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Shlomit Hadad; Noa Aharony – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Profound changes due to Open-Access (OA) publications lead to organizational changes in universities and libraries. This study examines Israeli librarians' perceptions regarding their role and the academic library's role in promoting OA-publications, including the barriers, challenges, needs, and requirements necessary to promote OA publishing.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Access to Information
Elmira Jangjou; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
College fluency can help students successfully engage with and self-advocate within the culture and bureaucracy of higher education institutions to achieve their goals. To further examine and develop effective strategies to foster college fluency, the Borough of Manhattan Community College Library (BMCC) and Ithaka S+R partnered on the College…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student College Relationship, Community Colleges, Student Personnel Services
Tim Schlak; Alexis Smith Macklin – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2025
The scholarly communication landscape has experienced significant evolution in the past several years with the advent of transformative agreements. The largest library systems and academic library consortia have made substantial progress in this time by using their scale and publishing output to effect meaningful changes in their access and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Communities of Practice, Human Factors Engineering, Access to Information
Stephan Viehweg; Jere Odell; Ted Polley; Nouri McLucas – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis' (IUPUI's) Center for Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) and IUPUI University Library (Library) developed a partnership to enhance community access to faculty scholarship resulting from translational research. Library staff archives the scholarship of faculty affiliated with TRIP in IUPUI…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Translation, Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development
Liudmyla Prokopenko; Olena Skachenko – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This article explores users' level of satisfaction with the information in the online space of a university library during the pandemic and the russian-Ukrainian war. The authors analyzed the services and activities that the library provided online and examined whether they satisfied users' information needs. Using a questionnaire, the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Access to Information, Academic Libraries
Oliveira, Silas M.; Carroll, Laura B.; Greenidge, Norma – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
The main purposes of this study are to determine the extent to which the James White Library at Andrews University serves the information needs of graduate students enrolled in distance learning programs and to examine their information-seeking behavior to ascertain how they access material for their online courses. A 14-part questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Information Seeking, Distance Education, Access to Information
Rachel E. Scott; Anne Shelley; Chad E. Buckley; Cassie Thayer-Styes; Julie A. Murphy – College & Research Libraries, 2025
This study explores how faculty across disciplines access and share scholarly serial content and what expectations they have for immediacy. The authors conducted twenty-five in-depth, semi-structured interviews with faculty of various ranks representing all Illinois State University (ISU) colleges. The findings, presented in the words of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Publications, Library Materials, Scholarship
Azeem Akbar; Abdul Jabbar; Qurat UI Ain Saleem; Murtaza Ashiq – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has considerably increased among students, including students with vision impairment (SVI). There has been limited work on the information and digital needs of people with disabilities, particularly SVI who were studying for their masters or MPhil and were involved in research activities…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Accessibility (for Disabled), Access to Information, Students with Disabilities
Brian Vetruba; David Faust – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study examines cooperative collection development (CCD) for area studies and foreign language collections at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries, based on a 2020 survey. Respondents provided details about cooperative collection initiatives (CCIs) at their libraries and their attitudes toward CCD. Most respondents had a favorable…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Materials, Area Studies, Research Libraries
Wang, Fang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examines the research and scholarship sharing and dissemination practices in an online environment among law school faculty. Guided by one of the most widely used technology usage and adoption models, Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), it investigates law school professors' attitudes and perceptions toward…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Legal Education (Professions), College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Julia Furay – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
This case study details how a community college library, in response to rising textbook costs and COVID-related closures, advocated for and received an increase in funding to provide online copies of many textbooks in its reserve collection. It also provides a glimpse into the roadblocks acquisitions librarians might encounter in trying to bolster…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Libraries, Textbook Publication, Electronic Publishing
Gilbert, Stacy; Grover, Rachel – Knowledge Quest, 2020
School librarians can still support readers with the school library space is closed. Even though it might take some creative thinking, "the school library has the ability to provide continuous access to resources" and can ensure that the love of reading and access to materials continues (AASL 2018, 56-57). This article details ways…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Access to Information, Access to Education, Reading
Adetayo, Adebowale Jeremy; Gbotoso, Arinola Oluwatoyin – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Patronage of public libraries in Nigeria has declined over the years and is in urgent need of revitalization. Outreach efforts would revitalize the interest of university students in the patronage of public libraries in Nigeria because they need access to resources, especially when on holidays. The study investigates the outreach programs used to…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Library Services, Public Libraries, Users (Information)
Bucy, Rosalind – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Native Americans are underrepresented in higher education; and, while considerable research examines Native student persistence, the role of academic libraries in their experiences has received little attention. This study proposes to investigate Native American undergraduate students' library experiences, needs, and perceptions. Qualitative…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Libraries, Library Role
Ahenkorah-Marfo, Michael; Kotei Nikoi, Samuel – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2019
The study aimed at investigating distance learners' use of, and satisfaction with academic library services. It is a case study that employed a survey method to solicit the views of distance learning students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Findings revealed a fairly satisfactory use of the library services…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Distance Education