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Direct linkAneta Laskowska – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
This article uses bibliometric tools to analyze the peer-reviewed publications of academic librarians from 32 accredited higher education institutions in Norway--10 university libraries and 22 college libraries--associate members of Universities Norway (UHR). The period 2016-2020 was chosen to enable us to better understand publication patterns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Librarians, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries
Blummer, Barbara; Kenton, Jeffrey M. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2015
This is the second part of a series on Web 2.0 tools available from community college libraries' Websites. The first article appeared in an earlier volume of this journal and it illustrated the wide variety of Web 2.0 tools on community college libraries' Websites serving large student bodies (Blummer and Kenton 2014). The research found many of…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Community Colleges, Information Skills, Student Characteristics
Download full textHarris, Frances Jacobson – School Library Media Research, 2009
An analysis of postings on the LM_NET discussion list was conducted to better understand school library media specialist (SLMS) perceptions of the potential effect of structural challenges on their role in teaching Web evaluation skills. Structural challenges are institutional in the form of government regulation and school culture, and are…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Attitudes, Discussion Groups
Peer reviewedKalin, Sally W. – RQ, 1991
Discusses the needs of remote users of online public access catalogs (OPACs). User expectations are discussed; problems encountered by remote-access users are examined, including technical problems and searching problems; support services are described, including instruction, print guides, and online help; and differences from the needs of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Library Catalogs, Library Instruction, Library Services
Wang, Yu-Mei – International Journal on E-Learning, 2007
This study investigated university student information literacy skills benchmarked by the Association of College and Research Libraries: (a) determine the extent of information needed, (b) access the needed information effectively and efficiently, (c) evaluate information and its sources critically, (d) understand the economic, legal, and social…
Descriptors: Internet, Urban Universities, Research Libraries, Information Skills
Peer reviewedLuke, Joan M. – Microform Review, 1989
Reviews the most comprehensive articles on user education for microform collections in academic libraries published since 1976. Three areas of user education are addressed--promotion of microform collections, instruction in accessing the collection, and instruction in equipment use--and recommendations for implementing a user education program are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Higher Education, Library Collections
Peer reviewedHanson, Elizabeth; Serebnick, Judith – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Presents a methodology for describing, analyzing, and evaluating the public service functions of serial file systems, and describes a user study conducted in a university departmental library to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of its system in enabling students new to the library to locate known-items in the serials collection. (CDD)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHuston, Mary M. – Research Strategies, 1989
Presents literature review of concept-based search theory and its relationship to end user instruction for online bibliographic information systems. Existing search models and search curriculums from the library and information science literature are surveyed, scholarly patterns of information access are discussed, and commercial sources of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Curriculum, Information Utilization
Peer reviewedEisenberg, Michael B.; Spitzer, Kathleen L. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 1991
Reviews the development of information technology in elementary and secondary schools and in school library media programs. Instructional and administrative uses are examined; information services are discussed, including access to information; information skills instruction is considered; library media program management is described; resource…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedBarnes, Susan J.; And Others – Library Hi Tech, 1994
Discusses the development of electronic libraries at Cornell University's (New York) Mann Library and elsewhere and presents an overview of changes in services and staff responsibilities needed to address user needs. Sidebar articles discuss Internet access to government information; changing staff roles; geographic information systems; the Mann…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Change Strategies, Databases
