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Direct linkFuhr, 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
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
Bedi, Shailoo; Waldie, Christine – College & Research Libraries, 2017
Academic librarians have always played an important role in providing research services and research-skills development to faculty in higher education. But that role is evolving to include the academic librarian as a unique and necessary research partner, practitioner, and participant in collaborative, grant-funded research projects. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Libraries, Librarians, Library Role
Download full textCarroll, Margaret Aby; Chandler, Yvonne J. – 2002
This study examines whether an analysis of characteristics of libraries or information centers and librarians in highly productive companies yields operational models and standards that can improve their efficiency and effectiveness and their parent organization's productivity. Data was collected using an e-mail survey instrument sent to 500 large…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Information Centers, Information Services, Librarians
Iowa Educational Media Association. – 1985
The role of school librarians has changed as the rapid expansion of information technology during the last decade has placed more emphasis on their participation in the instructional process, and propelled the librarian into a new role as school media specialist. Many media specialists have difficulty in grasping their role in schools. They are…
Descriptors: Classification, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Development
Ceperley, Patricia E. – 1991
School library media specialists in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia were surveyed in April 1990 to determine their perceptions of their training needs as they are being called upon to use the latest information technologies to access, transfer, and store information. The 2,202 responses received represented a response rate of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis, Information Technology
