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Ali Kavak; Ayse Feride Kop – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This study aims to examine the effects on users of social and cultural activities organized in academic libraries. In the study, randomly selected users from academic libraries in Türkiye were surveyed and the data obtained were analyzed using a descriptive statistical method. The findings show that library activities have positive effects on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Role
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Sarah LeMire – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
As the OER movement expands in higher education, libraries are increasingly seeking to add OER librarians to their organizational charts. As an emerging subfield, OER librarianship takes many forms, and there are many paths to OER work. This study examines OER librarians' paths to the field, including their motivations for entering and remaining…
Descriptors: Librarians, Open Educational Resources, Motivation, Academic Libraries
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Andrea Baer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This article reports on findings of an online survey about academic instruction librarians' conceptions and experiences of teacher agency in relation to their instructional work, and, more specifically, on the role of librarian-faculty relationships in these conceptions and experiences. The research study is informed by an ecological model of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, College Faculty, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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Kirker, Maoria J. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
Over the past few decades, the demand for academic librarians who can teach information literacy skills to college students has steadily increased. This interview study explores how academic librarians in a mid-Atlantic metro area define the roles of librarians and teachers, value their teaching role as librarians, and view their teacher-librarian…
Descriptors: Library Role, Teacher Role, Librarian Attitudes, Academic Libraries
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Lance Day; Jaroslaw Szurek – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This article builds on a 2018 study and reports on a survey conducted in 2022 to examine the value of advanced subject degrees in addition to the Master of Library Science for academic librarians. This study explores the impact of advanced subject degrees on scholarly contributions, compensation, teaching roles, and tenure status in academic…
Descriptors: Library Education, Library Schools, Masters Degrees, Masters Programs
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Winterman, Brian; Asher, Andrew – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
Demonstrating academic libraries' contribution to institutional outcomes and strategic initiatives can be challenging, particularly in determining what library activities can be consistently and accurately assessed in ways that empirically demonstrate library value and impact. To address this challenge, the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Time Management, Library Services
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Freeman, Jacqueline L.; Downing, Karen E.; Myers, Claire; Thorsen, Allison; York, Jeremy; Muller, Joseph; Yakel, Elizabeth – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
Librarians continually seek innovative ways to integrate library expertise and resources into campus research endeavors. Although qualitative research has grown across disciplines, researchers using these methods often receive little campus-based support. The authors investigate this shortfall in support of qualitative researchers through…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Librarians
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Huff-Eibl, Robyn; Teetor, Travis – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This paper describes efforts at the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) in Tucson to improve access to the Internet and technology during the COVID-19 pandemic and as the libraries continue to adapt to hybrid instructional modalities. The authors highlight how their institution leveraged campus data and new partnerships to better meet students'…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Computers, Academic Libraries, Library Services
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Tella, Adeyinka; Okojie, Victoria; Abdullahi, Firdausi; Ajani, Yusuf Ayodeji – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This study examines the future of libraries in Nigeria during the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), when advanced technologies will change the way people live and work. It explores the outlook from the perspective of six academic librarians drawn from the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The survey findings reveal that the Fourth Industrial…
Descriptors: Library Role, Futures (of Society), Academic Libraries, Librarians
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Fribley, Karla; Vance, Jason M.; Gardner, Justin G. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Faculty development is a key priority for academic institutions in the United States. Often, centers for teaching and learning lead this work, but increasingly, librarians provide professional development for their teaching faculty colleagues. This study examines academic librarians' leadership of faculty development initiatives at their…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Faculty Development, Librarian Attitudes
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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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Darren Ilett – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study uses the critical race theory approach of counter-storytelling to explore scholarly identity development among first-generation, low-income, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), and women students transitioning to graduate school. Data included interview transcripts, observation notes, and student assignments from a program…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Story Telling, First Generation College Students, Minority Group Students
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Barry, Maureen E.; Snyder, Robert J.; Mathuews, Katy B. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
High school students' transition to college-level research is often discussed among school library and media specialists and academic librarians. The authors conducted a survey to gather data about the academic library's role in the adjustment to college, with the intention to identify compelling or recurring themes and share the results in…
Descriptors: Motivation, Academic Libraries, Student Adjustment, Library Role
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Vinyard, Marc – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Librarians were concerned that transfer students' information literacy skills lagged those of their peers because transfers did not receive the library instruction that other students got in first-year classes. The investigators conducted semi-structured interviews with transfer students to answer two research questions: (1) How do transfer…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Information Seeking
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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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