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Anne Grant; Kyle Feenstra; Mills Kelly – College & Research Libraries, 2025
This exploratory study seeks to gather preliminary information about the roles that academic librarians in the United States (US) and Canada play in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work on their campuses. It also provides insight into how librarians at US Carnegie Research 1 (R1) classified universities and U15 Group of Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Learning
Tewell, Eamon C. – College & Research Libraries, 2018
Critical information literacy is a way of thinking and teaching that examines the social construction and political dimensions of libraries and information, problematizing information's production and use so that library users may think critically about such forces. Being an educational approach that acknowledges and emboldens learners' agency,…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Instruction
Walz, Anita R.; Bekbalaeva, Jyldyz – Open Praxis, 2018
The study was undertaken to understand the propensity for increased engagement with open educational practices (OEP), to include methods prioritizing student-centered teaching & learning, and awareness, use, and development of open educational resources (OER) among higher education faculty in Kyrgyzstan. The study employed a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Shared Resources and Services, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Sirinides, Phil; Fink, Ryan; DuBois, Tesla – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
As states, cities, and communities take a more active role in ensuring that all children have access to high quality experiences and opportunities to learn, many are looking to museums and libraries as part of the early childhood education system. Museums and libraries can play a critical role in these efforts, and there is clear momentum and…
Descriptors: Museums, Libraries, Library Role, Young Children
Greer, Katie; Hess, Amanda Nichols; Kraemer, Elizabeth W. – College & Research Libraries, 2016
This article builds on the 2007 College and Research Libraries article, "The Librarian, the Machine, or a Little of Both." Since that time, Oakland University Libraries implemented changes to its instruction program that reflect larger trends in teaching and assessment throughout the profession; following these revisions, librarians…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Intermode Differences
Phillips, Margaret; Jones, Lynn – SAGE Open, 2018
We conducted a survey of the winners of University of California (UC) Berkeley's Library Prize for Undergraduate Research (2003-2016) to learn about the long-term impact of undergraduate research projects on students, find out what winners gained from the experience, and compare their careers post-graduation with other students. Seventy-four…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, College Libraries, Awards
Denda, Kayo – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
This case study presents a cocurricular initiative at the Margery Somers Foster Center at Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick, NJ. The initiative resulted in an interview workshop for the course Knowledge and Power, a "mission course" of the Douglass Residential College. This discussion-based workshop uses visual and multimedia…
Descriptors: Interviews, Skill Development, Visual Literacy, Assignments
Booth, Char; Lowe, M. Sara; Tagge, Natalie; Stone, Sean M. – College & Research Libraries, 2015
The Claremont Colleges Library conducted direct rubric assessment of Pitzer College First-Year Seminar research papers to analyze the impact of diverse levels of librarian course collaborations on information literacy (IL) performance in student writing. Findings indicate that progressive degrees of librarian engagement in IL-related course…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Research Reports, Student Research, Librarians
Condic, Kristine S. – 1995
The growth and influence of the Internet have been phenomenal in the past few years. Academic librarians are faced with a new service for their clientele who, in most cases, will need instruction in order to use the Internet effectively. Many academic libraries are already providing training sessions for their users. A survey of 150 libraries was…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Community Education, Higher Education, Internet
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1991
Noting that information is needed about libraries' roles in literacy activities in terms of the outcomes, the Library Programs Office of the U.S. Department of Education awarded the Division of Library Development a grant to develop a model that would evaluate literacy activities in such a fashion. A result of this effort, this library literacy…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Evaluation Research
Childers, Thomas; Van House, Nancy A. – 1989
This study investigated the construct of effectiveness as it applies to public libraries and developed a methodology that can be transferred to other types of libraries and organizations. The research team began by compiling a list of indicators that are commonly used to gauge library effectiveness within the areas of: (1) services access; (2)…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Library Research, Library Role

Fisher, Jean; Bjorner, Susanne – Special Libraries, 1994
Examines the librarian's role in managing online access and training endusers based on a survey of librarians. Highlights include the impact on special libraries; goals of enduser training; the corporate context; instructional and training aids; enduser instruction in the virtual library; and competencies required for information literacy. (10…
Descriptors: Corporate Libraries, Educational Objectives, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
Haag, D. E. – 1989
The project documented in this report identified barriers researchers encounter in gaining access to--i.e., identifying, acquiring, handling, and using--published information and measured the seriousness of the more significant barriers. Fifty-one barriers were identified, and a method of measuring their seriousness was developed. Thirty of the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval
Van House, Nancy A.; Childers, Thomas A. – 1993
The purpose of the Public Library Effectiveness Study was to define effectiveness for the public library institution. The research was designed not to measure effectiveness or evaluate particular libraries or groups of libraries, but rather to identify the feature or features of a public library that most directly attest to its effectiveness. The…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research

Lancaster, F. W.; And Others – Reference Librarian, 1992
This study, conducted at Illinois State University library, evaluated the ability of professional librarians to answer reference questions. Evaluations by undergraduate students were scored for accuracy of response and attitude of the librarian to determine the best attitudinal predictor of accuracy scores. The evaluation form is appended. (three…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Librarian Attitudes
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