching, Best Practices
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Horowitz, Lisa R.; Flanagan, Patricia A.; Helman, Deborah L. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
The MIT Libraries enthusiastically implemented real-time online reference service in September 2001. After 15 months, Ask Us!--Live was suspended due to ongoing software problems. This article describes the four-part assessment of the service with recommendations for the future. (Contains 6 figures and 21 notes.)
Descriptors: Reference Services, Formative Evaluation, Computer Mediated Communication, Communication Research