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Yajun Guo; Shuai Li; XinDi Zhang; Yiyang Fu; Yiming Yuan; Yanquan Liu – College & Research Libraries, 2024
The purpose of this study is to learn more about virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) practices at the United States' top one hundred university libraries, as well as how they are engaging with the metaverse. We conducted qualitative and descriptive analysis on the websites of the top one hundred university libraries in the United…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Metadata
Emilee Mathews – College & Research Libraries, 2025
A limited number of interlocking institutions provide career opportunities within contemporary visual art, which affects both who is seen and written about. This paper compares the proportions of recent art exhibition reviews and catalogs to artists' race and gender, and how that is reflected in library collections. Overall, publications covered…
Descriptors: Publications, Exhibits, Library Materials, Academic Libraries
Jess Crilly – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
The terms Diversifying, Decentring and Decolonising characterise the ways that academic libraries are engaging with social justice issues, through multiple theoretical perspectives epitomised by the rejection of libraries as neutral spaces. The review covers numerous case studies of critically informed action, or praxis across a variety of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, COVID-19, Diversity, Equal Education
Leonidas Papachristopoulos – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on bibliometric research on the activities and services offered by distance libraries that serve distance learning institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis of scholarly communication has always been a valuable tool for researchers and policymakers in order to understand trends, gaps…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Library Services, Library Role, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Jane Hammons – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
Evidence from the Library and Information Science (LIS) literature shows that academic librarians can effectively collaborate on or lead faculty development initiatives. However, it is not clear if and how librarians' engagement with faculty development is represented within the Faculty Development (FD) literature. This study reviews three FD…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Periodicals, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction
Yuening Zhang – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2025
Research support demonstrates the value of academic libraries and librarians. Recent studies have revealed that research support has been evolving from traditional citation analysis to advanced library services such as research field trend/frontiers analysis and talent evaluation. Using a powerful bibliometric tool CiteSpace and "active…
Descriptors: Research, Trend Analysis, Publications, Citation Analysis
Duane Wilson – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This paper provides a historical literature review of the subject librarian position. The subject librarian position was originally created to support patrons in specific subjects. Since the position's creation, a subject librarian's foundational duties have consisted of collection development, reference, instruction, and liaison. Though liaison…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Librarians, Library Role, Library Services
Melo, Marijel; Hirsh, Kimberly; March, Laura – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Makerspaces continue to grow in popularity in library ecosystems, yet no one has done a census on important data points, such as total active makerspaces, planned makerspaces, and types of makerspaces in public colleges and universities in the United States. The objective of this report is to gather baseline data on makerspaces, the majority of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Public Colleges, Shared Resources and Services, Library Services
Samantha Godbey; Starr Hoffman – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This paper provides a snapshot of United States academic libraries in 2020 and explores longitudinal trends in staffing and expenditures for 1996 to 2020. The authors merged and analyzed academic library data from the National Center for Education Statistics from over 4,000 postsecondary institutions. Characteristics are explored by region and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Regional Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Legislation
Cay del Junco – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
In contrast to the traditional library instruction aim of finding and evaluating information, critical library pedagogies aim to teach students to analyze and challenge the power structures that determine what kind of information is deemed valuable. STEM librarians have been slower to take up these approaches than our colleagues with other…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Information Literacy, Library Science, Critical Theory
Garoufallou, Emmanouel; Gaitanou, Panorea – College & Research Libraries, 2021
Currently "Big Data" is an emerging field that presents several Information Technology challenges regarding the capture, storage search, structure, and visualization of this data. The real challenge for organizations is to find ways to extract value from it and provide better services to their clients. The data generated in academic and…
Descriptors: Data, Librarians, Library Role, Library Research
Sue C. Kimmel; Jennifer Moore; Rebecca J. Morris; Audrey Church; Ann Dutton Ewbank – School Library Research, 2023
In 2019 the American Association of School Librarians adopted a strategic plan with three goals, including "AASL advances research that informs school librarian practice." Members of the 2020 Community of Scholars Committee undertook this study to pilot an annual aggregation and systematic review of research related to school librarian…
Descriptors: Librarians, School Libraries, Library Education, Library Associations
Samuel Kent Willis – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2025
Library systems and digital services are in rapid development and of increasing importance to meeting the needs of users, and systems librarianship is at the forefront of this development, with ever-changing expectations of expertise and areas of responsibility. The aim of this study was to determine how well library and information science (LIS)…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Library Science, Library Education, User Needs (Information)
Alisa Howlett; Eleanor Colla; Rebecca Joyce – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
An increasingly complex and demanding research landscape has seen university libraries rapidly evolve their services. While research data management, bibliometrics, and research impact services have predominantly featured in the literature to date, the full scope of support libraries are currently providing to their institutions is unknown. This…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Academic Libraries, Universities, Foreign Countries
William H. Walters – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Estimates of the price or value of the individual journals within a full-text database may be useful to librarians engaged in serials reviews or other collection development projects, to scholars investigating the determinants of journal prices, and to publishers seeking to rationalize their pricing strategies. This paper evaluates six methods of…
Descriptors: Databases, Costs, Publications, Periodicals