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Direct linkJanis Joyce Shearer – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
Academic and research libraries historically lack intentional engagement with Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. This scoping review examines how academic and research library literature address social justice issues by engaging BIPOC with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and/or medicine (STEMM) disciplines in…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, STEM Education, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries
Wiersma, Gabrielle – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2010
Increasing demand for biotechnology and biomedical resources prompted the Engineering Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) to complete a collection assessment of the journals, books, and other resources provided by the University Libraries. This paper presents a variety of methods for evaluating library collections and describes…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Research Libraries, Library Services, Academic Libraries
Strutin, Michal – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2008
In summer 2008, a small group of Santa Clara University librarians were charged with exploring ways of making online library research guides more user friendly and interactive. In order to know how to enhance our guides, we first asked the question, "What makes a research guide useful?" What follows is a detailed process of discovery.…
Descriptors: Library Research, Discovery Learning, Librarians, Academic Libraries
Wagner, A. Ben – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
Various normalization techniques to transform journal impact factors (JIFs) into a standard scale or range of values have been reported a number of times in the literature, but have seldom been part of collection development librarians' tool kits. In this paper, JIFs as reported in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database are converted to…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Journal Articles, Selection Tools, Reference Materials
Barsky, Eugene; Schattman, Lisa; Greenwood, Aleteia – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
Most academic libraries are seeking to provide electronic access to the very dynamic and changing field of technology related material. "Safari Tech Books Online" and "Books24x7" are the major e-book collections in this area. We compared the "Safari Tech Books Online" and "Books24x7" e-book packages as to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Online Vendors, Electronic Libraries
Torrence, Matt – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2015
The literature, activities, and resource needs of engineering students and faculty provide insight into a demographic that is often among the early-adopters of new technologies, tools, and methods of sharing information. Despite the often non-bibliographic nature of their research efforts, there are numerous elements of the traditional service…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Services, Outreach Programs, Marketing
Wirth, Andrea A.; Mellinger, Margaret – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011
Using citation analysis, the authors examined the journals cited in theses and dissertations over the first five years of the Water Resources Graduate Program at Oregon State University. These journal titles were compared to the titles predicted as being important in the 2003 Oregon State University Libraries new program (Category I) review. A…
Descriptors: Water, Doctoral Dissertations, Research Libraries, Periodicals
Walker, Shannon – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011
What might motivate someone with a natural science degree to forgo the lab and pursue a non-traditional career in librarianship? Are there differences between LIS graduates with and without a science degree that might impact recruitment strategies? An analysis of data from a longitudinal career study, "Workforce Issues in Library and…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Library Schools, Graduates, Motivation
Williamson, Jeanine M.; Han, Lee D.; Colon-Aguirre, Monica – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
The study examined the extent of cross-disciplinarity in nanotechnology and transportation engineering research. Researchers in these two fields were determined from the web sites of the U.S. News and World Report top 100 schools in civil engineering and materials science. Web of Science searches for 2006 and 2007 articles were obtained and the…
Descriptors: Molecular Structure, Technology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Library Services
Harvey, Missy – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
Science librarians, as well as other librarians, have seen ample new technologies come and go over the years. Librarians experiment and try to find ways to employ the new tools in our libraries. A driving force in our decision making about what tools to use should always be our patrons and whether the tools can help us do a better job of…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Librarians, Internet, Social Networks
