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Shlomit Hadad; Noa Aharony – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Profound changes due to Open-Access (OA) publications lead to organizational changes in universities and libraries. This study examines Israeli librarians' perceptions regarding their role and the academic library's role in promoting OA-publications, including the barriers, challenges, needs, and requirements necessary to promote OA publishing.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Access to Information
Lauren McGaw – Journal of Access Services, 2024
In 2018, the University of Winnipeg Library introduced the Syllabus Service to improve the course reserves submission process. This initiative has allowed library staff to proactively support copyright in e-reserves and provided opportunities to improve accessibility for students. The service has also encouraged faculty and instructor use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Copyrights, Information Systems
Maggie Albro; Jessica L. Serrao; Christopher D. Vidas; Jenessa M. McElfresh; K. Megan Sheffield; Megan Palmer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This article explores the application of journal quality and credibility evaluation tools to library science publications. The researchers investigate quality and credibility attributes of forty-eight peer-reviewed library science journals with open access components using two evaluative tools developed and published by librarians. The results…
Descriptors: Library Science, Periodicals, Access to Information, Librarians
Fredrick Otike; Peter Kiszl – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Academic libraries are experiencing drastic changes due to unprecedented advancements in technology. This advancement has caused changes in users' information-seeking behavior, increased information competitors, and easy access and availability to free information on the internet. It is unfortunate that all this is happening amidst the dwindling…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Technological Advancement, Library Development, Entrepreneurship
Asmaa Bouaamri – Prospects, 2024
Public libraries constitute an important part of social life and are crucial for supporting the educational system in any society. However, in many African countries, awareness of the role that public libraries can play in strengthening the social contract is largely unrecognized. This may be partly due to the social background that was/is based…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Role, Educational Practices, Inclusion
Stacy Gilbert; Kyunghye Kim; Rebecca Kelley; Alyssa Wright; Alessia Zanin-Yost – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
News aggregator databases offer different content and features, but there is little guidance on how these databases compare. This article compares the coverage scope, availability of 35 U.S. newspaper titles, and features of six news aggregators available to U.S. academic libraries: "Newspaper Source Plus" (EBSCO), "Factiva,"…
Descriptors: Databases, Library Automation, Access to Information, Information Sources
Elmira Jangjou; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
College fluency can help students successfully engage with and self-advocate within the culture and bureaucracy of higher education institutions to achieve their goals. To further examine and develop effective strategies to foster college fluency, the Borough of Manhattan Community College Library (BMCC) and Ithaka S+R partnered on the College…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student College Relationship, Community Colleges, Student Personnel Services
Fred Awaah; Peter Akinsola Okebukola; Juma Shabani; Solomon Yeboah; Olasunkanmi Adio Gbeleyi; Heloo Sefiamor Emmanuella – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
Student difficulty in public administration has witnessed some writings within the African context. Although these studies are emerging, there seems to be minimal research on the influence of school libraries on students' understanding of public administration. This gap in the public administration literature precludes educational managers from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Public Administration Education, School Libraries
Jasmyne R. Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The role of public libraries is changing in response to a multitude of influences and trends. The exponential growth of technology as the primary method of information access, funding challenges, changing demographics, and other mitigating factors have forced public libraries to become more than book repositories. Community library leaders and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Library Role, Public Libraries, Library Personnel
Harrison W. Inefuku; Curtis Brundy; Sharla Lair – College & Research Libraries, 2024
With the growth of open access (OA) journal publishing, a myriad of funding models has emerged to serve as an alternative to the traditional subscription model. Models that impose author facing charges are inequitable, favoring well-resourced authors and institutions, and continue the dominance of publications from the Global North. This…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Income, Electronic Publishing, Library Role
Bill Morelan – Knowledge Quest, 2024
A few months ago, the largest school district in Texas announced plans to close twenty-eight elementary and middle school libraries, claiming it was part of an effort to combat low test scores and discipline problems. Unfortunately, this troubling trend seems to be spreading. According to the author, multiple studies have shown that effective…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Decision Making, Job Layoff, Media Specialists
Tim Schlak; Alexis Smith Macklin – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2025
The scholarly communication landscape has experienced significant evolution in the past several years with the advent of transformative agreements. The largest library systems and academic library consortia have made substantial progress in this time by using their scale and publishing output to effect meaningful changes in their access and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Communities of Practice, Human Factors Engineering, Access to Information
John J. Meier – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This paper presents the results of thirty-seven interviews of senior library leaders at American Association of University (AAU) institutions conducted in Spring 2023. The author replicated a 2016 study from "portal," revealing an increased focus on strategic plan-based decision-making along with new priorities of open scholarship and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Library Administration, Administrator Attitudes
Nikolina Ivanova-Bell – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
In recent years, the opportunities for academic libraries to engage as a partner in digital initiatives in academia have expanded significantly. The traditional focus on digitization, preservation, and dissemination of collections has developed and shifted considerably, bringing new strategies for adequately serving the changed academic needs, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Acoustics
Natalie Tagge; Courtney Eger; Gregory Laynor – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
Students in STEM and the health sciences have unique learning needs, including preparation for exams required for entering a STEM or health sciences profession. Students in these areas thus often seek, in addition to or instead of traditional course materials and library resources, digital study tools that utilize techniques such as spaced…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Library Role, Equal Education, Library Materials
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