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Creating a Micro UX Internship with Artifacts and Impact
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James Miller – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
User experience (UX) internships generate ideas for usability projects, improve the design of existing and new services, investigate users' motivations and behavior, and build transferable skills for interns. This case study proposes a micro-internship model, grounded in the design cycle, that institutions can adapt to address their libraries and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Internship Programs, Undergraduate Students, Academic Libraries
Student Perceptions of Academic Librarians and the Librarian-Faculty-Student Dynamic: Minding Our Gaps
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Fagan, Jody Condit; Ostermiller, Hillary; Price, Elizabeth; Sapp, Lara – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2022
A survey concerning perceptions of academic librarians was conducted at a large, 4-year university with three populations: librarians, faculty, and undergraduate students. This paper presents results from the student population, with comparison to the librarian and faculty samples. The major research questions address perceptions about what…
Descriptors: Librarians, Academic Libraries, Undergraduate Students, Library Role
Creating a Library Orientation Card Game to Reach New Transfer Students
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Giles, Kelly; Shuyler, Kristen; Evans, Andrew; Reed, Jon – Public Services Quarterly, 2019
Librarians and staff at a public university drew upon previous experience with instructional games to develop, implement, and assess a card game as a library orientation activity for new transfer students. This project was shaped by a desire to meet transfer students' unique needs as well as the logistical constraints associated with the…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Educational Games, Academic Libraries, Librarians
Teaching Web Evaluation: A Cognitive Development Approach
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Benjes-Small, Candice; Archer, Alyssa; Tucker, Katelyn; Vassady, Lisa; Resor, Jennifer – Communications in Information Literacy, 2013
Web evaluation has been a standard information literacy offering for years and has always been a challenging topic for instruction librarians. Over time, the authors had tried a myriad of strategies to teach freshmen how to assess the credibility of Web sites but felt the efforts were insufficient. By familiarizing themselves with the cognitive…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Internet, Evaluation Methods, Information Literacy
The Evolution of Library Instruction Delivery in the Chemistry Curriculum Informed by Mixed Assessment Methods
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Mandernach, Meris A.; Shorish, Yasmeen; Reisner, Barbara A. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2014
As information continues to evolve over time, the information literacy expectations for chemistry students also change. This article examines transformations to an undergraduate chemistry course that focuses on chemical literature and information literacy and is co-taught by a chemistry professor and a chemistry librarian. This article also…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Delivery Systems, Chemistry, Educational Development
Stranger in a Strange Land: The Undergraduate in the Academic Library--A Collaborative Pedagogy for Undergraduate Research
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Bankert, Dabney A.; Van Vuuren, Melissa S. – CEA Forum, 2008
This is not another tired lament for a Golden Age when all students were brilliantly prepared for college, but rather an elaboration of a central pedagogical reality the authors had each separately faced--it is not easy to teach the complex set of skills subsumed under the heading "research," that organic, contingent, messy, recursive…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Academic Libraries, Research Skills