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Harkness, Suzan J.; Rusk, Faith A.; Rubio, Ramon – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This paper discusses the design, facilitation and outcomes of a pilot embedded librarian initiative that transpired in a research methods course in a political science program. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact and affordances of embedding a librarian in an undergraduate methods course. This study explored how embedding a…
Descriptors: Librarians, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Political Science
Kabo, Felichism – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
The academic library plays multiple roles in the university, making even a nuanced analysis of service numbers inadequate for assessing the complexity of the library's value and contributions to the university's mission and success. This exploratory study uses social network analysis and a unique interlibrary loan (ILL) data set to examine…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, Shared Resources and Services
Walker, Jeremy; Coleman, Jason – College & Research Libraries, 2021
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and potential utility of using machine learning and natural language processing techniques to develop models that can reliably predict the relative difficulty of incoming chat reference questions. Using a relatively large sample size of chat transcripts (N = 15,690), an empirical experimental design…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Prediction, Library Services
Kessner, Taylor M.; Parekh, Priyanka; Aguliera, Earl; Pérez Cortés, Luis E.; Tran, Kelly M.; Siyahhan, Sinem; Gee, Elisabeth R. – Information and Learning Sciences, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to explore how making tabletop board games elicited adolescents' design thinking during their participation in a summer game design camp at their local library. Design/methodology/approach: This study leverages qualitative approaches to coding transcripts of participants' talk. This study uses the design thinking framework…
Descriptors: Design, Games, Summer Programs, Library Services
Bjornen, Kay K.; Ippoliti, Cinthya – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2021
When librarians at Oklahoma State University (OSU) began creating services to support data intensive research they found plenty of published guidance about doing surveys and outreach to get started. However, they also found that offering the prescribed workshops and consultations didn't assure that researchers would use them. A Sparks! grant from…
Descriptors: Program Administration, State Universities, Academic Libraries, Library Services
Jennifer J. Sturge – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study investigated the collection development process in school libraries and the environment of school libraries as it pertains to the collection of materials with LGBTQ+ themes and characters. The study determined the willingness of school librarians to purchase materials with LGBTQ+ themes and characters and surveyed their purchases of the…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Materials, Library Services, Educational Environment
Harlow, Samantha – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2022
Students are integral to all universities, and online students have long been a growing and important population within higher education. Understanding the shifts of demographics and needs of online students through a global pandemic is crucial for university administrators, instructors, and librarians. For this analysis, a librarian at a…
Descriptors: Student Needs, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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
Jess Crilly – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
The terms Diversifying, Decentring and Decolonising characterise the ways that academic libraries are engaging with social justice issues, through multiple theoretical perspectives epitomised by the rejection of libraries as neutral spaces. The review covers numerous case studies of critically informed action, or praxis across a variety of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, COVID-19, Diversity, Equal Education
Rafiekah Abrahams; Patrick Ngulube – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
This study assessed how an academic library implemented lean principles to enhance its electronic resource workflows and processes. Twelve librarians who managed access to electronic resources at the library participated in the study. Data were collected through interviews and observation. Reflexive thematic data analysis revealed that knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Library Services
Erin Burns; Brian Quinn; Megan Benson – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Discussions about coping, resilience, and mental health accompanied the COVID-19 shutdowns and gradual return to academic and workspaces across the US through 2021. As physical and spiritual practices, yoga and meditation have been shown to help people through adversity and create resilience. Academic librarians were surveyed about yoga and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Libraries, Coping
Schmidt, LeEtta – Journal of Access Services, 2019
This article examines steps taken at one academic library to address issues encountered when attempting to create a foundation of copyright knowledge to assist staff in reserves and interlibrary loan. It reviews the development of a copyright policy for the library that specifically addressed interlibrary loan and reserves activities. It also…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Library Services, Academic Libraries, Library Policy
Revitt, Eva; Luyk, Sean – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Scholarship exploring the makeup, function, and efficacy of collegial governance structures within the context of Canadian higher education is limited and primarily focused on the board or the senate. This paper expands that scholarship by focusing on the governance structures of the university library. The objective of this study was to determine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Administration, Governance
DiScala, Jeffrey; Weeks, Ann Carlson; Kodama, Christie – Knowledge Quest, 2019
To learn more about school district library supervisors, the authors set out to collect baseline data on their roles, responsibilities, challenges, and professional development needs. This work became known as the Lilead Project (rhymes with "Gilead"). Through research grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the authors…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Libraries, Supervisors, Library Administration
Brochu, Lauren; Burns, Jane – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2019
In the changing landscape of libraries and the roles of librarians, the area of Research Data Management (RDM) is emerging with new opportunities and challenges. This literature review identifies the current levels of publication that deal with the relationship of the librarian and their role in the research data management process and provides an…
Descriptors: Data, Information Management, Librarians, Role