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Annette Bochenek; Heather Howard; Zoeanna Mayhook – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Librarians at a large Midwestern university integrated intercultural competencies into an information literacy course taught annually to over 100 first-year business students. The interventions aim to improve intercultural skills and characteristics as defined by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) Intercultural Knowledge…
Descriptors: Business, Introductory Courses, Information Literacy, Business Education
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Appleton, Leo – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2020
The term 'student engagement' has a broad meaning and is used freely as an expression in several different contexts of academic librarianship. This literature review covers scholarship from across several of these areas and is structured so that four broad themes are systematically addressed: student engagement in learning; students as partners;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Learner Engagement, Literature Reviews, Foreign Countries
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Summey, Terri Pedersen; Kane, Cynthia Akers – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2017
The concept of embedded librarians is a way for academic librarians to be intentionally and strategically inserted in the learning and teaching process through a variety of initiatives. In a mid-size university, in order to better address the research and curricular needs of students and faculty members, librarians became more intentional about…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Services, Academic Libraries, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Johnson, Carolyn, Ed.; Jones, Sarah, Ed.; Meneely, Becky, Ed.; Young, Natasha, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
Ten scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-first annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The twenty-first Brick & Click Libraries Conference was held virtually. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Conferences (Gatherings), Library Services
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Blackburn, Heidi; Dere, Ashlee – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2016
Science is a core discipline in academia yet the focus of most undergraduate technical writing is generally on the data and results, not the literature review. The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) librarian and a new geology professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) collaborated to develop an information literacy…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, STEM Education, Librarians
Malenfant, Kara J.; Brown, Karen – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2017
Meaningful and sustained assessment is best achieved when a campus unit takes a collaborative leadership role to work with other departments, offices, and groups. Simply developing and implementing assessment in isolation and for the unit itself is not enough. While the value of collaboration among diverse campus constituents is widely recognized,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Leadership Role, Program Design, Program Implementation
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Sobel, Karen; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
Library instruction serves a critical function in the operation of the contemporary academic library environment. Librarians are asked to provide instruction and information literacy training using a range of tools and modes of delivery. The current literature presents an array of instruments used for assessing student learning and for delivering…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Incidence, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy
Dixon-Thomas, Courtlann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
An emphasis on instruction has been growing in libraries as a result of the cumbersome amount of information that is produced and available globally. This, coupled with the growing diverse student populations and the demand for higher education, has created the need for students entering the workforce who can think critically, adapt quickly and…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Educational Strategies, Information Literacy, Program Effectiveness
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Hart, Kathy, Ed.; Johnson, Carolyn, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
Eighteen scholarly papers and fifteen abstracts comprise the content of the seventeenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship.…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Publishing, Archives, Educational Technology
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Seely, Sara Robertson; Fry, Sara Winstead; Ruppel, Margie – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2011
An investigation into preservice teachers' information evaluation skills at a large university suggests that formative assessment can improve student achievement. Preservice teachers were asked to apply information evaluation skills in the areas of currency, relevancy, authority, accuracy, and purpose. The study used quantitative methods to assess…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Koury, Regina; Francis, Marcia J.; Gray, Catherine J.; Jardine, Spencer J.; Guo, Ruiling – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2010
In order to reach distance students in times of financial uncertainty, librarians must be creative. While much has been written about Camtasia, Captivate and Jing tutorial software, Adobe Presenter, a Microsoft PowerPoint plug-in, has not been discussed. This article describes how our library team created multimedia tutorial projects at Idaho…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Visual Aids
Taylor, Peter J. – UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries, 1978
Outlines some of the principles upon which evaluation efforts may be based, and discusses previous attempts at evaluation, as well as the shortcomings of some existing procedures. Guidelines for determining the objectives of evaluation exercises in relation to user education are offered. (Author/JAB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Librarians, Library Instruction
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Ellison, John W. – Catholic Library World, 1981
Discusses the learning process and factors which generally determine how much is learned, i.e., content, the librarian's style, the learner's attitude and ability, and the environment. Suggestions are provided for dealing with these factors in planning library instruction. (LLS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Improvement, Learning Processes
Saint Louis Community Coll., MO. – 1981
This manual provides a series of forms and instruments and outlines the procedures used by St. Louis Community College in its annual evaluation of the performance of instructional resources faculty. First, general information is provided in lists of the performance indicators and other criteria upon which the assessments of teachers, counselors,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Evaluation
Schon, Isabel; Hopkins, Kenneth D. – 1983
This packet of materials is for use by school librarians participating in a study of eighth-grade students' attitudes and the relationship of these attitudes to use of the school library. Included is a schedule of activities and an outline of procedures to be followed in the following activities: selection of students to attend six consecutive…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Curriculum Guides, Evaluation Methods, Grade 8
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