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Ali, Shameem; King, Arthur – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study looks at the satisfaction of tertiary students with their institution's library services with the aim of identifying study and learning related impediments and challenges faced by students from poor backgrounds. A study of this type is important because educators need to understand that information technology adoption and implementation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Student Needs, Postsecondary Education
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Panter, Suzanna L. – Knowledge Quest, 2015
School librarians act as servants of the school community and protectors of students' rights, and it is the ethical duty of school librarians to champion student privacy and resist threats to it. This article addresses the legality of this process based upon the 2007 article "How Does the Family Rights and Privacy Act [FERPA] Affect You"…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Library Administration, Library Services
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Chen, Yu-Hui; Rorissa, Abebe; Germain, Carol Anne – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
The authors compared Web usability definitions, collected from library professionals at academic institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) through online surveys in 2007 and 2012, to determine whether library practitioners' perspectives had altered as information technologies evolved during this time. The authors applied three…
Descriptors: Definitions, Usability, Academic Libraries, Online Surveys
Weiss, Luise; Serlis-McPhillips, Sophia; Malafi, Elizabeth – ALA Editions, 2011
Aligning with current difficult economic times, this book helps libraries assist users entering or already involved in the small business community. Authors Weiss, Serlis-McPhillips, and Malafi are public librarians who have incorporated small business services within their library. In their book they point the way to addressing the needs of job…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Public Libraries, Library Services, Marketing
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de Smet, Egbert – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The "advanced loans" module of the relatively new library software, ABCD, is an addition to the normal loans module and it offers a "generic transaction decision-making engine" functionality. The module requires extra installation effort and parameterisation, so this article aims to explain to the many potentially interested libraries,…
Descriptors: Library Services, Information Systems, Computer Software, Library Automation
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Haefele, Chad – Public Services Quarterly, 2011
While libraries offer next generation public services such as mobile access and e-books, these services are often neither home-grown nor sustainable. Libraries have a history of lending and services built on a simple model: they purchase an item and then provide it to the community. Unfortunately, the latest generation of services offered by…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Services, Telecommunications, Electronic Publishing
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Eklof, Ashley – Public Services Quarterly, 2013
Information anxiety is a serious issue that has the potential to hinder the success of a large percentage of the population in both education and professional settings. It has become more prevalent as societies begin to focus more on the value of technology, multitasking, and instant information access. The majority of the population has felt, to…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Role
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Noe, Jennifer; Furay, Julia – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2013
This bibliometric study used citation analysis to uncover citing characteristics in the burgeoning academic field of emergency management. Of the 281 degree programs listed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency nationwide, those at community colleges accounted for 17% of the total. Using the interdisciplinary database of Academic Search…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Crisis Management, Periodicals, Community Colleges
Richardson, Hillary A. H. – Computers in Libraries, 2013
For nearly a decade now, librarians have discussed and deliberated ways, for the sake of convenience, to integrate internet-like searching into their own catalogs to mimic what academic library patrons have been using outside the library. Discovery tools and web-scale discovery services (WSDS) attempt to provide users with a similar one-stop shop…
Descriptors: Library Services, Internet, Online Searching, Integrity
Phillips, Sharon A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Selecting appropriate performance improvement interventions is a critical component of a comprehensive model of performance improvement. Intervention selection is an interconnected process involving analysis of an organization's environment, definition of the performance problem, and identification of a performance gap and identification of causal…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Technology Integration, Library Services, Catalogs
Carlson, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
In late December, a set of articles and essays in "The New York Times" focused on the public library as a place, and on the changing meaning of that place with the rise of electronic books and the demise of brick-and-mortar bookstores like Borders. As librarians "struggle with the task of redefining their roles and responsibilities in a digital…
Descriptors: Colleges, Library Services, Public Libraries, Electronic Learning
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Lamothe, Alain R. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2013
This paper reports the results from a quantitative study examining the strength of linear relationships between Laurentian University students and faculty members and the J. N. Desmarais Library's reference and monograph e-book collections. The number of full-text items accessed, searches performed, and undergraduate, graduate, and faculty…
Descriptors: Faculty, Library Services, Reference Materials, Comparative Analysis
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Crawford Barniskis, Shannon – Teaching Artist Journal, 2013
One of the hottest terms among public librarians today is "content creation," which involves stuff that library patrons make instead of simply use in a library context. Videos, music, fiction, paintings, 3D printed materials, websites--all these are made in public libraries, and will increase in popularity as more libraries shift from purveyors of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Library Services, Public Libraries, Artists
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Sharman, Alison – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2014
Emanating from the ground-breaking Library Impact Data Project, the aim of the Roving Librarian project first initiated in 2011 was to offer personalized help outside of the traditional library to library non-users in social or academic settings using Android and the iPad tablets. It was thought that the portability and flexibility of these…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Library Services, Access to Information, Individual Needs
Naluai, Nalani – Knowledge Quest, 2014
Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop directed the five trustees of her estate to erect a school for Hawaiian children (Bishop 1883). Her wish was to improve the capability and well being of her people through education, and to provide an environment where each would have an opportunity to practice and perpetuate Hawaiian values and traditions. In 2008…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Cultural Context, Cultural Education, Educational Objectives
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