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Direct linkGemmicka Piper; Mahasin Ameen; M. Sara Lowe – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This study surveyed librarians and staff at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions to determine who assembles social justice guides (that is, LibGuides), what motivated the creation of such guides, and how these guides are deployed. Additionally, the survey gauged employee perceptions of library and institutional responses to…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Social Justice, Web Sites, User Needs (Information)
Download full textMcKimmie, T. – 1994
This paper describes the evaluation of a current awareness or selective dissemination of information (SDI) service at New Mexico State University. To provide expanded library services to faculty, a current awareness service was offered to 18 science departments in 1991. A profile for each researcher enrolled was entered into a program and was run…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Communication (Thought Transfer), Delivery Systems
Chaloner, Kathryn; de Klerk, Ann – 1980
This Carnegie-Mellon University Libraries study compared the effectiveness of two methods of current awareness service: computerized updates and the distribution of the tables of contents of journals. In particular it compared the timeliness and availability of articles in-house with the greater coverage but longer time lag (and possible lower…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs
University of Science, Penang (Malaysia). – 1983
A survey of 88 users of SISMAKOM, a computerized selective dissemination of information (SDI) and document delivery service provided by the Universiti Sains Malaysia and four other Malaysian universities, was conducted in August 1982 in order to collect data about SISMAKOM and to assess the value of a computerized SDI service in a developing…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Developing Nations, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedFernandez, Leila – Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, 2002
Discusses results of a science faculty survey conducted at York University to determine researchers' use of current awareness services, including print and Web-based services. Considers differences between science disciplines and implications for future library services and includes a copy of the survey. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Metoyer-Duran, Cheryl – 1991
This study examined the information seeking behavior of gatekeepers in five ethnolinguistic communities: American Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Latino. Personal interviews were conducted with 129 gatekeepers and a conceptual information model was used to generate an analytical framework for presenting and discussing the data. The major…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Communication (Thought Transfer), Hispanic Americans
