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Genrefication In Secondary School Libraries, Lindsay E. Pulsipher
Genrefication In Secondary School Libraries, Lindsay E. Pulsipher
School of Information Sciences Student Scholarship
Most school libraries organize fiction books alphabetically by an author’s last name. In order for a student to find and compare potential fiction reading material, the traditional school library model would have the student either search the library system for the topic and then go from stack to stack looking for books about the topic from any number of locations or seek advice from school library staff who would direct the student to potential titles as part of a reader’s advisory. In an effort to make fiction book selection easier for students, some school librarians have turned to genrefied fiction …
Social Networking In Academic Libraries: The Possibilities And The Concerns, Andrea Dickson, Robert P. Holley
Social Networking In Academic Libraries: The Possibilities And The Concerns, Andrea Dickson, Robert P. Holley
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
The goal of this article is to examine the use of the major social networking tools in academic libraries in the United States. Since college students are heavy users of social networking, such efforts provide academic libraries with outreach possibilities to students who do not use the physical library. The paper also examines the concerns about their use both from students and within the academic library.
Connecting First-Year Students With The Library: Wayne State University's Initiative, Carrie F. Croatt-Moore, Judith M. Arnold
Connecting First-Year Students With The Library: Wayne State University's Initiative, Carrie F. Croatt-Moore, Judith M. Arnold
Library Scholarly Publications
The session reports on two institutional initiatives for connecting first-year students with the library. The first project, situated in a research university environment, Wayne State University, utilized technology to create a first-year webpage (http://www.lib.wayne.edu/sites/fye/) that brought together library information and resources with relevant university-wide services. The presenters begin with a demonstration of the webpage, discussing the impetus for the project, the literature review and other research that went into the design and development. They report on the findings of the usability studies conducted with the webpage. Using a think-aloud protocol reviewed by the university’s institutional review board, students completed a …
Student Satisfaction With Electronic Library Resources At Wayne State University, Robert P. Holley, Ronald R. Powell
Student Satisfaction With Electronic Library Resources At Wayne State University, Robert P. Holley, Ronald R. Powell
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
This paper reports the results of a survey of student satisfaction with electronic library resources beyond the online catalog at Wayne State University. Undertaken in Fall Term 2000 as a class project for a marketing course, a student team designed, administered, and analyzed a survey sent to a 10% random sample (2,965) of all students with a return rate of 9.41% (271). Almost 40% of the responding students said that they were unaware of electronic resource though 53.8% of these same students answered subsequent questions about use of these resources. Students aware of electronic resources learned about them much more …