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Brian Mathews – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Academic and research libraries are undergoing a profound transformation, shaped by technological advancements, shifting societal dynamics, and evolving institutional priorities. This essay examines how these forces are driving libraries to evolve into specialized and distinct models, shaping their future and drawing parallels to the Cambrian…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Specialization, Educational Trends
Eskridge, Honora N.; Carroll, Alexander J. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Liaison (or subject specialist) librarians are routinely identified as essential to the sustained success of academic libraries. Yet despite the purported centrality of liaisons to the mission of their institutions, many libraries have struggled to define the role of the subject specialist. These attempts at definition have resulted in a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, STEM Education, Research Libraries
Nackerud, Shane; Fransen, Jan; Peterson, Kate; Mastel, Kristen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
In Fall 2011, staff at the University of Minnesota Libraries-Twin Cities undertook a project to measure how often, and in what ways, students used the Libraries' services. Partnering with the University's Office of Institutional Research, the team investigated ways to match library service usage to individual accounts while retaining patron…
Descriptors: Library Services, Graduate Students, Institutional Research, Library Research
Lauren M. Young – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Digital badging has seen widespread adoption within the US higher education sector with continued growth predicted. Might digital badging present an underrealized opportunity for libraries seeking new vehicles through which to deliver information literacy instructional content? This paper offers an analysis of badging in higher education and…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Recognition (Achievement)
Soria, Krista M.; Fransen, Jan; Nackerud, Shane – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
Academic libraries, like other university departments, are being asked to demonstrate their value to the institution. This study discusses the impact library usage has on the retention and academic success of first-time, first-year undergraduate students at a large, public research university. Usage statistics were gathered at the University of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Libraries, Grade Point Average, Library Services
Menchaca, Frank – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
In the last two decades, fundamental changes in information distribution, in the general economy, and in the behaviors of faculty, students, and library staff have problematized the question of an academic library's value and how it can be measured. This article reviews those changes and, drawing on research linked to the Collegiate Learning…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Academic Achievement
Gunselman, Cheryl; Blakesley, Elizabeth – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
Some of the most enduring, and engaging, questions within academic librarianship are those about students and research skills. The vocabulary employed for discussion has evolved, but essential questions--what skills do students need to be taught, who should teach them, and how?--have persisted from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first.…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Academic Libraries, Research Skills, Library Instruction
Holobar, J. Christopher; Marshall, Andrew – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
This study examines the process of requesting copyright permissions through the Copyright Clearance Center's (CCC) pay-per-use service for electronic course reserves at the Penn State University Libraries in 2008. The authors investigate the efficiency of this process as a function of the percentage of permission requests successfully mediated by…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Internet
Hattwig, Denise; Bussert, Kaila; Medaille, Ann; Burgess, Joanna – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
Visual literacy is essential for 21st century learners. Across the higher education curriculum, students are being asked to use and produce images and visual media in their academic work, and they must be prepared to do so. The Association of College and Research Libraries has published the "Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Libraries, Literacy, Visual Literacy
Teper, Jennifer Hain; Shaw, Emily F. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
In anticipation of current and future mass digitization projects in which the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Library will participate, the Library's Conservation Unit began to gather data on the "scannability" of our general book collections to anticipate potential effects on conservation and preservation work flows. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Research Universities, Library Materials
Gilman, Todd; Lindquist, Thea – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
The topic of academic/research librarians with subject doctorates remains largely unexplored. Based on survey data gathered from subject-doctorate holders (excluding those with doctorates in LIS) currently working in U.S. and Canadian academic/research libraries, this article extends the analysis published by the authors in the January 2008 issue…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Work Environment, Educational Background, Librarians
Wei, Youhua; Thompson, Bruce; Cook, C. Colleen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
LibQUAL+[TM] data to date have not been subjected to the modern measurement theory called polytomous item response theory (IRT). The data interpreted here were collected from 42,090 participants who completed the "American English" version of the 22 core LibQUAL+[TM] items, and 12,552 participants from Australia and Europe who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Library Services, Item Response Theory
Clement, Gail; Levine, Melissa – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
We investigated whether American dissertations that were deposited in university libraries or disseminated on microfilm prior to 1978 were "published" for copyright purposes. This question has direct bearing on the copyright status of these works today. In the absence of a directly relevant legal decision to clarify the matter, the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Student Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Copyrights
Horowitz, Lisa R.; Flanagan, Patricia A.; Helman, Deborah L. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
The MIT Libraries enthusiastically implemented real-time online reference service in September 2001. After 15 months, Ask Us!--Live was suspended due to ongoing software problems. This article describes the four-part assessment of the service with recommendations for the future. (Contains 6 figures and 21 notes.)
Descriptors: Reference Services, Formative Evaluation, Computer Mediated Communication, Communication Research
Seaman, Scott – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
Although salary compression has previously been identified in such professional schools as engineering, business, and computer science, there is now evidence of salary compression among Association of Research Libraries members. Using salary data from the "ARL Annual Salary Survey", this study analyzes average annual salaries from 1994-1995…
Descriptors: Salaries, Research Libraries, Computer Science, Librarians
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