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Tella, Adeyinka – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
This study examined determinants of library and information science undergraduate students' first impression with the university library websites. A total enumeration method was used to involve 54 year 4 undergraduate students of Library and Information Science from two selected universities. Undergraduate Students' Determinants of First…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science, Undergraduate Students, College Libraries
Lance, Keith Curry – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2016
In 2015, surveys of students, faculty, and librarians and other library staff elicited their perceptions of the contributions of community college libraries to student success, both directly and via librarian collaboration with faculty. The three surveyed groups agreed substantially that libraries and librarians contribute to student success, both…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Libraries, Librarians, Academic Achievement
Stauffer, Suzanne M. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
In 1897, the University of Chicago Extension Division began offering what we today would call "bibliographic instruction" under the aegis of the Bureau of Information of the Illinois State Library Association. The program was expanded under university librarian Zella Allen Dixson, and by 1900 was designed to train librarians and library…
Descriptors: Educational History, Gender Issues, Power Structure, Gender Bias
Drake, Paul Burton – Online Submission, 2015
This publication follows the tradition of publishing selected papers from the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives and Museums (PIALA) annual conferences. This 24th annual conference was held in Koror, Republic of Palau, November 10-15, 2014. This volume includes a listing of the PIALA 2014 Organizing Committee and PIALA Officers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Malayo Polynesian Languages, Conference Papers
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Lonergan, David – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2012
Few academic librarians ten or fifteen years ago would have believed that those days of flat-lined budgets and miniscule raises could ever seem a golden (or at least silver) age by comparison. It turns out that there is something even worse than uncertainty, however--the absolute certainty of budgetary constriction and unwise decisions.…
Descriptors: Library Schools, College Libraries, Libraries, Librarians
Croxton, Rebecca A. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2015
This study explores how factors relating to fully online Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) students' connectedness with peers and faculty may impact their professional identity development as library and information studies professionals. Participants include students enrolled in a fully online MLIS degree program in the…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Individual Development, Mixed Methods Research, Electronic Learning
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Lonergan, David – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2010
Over the past few years a troubling pattern has emerged, one that might be termed the trivialization of the Master of Library Science (MLS). As a result of several factors, not least the closing of library schools, low rates of pay for librarians, and high costs of living in many parts of the country, some college libraries have found it difficult…
Descriptors: Library Schools, College Libraries, Library Science, Library Services
Knobel, Cory Philip – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Living inside built environments--infrastructure--it is easy to take for granted the things that we do not need to engage, but are at work behind the scenes nonetheless. Well-designed systems become invisible, but to engage them, how do we know which perspectives, objects, and relationships are useful? I examine the University of Michigan Digital…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Organizational Change, Library Science, Library Services
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Tripathi, Manorama; Jeevan, V. K. J. – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2009
Purpose: The paper aims to study how the present distance learning libraries can improve upon their existing services and introduce new ones to enhance quality of services to distance learners. Design/methodology/approach: The paper includes a review of literature on quality assurance in open and distance education in general and student support…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Distance Education, Quality Control, Libraries
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Patterson, David – Library Quarterly, 2009
Librarians in community colleges have engaged in information literacy (IL) for decades, but their theorizing of IL has never taken equity as a starting point. This article asserts that IL theory radiating from equity requires the animating dynamics that conceptual advances in literacy theory offer. By examining early moments in librarianship to…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Theories, College Libraries, College Students
KRUZAS, ANTHONY T. – 1965
DATA PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT WERE BASED PRIMARILY ON QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES OBTAINED THROUGH A NATIONAL CENSUS OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTERS. THE SURVEY WAS MADE DURING THE PERIOD FROM AUGUST 1961 TO FEBRUARY 1963. ALTHOUGH THERE WERE MORE THAN 10,000 ENTRIES IN THE PUBLISHED DIRECTORY, EXCLUSION OF CANADIAN LIBRARIES AND DELETION…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Libraries, Library Equipment, Library Facilities
Corya, William L.; And Others – 1973
This overview study examines the systems presently used at Purdue University to circulate library and audiovisual materials in the general library, the 28 departmental libraries, and the audiovisual center. Also examined are three basic approaches to the automation of library circulation systems, with examples drawn from systems already in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Centers, College Libraries, Library Automation
Standing Conference on National and Univ. Libraries, Cardiff (Wales). – 1970
Thirty librarians from Great Britain attended the Seminar on Human Aspects of Library Instruction. This document is a transcript of the tape from the Seminar. It provides the text of the papers presented, and the verbatim oral questions and answers of the group discussions. The two papers presented are: (1) "Instruction or Induction: The…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Role, Library Science
Henning, Patricia A., Ed.; Stillman, Mary E., Ed. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1971
In the first section four articles illustrate the basic concepts of the role of the library in college instruction. The library-college movement is discussed; Swarthmore College's "Teaching Library" in particular is examined. The second section contains four articles about actively established programs in library instruction. Following…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Libraries, Libraries, Library Education
Freudenthal, Juan R. – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1976
This travel report includes descriptions of university libraries, public libraries, and national libraries in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Columbia. (PF)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Librarians, Library Education, Library Science
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