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Neal McCluskey – Cato Institute, 2023
Over the past couple of years, school districts nationwide have seen a wave of challenges to books in libraries and on reading lists, as well as rising demands to know what titles are in schools. These challenges and demands have put public school libraries under significant scrutiny and raised fundamental questions about their purpose and…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Public Schools, Library Materials, Library Services
Ixchel M. Faniel; Brittany Brannon; Lesley A. Langa; Brooke Doyle; Titia van der Werf – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2024
"Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users" examines strategies for making scholarly, peer-reviewed open access (OA) publications more discoverable for your library community. OCLC Research partnered with two Dutch library consortia--Universiteitsbibliotheken en Nationale Bibliotheek (UKB) and Samenwerkingsverband…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Open Educational Resources
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Raphael Aryee; Atia Alpha Alfa – Discover Education, 2025
Academic libraries are essential to teaching, learning, and national development, making adequate library resources crucial for academic institutions. This study examines how limited library resources, particularly recommended textbooks, affect library operations in Ghanaian public universities. Through semi-structured interviews with eleven…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Materials, Textbooks
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Rhys Dreeszen Bowman – School Library Research, 2024
This multiple-methods two-part study included a collection analysis of the holdings of trans books in 35 randomly selected public high school libraries in one state in the southeastern United States. Also, the attitudes and practices of 37 high school librarians (in the same state but not necessarily at the same schools whose collections were…
Descriptors: School Libraries, High Schools, LGBTQ People, Library Services
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Mubofu, Christian; Malekani, Andrew – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to explore the accessibility of library resources and support services by distance learners at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT). The study utilized a survey approach in soliciting information from distance learners. A total of 33 learners from OUT responded to the survey. The study revealed that OUT offered…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Library Materials, Library Services, Distance Education
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Hamis Lack Abdullah; Winner Dominic Chawinga; George Theodore Chipeta – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
Mzuzu University Library provides various e-library services to postgraduate students. However, a minimal amount is known regarding the use of these e-library services by postgraduate students. This mixed methods quantitative study aimed to investigate postgraduate students' use of e-library services. The findings reveal that 95% of postgraduate…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Library Services, User Needs (Information), Academic Libraries
Lindsey Kimery; Jenny Winston – Knowledge Quest, 2024
This article describes the partnership between Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) and the Nashville Public Library (NPL) called Limitless Libraries. Through this resource-sharing partnership, learners can access the NPL collection, connecting them to books and other materials outside the walls of their schools. This breaks down barriers to…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Library Materials
Jane McGrail – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For members of the dominant culture, libraries produce largely positive affective responses (Farkas). However, researchers and practitioners in the field of library science have identified a need to make library resources more accessible to patrons from marginalized communities who are excluded from library spaces by institutional policies and…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Services, Access to Information, Equal Education
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Kaitlin Springmier; Catherine Fonseca; Laura Krier; Rita Premo; Hilary Smith; Mary Wegmann – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
For more than 30 years, Peter Senge's theory of learning organizations has influenced the study of leadership and organizations. Researchers have studied various components of his framework: team cognition and mental models, team learning, shared vision, systems thinking, and personal mastery. But few articles have explored what it looks like in…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Audits (Verification), Library Materials, Diversity
Lorraine Woods; Jennifer Cotton; Abhilash Mane – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2023
This case study analyzes seven years of data on Course Reserves, a service that allows instructors to provide to their students instant access to readings without either the instructor or the student needing to find access on their own. We sought to identify trends in academic discipline, data format, semester, and faculty member. Using Tableau to…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Intellectual Disciplines, Supplementary Reading Materials, Access to Information
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Zhiyong Qiu; Yingjin Cui – SAGE Open, 2024
Faced the vast amount of information, choosing the appropriate materials is a prerequisite for effective self-directed learning. The recommendation algorithm is a kind of intelligent technology that can accurately locate the required information which the users care about most. However, many recommendation techniques experience can not be trained…
Descriptors: College Students, Independent Study, Self Control, Library Materials
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Rachel E. Scott; Anne Shelley; Chad E. Buckley; Cassie Thayer-Styes; Julie A. Murphy – College & Research Libraries, 2025
This study explores how faculty across disciplines access and share scholarly serial content and what expectations they have for immediacy. The authors conducted twenty-five in-depth, semi-structured interviews with faculty of various ranks representing all Illinois State University (ISU) colleges. The findings, presented in the words of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Publications, Library Materials, Scholarship
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Pang, Xuan – Journal of Access Services, 2022
The fundamental mission of the library is to provide users with unrestricted access to library resources anytime, anywhere regardless of their physical location, disability, or other circumstances. Library Access Service departments across the nation have been an innovation engine of creativity and opportunity for many decades. The global…
Descriptors: Library Services, Emergency Programs, Library Materials, Access to Information
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Azeem Akbar; Abdul Jabbar; Qurat UI Ain Saleem; Murtaza Ashiq – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has considerably increased among students, including students with vision impairment (SVI). There has been limited work on the information and digital needs of people with disabilities, particularly SVI who were studying for their masters or MPhil and were involved in research activities…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Accessibility (for Disabled), Access to Information, Students with Disabilities
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Brian Vetruba; David Faust – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study examines cooperative collection development (CCD) for area studies and foreign language collections at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries, based on a 2020 survey. Respondents provided details about cooperative collection initiatives (CCIs) at their libraries and their attitudes toward CCD. Most respondents had a favorable…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Materials, Area Studies, Research Libraries
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