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Brian Mathews – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Academic and research libraries are undergoing a profound transformation, shaped by technological advancements, shifting societal dynamics, and evolving institutional priorities. This essay examines how these forces are driving libraries to evolve into specialized and distinct models, shaping their future and drawing parallels to the Cambrian…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Specialization, Educational Trends
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
Meghan Hupe; Linda Van Keuren – Journal of Access Services, 2024
Dahlgren Memorial Library, the Graduate Health and Life Sciences Research Library at Georgetown University implemented the circulation of room keys in 2007. The rooms were outside of the library and managed by Georgetown University School of Medicine's Office of Financial Affairs who were integral in the implementation of the keys and the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Study Centers, Methods
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
Lily Dubach; Penny Beile; Sara Duff; Rich Gause; Amanda Walden – College & Research Libraries, 2025
A growing number of studies have reported that using open educational resources benefits students, but few studies have investigated academic impacts of adopting library-sourced eBooks as the course textbook. This mixed-methods study utilizes the Open Education Group's COUP Framework (Cost, Outcomes, Usage, Perceptions), which has previously been…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, College Faculty, Librarians, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Michelle K. Conners – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, digital literacy has become a fundamental skill for active participation in society. Maine's public libraries recognize this reality and have taken steps to provide digital literacy education to their communities. However, these efforts are hindered by a lack of resources necessary to meet the…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Literacy Education, Public Libraries, Community Education
Elmira Jangjou; Melissa Blankstein; jean amaral – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
College fluency can help students successfully engage with and self-advocate within the culture and bureaucracy of higher education institutions to achieve their goals. To further examine and develop effective strategies to foster college fluency, the Borough of Manhattan Community College Library (BMCC) and Ithaka S+R have collaborated on the…
Descriptors: Student College Relationship, Community College Students, Community Colleges, Student Personnel Services
Andrea A. Trudeau – Knowledge Quest, 2023
After many years working as a public school educator and school librarian, it is evident to the author that the relationships librarians cultivate with school library stakeholders--students, teachers, staff members, administrators, families, and community members--are the most critical ingredient to creating and maintaining vibrant modern-day…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Leadership, Interpersonal Relationship, Library Role
Jess Crilly – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
The terms Diversifying, Decentring and Decolonising characterise the ways that academic libraries are engaging with social justice issues, through multiple theoretical perspectives epitomised by the rejection of libraries as neutral spaces. The review covers numerous case studies of critically informed action, or praxis across a variety of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, COVID-19, Diversity, Equal Education
Leonidas Papachristopoulos – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on bibliometric research on the activities and services offered by distance libraries that serve distance learning institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis of scholarly communication has always been a valuable tool for researchers and policymakers in order to understand trends, gaps…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Library Services, Library Role, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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
Ali Kavak; Ayse Feride Kop – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This study aims to examine the effects on users of social and cultural activities organized in academic libraries. In the study, randomly selected users from academic libraries in Türkiye were surveyed and the data obtained were analyzed using a descriptive statistical method. The findings show that library activities have positive effects on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Role
Anna Granias; Anne Li – Wilder Research, 2025
In spring 2024, the Multicounty Multitype Library Systems, supported by State Library Services, conducted a census of K-12 public and charter schools in Minnesota to learn about the status of school libraries. A total of 1,528 out of 1,777 eligible schools completed the census. The findings can help legislators, school staff, librarians, and…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Legislation
Frank Baudino, Editor; Sara Eckstein, Editor; Joy Huddleston, Editor; Sarah Jones, Editor; Becky Meneely, Editor – Online Submission, 2024
Eleven scholarly papers and six abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-fourth annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The 2024 paper and abstract titles include:(1) Love it or Leery? Rapid AI Aided Instructional Design for Library Learning (Sean Cordes); (2)…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Development, Library Instruction, Library Role
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