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The Right to Be Forgotten and Implications on Digital Collections: A Survey of ARL Member Institutions on Practice and Policy
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Dressler, Virginia; Kristof, Cindy – College & Research Libraries, 2018
In the spring of 2017, digital librarians and digital collection managers at member institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) were surveyed on practices and policies surrounding takedown requests in openly accessible digital collections. The survey collected basic demographic information surrounding the digital repositories…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Research Libraries, Library Policy, Library Materials
A Comparison of Evidence-Based Practice and the ACRL Information Literacy Standards: Implications for Information Literacy Practice
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Adams, Nancy E. – College & Research Libraries, 2014
Evidence-based practice (EBP), like information literacy, is concerned with an individual's knowledge, skills, and attitudes relating to using information. EBP is now a professional competency in fields as diverse as social work, nursing and allied health fields, and public policy. A comparison of the Association of College and Research Libraries'…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Library Associations, Academic Standards
What about the "Google Effect"? Improving the Library Research Habits of First-Year Composition Students
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Corbett, Patrick – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
This article presents a consideration of how students' existing information-seeking behaviors affect traditional methods of teaching library research in first-year writing courses and offers an alternative method that uses both library and popular Internet search tools. It addresses one aspect of the ongoing pedagogical struggle with new…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Library Research, Familiarity, Search Engines
The Evidence-Based Manifesto for School Librarians
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Todd, Ross – School Library Journal, 2008
School Library Journal's 2007 Leadership Summit, "Where's the Evidence? Understanding the Impact of School Libraries," focused on the topic of evidence-based practice. Evidence-based school librarianship is a systematic approach that engages research-derived evidence, school librarian-observed evidence, and user-reported evidence in the processes…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Role, Librarians, Academic Achievement
The ARL 2030 Scenarios: A User's Guide for Research Libraries
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Association of Research Libraries, 2010
This user's guide was developed to advance local planning at ARL member libraries. It is written for library leaders writ large and for anyone leading or contributing to research library planning processes. Users do not need advanced facilitation skills to benefit from this guide, but facilitators charged with supporting scenario planning will…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Administration, Strategic Planning, Long Range Planning
Card-Sorting Usability Tests of the WMU Libraries' Web Site
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Whang, Michael – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2008
This article describes the card-sorting techniques used by several academic libraries, reports and discusses the results of card-sorting usability tests of the Western Michigan University Libraries' Web site, and reveals how the WMU libraries incorporated the findings into a new Web site redesign, setting the design direction early on. The article…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library Science, Methods