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Direct linkJenna Kammer; Kodjo Atiso; Edward Borteye – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
At the 2024 ALA conference, the authors presented their exploration of the internet access challenges faced by graduate students at a STEM university in Ghana. This research highlighted how unreliable, expensive, and intermittent internet affects academic life, particularly for students off-campus. Despite the university's solid on-campus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Access to Internet, Administrative Policy
Download full textIlett, Darren – Journal of Information Literacy, 2019
Historically, much of the Library and Information Science (LIS) literature on first-generation students (FGS) framed them using deficit thinking, emphasising what they lacked to be successful in higher education. In contrast, recent scholarship has turned to asset-based pedagogies, shifting the focus onto the strengths that FGS bring to college.…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students, Information Literacy, Information Utilization
