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Fitzgerald, Sarah R.; Hutton, Sarah; Reznik-Zellen, Rebecca; Barlow, Charlie; Oldham, Will – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Academic libraries are fundamental in promoting equitable access to education but are often overlooked and underfunded. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified these inequities. This study investigates how 39 library deans and directors perceived decision-making by university administration during COVID-19's onset. Open-ended survey questions were sent to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ioana G. Hulbert; Deirdre Harkins; Mark McBride – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
Over the past several years, there has been an expansion in the use and awareness of open educational resources (OERs) in postsecondary institutions in the United States. Some states have invested funds to expand the use of OERs across their campuses as an alternative or supplement to traditional course materials that students typically pay for…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Sustainability, Postsecondary Education, Alignment (Education)
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Fred Awaah; Peter Akinsola Okebukola; Juma Shabani; Solomon Yeboah; Olasunkanmi Adio Gbeleyi; Heloo Sefiamor Emmanuella – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
Student difficulty in public administration has witnessed some writings within the African context. Although these studies are emerging, there seems to be minimal research on the influence of school libraries on students' understanding of public administration. This gap in the public administration literature precludes educational managers from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Public Administration Education, School Libraries
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Fuhr, Justin – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Research data services are increasingly offered by academic libraries. As a result, librarians may need to upskill to provide data services and build capacity. This study measures the current level of data services skills of academic librarians and explores preferred methods of continuing education. An online survey was circulated asking…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Data, Job Skills
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Lily Dubach; Penny Beile; Sara Duff; Rich Gause; Amanda Walden – College & Research Libraries, 2025
A growing number of studies have reported that using open educational resources benefits students, but few studies have investigated academic impacts of adopting library-sourced eBooks as the course textbook. This mixed-methods study utilizes the Open Education Group's COUP Framework (Cost, Outcomes, Usage, Perceptions), which has previously been…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, College Faculty, Librarians, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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Julien, Heidi; Gross, Melissa; Latham, Don – Journal of Information Literacy, 2022
Teaching is a core role for librarians in academic contexts, although most librarians are not formally prepared to teach and encounter significant challenges in the role, including complex relationships with campus colleagues. The purpose of this research was to explore how community college librarians, an understudied population, understand their…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Community Colleges, Library Role
Katherine Dix; Tamara Van Der Zant – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2025
The School Libraries in South Australia: 2024 Census offers a snapshot of the current state, challenges, and evolving roles of school libraries and their staffing in South Australia. Conducted by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) at the behest of the School Library Association of South Australia (SLASA), this census builds…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Libraries, Library Services, Financial Support
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John J. Meier – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This paper presents the results of thirty-seven interviews of senior library leaders at American Association of University (AAU) institutions conducted in Spring 2023. The author replicated a 2016 study from "portal," revealing an increased focus on strategic plan-based decision-making along with new priorities of open scholarship and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Library Administration, Administrator Attitudes
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Robyn Hall – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
Supported by institutional commitments to community engagement, undergraduate students at universities across North America are participating in community-based research projects. These experiential learning activities allow students to collaborate with community partners to address issues in their communities, often resulting in co-creating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Community Education, Research Projects
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Thoegersen, Jennifer L. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018
The ability to interact with and properly manage data in a research setting has become increasingly important in all disciplines. Libraries are attempting to identify their role in providing data management services. However, humanities faculty's conceptions of data and their data management practices are not well-known. This qualitative study…
Descriptors: Humanities, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Data Analysis
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Hays1, Lauren; Studebaker, Bethani – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Teaching is a primary responsibility of many academic librarians. However, despite the job duties, many academic librarians do not see themselves as teachers. To determine how participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) impacted academic instruction librarians' teacher identity the authors conducted an explanatory sequential…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Scholarship, Instruction
Frederick, Jennifer K.; Wolff-Eisenberg, Christine – ITHAKA S+R, 2020
The Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2019 examines strategy and leadership issues from the perspective of academic library deans and directors. This project aims to provide academic librarians and higher education leaders with information about chief librarians' visions and the opportunities and challenges they face in leading their organizations. In…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Administration, Library Services, Value Judgment
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Robertson, Mark – College & Research Libraries, 2015
This study examines perceptions of provosts from Canadian research-intensive universities regarding their institution's academic libraries. Interviews conducted with nine provosts explored how they perceive academic libraries in terms of alignment with institutional mission, how they envision the future of their libraries, and what they interpret…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Role, Research Universities
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Kgosiemang, Rose T. – Online Submission, 2016
In Botswana, the costs and requirements to study full-time are very high. Not everyone can afford to study full-time without forfeiting their current roles, for example, in 1999 the Center for Continuing Education (CCE) in Botswana launched a Diploma in Primary Education distance education programme, to upgrade academic and professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged
Bryant, Rebecca; Dortmund, Annette; Malpas, Constance – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2017
This report provides university and research library leaders with useful insights on emerging practices and infrastructures in European research information management (RIM), on the current and future role of persistent person and organization identifiers, and, more specifically, on incentives and barriers to adoption in three different national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Management, Research Administration, Research Libraries
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