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Kaeli Marie Gretter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This descriptive qualitative study explores undergraduate students' experiences of physical academic libraries to identify possible connections between physical academic library environments and students' affective experiences. Drawing on a combination of theoretical perspectives focused on how humans understand, navigate, and respond to space and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Sandi, Satagaliyeva; Olga, Kalegina; Nadezhda, Yashina; Zhetibayev, Zhanture; Nurmaganbetov, Znumarsa – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2022
The purpose of this research is to get university students' views on a promising library and information education model. This study was designed in the phenomenological pattern, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The study group of the research consists of 80 students studying at various universities in Kazakhstan in the 2021-2022…
Descriptors: Models, Library Science, Information Science, College Students
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Hofer, Amy R.; Townsend, Lori; Brunetti, Korey – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
Librarians regularly encounter students who struggle to understand and apply information literacy concepts. A qualitative survey administered to information literacy practitioners asked about troublesome content and analyzed results using the threshold concepts pedagogical framework first described by Jan Meyer and Ray Land. A threshold concept…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Library Science
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Calderhead, Veronica; And Others – Science & Technology Libraries, 1996
Three articles describe the relocation of the chemistry branch library to the main academic library at Rutgers University (Newark, New Jersey) as part of a trend toward centralization. Highlights include user support for the move, including faculty and students; and the operations research methodology used for planning and implementing the move.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Branch Libraries, Centralization, Chemistry
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Parker, Kimberly J. – Science & Technology Libraries, 1997
Discussion of electronic journals focuses on the development of TESS (The Electronic Seminar System) at the Yale University chemistry library. TESS was envisioned as a way for graduate students and faculty to virtually interact with articles digitized from print literature, enhanced with hypertext links. Responses to a survey evaluation are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Chemistry, Electronic Journals, Graduate Study