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Culturally Responsive Library Leadership In The California Community Colleges, Melanie Aponte Chu

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this ethnographic qualitative study was to identify and describe how community college library leaders utilize culturally responsive leadership strategies when leading their organizations, based on Horsford et al.’s (2011) Culturally Relevant Leadership (CRL) framework.

Methodology: This study identified and described culturally responsive leadership strategies of library leaders at the California Community Colleges (CCCs). As part of a thematic team, the researcher designed an interview protocol in alignment with the four dimensions of the CRL framework: professional duty, personal journey, pedagogical approach, and political context. Fourteen participants were identified and selected using criterion sampling, with participants meeting …

El Bibliotecólogo Como Gestor Cultural En Las Bibliotecas Universitarias: Estudio De Caso Crai De La Universidad Del Rosario, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Universidad Central Y Biblioteca Universitaria Universidad Distrital, Carlos Arturo Herrera Monroy, Nicolas Alberto Hincapie Fresneda

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

Los profesionales de la información, son el motor de las unidades de información y su rol es determinante para guiar los ejes y engranes que cada contexto social demanda. Las bibliotecas se adaptan a cada momento de la historia y se transforman según las necesidades de la comunidad a la que atienden, evolucionan y se adaptan. Las bibliotecas universitarias como eje central del manejo de la información científica y de las tendencias de producción de conocimiento, tienen un lugar excepcional en la creación de lineamientos y la caracterización de los usuarios de la información. La intención de este trabajo de …

Academic Librarians And The Space/Time Of Information Literacy, The Neoliberal University, And The Global Knowledge Economy, Karen P. Nicholson

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This qualitative research study explores how academic librarians working in Canadian public research-intensive universities experience the space/time of information literacy, the neoliberal university, and the knowledge economy. Information literacy lies at the intersection of higher education and the knowledge economy: it became a priority for librarians in Anglo-American countries in the 1980s in the context of neoliberal educational reforms intended to better prepare skilled workers for the “information society” (Behrens, 1994; Birdsall, 1994).

The shift from Fordist modes of production to flexible accumulation, characterized by the expansion of capital into new markets, flexible workers, and just-in-time inventories, made possible by …

Librarians And Student Affairs Professionals As Collaborators For Student Learning And Success, Dallas Long

Theses and Dissertations

Increased accountability in higher education is increasingly compelling librarians to demonstrate their impact on student learning and student success. To do so, they are encouraged to collaborate with student affairs professionals to improve students' experiences. However, the literature suggests librarians lack formal, structured partnerships with student affairs professionals, and that librarians and student affairs professionals are largely unfamiliar with each other's roles in student learning. They may have narrow or inaccurate perceptions of each other, and lack meaningful ways to collaborate. This study explored librarians' and student affairs professionals' perceptions of each other's roles in student learning and success. Additionally, …