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Winkler, Bea; Kiszl, Péter – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a defining technology of the 21st century, creating new opportunities for academic libraries. The goal of this paper is to provide a much-needed analysis, interpreted in an international context, on what the leaders of academic libraries in East-Central Europe, and specifically in Hungary, think about AI and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Administrators, Artificial Intelligence
Bledsoe, Kara; Cooper, Danielle Miriam; Schonfeld, Roger C.; Rieger, Oya Y. – ITHAKA S+R, 2022
Many library directors and Associate University Librarians (AUL) are looking for support in diversifying library collections. Ithaka S+R developed this guide to contribute to the efforts emerging in response to this need. The guide presents a series of takeaways, exercises, and examples that those in leadership positions in academic libraries,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Media Selection, Diversity
Amy VanScoy; Heidi Julien; Alison Harding – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2022
Information behavior is an important area of conceptual knowledge for reference service providers, as it provides structure for understanding users' information seeking and use. This study explores the extent to which information behavior theories, models, and concepts have been integrated into professional education for reference and information…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Users (Information), Behavior Patterns, Reference Services
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Hughes, Michael P. – College & Research Libraries, 2020
The digital environment has transformed how data on library material use is collected and reported, providing librarians with more information about usage but less clarity about how to interpret it. This article discusses current approaches to reporting and assessing library book use, addresses the question of what qualifies as a worthwhile use of…
Descriptors: Use Studies, Library Materials, Data Interpretation, Books
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Brown, Mason – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2020
It is challenging to identify the needs of researchers and students at any satellite campus, a situation that is exacerbated when the satellite campus is a research laboratory. The users are not taking classes, but still have library support needs. This article discusses the difficulties in properly identifying a population of students at this…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Research
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Guirguis, Bernadette M.; Alsheikh, Negmeldin – Information and Learning Sciences, 2023
Purpose: This study aimed to understand how parents and librarians describe their lived experiences in a modern children's library that aims to create a triad bond through the organization of multiliteracy events and activities. Design/methodology/approach: The study used a phenomenological case study approach using two semistructured interviews,…
Descriptors: Libraries, Children, Parents, Librarians
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Quinn, Andrea M. – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
Institutional repositories have not lived up to their potential. Faculty consider preparing and submitting works to repositories onerous, they worry about making works freely available, and they fail to see benefits of submitting works to repositories. Nevertheless, opportunities to increase repository submissions exist, and IRs offer campuses a…
Descriptors: Universities, Academic Libraries, Archives, Library Services
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Liu, Yi; Xu, TianWei; Xiao, Mengjin – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2023
In order to better grasp the needs of library users and provide them with more accurate knowledge services, combining the characteristics of university libraries, this article applies library small data to personalized recommendation and proposes a small data fusion algorithm model for library personalized recommendation. This model combines the…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Tables (Data)
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Papachristopoulos, Leonidas; Athanasopoulou, Akrivi; Giannopoulou, Aggeliki; Hadjinicolaou, Maria – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2023
The Library and Information Center (LIC) of Patras' University and the Hellenic Open University Distance Library and Information Center constitute two academic libraries that serve two different academic institutions types. By the time of the first phase of the outbreak (spring 2019) they attempted to respond multidimensionally to the emerging…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Library Services, Distance Education, In Person Learning
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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
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Rachel Lynn Edford – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
In the wake of the COVID pandemic, many academic libraries sought virtual instruction options, like the embedded librarian model, bringing renewed interest to the topic. Debates defining embedded librarianship are plentiful and varied, but a review of the professional literature reveals a commonly used metaphor comparing embedded librarians to…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Services, Outreach Programs, COVID-19
Jen Gilbert – Knowledge Quest, 2023
As a recipient of an ALA Libraries Transforming Communities: Focus on Small and Rural Communities grant, the author's school was fortunate to receive funds to purchase books for a special program. With a librarian partner the author ran "Book Bites" during lunchtime. The aim of this program was to provide a platform for students to…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Services, Interpersonal Relationship, Empathy
Keren Dali; Garrett Hohmann – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
Building on the concept of transformative learning and exploring the role of reflection in graduate professional education, this article uses student and educator reflections from the graduate course on reading practices to narrate four stories of learning. These stories, structured based on the "4Ls" model of reflection, describe what…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Reflection, Reading Instruction, Information Science Education
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
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
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