Publication Date
| In 2025 | 1 |
| Since 2024 | 3 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 11 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 15 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 17 |
Descriptor
Source
| Journal of Education for… | 17 |
Author
| Amelia Anderson | 1 |
| Becker, Peter | 1 |
| Becnel, Kim | 1 |
| Blumer, Eliane | 1 |
| Blundell, Shelley | 1 |
| Boustany, Joumana | 1 |
| Brianna Rodgers | 1 |
| Chowdhury, Sudatta | 1 |
| Dobreva, Milena | 1 |
| Dogan, Guleda | 1 |
| Garwood, Deborah A. | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 17 |
| Reports - Research | 15 |
| Tests/Questionnaires | 4 |
| Information Analyses | 2 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Education Level
| Higher Education | 15 |
| Postsecondary Education | 12 |
| Two Year Colleges | 1 |
Audience
Location
| United States | 3 |
| Finland | 2 |
| Australia | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 1 |
| Canada | 1 |
| Croatia | 1 |
| Denmark | 1 |
| Florida | 1 |
| France | 1 |
| Hungary | 1 |
| Indiana | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkAmelia Anderson – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2024
Students enrolled in American Library Association (ALA)-accredited graduate programs typically are on a specific track to work toward their individual career goals. While most degree programs require of all students a shared core curriculum, students also typically must take elective credits, which help narrow their focus toward their individual…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science Education, Graduate Students, Academic Libraries
Download full textLucy Santos Green; Karen Chassereau – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
The last ten years in school library research reflect an expanded definition of information literacy along with a stronger emphasis on in-depth information literacy development, concluding that a fundamental shift in instruction provided by school librarians is needed; one that not only helps students find information, but develops students'…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Instruction, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Preservice Teacher Education
Logan Rath – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
This article proposes that understanding information literacy as a social practice is a threshold concept for academic information literacy librarians. While the social nature of information literacy has been theorized for more than 25 years, the noted theory-to-practice gap in this area suggests a new question to be raised. This study explores…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Fundamental Concepts, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction
Mark Aaron Polger – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2024
This qualitative study examines how academic librarians understand, conceptualize, and describe their teacher identity. The role of the academic librarian has greatly changed due to the advent of information technology. Traditionally, they were generalists, who were responsible for selecting and maintaining library collections. Academic librarian…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Courses, Librarians
Margaret Sullivan Zimmerman; Brianna Rodgers – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2022
Refugees and immigrants have adverse health outcomes after arriving in the United States. These negative outcomes tend to be disproportionate to those of the general population, regardless of the person's health status upon entry to the country. Research has shown that strong health literacy skills can improve health outcomes in this group. This…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Health Materials, Females, Refugees
Mirah Dow – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2025
This article extends Kuh and associates' research describing high-impact learning as kinds and types of projects and assignments shown to benefit postsecondary students and increase rates of student retention and engagement. Given that the content and implementation of postsecondary courses have continuously evolved in recent years, this present…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Information Literacy, Learner Engagement, School Holding Power
Stadler, Derek; Rojas, Alexandra; Perrenod, William; Keyes, Charles – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
Librarians at a community college in New York City identified that, unassisted, undergraduate students often find it difficult to categorize the various information formats they are locating and citing, such as a newspaper article, a book, a scholarly article, a blog or wiki entry, or a reference source. Due to their untrained approach defining…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Library Instruction, Teaching Methods
Morgan M. Adle – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
Library and information science (LIS) graduates work in a variety of jobs that require well-developed information literacy (IL) skills. They not only apply IL skills in everyday interactions with patrons but also use their conceptual understanding to design instructional programs and interventions. In this small-scale, pilot study the instructor…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Information Literacy, Skill Development, Library Education
Sara Rachel Benson; Melissa Ocepek – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
Copyright intersects with every field of Library and Information Science (LIS) from archival and preservation practices to reference services and academic librarianship. However, copyright instruction is still lacking in many Information Science programs across the country (Cross & Edwards, 2011; Schmidt & English, 2015). The sudden move…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Information Literacy, Copyrights, Emotional Response
Paul Marty – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2022
This article presents an overview of the iterative design and evolution of an undergraduate course at Florida State University that offers students the opportunity to explore how society's increased reliance on information technology has changed the way in which we interact with each other and the world around us. Drawing upon course iterations…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Age Groups, Undergraduate Students, Educational Technology
Wine, Lois D. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2016
The role of school librarians has a history of radical change. School librarians adapted to take on responsibility for technology and audio-visual materials that were introduced in schools in earlier eras. With the advent of the Information Age in the middle of the 20th century and the subsequent development of personal computers and the Internet,…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Role, Educational Technology
Garwood, Deborah A.; Poole, Alex H. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
Health literacy supports individuals', families', and communities' health-care decisions. As mediators between health information seekers and medical literature, librarians are essential purveyors of health literacy. Users' trust in libraries as sources of reliable and current health information presupposes the appropriate training of librarians;…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science Education, Health, Literacy
Saunders, Laura; Kurbanoglu, Serap; Boustany, Joumana; Dogan, Guleda; Becker, Peter; Blumer, Eliane; Chowdhury, Sudatta; Dobreva, Milena; Gendina, Natalia; Grgic, Ivana Hebrang; Haddow, Gaby; Koltay, Tibor; Kortelainen, Terttu; Krakowska, Monika; Majid, Shaheen; Mezhova, Marina; Repanovici, Angela; Rudžioniene, Jurgita; Schneider, Rene; Terra, Ana Lucia; Todorova, Tania Y. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
Librarians are expected to be expert searchers, and developing information literacy skills to navigate the vast world of information is a focus of most library and information science (LIS) programs. It is important to understand the information literacy and behaviors of LIS students to see if they are employing the skills they will need to assist…
Descriptors: Library Education, Information Literacy, Student Behavior, Student Surveys
Blundell, Shelley; Lambert, Frank – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
In early spring 2013, a pilot study was conducted at a major public university in Ohio to explore elements of information anxiety (defined herein as a combination of library anxiety and information technology anxiety) among second-semester freshmen enrolled in all iterations of both a traditional and a remedial first-year English course. The…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Student Attitudes, College Freshmen, Public Colleges
Tveit, Åse Kristine – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2017
A study of PhD dissertations in library and information science (LIS) was carried out to investigate which research topics have been of interest in Nordic LIS institutions. Seventy-nine doctoral dissertations from 2005 to 2014, published by 13 different research institutions, were retrieved from the institutions' archives and from library…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Information Science, Library Science, Hypothesis Testing
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1 | 2
