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Farkas, Meredith Gorran; Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke; Houk, Amy Harris – College & Research Libraries, 2015
In an environment in which libraries need to demonstrate value, illustrating how the library contributes to student learning is critical. Gathering and analyzing data to tell the library's story as well as identify areas for improvement require commitment, time, effort, and resources--all components of a culture of assessment. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Barriers, Academic Libraries, Influences, Organizational Culture
Al-Fadhli, Meshal; Corrall, Sheila; Cox, Andrew – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2016
The study analyzed factors shaping adoption of technology in academic libraries in Kuwait. The research was based on interviews conducted with library directors, staff, and users, combined with observation and document analysis. A major aspect of the Kuwaiti context was a relative lack of financial restraints and an enthusiasm for technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Development, Library Automation, Academic Libraries
Stoffle, Carla J.; Renaud, Robert; Veldof, Jerilyn R. – College & Research Libraries, 2015
Nearly all academic librarians agree that academic libraries have to change in order to respond successfully to the new realities of the higher education environment, rapidly developing information and telecommunications technologies, and the crisis in scholarly communications. But there is little agreement on what must change, how the changes…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Libraries, Educational Environment, Organizational Change
Oguz, Fatih – College & Research Libraries, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand the organizational level decision factors in technology adoption in the context of digital libraries. A qualitative case study approach was used to investigate the adoption of a specific technology, XML-based Web services, in digital libraries. Rogers' diffusion of innovations and Wenger's communities of…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Case Studies, Electronic Libraries, Adoption (Ideas)
Chen, Yu-Hui; Rorissa, Abebe; Germain, Carol Anne – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
The authors compared Web usability definitions, collected from library professionals at academic institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) through online surveys in 2007 and 2012, to determine whether library practitioners' perspectives had altered as information technologies evolved during this time. The authors applied three…
Descriptors: Definitions, Usability, Academic Libraries, Online Surveys
Turkewitz, Deborah – Public Services Quarterly, 2014
Graduate students are taking big steps and stretching themselves, whether returning to school midpoint in their lives, taking classes on unfamiliar topics, or starting internships and trying to put theory into practice. Who better to offer advice to these graduate students than America's favorite hilarious, morally ambiguous, ambulance-chasing,…
Descriptors: Library Services, Graduate Students, Information Science Education, Academic Libraries
Seale, Maura – Communications in Information Literacy, 2013
In 2012, more than a decade after the original Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (hereafter the Standards) were institutionalized as the goal of academic library instruction, the Information Literacy Competency Standards Review Task Force convened by ACRL recommended…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Librarians, Library Administration
Jaggars, Damon E. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
This special issue of "portal: Libraries and the Academy" grew out of a discussion about the need for speculative, creative space within the library and information science (LIS) literature.1 While venues for exposing important research and illuminating case studies are plentiful, the LIS literature lacks an obvious platform on which to…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Writing for Publication, Academic Libraries, Library Development
Levesque, Nancy – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2004
Today's librarians must create an engaging setting for teaching and learning by offering a welcoming library space, a wealth of online resources, combined with librarians' expertise and collaborative instruction programs. Rapid advances in information technologies, new methods of teaching and learning, and the changing makeup of university student…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Services, Library Development