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Incoming Graduate Students in the Social Sciences: How Much Do They Really Know about Library Research?
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Monroe-Gulick, Amalia; Petr, Julie – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
Academic librarians provide information literacy instruction and research services to graduate students. To develop evidence-based library instruction and research services for incoming graduate students, the authors interviewed fifteen incoming graduate students in the social sciences and analyzed the interviews using the Association of College &…
Descriptors: Evidence, Graduate Students, Library Research, Social Sciences
Making Research Guides More Useful and More Well Used
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Strutin, Michal – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2008
In summer 2008, a small group of Santa Clara University librarians were charged with exploring ways of making online library research guides more user friendly and interactive. In order to know how to enhance our guides, we first asked the question, "What makes a research guide useful?" What follows is a detailed process of discovery.…
Descriptors: Library Research, Discovery Learning, Librarians, Academic Libraries
Use of the Reference Service in a Large Academic Library
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Balay, Robert; Andrew, Christine – College and Research Libraries, 1975
Summarizes a study of the use of reference service at Sterling Memorial Library, the central research library of Yale University. (PF)
Descriptors: Catalogs, College Libraries, Interviews, Library Instruction
Constancy and Change in the Worklife of Research University Librarians. ACRL Publications in Librarianship No. 51.
Watson-Boone, Rebecca – 1998
Based on interviews with 29 librarians at a midwestern research university, this publication serves as a benchmark for what it is like to work as an academic librarian in a U.S. research university in the mid-1990's and considers changes occurring within the wider field of librarianship. Chapter 1 begins with a broad overview of the concept and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Change, Futures (of Society)
The Use of OCLC Terminals in the Public Service Areas of Eight Ohio Libraries.
Lariccia, Louise – 1976
The uses being made of the OCLC system in the area of public or reader's services was investigated in this study. Topics dealt with include the training of librarians and patrons in on-line searching, specific benefits of the data base to the public, disadvantages of the present OCLC system in public services, costs, and the motivation behind…
Descriptors: Citations (References), College Libraries, Databases, Information Retrieval
Librarian Attitudes toward the Use of a Self-Paced BI Program.
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Manzari, Laura; McCartney, Ellen – Research Strategies, 1994
Describes a study conducted at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University (New York) that measured librarians' opinions of and attitudes toward a self-paced bibliographic instruction workbook. Survey results were compared for librarians who used the self-paced approach and those who followed a traditional approach. (Contains six references.)…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Conventional Instruction, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
Assessment Information and the Library: The Case of a Multi-Site, Multi-Client Service.
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Bunda, Mary Anne – 1992
Most institutions of higher education have a mission that specifically addresses three areas: instruction, research, and service. The repertoire of activities and the complexity of the goals of the University Library mirror the goals of the institution, the academic units, and the faculty. The clients of the library are the students, the faculty,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems