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Julia Anne Maxwell – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2025
Evidence synthesis (ES) has emerged as a key research method within the social and behavioral sciences. Academic librarians, as experts on information search and retrieval, are often highly valued contributors to faculty ES projects. While many libraries have formed team-based ES services to support researchers, and have discussed insights from…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Services, Social Sciences
Jennifer L. C. Burke; Elizabeth C. Novosel; Daniel G. Kipnis; Rasitha R. Jayesekere – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2025
Academic librarians do not engage with all disciplinary departments equally. Despite equal or even greater efforts, some departments are less responsive to librarian outreach. One such department is mathematics. To understand mathematics departments' relationships with their academic librarians, three mathematics librarians created a 20-question…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Winny Akullo; Zawedde Nsibirwa – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
This study explored the potential benefits of Linked Data adoption in Ugandan university libraries, focusing on its ability to make hidden library data globally accessible via the Web. Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework, specifically the Performance expectancy construct, a survey was conducted with 67…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Data, Access to Information
III James Donald Faulkner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This exploratory and qualitative study examined the appraisal practices of archivists in university special collections, including how archivists define appraisal, decide what to keep and discard, apply a collection policy in their decision process, and contend with problematic aspects of the practice. The first part of this study examined the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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; Deirdre Harkins; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
Navigating the landscape of higher education takes more than just attending classes, passing courses, and graduating. It requires a set of skills known as "college fluency," or the knowledge and a corresponding set of abilities that enable students and staff to effectively locate and use relevant college services, programs, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Knowledge Level, Social Capital, Libraries
Abid Hussain; Muhammad Ismail – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2024
This study examines the factors influencing the adoption of mobile services, their advantages, and the barriers academic librarians face in Islamabad, Pakistan. The study used survey method of research using quantitative approach. After an extensive literature review, a structured questionnaire was developed to collect data from academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Barriers
Anne Grant; Kyle Feenstra; Mills Kelly – College & Research Libraries, 2025
This exploratory study seeks to gather preliminary information about the roles that academic librarians in the United States (US) and Canada play in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work on their campuses. It also provides insight into how librarians at US Carnegie Research 1 (R1) classified universities and U15 Group of Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Learning
Yuening Zhang – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2025
Research support demonstrates the value of academic libraries and librarians. Recent studies have revealed that research support has been evolving from traditional citation analysis to advanced library services such as research field trend/frontiers analysis and talent evaluation. Using a powerful bibliometric tool CiteSpace and "active…
Descriptors: Research, Trend Analysis, Publications, Citation Analysis
Slebodnik, Maribeth; Cahoy, Ellysa Stern; Jacobsen, Anna Liss – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This article provides background information about evidence synthesis, the process of collecting, evaluating, and summarizing results from multiple studies that have investigated the same research question. The article also examines the critical role of librarians in conducting evidence synthesis, and examines the accelerating uptake of systematic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Role, Evidence, Synthesis
Winterman, Brian; Asher, Andrew – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Typical internal assessment practices of academic libraries such as instructional or reference statistics can be valuable measures but provide a limited view of overall academic librarian impact. To examine librarian work more comprehensively and with emphasis on institutional outcomes, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries conducted a time…
Descriptors: Librarians, Time Management, Academic Libraries, Public Colleges
Hiroyo Matsudo; Kumiko Noguchi; Takenori Noguchi – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2025
We examined the process of implementing support for students with disabilities at 16 of 285 Japanese academic libraries, using the Modified Grounded Theory Approach (M-GTA) for interview analysis. We found that support was introduced simultaneously through daily library operations, and was tailored to the needs of individual students. Training and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Academic Libraries
Deirdre Harkins; Elmira Jangjou; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
Navigating the landscape of higher education takes more than just attending classes, passing, and graduating. It requires a set of skills known as "college fluency." Libraries play a pivotal role in helping fluency flourish, training their employees and other faculty and staff members across their institution to adapt to the needs of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Knowledge Level, Social Capital
Elmira Jangjou; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
Navigating higher education requires more than attending classes and completing assignments; it requires "college fluency," a set of skills that enables students, faculty, and staff to effectively locate and utilize institutional resources. College fluency can empower students, faculty, and staff to navigate the complex culture and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Knowledge Level, Social Capital
Ixchel M. Faniel; Brittany Brannon; Lesley A. Langa; Brooke Doyle; Titia van der Werf – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2024
"Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users" examines strategies for making scholarly, peer-reviewed open access (OA) publications more discoverable for your library community. OCLC Research partnered with two Dutch library consortia--Universiteitsbibliotheken en Nationale Bibliotheek (UKB) and Samenwerkingsverband…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Open Educational Resources