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Marianne Stowell Bracke; Stacy Winchester – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Data librarianship is a relatively new field that covers activities from teaching research data management skills and data science areas such as coding or cleaning data, to curating and archiving datasets. The Data Services Continuing Professional Education (DSCPE) program has stepped in to fill the critical education gap for data librarians. It…
Descriptors: Librarian Attitudes, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Library Role
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Franklin, Brinley – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
Duane Webster oversaw the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) Statistics and Measurement Program as it evolved into the Statistics and Assessment Program. During his 20-year tenure as ARL's executive director, Duane was instrumental in the creation of ARL's Web-based Interactive Statistics and played a leadership role in the development of a…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Research Libraries, Statistics, Leadership
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O'Hanlon, Nancy – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
This article describes a role for the academic library in the campus outcomes assessment process and reports on a study to determine the impact of the Ohio State University (OSU) Libraries' instructional program on several required general education courses. Although university curriculum documents prescribe research-related learning objectives…
Descriptors: Library Research, Program Effectiveness, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction
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Horowitz, Lisa R.; Flanagan, Patricia A.; Helman, Deborah L. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2005
The MIT Libraries enthusiastically implemented real-time online reference service in September 2001. After 15 months, Ask Us!--Live was suspended due to ongoing software problems. This article describes the four-part assessment of the service with recommendations for the future. (Contains 6 figures and 21 notes.)
Descriptors: Reference Services, Formative Evaluation, Computer Mediated Communication, Communication Research