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Librarian, Faculty, And Student Perceptions Of Academic Librarians: Study Introduction And Literature Review, Jody C. Fagan, Hillary Ostermiller, Elizabeth Price, Lara Sapp
Librarian, Faculty, And Student Perceptions Of Academic Librarians: Study Introduction And Literature Review, Jody C. Fagan, Hillary Ostermiller, Elizabeth Price, Lara Sapp
Libraries
A survey concerning perceptions of academic librarians was conducted at a large, 4-year university with three populations: librarians, faculty, and undergraduate students. The high response rate and the use of an instrument based on previous studies offers the possibility of longitudinal comparison and the identification of relationships between groups within one environment. Results will be presented in a series of articles, beginning with this paper’s study introduction and literature review of librarian, faculty, and student perceptions of librarians. Subsequent papers will present results from the three surveys and offer analysis across the three groups. The literature review focused on research …
Information Literacy In Higher Education: An Interdisciplinary Investigation Of Library Instruction From The Academic Librarian, Faculty, And Student Perspectives, Barbara M. Sorondo
Information Literacy In Higher Education: An Interdisciplinary Investigation Of Library Instruction From The Academic Librarian, Faculty, And Student Perspectives, Barbara M. Sorondo
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The present study is a phenomenological case study exploring how a group comprised of teaching librarians, faculty, and students experienced library instruction at the research site, Florida International University (FIU), in the context of the Framework for Information Literacy (IL) for Higher Education (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2016). The present study uniquely addresses a gap in the literature on library instruction and IL by using interviews with three diverse participant groups within the same setting. The 10 participants included three teaching librarians, three faculty members, two undergraduate students, and two graduate students. They represented a variety of academic …
"Being In Time": New Public Management, Academic Librarians, And The Temporal Labor Of Pink-Collar Public Service Work, Karen P. Nicholson
"Being In Time": New Public Management, Academic Librarians, And The Temporal Labor Of Pink-Collar Public Service Work, Karen P. Nicholson
FIMS Publications
Time is a site of power, one that enacts particular subjectivities and relationships. In the workplace, time enables and constrains performance, attitudes, and behaviors. In this qualitative research study, I examine the impact of the values and practices of new public management on academic librarians’ experiences of time when engaged in pink-collar public service (reference and information literacy) work. Data gathered during semi-structured interviews with twenty-four public service librarians in Canadian public research-intensive universities, members of the U15 Group, serve as a site of analysis for this study. Interview data were first analyzed using thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke 2006) …
Conceptions Of Research Among Academic Librarians And Archivists, Lise Doucette, Kristin Hoffmann
Conceptions Of Research Among Academic Librarians And Archivists, Lise Doucette, Kristin Hoffmann
Western Libraries Publications
Academic librarians and archivists occupy a unique role as researchers and as practitioners who support faculty and student researchers. However, the ways in which librarians and archivists think about research is largely unexamined, while faculty conceptions of research have been studied extensively. In this study, we analyzed drawings and interviews of 25 Canadian academic librarians and archivists and identified six conceptions of research: research is a shared, community experience; research leads to learning and growth; research is influenced by personal and professional experience; research is a process involving interrelated components; research involves refining and answering a question; research by librarians …
Search Strategies For Finding Reports Of Research: How Academic Librarians Can Support Student Success, Deborah Charbonneau, Dian Walster, Kafi Kumasi
Search Strategies For Finding Reports Of Research: How Academic Librarians Can Support Student Success, Deborah Charbonneau, Dian Walster, Kafi Kumasi
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
The purpose of this study was to test various search strategies for locating reports of research in the extant literature. Implications from the findings of this study are generalized into recommendations for how academic librarians can apply their professional skill sets to aid students whether undergraduate, graduate, profession or doctoral to effectively find reports of research. More specifically, the concept of “research hooks” is presented as a way for librarians to help students craft more effective database search strategies. Research hooks are complementary words to leverage database searching and identify reports of research in the literature. This recommended search strategy …
Knowledge Sharing For Professional Growth: Views From Academic Librarians In Zimbabwe, Rexwhite T. Enakrire Dr, Collence T. Chisita Dr, Josiline Phiri Chigwada
Knowledge Sharing For Professional Growth: Views From Academic Librarians In Zimbabwe, Rexwhite T. Enakrire Dr, Collence T. Chisita Dr, Josiline Phiri Chigwada
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Knowledge sharing activities are indicators for professional growth. It consists of inconceivable diverse and complex patterns through which professionals gain more from each other. This type of knowledge sharing experience is essential for professional growth. Ordinarily, except engage in certain activities, professionals do not benefit much from each other. The process that unfold in what the professionals know best is through the process of sharing tacit knowledge. Librarianship as a profession is at its critical point where issues to contend with emerges, based on current trends in library and information sciences. The dynamics that surround users’ diverse information needs and …
Academic Librarians And Research Data Services: Attitudes And Practices, Carol Tenopir, Suzie Allard, Lynn Baird, Robert J. Sandusky, Andrew Lundeen, Dane Hughes, Danielle Elaine Pollock
Academic Librarians And Research Data Services: Attitudes And Practices, Carol Tenopir, Suzie Allard, Lynn Baird, Robert J. Sandusky, Andrew Lundeen, Dane Hughes, Danielle Elaine Pollock
DataONE Sociocultural and Usability & Assessment Working Groups
Becoming a partner in the research process and enabling access to the scholarship of e-science is a natural evolution of the traditional roles of academic libraries. Managing research data can be an important aspect of this expanded role, although many academic librarians may not feel they have the necessary preparation, skills, and capacity to effectively provide research data services. In addition, researchers need to understand the degree to which these services are becoming part of the core services offered by academic librarians in a variety of settings. Knowledge of the possibilities and confidence in their respective roles with research data …
The Information Literacy Continuum: Mapping The Acrl Framework To The Aasl School Library Standards, Elizabeth Burns, Melissa Gross, Don Latham
The Information Literacy Continuum: Mapping The Acrl Framework To The Aasl School Library Standards, Elizabeth Burns, Melissa Gross, Don Latham
STEMPS Faculty Publications
The Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the American Association for School Libraries (AASL), two major divisions of the American Library Association (ALA), both recently released new guidelines. These documents form the basis for information literacy and library skills instruction for PK-20 education. In this study, we explored the alignment between these documents to identify the continuum of knowledge and skill expectations as well as the dispositional attributes toward information literacy that learners are presented. Our findings identified where the content of the ACRL Framework and AASL Standards Framework for Learners documents is strongly aligned as well as …
Publication Output Of Professional Librarians In Public University Libraries In Ghana, Theophilus Fiawotoafor Mr., Perpetua S. Dadzie Prof., Musah Adams Dr.
Publication Output Of Professional Librarians In Public University Libraries In Ghana, Theophilus Fiawotoafor Mr., Perpetua S. Dadzie Prof., Musah Adams Dr.
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The study examines publication output among professional librarians in four public universities in Ghana. The major objectives of the study were to determine publication output of the professional librarians and investigate the challenges confronting publication efforts of the professional librarians, among others. The mixed methods approach was employed for the study. The questionnaire was used to collect data from 47 professional librarians and four university librarians were also interviewed. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software was used to analyse the quantitative data collected through the questionnaire, while content analysis was employed to analyse the qualitative data that was …
Creative, Innovative, And Collaborative Librarians Wanted: The Use Of Personality Traits In Librarian Job Advertisements, Rayla E. Tokarz
Creative, Innovative, And Collaborative Librarians Wanted: The Use Of Personality Traits In Librarian Job Advertisements, Rayla E. Tokarz
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Academic librarian job advertisements often use personality traits to describe future job candidates. No study has looked at what personality traits are used most frequently in librarian job advertisements and whether they tie to job performance through the Big Five personality dimensions. Content analysis of librarian job advertisements from the last three months of 2018 showed that the most used personality traits were creative, innovative, and collaborative. Although the Big Five dimension of conscientiousness has been linked to job performance, only 16% of job advertisements used personality traits in that dimension