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Barker, Amy E. G.; Hoffman, Ashley T. – College & Research Libraries, 2021
In this mixed-methods study, librarians at Kennesaw State University Library System conducted a year-long design research project to create a flexible subject guide "blueprint" for undergraduate students using LibGuides. Methods included a card sorting study with 18 undergraduate students and usability testing with 40 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Library Services, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Guides
Sarah Horton Moukhliss – ProQuest LLC, 2022
At-risk students are at risk of falling behind in contributing to tomorrow's 21st-century technological workforce unless educators address deficits early on. Scholars have indicated school librarians can raise at-risk students' self-efficacy levels and address inequity through access to technology and instruction. Nonetheless, there are…
Descriptors: Librarians, School Libraries, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
Phillips, Abigail Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Cyberbullying is a problem many young adults ages 12 to 18 have experienced on a daily basis. Adult support is critical in both the prevention and intervention of cyberbullying. Although parents, teachers, and school administrators have been highlighted as sources of support for cyberbullied young adults, librarians have not been studied as a…
Descriptors: Empathy, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Librarians
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Riley, Cordelia – Journal of Access Services, 2009
An increasing number of library patrons are hard of hearing. The U.S. Bureau of Census projected that 35 million North Americans would suffer from hearing loss by the year 2005 based on the age-population projections. These individuals would have at one time been labeled as deaf due to the lack of assistive hearing technology such as hearing aids…
Descriptors: Partial Hearing, Assistive Technology, Library Services, Access to Information
Shelton, John L. – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1975
Library skills were taught to 600 fifth- and sixth-grade students in an effort to indoctrinate them into becoming library users. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Library Instruction
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1986
School media programs in a variety of settings within the state of Georgia that have proven to be successful are described in this publication from the Georgia Department of Education. For each entry, the school, media center, and specific program component of interest are described. The components include: (1) modernization of a media center…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Curriculum Development, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Media