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John Mack Freeman – Journal of Access Services, 2023
The Georgia Tech Library Public Services Department proposed to expand the number of staffed service points throughout the Library to increase coverage and service. The proposal was well-received by Library leadership and earned priority placement in the Library's annual budget request. The theoretical underpinning for this reception is an…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Staff Utilization, Facility Expansion
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Alexandra Hill; Andrew Cox – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
Academic libraries in the UK are playing a more prominent role in the mental health and wellbeing of students. Wellbeing collections have emerged as one way to do this but are under-researched. The aim of this paper is to investigate the development of wellbeing collections at UK institutions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Well Being, Library Role
Cooper, Danielle Miriam; Ruediger, Dylan; Skinner, Makala – ITHAKA S+R, 2022
In 2021, Ithaka S+R conducted a survey designed to provide insight into the streaming media strategies libraries are adopting and the challenges they are facing. The survey tracked the vendors libraries are most commonly working with, acquisition models and licensing agreements, current and projected budgets for streaming, and the digitization of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Internet, Library Services, Academic Libraries
Keith Curry Lance; Debra E. Kachel; Leah Breevoort; Caitlin Gerrity; Deeth Ellis – Grantee Submission, 2023
In the final phase of the federal grant project called The School Librarian Investigation--Decline of Evolution? (SLIDE), a qualitative study of interviews of K-12 school leaders was conducted. The purpose was to learn the factors, experiences, and priorities that caused school administrators to either increase or to decrease librarian positions.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, School Libraries, Librarians, Personnel Selection
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Hogenboom, Karen; Hayslett, Michele – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
During the last few years, many academic libraries have accepted the challenge of helping their users locate and acquire the numeric data they need. To meet their users' ever-increasing need for data, librarians are purchasing data sets one at a time ("small data"). This service, though important to our users, raises many issues in the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data, Library Materials, Library Services
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Rachel Borchardt; Teresa Schultz; DeDe Dawson – College & Research Libraries, 2024
About half of Library and Information Science (LIS) journals continue to charge authors to publish articles open access (OA) or do not offer OA publishing at all. To further investigate the financial and other perceived barriers preventing these LIS journals from transitioning to no-publishing fee OA models, this exploratory project surveyed lead…
Descriptors: Editing, Library Science, Information Science, Access to Information
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Kammer, Jenna; Atkins, Charlene; Burress, Rene – School Library Research, 2022
This study examined how school librarians spent their own money to support their libraries during the 2020-2021 school year in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the various factors that influence this spending. Using mixed methods, this study identified demographic information about the participants and schools served, personal spending…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Budgets, Expenditures
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Tutar, Perihan – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2021
The cultural domain may be defined as a sphere of influence that involves all cultural activities, whether economic or social in nature. In the context of lifelong learning, cultural and artistic environments represent tools and media of significance for formal and informal adult learning. The availability of learning opportunities in the cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Cultural Awareness, Budgets
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Byamugisha, Helen M. – Journal of Access Services, 2018
Most universities are enrolling large numbers of students amidst dwindling budgets. This leads to reduced book- to student ratios. Makerere University started a Book Bank system to ensure availability of basic text books to students. The aim of this paper was to assess whether the Book Bank system was a viable strategy for enhancing access to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Libraries, Access to Information, Reading Materials
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Blizzard, Kara; Becker, Yvonne; Goebel, Nancy – College Quarterly, 2018
A human library is an event in which "readers" listen to "human books" tell personal stories about specific topics related to prejudice and discrimination. At the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta, the research team designed an assignment and collected associated data on the integration of the Augustana human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Studies, College Students, Personal Narratives
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Haugh, Dana – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2016
The shift from physical materials to digital holdings has slowly infiltrated libraries across the globe, and librarians are struggling to make sense of these intangible, and sometimes fleeting, resources. Materials budgets have shifted to accommodate large journal and database subscriptions, single-title article access, and, most recently, e-book…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Books, Electronic Publishing
Blankstein, Melissa; Wolff-Eisenberg, Christine – ITHAKA S+R, 2019
The Community College Academic and Student Support Ecosystems (CCASSE) project examines how academic and student support services at not-for-profit associate-degree granting colleges are organized, funded, and staffed, and how these services can most effectively advance student success. In spring 2019, Ithaka S+R surveyed 249 chief academic and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Support Services, Student Personnel Services
Dooley, Jackie M.; Beckett, Rachel; Cullingford, Alison; Sambrook, Katie; Sheppard, Chris; Worrall, Sue – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2013
It has become widely recognised across the academic and research libraries sector that special collections and archives play a key role in differentiating each institution from its peers. In recognition of this, Research Libraries UK (RLUK) established the workstrand "Unique and Distinctive Collections" (UDC) in support of its strategic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Libraries, Archives, Surveys
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Merga, Margaret K. – Literacy, 2020
While qualified school librarians can have a positive influence on children's literacy attainment, very little consideration is given to the educative role of librarians in schools. Lack of attention on these librarians' educative capacity may be due to a devaluing of the educational contribution of school librarians, and it can be argued that…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Literacy Education, Librarians, Literature
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Osagie, Roseline O.; Orheruata, Matilda U. – Education, 2013
This paper presents the findings of a study on funding of the library at the University of Benin in relation to the recurrent budget implementation during the 1992/93 to 1996/97 academic sessions. The findings indicated that the library depended on the central administrations's allocation for its funding. It also showed that the University of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Libraries, College Libraries, Financial Support
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