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Faculty Perceptions Of Teaching Information Literacy To First-Year Students: A Phenomenographic Study, Lorna M. Dawes

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This study examines faculty perceptions of teaching information literacy and explores the influence of these perceptions on pedagogy. The study adopted an inductive phenomenographic approach, using 24 semi-structured interviews with faculty teaching first-year courses at an American public research university. The results of the study reveal four qualitative ways in which faculty experience teaching information use to first year students that vary within three themes of expanding awareness. The resulting outcome space revealed that faculty had two distinct conceptions of teaching information literacy: (1) Teaching to produce experienced consumers of information, and (2) Teaching to cultivate intelligent participants in discourse …

Pre-Print: Introduction (Topographies Of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness In Library And Information Science), Gina Schlesselman-Tarango

Library Faculty Publications & Presentations

Pre-print: Introductory chapter to Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science.

“Bajan To Gullah” Cultural Capital: Wood, Stone, Iron, And Clay 1670 To 1770, Ramona Arlen La Roche

Theses and Dissertations

British planters, merchants and other non-landholding persons from Barbados owned and transported enslaved persons to the South Carolina colonial settlement as early as 1670. However, there is minimal specific information about Africans or Barbadian Creoles selected for these voyages. To date, no empirical research has examined any data on African or African descended artisans (enslaved or free) who accompanied their owners or authorized travelers to the New World. Such historical lack provides negligible if any recognition of the skillsets rendered by specific artisans that significantly enhanced the economic development of both Barbados initially, and later during the early development of …

พฤติกรรมการอ่านนิยายภาพของนักเรียนโรงเรียนสาธิตจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย ฝ่ายประถม, ปภัสรา สามารถ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาพฤติกรรมการอ่านนิยายภาพของนักเรียนโรงเรียนสาธิตจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย ฝ่ายประถม ในด้านเหตุผลที่อ่าน วิธีการได้นิยายภาพมาอ่าน ภาษา เนื้อหา ประเภทของนิยายภาพที่อ่าน สถานที่ และเวลาที่อ่าน ใช้วิธีวิจัยเชิงสำรวจ เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัย คือ แบบสัมภาษณ์กึ่งมีโครงสร้าง กลุ่มตัวอย่าง คือ นักเรียนโรงเรียนสาธิตจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย ฝ่ายประถม ระดับชั้นประถมศึกษาตอนปลาย (ชั้นประถมศึกษาปีที่ 4 - 6) ในปีการศึกษา 2559 ที่อ่านนิยายภาพ โดยใช้การสุ่มแบบโควตา จำนวนรวม 60 คน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า นักเรียนโรงเรียนสาธิตจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย ฝ่ายประถม ส่วนใหญ่อ่านนิยายภาพประเภทนวนิยายวิทยาศาสตร์ เรื่อง สารานุกรมความรู้วิทยาศาสตร์ ชุด Why? มากที่สุด มีเนื้อหาส่วนใหญ่เกี่ยวกับวิทยาศาสตร์ คณิตศาสตร์ และเทคโนโลยี นิยายภาพที่อ่านเป็นภาษาไทย อ่านนิยายภาพเพราะมีเนื้อหาน่าสนใจ วิธีการได้นิยายภาพมาอ่าน คือ การซื้อและการยืมจากห้องสมุดโรงเรียน สถานที่อ่าน คือ ที่บ้านและห้องสมุดโรงเรียน เวลาที่อ่านนิยายภาพ คือ ในวันที่เรียนช่วงพักกลางวัน และใช้ระยะเวลาในการอ่าน 6-10 ชั่วโมงต่อสัปดาห์

Gvsu Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog, 2017-2018, Grand Valley State University

Course Catalogs, 1963 - Current

Grand Valley State University 2017-2018 undergraduate and/or graduate course catalog published annually to provide students with information and guidance for enrollment.

Stronger Together: Increasing Connections Between Academic And Public Libraries, Maureen Richards

Publications and Research

Much has been written about collaborations between public and academic libraries. These collaborations generally take the form of joint libraries, special programs or consortia. They are motivated by the desire to do public outreach or community building or to provide better facilities, services or library resources to users from both library systems or, in the case of consortia, by economics.

Since the library website is now the most common entry point to an academic library, this paper explores the opportunities for building connections between an academic and public library’s resources by hyperlinking to public library resources. Deepening these connections supports …

Citation Network Analysis Of Science Doctoral Theses In The Faculty Of Science, University Of Ibadan, Malik Oyewale Salami Mr, Wole Michael Olatokun Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Objective - This paper investigated the intellectual structure of the cited journals by science doctoral students in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria through field-mapping mechanism namely co-citation analysis. The study also explored the relationship and its strength between the science disciplines in terms of journals that were co-referenced through bibliographic coupling analysis. The deployment of bibliographic coupling techniques with co-citation analysis was adopted to model the pattern of scientific communications among scientists and scholarly journals.

Methods - The scholarly citation data were collected from science doctoral theses submitted between 2006 and 2013 across ten disciplines in the Faculty of Science, …

Quantitative Analysis Of International Journal Of Library And Information Studies, Dr. Zafrunnisha N. Zafrunnisha, Sunil B

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study consist of 371 citations which have been appeared in two volumes i.e., 8 issues of International Journal of Library and Information Studies during the years 2014 and 2015. The distribution pattern of citation by type of documents i.e. journals are heavily cited (43.54%). It was observed that books fell in the next order (11.74%) followed by conference proceedings, reports, symposia papers representing 28.42 percent of the total which occupy an important place in usage. The average number of citations per thesis was 125.18.

Digital Literacy Skills Of Undergraduate Students In Nigeria Universities, Azeez Adebamgbola Adeoye, Basirat Jumoke Adeoye

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Influence of digital technology in our educational system cannot be overemphasized. Hardly can any undergraduate student survive in tertiary institution without basic skills and knowledge of digital technology. The composite skills require for student to fit into digital environment in achieving his/her academic pursuit is digital literacy skill. This prompted the study on the digital literacy skills of undergraduate students of Federal Universities in Southwest, Nigeria.

Research design employed for this study was the descriptive survey design. The population for this study was 60,997 undergraduate students of Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Ibadan and University of Lagos. However, multiple stage …

Reference Services In Liberal Arts Libraries, Emma R. Oxford

Libraries

This study addresses a gap in the literature regarding reference services at liberal arts institutions. The author conducted a literature review to examine the existing body of research on reference services and distributed a survey to the 80 member libraries of the Oberlin Group in February 2015. The study found that a wide range of reference practices are in place at liberal arts libraries and focused especially on the use of a designated reference desk, which is widespread. However, there is a correlation between higher librarian satisfaction with reference services and the absence of a desk. Comments from respondents are …

‘The Willing Women Are Standing Waiting Now’: British Women, The Second World War, And The Women’S Library At The London School Of Economics And Political Science, Erin Doerner

SLIS Connecting

Since the end of the Second World War some 70 years ago, research and scholarship featuring wartime contributions of the average British citizenhasfocused largely on men's experiences of combat, the various roles of government agencies, or the assumed viability and tenacity of political and military leaders. The role of gender in the experience of war was often a side-note, not a focus of research. Since the 1960s, and more frequently since the late 1980s, a new wartime perspective has begun to be documented and explored in academic and literary scholarship - that of British women.

This study examines primary materials …

Library-Sponsored Case Competitions: Best Practices And Assessment Of Learning Gains, Ilana Stonebraker

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The Parrish Library Case Competition is an annual library-administered, library-sponsored case competition where teams of undergraduate students compete against one another to make better evidence-based decisions for business problems. This article includes a description the case competition as a resource for other libraries interested in sponsoring similar case competitions as part of their information literacy programs. Students who participated in the case competition saw their learning grow as assessed through questionnaires and focus groups. Students who had not taken an information literacy course perceived their understanding as lower than those who had taken a course.

The Curious Case Of Floating Fixity (And Its Relationship To Authenticity), Kiersten F. Latham

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This paper is part reflection and part analysis. I use a personal document experience to illustrate the use of the holistic analysis framework of Document Phenomenology (Gorichanaz & Latham, 2016) to explore the notion of floating fixity and its relationship to authenticity.

University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries Archives And Special Collections Organizational Analysis, Carol Pitts Diedrichs

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: White Papers

Libraries everywhere are undergoing tremendous transformation in staffing, services, and collections. Archives and special collections are growing in importance and are moving quickly from the perimeter to the center of library activities and services. The University of Nebraska Lincoln Libraries invited me to conduct and facilitate a 1.5 day workshop/retreat on trends and strategic goals/initiatives for archives and special collections including review of the current organizational structure, staffing and services. The workshop/retreat focused on the following goals:

To hone strategic goals for UNL Archives and Special Collections over the next 3-5 years including evaluation of related staffing needs;

To identify …

Belén’S Plaza Vieja And Colonial Church Site: Memory, Continuity And Recovery, Samuel E. Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

This is my capstone project for completion of a Post MA certificate in Historic Preservation and Regionalism. I received the degree in Spring, 2019. The project involves recovering the legacy of a historic colonial church site in Belén, New Mexico. The work involves the descendant community’s sense of place and the continuity of memory and sacredness of Belen’s first church and original plaza.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 041, Number 15, December 5, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2016-2017, Volume 41

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Physically Challenged Students And Their Information Needs, Atanda S. Sambo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is aimed at exploring the information needs of the physically challenged students in Kwara State Library, Ilorin, Nigeria. A Survey research design was adopted. Three objectives were set for the study and the interview was used to elicit information from respondents. Findings showed that 76% were male while 24% were female. Findings also reveal that the information needs of physically challenges students covered medical (94%), academic (82%), security (78%), news/current awareness, training/conference, seminar respectively (76%), transport/travel (53%), sport (55%), politics (18%), and (4%) among others. The study revealed that (82%) used the library occasionally while (18%) regularly. The …

Friends Of The Libraries Newsletter, December 2016, Carrie Anderson (Editor)

Friends of the Libraries Newsletters

December 2016 Newsletter of the Friends of the Old Dominion University Libraries

Biz Of Acq--Digging Deeper: Trends By Discipline After 4+ Years Into Winthrop's Pda Program, Michelle Flinchbaugh, Antje Mays

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

International Dateline--Worlds Apart, Rita Ricketts, Lydia Weyers

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Digging Deeper: Trends By Discipline After 4+ Years Into Winthrop’S Pda Program, Antje Mays

Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 041, Number 14, November 28, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2016-2017, Volume 41

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Oral History With Jerome Wilson, Matthew R. Griffis

Oral History Archive

Dr. Jerome Wilson was born in Meridian, Mississippi in 1942. He attended St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Meridian from kindergarten to secondary school, whereupon he attended Dillard University in New Orleans to earn a BA in Chemistry and Mathematics.

Wilson later earned an MA in Immunology and Biochemistry from Cornell and, in 1983, earned his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent much of his career as a researcher and a research administrator in the pharmaceutical industry, later transitioning to academe when he helped set up the department of epidemiology at Howard University. …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 041, Number 12, November 14, 2016, Grand Valley State University

2016-2017, Volume 41

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

The Travelers' Charleston: Accounts Of Charleston And Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861, Kathelene Mccarty Smith

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

Viewing History From The Sky: Geo-Rectification Of An Aerial Photography Collection, Kate F. Boyd

Faculty and Staff Publications

After years of looking for funding, in 2013 USC Libraries was awarded a grant from the Gaylord & Donnelly Foundation to scan and geo-rectify the South Carolina historical aerial photographs from 1930-1980s. This presentation, given at the Digital Library Federation Forum in 2016, documents the efforts to receive funding and the process of bring these photographs online for users. Thanks to Bill Sudduth of Government Information for his efforts in continuing this process.

The Risen, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.

Digital Resources Utilization By Social Science Researchers In Nigerian Universities, Halima Sadia Egberongbe Phd

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was conducted to assess the use of digital/electronic information sources and services by faculty members of social sciences of three Universities in Nigeria. The purpose of investigation was to inquire about the respondents’ appreciation of the resources, level of utilization based on availability and access, benefits derived from usage as well as challenges encountered, as a result of usage. The study adopted a quantitative research method, using questionnaire survey to collect data on 50 social scientists from each of the faculties. The study revealed non-availability of major sources of electronic information in the social sciences in both the …

Using "Choice" To Measure The Availability And Use Of E-Books, Amanda L. Scott, Rickey D. Best

The Southeastern Librarian

As e-books have come to hold a major impact on library collection building activities, the influence of reviews of titles and the on-going conversion of titles to a digital format have significant potential impacts for libraries. Reviewing tools such as Choice and the lag-time between publication notice of the print edition of a work and its corresponding e-version asks the questions, “How many of the print titles that are reviewed in Choice have a corresponding e-version ready for purchase?” and “How used are those e-versions in comparison with print?”

The Southeastern Librarian V 64, No. 3 (Fall 2016) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

No abstract provided.