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Online Community For Librarian Researchers: Experience Of Academic Librarians, Lili Luo May 2020

Online Community For Librarian Researchers: Experience Of Academic Librarians, Lili Luo

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Searching For The Past : Historian's Information-Seeking Behavior And Needs., Matthew Goldberg Jul 2018

Searching For The Past : Historian's Information-Seeking Behavior And Needs., Matthew Goldberg

Faculty Scholarship

The article examines information-seeking behavior of academic historians and their information searching needs. It discusses the impact of 1980s digital revolution on academic historians' research practices, surveys conducted to study on utilization of academic librarians and library materials in information-seeking practices.


Informal Learning Teams And The Digital Humanities: A Case Study Of Faculty/Librarian Collaboration, Lora Del Rio, Jessica Despain Phd Jan 2017

Informal Learning Teams And The Digital Humanities: A Case Study Of Faculty/Librarian Collaboration, Lora Del Rio, Jessica Despain Phd

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Since the 2009 founding of the Interdisciplinary Research and Informatics Scholarship Center (or IRIS), a digital humanities and social sciences center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, faculty, librarians, and undergraduates have been collaborating to reinvigorate humanities curriculum both within and beyond the classroom.1 The IRIS Center has become a site where faculty and librarians work together to find solutions to budget shortfalls and changing definitions of higher education. This chapter will discuss the theory, practice, and outcomes underlying one approach to undergraduate research at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). This case study will include a discussion of the intersection of …


The Power Of Encouragement: The Role Of Christian Academic Librarians In Supporting The Whole Student, Earleen J. Warner Jan 2016

The Power Of Encouragement: The Role Of Christian Academic Librarians In Supporting The Whole Student, Earleen J. Warner

Librarian Publications and Presentations

Christian librarians are exhorted to consider the role of providing encouragement, care, and emotional and spiritual support to college students. Caring for the whole student can have a positive impact on college student success and retention, as well as have a transformational effect on students’ spiritual lives. By treating college students as whole persons created in the image of God, Christian academic librarians can not only help these students succeed by meeting their academic needs, but also help students thrive by supporting them emotionally and spiritually.


Critical Race Theory And The Recruitment, Retention And Promotion Of A Librarian Of Color: A Counterstory, Shaundra Walker Jan 2015

Critical Race Theory And The Recruitment, Retention And Promotion Of A Librarian Of Color: A Counterstory, Shaundra Walker

Library Faculty Scholarship

Despite the proliferation of residency programs, institutes, and scholar- ships designed to increase the numbers of African American and other academic librarians of color, academic librarianship, in contrast to the American population, continues to lacks racial diversity. According to the American Library Association’s most recent Diversity Counts report, credentialed academic librarians are 86.1% white. African Americans make up 12.6% of the American population, but only account for 5.4% of credentialed academic librarians.


Baker, Jane Stark (Helm), B. 1942 (Sc 1355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Baker, Jane Stark (Helm), B. 1942 (Sc 1355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below" for Manuscripts Small Collection 1355. Letter, 19 January 2000, written by Jane S. Baker, Glasgow, Kentucky, in which Baker recalls her aunt Margie Helm, who was an outstanding Western Kentucky University librarian.