NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Media Staff1
Location
Illinois1
Nigeria1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 10 results Save | Export
Bauder, Julia, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2022
Armed with this guide's strategies and concrete examples, subject librarians, data services librarians, and scholarly communication librarians will be inspired to roll up their sleeves and get involved with teaching research data management competencies to students and faculty. The usefulness of research data management skills bridges numerous…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Tolulope, Akano – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2017
Libraries before the 21st century carried out daily routine library task such as cataloguing and classification, acquisition, reference services etc using manual procedures only but the advent of Information Technology as transformed these routine task that libraries can now automate their activities by deploying the use of library software in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Demography, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Ruediger, Dylan; Cooper, Danielle Miriam – ITHAKA S+R, 2022
Quantitative literacy is an essential twenty-first century skill that universities are heavily invested in teaching to students. The social sciences play an important role in these efforts because they attract students who might otherwise avoid data and mathematically oriented courses and because they ground quantitative reasoning in political and…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Undergraduate Students, Social Sciences, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Becker, Bernd – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2011
EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association dedicated to advancing higher education by promoting the efficient and effective use of information technology, recently released the annual "ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology" (Smith and Caruso 2010). The purpose of this annual study is to illuminate the roles technology plays in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology, Internet
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Johnson, Carolyn, Ed.; Park, Sarag G., Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
Twenty-six scholarly papers and ten abstracts comprise the content of the thirteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, 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. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Conference Papers, Conferences (Gatherings), Library Science
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Lynch, Anne – Reference Services Review, 1989
Describes the software package developed as a result of a project aimed at developing an effective model of computer assisted instruction to encourage the development of research and critical thinking skills among students. The package includes modules for class assignments, encyclopedic background information, a citations database, and access to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Critical Thinking
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Neuman, Delia – College and Research Libraries, 1991
The Magazine and Journal Instructional Kit (MAJIK/1) is a HyperCard program delivering basic individualized library instruction. Using a technique derived from naturalistic inquiry, the program's formative evaluation was conducted at the University of Maryland, College Park, with 28 upperclassmen as subjects. They reported little difficulty with…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Schmitz, Dawn M.; Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke – Research Strategies, 2005
The Global News VILLAGE (Virtual Information Literacy Learning and Growing Environment) is an online tutorial developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to help undergraduates learn how to use the library to find current information about global events and issues. Supporting the interdisciplinary Global Studies curriculum, the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Tutorial Programs, Information Literacy, Programmed Tutoring
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Woodard, Patricia – Research Strategies, 1996
Hunter College librarians and faculty collaborated in an interdisciplinary honors survey designed to familiarize undergraduates with electronic research tools and with statistical, geographical, desktop publishing, and graphics software. Participating librarians cited consumption of staff time, lack of a chain of command, and communications…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Problems, Computer Graphics, Computer Software
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Vander Meer, Patricia F.; Rike, Galen E. – Research Strategies, 1996
To relieve reference staff meeting with 30 sections of undergraduates per year, the library at Western Michigan University designed a multimedia self-instructional tutorial to introduce library services and teach basic skills. Although considerable time and effort was expended creating the tutorial, little updating has been required. Included are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Software Evaluation, Higher Education