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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Role Of Librarians In Academic Success, Claudia J. Dold
The Role Of Librarians In Academic Success, Claudia J. Dold
Claudia J. Dold
Librarians address all levels of information needs for the university: its acquisition, its production, its storage, and instruction for its safe and gainful use. Most of today’s college students have a high degree of computer literacy but are weak in their abilities to determine the quality of the information that is so readily available. Students need to be taught to find, evaluate, and use information in an academically-oriented manner in order to solve complex problems. Good library skills are integral to academic success. In conjunction with research and teaching faculty, librarians create a framework for knowledge acquisition in the evolving …
Apps And Apple Devices: Productive Icloud Uses, Cyrus Ford Zarganj
Apps And Apple Devices: Productive Icloud Uses, Cyrus Ford Zarganj
Library Faculty Presentations
This program introduces useful apps for librarians who have two or more Apple devices such as an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook. You can learn how to use the iCloud, sync devices together, and about other useful apps for librarians to work on their projects from different places with different Apple devices without carrying files.
Tracing Boundaries, Effacing Boundaries: Information Literacy As Seen By Multiple Disciplines, Grace Veach, Amy Harris
Tracing Boundaries, Effacing Boundaries: Information Literacy As Seen By Multiple Disciplines, Grace Veach, Amy Harris
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Collaborating Towards Cognition By Using 21st Century Learning Techniques To Create Effective Learning, Donna Jo Baker, Kristina Durocher, Misty Hanks
Collaborating Towards Cognition By Using 21st Century Learning Techniques To Create Effective Learning, Donna Jo Baker, Kristina Durocher, Misty Hanks
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
See presentation description.
People News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent professional developments from SELA members.
Meta-Radicalism: The Alternative Press By And For Activist Librarians, Alycia Sellie
Meta-Radicalism: The Alternative Press By And For Activist Librarians, Alycia Sellie
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Erin M. Grant
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Erin M. Grant
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article discusses the personal library of the author. Her collection includes books in three main categories: art and design, folklore and mythology, and vintage mid-twentieth-century books.
A Call For Action: Mississippi’S Need For Minority Librarians, Stacy Creel, Elizabeth Haynes
A Call For Action: Mississippi’S Need For Minority Librarians, Stacy Creel, Elizabeth Haynes
SLIS Connecting
Recently, The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library and Information Science successfully recruited ten minority students in the following specialties: three public, three academic, two general, one special and one school for “The Minority Scholarship Initiative.” The scholarship was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Service’s Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program and created in partnership with the Mississippi Library Commission and The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. Currently, the minority enrollment at the university is 40%. The minority enrollment for the MLIS is 17%; however; it falls to 11% when not including the aforementioned scholarship …
Librarians And Statistics: Thoughts On A Tentative Relationship, Amy S. Van Epps
Librarians And Statistics: Thoughts On A Tentative Relationship, Amy S. Van Epps
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Librarians are not trained as original researchers during library school. As a result, librarians as authors may succumb to common statistical misconceptions and use errors, thus it is important for librarians to know how to recognize them. A quick discussion of what a researcher should be aware to avoid poor methods and inaccurate use of statistics is included. A review of statistics and research methods courses currently offered in library and information science programs helps determine if the lack of training observed in earlier studies has changed. A list of recommendations for authors and reviewers of LIS literature is presented.
Are Mls Graduates Being Prepared For The Changing And Emerging Roles That Librarians Must Now Assume Within Research Libraries?, James L. Mullins
Are Mls Graduates Being Prepared For The Changing And Emerging Roles That Librarians Must Now Assume Within Research Libraries?, James L. Mullins
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
The focus of research libraries is changing to include digital resources, improving the information literacy level of patrons, and creating new partnerships on and off campus, among other things. This creates a need to recruit librarians trained in these areas and open to these changes. Library science training is a necessary foundation for preparing graduates to qualify for and excel in changing and emerging new roles. This article explores current recruitment efforts to articulate new roles and to successfully hire graduates with the skills and aptitude to fill them.
Employment Opportunities For New Academic Librarians: Assessing The Availability Of Entry Level Jobs, Eamon Tewell
Employment Opportunities For New Academic Librarians: Assessing The Availability Of Entry Level Jobs, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
This study examines the availability of entry level positions in academic libraries to better illuminate the status of the job market for current students and recent graduates of Library & Information Science programs. Over a twelve month period from 2010—2011, 1385 job advertisements were collected, with content analysis methods used to evaluate each advertisement by level of position, institution type, location, department, and job type. Findings revealed one-fifth of jobs advertised to be entry level, with seventy percent of all positions offered by universities, and public services accounting for more than sixty percent of entry level employment opportunities. Further research …
Beyond A Fad: Why Video Games Should Be Part Of 21st Century Libraries, Kym Buchanan, Angela M. Vanden Elzen
Beyond A Fad: Why Video Games Should Be Part Of 21st Century Libraries, Kym Buchanan, Angela M. Vanden Elzen
Library Publications and Presentations
We believe video games have a place in libraries. We start by describing two provocative video games. Next, we offer a framework for the general mission of libraries, including access, motivation, and guidance. As a medium, video games have some distinguishing traits: they are visual, interactive, and based on simulations. We explain how these traits require and reward some traditional and new literacies. Furthermore, people play video games for at least three reasons: immersion, challenge, and connection. Finally, we offer guidelines and examples for how librarians can integrate video games into library collections and programming.
Communication Overload: A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Academic Reference Librarianship, C. Sean Burns, Jenny Bossaller
Communication Overload: A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Academic Reference Librarianship, C. Sean Burns, Jenny Bossaller
C. Sean Burns
Purpose – This study aims to provide insight on the meaning of communication overload as experienced by modern academic librarians. Communication is the essence of reference librarianship, and a practically endless array of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools (ICTs) are available to facilitate communication. Design/methodology/approach – This study relied on a phenomenological methodology, which included nine in-depth interviews with academic librarians. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed using RQDA, a qualitative analysis software package that facilitates coding, category building, and project management. Findings – Seven themes about librarianship emerged from this research: attending to communication abundance, librarians of two types, …
Review: Collaboration Is Key: Librarians And Composition Instructors Analyze Student Research And Writing, Marie-Elise Wheatwind
Review: Collaboration Is Key: Librarians And Composition Instructors Analyze Student Research And Writing, Marie-Elise Wheatwind
Collaborative Librarianship
No abstract provided.
Making Every Hour Count - Librarians And Time Management, Jennifer A. Bartlett
Making Every Hour Count - Librarians And Time Management, Jennifer A. Bartlett
Library Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Ua94/6/7 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Irene Gullette, Wku Archives
Ua94/6/7 Student / Alumni Personal Papers Wku Irene Gullette, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Irene Gullette. This collection contains correspondence with WKU librarians and administrators regarding her time at WKU and her later accomplishments in the field of Library Science.
People News
The Southeastern Librarian
Recent professional developments from SELA members.
Seeing The Clouds: Teacher Librarian As Broker In Collaborative Planning With Teachers, Sue Kimmel
Seeing The Clouds: Teacher Librarian As Broker In Collaborative Planning With Teachers, Sue Kimmel
STEMPS Faculty Publications
Teachers engaged in sustained collaboration with a teacher librarian were interviewed about the meaning of that collaboration. The findings suggest that the teachers recognized important contributions of the librarian to instructional planning and classroom instruction including knowledge, legwork, and support. In particular, they understood her role as a broker both to resources and to ideas for using those resources in instruction. While these resources were essential, they were not sufficient; they required a knowledgeable peer who also understood their application to the curriculum and what students were expected to learn. They required a librarian.