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Community College Librarians' Research and Publication Practices
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Linda Miles; Robin Brown – College & Research Libraries, 2023
Community colleges educate an estimated two-fifths of United States college students. Yet community college librarians do not disseminate enough research to enable their colleagues and their libraries to reach their potential. Little is known about what types of supportive measures might increase productivity. The authors collected quantitative…
Descriptors: Librarians, Community Colleges, Academic Libraries, Library Research
Professional Identity Development among Graduate Library and Information Studies Online Learners: A Mixed Methods Study
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Croxton, Rebecca A. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2015
This study explores how factors relating to fully online Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) students' connectedness with peers and faculty may impact their professional identity development as library and information studies professionals. Participants include students enrolled in a fully online MLIS degree program in the…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Individual Development, Mixed Methods Research, Electronic Learning
Growing Embedded Librarians Like Kudzu: How the Embedded Extension Service Creates More Embedded Librarians without Creating New Positions
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Coltrain, Mark – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2014
In an era of exploding online enrollment and tight budgets, Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) struggles to meet the needs of online students. CPCC librarians went one step towards solving that problem in 2009-2010 by launching an embedded librarian program. CPCC's program became so successful that it struggled to meet demand. In 2013, CPCC…
Descriptors: Librarians, Professional Development, Community Colleges, Online Courses
Information Literacy and Community College Students: Using New Approaches to Literacy Theory to Produce Equity
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Patterson, David – Library Quarterly, 2009
Librarians in community colleges have engaged in information literacy (IL) for decades, but their theorizing of IL has never taken equity as a starting point. This article asserts that IL theory radiating from equity requires the animating dynamics that conceptual advances in literacy theory offer. By examining early moments in librarianship to…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Theories, College Libraries, College Students