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Hu, Yuerong; Ocepek, Melissa G.; Downie, John Stephen; Barker, Lecia – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Librarianship is constantly confronted with unexpected and quickly evolving sociotechnical challenges, yet the documents that define the core professional competencies for librarians are infrequently updated. Based upon survey responses collected from 383 working librarians located in the United States, we describe a set of gaps between current…
Descriptors: Librarian Attitudes, Competence, Library Science, Library Education
Freeburg, Darin; Vera, A. Nick – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
Most professions experience at least some real or perceived divide among practitioners who engage in the work of the profession daily and those who train practitioners. As a result, practitioners question the value of this training. The goal of the current study was to learn more about this divide in Library and Information Science (LIS) and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Public Libraries, Library Education, Information Science Education
Sharon Markless; David Streatfield – Journal of Information Literacy, 2017
This paper surveys the (patchy and uneven) advances in LIS impact evaluation over the past ten years and notes the surge forward in public library impact evaluation, before looking more broadly at the international and educational impact evaluation scene and noting the advance of programme-theory driven approaches. The authors then identify…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Trend Analysis, Library Science
Smith, Susan Sharpless – ALA Editions, 2010
Expanding on the popular, practical how-to guide for public, academic, school, and special libraries, technology expert Susan Sharpless Smith offers library instructors the confidence to take Web-based instruction into their own hands. Smith has thoroughly updated "Web-Based Instruction: A Guide for Libraries" to include new tools and…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Special Libraries, Educational Technology, Internet
Library Research Service, 2009
Issues 266 through 282 of "Fast Facts" from the Library Research Service present data collected from libraries in Colorado and throughout the nation. Topics addressed in these "Fast Facts" from 2009 include interlibrary loan in academic libraries, public librarian salaries, book, newspaper, and periodical prices from 2004 to…
Descriptors: Library Research, User Satisfaction (Information), Outcomes of Education, Public Libraries

Korn, Susan – Third World Libraries, 1996
Reviews 18 articles on Israeli libraries published between 1978 and 1995. Highlights concerns about the lack of a clear national role for the Jewish National and University Library, the slowness of libraries to adopt MARC standards, a weak national policy on public libraries, slow development of school libraries, and the limited professional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Development, Library Education, Library Role

Wilkinson, John – Canadian Library Journal, 1984
This essay examines the probable future of academic libraries and discusses the impact that Information Resources Management will have on public libraries, library schools, and academic libraries. The need for information specialists and implications for academic libraries of the 1990s are noted. (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Futures (of Society), Higher Education

Higgins, Susan E.; Chaudhry, Abdus Sattar – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2003
Focuses on traditional areas of the study of public, school, and academic libraries that have generally declined in schools of library science. Considers the impact of information technology on academic programs of information studies and describes a study of curriculum building at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Aguilar, William; And Others, Eds. – Library Trends, 1991
This issue includes nine articles that address the problems of library services for off-campus higher education programs. Highlights include guidelines versus standards for library services; accreditation expectations; five program models; distance learning for library education; the public library role; and programs in Canada, the United Kingdom,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accreditation (Institutions), Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Clouse, R. Wilburn, Ed. – 1979
The papers included in this volume constitute the proceedings of a conference on the theme of the expected role of the professsional librarian in an academic library, a public library, a school library, and a special library. Grouped under these four different library headings, the papers present the viewpoints of library administrators, library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Conference Reports, Librarians
Rogers, A. Robert; Kim, Mary T. – 1981
Part of a series of needs assessment studies conducted at the Kent State School of Library Science, this study reports the results of a survey concerning library employment opportunities in Ohio for individuals with graduate degrees in library science. The three main objectives of the study were: (1) to estimate the number of professional and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Employment Opportunities, Librarians, Library Education

Siddiqui, Moid Ahmad – Education for Information, 1996
Describes the different levels of education and the management of various types of libraries (academic, special, public and school) in Saudi Arabia. Presents the current state of library and information science education in Saudi Arabia. Indicates constraints of librarianship as a career and suggests how to overcome them. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Administration
Missouri Library Association, Columbia. – 1979
This annotated bibliography of nonbook materials on library-information science represents the holdings of 40 public and academic libraries in Missouri. These collections offer a substantial listing of materials on teaching library skills from preschool to the adult level, inservice training and orientation, library outreach, special librarianship…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Information Science

Raseroka, H. Kay – Information Development, 1995
Reviews 10 years of library and information developments in East, Central, and Southern Africa. Topics include school libraries; public libraries and rural information services; academic libraries; education and training; and professional library and information associations. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Services

Havard-Williams, Peter – Library Trends, 1982
Discussion of standardization on an international scale for resource sharing--cooperation, coordination, interlibrary loans, cooperative acquisition and cataloging--focuses on a definition of standards; the development of standards for cataloging; public, school, and university libraries; and library education. A 60-item bibliography is included.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Elementary Secondary Education, Global Approach