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Fredrick Otike; Peter Kiszl – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Academic libraries are experiencing drastic changes due to unprecedented advancements in technology. This advancement has caused changes in users' information-seeking behavior, increased information competitors, and easy access and availability to free information on the internet. It is unfortunate that all this is happening amidst the dwindling…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Technological Advancement, Library Development, Entrepreneurship
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Hamis Lack Abdullah; Winner Dominic Chawinga; George Theodore Chipeta – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
Mzuzu University Library provides various e-library services to postgraduate students. However, a minimal amount is known regarding the use of these e-library services by postgraduate students. This mixed methods quantitative study aimed to investigate postgraduate students' use of e-library services. The findings reveal that 95% of postgraduate…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Library Services, User Needs (Information), Academic Libraries
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Wiley, Claire; Williams, Judy – NACADA Journal, 2015
Faculty librarians who advise undecided students have found the experiences of novice researcher and advisee comparable: Both groups seek to solve a problem or answer a question by finding new information to add to their current understanding and knowledge base. As a result, librarians familiar with needs and stages of the research process may…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Librarians, Academic Libraries
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Mê-Linh Lê; Christine J. Neilson; Janice Winkler – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Systematic reviews, along with other types of knowledge synthesis, are a type of research methodology that attempt to find all available evidence on a topic to help answer specific questions. Librarian involvement in systematic reviews is well established in the health sciences, and in recent years there has been growing awareness of, and…
Descriptors: Librarians, Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Huff-Eibl, Robyn; Teetor, Travis – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This paper describes efforts at the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) in Tucson to improve access to the Internet and technology during the COVID-19 pandemic and as the libraries continue to adapt to hybrid instructional modalities. The authors highlight how their institution leveraged campus data and new partnerships to better meet students'…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Computers, Academic Libraries, Library Services
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Rusi Rusmiati Aliyyah; Rasmitadila; Siti Pupu Fauziah; Widyasari; Arita Marini; Ruhimat – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2024
This research explores lecturers' perceptions of digital libraries as a learning resource for the industrial era 4.0 that can be used anytime and anywhere to solve the low interest in developing lecturers because of the difficulty of accessing references to conventional libraries, which require lecturers to visit the library building. Data was…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Electronic Libraries, Academic Libraries
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Eklof, Ashley – Public Services Quarterly, 2013
Information anxiety is a serious issue that has the potential to hinder the success of a large percentage of the population in both education and professional settings. It has become more prevalent as societies begin to focus more on the value of technology, multitasking, and instant information access. The majority of the population has felt, to…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Role
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Richey, Jennifer – School Library Research, 2012
Adolescents who receive current, accurate, reliable, and balanced sexual-health information are more likely to express healthier sexual attitudes and engage in healthier sexual behaviors than adolescents receiving limited or no sexual-health information. High school librarians have the potential to help meet sexual-health information needs of…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Information Needs, High Schools, Adolescents
Vardeman, Leesa; Davis, Chad; Manning, Niki – Educational Facility Planner, 2012
Society's view of the library has changed with each passing generation. What was once a quiet building full of books intended for the studious researcher is now becoming a place that combines print and technology, to encourage both the interactive and visual learners. Today's kids have access to both hardbound books as well as online resources,…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Motivation, Library Services, Library Equipment
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Phillips, Abigail L.; Lee, Victor R.; Recker, Mimi M. – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 2018
Frequently noted in library and information science literature and popular press, libraries are undergoing a rapid public makeover (Martin, 2015; Wernick, 2011). As part of a recent initiative supported by the American Library Association, librarians are striving to raise public awareness of the importance of libraries and library services in…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Doraiswamy, Uma – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
This paper in the form of story discusses a college student's information search process. In this story we see Kuhlthau's information search process: initiation, selection, exploration, formulation, collection, and presentation. Katie is a student who goes in search of information for her class research paper. Katie's class readings, her interest…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Information Retrieval, Information Literacy, Information Skills
Head, Alison J.; Eisenberg, Michael B. – Project Information Literacy, 2009
A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college students on six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information Literacy. Respondents, while curious in the beginning stages of research, employed a consistent and predictable research strategy for finding information,…
Descriptors: College Students, User Needs (Information), Information Seeking, Search Strategies
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Johnson, Andrew; Kuglitsch, Rebecca; Bresnahan, Megan – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2015
This study used participatory and service design methods to identify emerging research needs and existing perceptions of library services among science and engineering faculty, post-graduate, and graduate student researchers based at a satellite campus at the University of Colorado Boulder. These methods, and the results of the study, allowed us…
Descriptors: Library Services, Academic Libraries, Multicampus Colleges, User Needs (Information)
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Altobelli, Rachel – Knowledge Quest, 2017
It's easy to imagine no gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) students are at a given school, and, therefore, no need exists to court controversy and potential challenges by providing LGBTQ materials. LGBTQ students are everywhere, though, and they are at increased risk for a host of issues, including bullying, assault, and…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Library Materials, Library Services
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2010
Libraries and library faculty play a significant role in supporting college curriculum and helping students succeed academically. In particular, libraries are the primary location both physically and remotely for supporting faculty and students in their research and information needs. Over the years, this role of libraries and library faculty has…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Community Colleges, Library Role, College Libraries
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