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Sayre, Franklin; Riegelman, Amy – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Over the past decade, evidence from disciplines ranging from biology to economics has suggested that many scientific studies may not be reproducible. This has led to declarations in both the scientific and lay press that science is experiencing a "reproducibility crisis" and that this crisis has consequences for the extent to which…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Scientific Research, Replication (Evaluation)
Clark, Joe C.; Sauceda, Jonathan; Stormes, Sheridan – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Resources for teaching in higher education have undergone a tremendous evolution during the past several decades. The Internet and commercial services, such as YouTube and Google, have revolutionized the manner by which students and faculty access information to both conduct research and meet course requirements. This mixed methods study…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, College Faculty, Library Materials, Library Services
Mishra, Champeswar – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2019
The purpose of this study is to explore and investigate the perception of faculty on Digital Information Literacy (DIL) and their skills and competencies in using digital information in an Indian University. In this study, special focus has been on Sambalpur University (SU) in the state of Odisha. Furthermore, this study has enlightened various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Literacy
Bernier, Anthony – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2019
The overarching assessment of youth services rendered by Leslie Edmonds in 1987 remains largely true today: that its most influential force remains not research, or evidence, or constant professional improvement or addressing field-based challenges, but "superstition." Research in youth services pedagogy, likewise, offers a perpetually…
Descriptors: Youth, Library Services, History, Librarians
Jennifer Marie Brady – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The academic library's contribution to the institutional mission and goals is something library administrators have been striving to communicate to administrators since 2010 when the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) released their report entitled "The Value of Academic Libraries." The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Graduate Students, Nursing Education, Nursing Students
Ryan F. Buller – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As our society continues to evolve at an ever-increasing rate, our higher education institutions, and the services they provide, must keep pace with societal changes in order to ensure that those services stay current and relevant. This program evaluation examines one such service, the research consultation model in University Libraries at the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Role, Library Services, Universities
Skellen, Kendra; Kyrychenko, Alex – Journal of Access Services, 2016
In the summer of 2010, to provide a "one-stop shop" service point to Woodruff Library patrons, the Circulation, Reference, and Learning Commons (LC) desks merged into the unified Library Service Desk (LSD) under Access Services. Last year, due to organizational changes in the library and IT, and anticipated support needs of the new LC…
Descriptors: Library Services, Organizational Change, Academic Libraries, Technical Support
Venner, Mary Ann; Keshmiripour, Seti – Journal of Access Services, 2016
This article will describe how merging service points in an academic library is an opportunity to improve customer service and utilize staffing resources more efficiently. Combining service points provides libraries with the ability to create a more positive library experience for patrons by minimizing the ping-pong effect for assistance. The…
Descriptors: Library Services, Organizational Change, Academic Libraries, Library Administration
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Comp. – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2016
The way individuals get and share information has changed drastically in the past decade and will continue to change. In order for libraries to be a part of this environment, librarians must be aware of how and why individuals get and share their information and be able to help people utilize the library's virtual and physical services. In order…
Descriptors: Libraries, Librarians, Library Services, Library Materials
Folk, Amanda L.; Overbey, Tracey – ALA Editions, 2022
Using an evidence-based approach, including the authors' own cutting-edge research, this Special Report shares antiracist recommendations for practice that will help librarians in all settings identify and address explicit and implicit racial bias. Librarianship is still a predominantly white profession. It is essential that current practitioners…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Librarians, Identification, Racism
Bramer, Wichor M.; Rethlefsen, Melissa L.; Mast, Frans; Kleijnen, Jos – Research Synthesis Methods, 2018
Objective: To evaluate and validate the time of completion and results of a new method of searching for systematic reviews, the exhaustive search method (ESM), using a pragmatic comparison. Methods: Single-line search strategies were prepared in a text document. Term completeness was ensured with a novel optimization technique. Macros in MS Word…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Services, Literature Reviews, Research Methodology
Girton, Carrie – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2018
Marketing to distance students can be particularly challenging, but a new marketing trend called empathetic marketing provides academic libraries with a new and innovative way to reach these students. Empathetic marketing focuses on the core emotional needs of students and demonstrates how the library's staff and services can help meet those…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Anxiety, Marketing, Empathy
Ohler, L. Angie – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2018
At the University of Maryland Libraries, Angie Ohler, Director of Collection Services, discusses the history of the management of electronic resources for the past ten years at the Maryland Libraries, including the challenges of in an ever-changing environment and solutions she developed over time. The history she describes are lessons learned…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational History, Library Administration, Library Development
Figueroa, Miguel A. – Knowledge Quest, 2018
Futurists and foresight professionals offer several guiding principles for thinking about the future. These principles can help people to think about the future and become more powerful players in shaping the preferred futures they want for themselves and their communities. The principles also fit in well as strategies to support the Future Ready…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Librarians, School Libraries, Models
Ross, Natalie Hoyle – School Library Research, 2018
This paper reports findings of a qualitative collective case study and single case study that explored student reading motivation. This research focused on school librarians' perceived value of one children's choice award--the Bluestem Award--and its effect on school librarians' promotions and student behavior in the school library. Data were…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, School Libraries, Librarians, Library Role