Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 2 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 9 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 26 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 33 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Alexander, Linda B. | 1 |
Allard, Bradley | 1 |
Anderson, Linda L. | 1 |
Annis Lee Adams | 1 |
Armstrong, Annie | 1 |
Avery, Susan | 1 |
Bennett, Jessica L. | 1 |
Binnie, Naomi | 1 |
Booth, Char | 1 |
Bratton, Virginia K. | 1 |
Breaux, Arleene P. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Higher Education | 33 |
Postsecondary Education | 27 |
Two Year Colleges | 2 |
Audience
Practitioners | 5 |
Media Staff | 3 |
Researchers | 2 |
Location
California | 4 |
Canada | 3 |
Illinois (Chicago) | 2 |
Australia | 1 |
Canada (Montreal) | 1 |
China | 1 |
Illinois | 1 |
Iowa | 1 |
Israel | 1 |
Japan | 1 |
Macau | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Annis Lee Adams; Stephanie Alexander; Sharon Radcliff – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study was designed to inform the renaming of a credit-bearing information literacy course. Researchers surveyed librarians to gather existing information literacy course titles. They also surveyed and held focus groups with students to learn what students consider when choosing electives, to understand how well the researchers' current…
Descriptors: College Students, Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Deeke, Alexander; Binnie, Naomi – College & Research Libraries, 2023
During a two-year period, over 1,900 undergraduate students completed a version of an online asynchronous library module either with or without decorative images. Two instruction librarians compared quiz scores and affective feedback from both versions to determine the impact decorative images had on student performance and analyzed the results…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Library Instruction, Electronic Learning, Visual Aids
Madelaine Vanderwerff; Sara Sharun; Christopher Thomas – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study examines undergraduates' research practices, as described in reflective essays submitted in applications to a library research award. Thematic analysis of 24 student award essays identified three strong themes in student reflections about their research experiences. Students experienced research as a social process, made meaning closely…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Information Literacy, Academic Libraries
Bennett, Jessica L. – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2022
The following study aimed to assess both instructor and student perceptions of virtual library instruction sessions. The primary question was are there perceived benefit of synchronous library instruction versus watching the recording of the same session. Two anonymous, mixed-method surveys were distributed: one to instructor and one to students.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Web Based Instruction, Academic Libraries
Chang, Daniel H.; Lane, Julia; Power, Hope – BC TEAL Journal, 2023
This paper describes a pilot project undertaken in 2019 by library instructors at Simon Fraser University (SFU) to transition from in-person to online research and writing skills instruction within the context of a foundational course for multilingual international students at Fraser International College (FIC), an international pathway school to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness, Research Skills, Writing Skills
Xie, Shiyi; Savory, Eric – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2022
Prior research on information literacy instruction in engineering graduate programs rarely considers course instructor perspectives, and instead only uses student feedback to evaluate the efficacy of information literacy instruction. This study documents the authors' efforts to evolve the library curriculum to motivate student learning and meet…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Engineering Education, Graduate Students, Instructional Design
Eva, Nicole C.; Rocca, Marissa S.; MacKay, D. Bruce – College & Research Libraries, 2021
With the advent of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in 2015, librarians everywhere have tried to adapt their existing information literacy sessions to incorporate the revised concepts. This article discusses how the librarian responsible for a series of four labs in a first-year course reformed the lab content…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Information Literacy, Fundamental Concepts
Anderson, Linda L.; García, Susan A. Vega – College & Research Libraries, 2020
To better understand the library's role in student success, this research used student survey data to explore students' reported library building use, library resource use, library instruction, as well as student perceptions of the library's role in their success, and how these factors may vary by academic discipline. Cumulative GPAs were also…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Academic Achievement, Users (Information), Library Instruction
Scoulas, Jung Mi; De Groote, Sandra L. – College & Research Libraries, 2022
The research aims to identify the primary reason for students' library use, to explore how they characterize academic success, and to further examine the impact of library usage on student learning outcomes beyond GPA, through a mixed-methods approach. By surveying and interviewing 27 undergraduate students during 2019-2020, the findings revealed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Users (Information), Grade Point Average, Student Attitudes
Lantzy, Tricia – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2022
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, college students across the United States temporarily became online learners regardless of their learning modality preferences. Academic libraries and the student support they offer also went entirely online for extended periods. How did this involuntary online environment affect students' library research?…
Descriptors: College Students, Pandemics, COVID-19, School Closing
Keba, Michelle; Fairall, Elizabeth – Communications in Information Literacy, 2020
Information literacy is the primary instructional focus of many librarians. With the development of a core set of information literacy threshold concepts, librarians often strive to impart these concepts to undergraduate students during their years of study. However, when students come to school, they are not blank slates. They arrive with…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Misconceptions, First Year Seminars, College Freshmen
Xie, Jingzhen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Academic libraries in Macao, China, began to use the term "information literacy" and to offer information literacy programs approximately three years ago. At the University of Macau, information literacy is considered important to help the honors students become junior researchers. Using the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Michalak, Russell; Rysavy, Monica; Hunt, Kevin; Smith, Bernice; Worden, Joel – College & Research Libraries, 2018
Using a survey modified from "The Plagiarism Handbook," the research team surveyed all undergraduate and graduate faculty (n = 79) teaching during the fall 2016 semester at a small private college in the United States. With a final survey response rate of 59.5 percent (n = 47), the researchers learned that, while the faculty's…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Plagiarism, Librarians, Information Literacy
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
Scott, Rachel E.; Varner, Brannen – College & Research Libraries, 2020
This paper presents the results of focus groups conducted with student-parents at the University of Memphis. The objective of this study was to explore the research services and library spaces student-parents need to thrive in higher education settings. The results identify several ways in which academic librarians can support student-parents'…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Nontraditional Students, College Students, Parents