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Salisbury, Fiona; Dollinger, Mollie; Vanderlelie, Jessica – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2020
Across the sector, universities are transforming the student experience by reconceptualising the ways in which they partner with students. The academic library is at the heart of the university experience and libraries have a long history of collaboration and engaging with their communities. As such academic libraries are the perfect next frontier…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, College Students, Design
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Meunier, Benjamin – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2020
The paper will explore how the UCL Student Centre, opened in 2019, responds to the emphasis on 'research-based education' in the UCL Education Strategy. It discusses the high levels of engagement at different levels, which characterised the design of the building, and how services and spaces were designed around student needs. The paper will aim…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, College Students
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Torrence, Matt – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2015
The literature, activities, and resource needs of engineering students and faculty provide insight into a demographic that is often among the early-adopters of new technologies, tools, and methods of sharing information. Despite the often non-bibliographic nature of their research efforts, there are numerous elements of the traditional service…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Services, Outreach Programs, Marketing
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Hider, Philip – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2009
The resource typologies proposed in the new standard, "Resource Description and Access" (RDA), are evaluated in the context of a particular university library catalogue through two card-sort exercises. Although it was found that end-users recognised the content and carrier aspects of the resource types as listed in RDA, they did not…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Classification, Universities, Cataloging
Link, Terry; And Others – 1985
This self-study--part of a series of studies conducted at Michigan State University Libraries--was designed to elicit information regarding non-use of the library by members of the academic community. A telephone survey questionnaire was administered to a stratified systematic sample of students and faculty members, and 1,269 students and 211…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, College Students, Higher Education
Larson, Mary Ellen; Freivalds, Dace – 1985
This study on the role of instruction in encouraging the successful performance of the first-time online catalog user examined three relationships to evaluate the effects of an instructional program: the comparative effectiveness of four instructional methods in orienting users to the online catalog; the influence of an instruction program on user…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Higher Education, Intermode Differences