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2024 ALA Emerging Leaders-Team A – American Association of School Librarians, 2024
To help school librarians develop learners' abilities to contribute to teams that can capitalize on a diversity of thinking and perspective, AASL tasked a 2024 ALA Emerging Leaders team with creating a guide for school librarians based on the Collaborate Shared Foundation in the "National School Library Standards." Working effectively in…
Descriptors: Librarians, School Libraries, Media Specialists, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Barbara Kissa; Zoe Georganta; Elias Gounopoulos; Fotis Kitsios – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Over the past decade, the financial crisis has led to reduced government funding for academic libraries in Greece. Now more than ever, it is imperative for library managers to improve their knowledge and understanding of cost behavior, in order to effectively deliver high quality services at decreasing costs. To do so, they need to apply…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Library Services
Tina M. Griffin; Margaret Janz – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Libraries at academic institutions have been involved in research data management services (RDMS) for more than ten years. Institutions have adapted their service models in response to funder, journal, and federal mandates that have consequently increased RDMS demand. However, institutions that hope to start or grow their services may have…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Information Management, Data
Buller, Ryan F.; Gypin, Lindsay – Journal of Access Services, 2021
Library long-term and strategic plans tend to employ top down approaches that can leave departmental staff feeling disconnected an unrepresented in the plan. In 2019, the Access Services Department at the University of Denver engaged in a long-term planning process. This process puts Access Services staff members at the center of the process. This…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Development, Strategic Planning, Universities
Goldberg, Matthew; Sproles, Claudene – Journal of Access Services, 2020
The University of Louisville's Ekstrom Library needed to remove 260,000 items from its shelves, and shift a further 95,000 within an extremely short deadline ahead of plans to redesign its third floor into an inviting, modern, student-friendly space for patrons to enjoy. The move faced three distinct challenges: space, item tracking, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Library Facilities, Library Services
Joshua W. Sadvari – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
Student employees are often vital members of an academic library's workforce, though the extent to which they contribute to library geospatial services has not yet been explored in a systematic way. The present study was designed to address this gap through a survey of academic library professionals involved in employing students to provide…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Instruction, Library Services
Ghalib Khan; Rubina Bhatti; Rahim Jan; Amjid Khan – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
Acquisition management is the kind of strategy that university libraries adopt to assist the information needs of the client population. This study attempted to understand the acquisition management in the university libraries in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The study adopted a survey method and included all those well-established…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Libraries, Library Services, Library Personnel
Joanna R. Mladic – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem undertaken in this study was the impact of the COVID-19 on academic-library directors at small, private, liberal-arts institutions in Wisconsin. The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic closures on collection development and reference interviews. The participants were seven academic-library…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Libraries, Library Personnel
Balgeman, Caitlin; Colbert, Lynné – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2018
Keeping pace with the rapid advance of library technology and electronic services can be both exciting and daunting, especially for libraries with a small (but mighty!) staff. Out of necessity, small staffs often undertake many disparate tasks to keep electronic resources running smoothly for users. Because of these constraints, it is useful for…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Library Administration, Library Services, Vendors
Lennertz, Lora L.; Jones, Phillip J. – College & Research Libraries, 2020
The clock and calendar regulate many library activities, but the seasonal and temporal dimensions of libraries are largely unexplored. Intrigued by observations of colleagues' temporal attitudes and behavior, the authors drew on the work of sociologist Eviatar Zerubavel to investigate the perceptions of time, schedules, and urgency among…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Sociology, Time Perspective, Scheduling
Ashiq, Murtaza; Rehman, Shafiq Ur; Muhammad, Asif Ali Bao; Ahmad, Shakil – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
This is the first qualitative phenomenological study to investigate the state of leadership in Saudi libraries. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 14 library leaders or section heads in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Library leadership was found to be strongly associated with management skills, visionary thinking, teamwork, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Administration, Leadership Qualities
Learning Commons in Academic Libraries: Discussing Themes in the Literature from 2001 to the Present
Blummer, Barbara; Kenton, Jeffrey M. – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2017
Although the term lacks a standard definition, learning commons represent academic library spaces that provide computer and library resources as well as a range of academic services that support learners and learning. Learning commons have been equated to a laboratory for creating knowledge and staffed with librarians that serve as facilitators of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Library Services, Qualitative Research
Qayyum Ch., Abdul; Hina, Quratul Ain; Abid, Uzma – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2017
The study was aimed to explore the problems and issues faced by the students of University of the Punjab, regarding library usage. A survey research method and random sampling technique was used to collect data from the students. The instrument consisted of twenty closed ended questions containing three factors, i.e., i) Library staff services,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, College Students, Library Services
Rodriguez, Juan Carlos; Meyer, Kristin; Merry, Brian – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Library public services staff have primarily focused on providing services through interactions with their users. Although service quality and customer satisfaction are important in the delivery of these services, the emphasis and nature of the work have often been influenced by a library-centric philosophy rather than a user-centric philosophy.…
Descriptors: Library Services, Academic Libraries, State Universities, Administrative Organization
Chrzastowski, Tina E.; Nutefall, Jennifer E. – Journal of Access Services, 2016
A multiple methods study was conducted over three academic terms during the 2015 fiscal year at Santa Clara University Library to assess the impact and value of overnight library hours. A survey was conducted after midnight during times the Library was open 24 hours, five days a week (24/5), the last two weeks of the quarter. The survey was…
Descriptors: Library Services, Academic Libraries, User Needs (Information), College Students