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Potnis, Devendra; Mallary, Kevin – College & Research Libraries, 2021
Academic libraries invest thousands of dollars in assistive technologies (AT) for enhancing the delivery of information services to disabled patrons. However, offering AT might not result in their use by the patrons who need them, thereby leading to a service divide. The analysis of qualitative responses, including more than 1,400 quotations,…
Descriptors: Use Studies, Academic Libraries, Disabilities, Assistive Technology
Adedeji, Elizabeth; Mabawonku, Iyabo – Africa Education Review, 2021
Effective use of information resources by lecturers is one of the determinants of university education outcomes. To function optimally, lecturers utilise digitised information resources in their duties. University libraries are saddled with the responsibility of organising and providing lecturers' needed information resources. This study,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Library Services, Information Sources
Elizabeth A. Brown; Kathleen H. Flynn; Amanda McCormick; Clara Y. Tran – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
Preprint articles are available on servers, such as arXiv and ChemRxiv, at no-cost to benefit the movement toward open access of research. However, the use of preprint research articles as a reference source in academia is not heavily documented. To examine if researchers are utilizing preprint articles, this paper examines citation trends in the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Doctoral Programs, State Universities
Mê-Linh Lê; Janice Winkler; Christine J. Neilson – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Systematic reviews, and other forms of knowledge synthesis, are an increasingly popular research methodology being used in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Librarians are being called upon to support this work through consultation, instruction, and/or performing the systematic search on behalf of the research team. Professional…
Descriptors: Librarians, Librarian Attitudes, Academic Libraries, Educational Needs
Alisa Howlett; Eleanor Colla; Rebecca Joyce – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
An increasingly complex and demanding research landscape has seen university libraries rapidly evolve their services. While research data management, bibliometrics, and research impact services have predominantly featured in the literature to date, the full scope of support libraries are currently providing to their institutions is unknown. This…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Academic Libraries, Universities, Foreign Countries
Adebowale Jeremy Adetayo; Elizabeth Bukunola Lateef; Rhoda Temitope Oyebola; Folashade Munirat Lawal – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the challenges faced by working students in patronizing library services in Nigeria and to propose tailored solutions to enhance their patronage. A descriptive survey research design was used to collect data from 110 working undergraduate students, which was then analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, Use Studies, Barriers
Phillips, Kathleen; Woods, Stephen; Dudash, Andrew – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Librarians play a key role in the understanding, retrieval, and assessment of gray literature (also spelled "grey literature") as it pertains to evidence-based clinical practice, particularly nursing. With the rise of evidence-based research and curriculum-specific requirements in advanced nursing programs, gray literature instruction…
Descriptors: Library Role, Library Services, Evidence Based Practice, Information Retrieval
Hands, Africa S. – Adult Learning, 2023
The Netflix docudrama, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, illustrates how college admissions, particularly at elite colleges, favors the privileged. Higher educational attainment overall favors the informed. Prospective students have many options when it comes to earning a college degree, with some of the more visible options…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, College Admission, College Bound Students, College Readiness
Adair, Heather F.; Crane, Ashley B.; Gross, Elizabeth A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
Information literacy is a crucial topic in the library science profession. The information needs and perceptions of the information literacy of preservice and early-career school librarians were explored in this research using a survey and interviews distributed nationally over a 5-month time frame. These participants, who have been employed in…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Library Education, Skill Development
Elizabeth Van Pate; Neil Grimes – Knowledge Quest, 2023
The Bitmoji classroom craze swept education during online teaching and learning in 2020-21. Was that just a fad for pandemic times, or do they retain value in post-pandemic K-12 education? In a recent survey of 72 educators that included 45 school librarians, 71%, mostly at the elementary level, reported that they still use them. The purposes…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Media Specialists, Librarians
Marijel Melo; Laura March – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
Can LIS curricula dedicated to makerspaces provide an authentic learning experience for future librarians interested in makerspace-adjacent careers? This article presents a case study in which an authentic learning framework is applied to a newly developed LIS graduate-level course on makerspaces. We detail how one class project--entitled…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Learning Experience, Shared Resources and Services, Library Education
Mawhinney, Tara; Hervieux, Sandy – College & Research Libraries, 2022
This multimethod study investigates differences in question complexity and type between live chat, email, and texting by comparing findings from user interviews and virtual reference transcripts, with the goal of better understanding how different delivery methods can meet user needs in the context of an academic library. Findings reveal…
Descriptors: Use Studies, Library Services, Reference Services, Computer Mediated Communication
Makula, Amanda Y.; Turner, Laura S. – College & Research Libraries, 2022
In "Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications," ACRL calls for more diverse and inclusive collection development (CD) by academic libraries and archives. Meanwhile, higher education is increasingly committing to community-engaged scholarship. This study investigated the extent to which academic libraries and archives are collecting,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Community, Library Services
De Groote, Sandra L.; Scoulas, Jung Mi – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This study explored students' perceptions of the library's impact on their academic success based on open-ended responses from a 2018 survey assessing student use and satisfaction. The qualitative findings demonstrated differences in the library resources students perceived as contributing to their achievements, based on such demographics as race,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Library Role, Academic Libraries, Academic Achievement
Donaldson, Katherine S.; Bonella, Laura; Becksford, Lisa; Kubicki, Josette M.; Parramore, Sarah – Education Libraries, 2022
This paper will examine the findings of a survey on the job roles and responsibilities of Education librarians (academic librarians with liaison responsibilities for the field of Education). Existing literature on Education librarianship has focused on particular facets of the job role, including the unique instructional needs of Education…
Descriptors: Librarians, Schools of Education, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction