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Tench, Beck – ProQuest LLC, 2022
We live in an attention economy where many of our interactions are mediated by technologies incentivized to exploit our attention. The consequences of this exploitation, so far as they are known, affect how we spend our time, and also our capacity for reflection and self-awareness, which can have lasting effects across our life and relationships.…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Undergraduate Students, Metacognition, Validity
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Norlander, Rebecca Joy; Barchas-Lichtenstein, Jena; Fraser, John; Fournier, Mary Davis; Voiklis, John; Danter, Elizabeth – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2020
This paper presents a study of the specific disciplinary competencies required of library programming professionals and the training pathways where they develop those skills. Most existing competency frameworks focus on general library service or audience, rather than the specializations required for public programming. Reflecting the emerging…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Library Education, Job Skills, Library Services
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Lwoga, Edda Tandi – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: This study aims to examine the suitability of information systems (IS) success model in the adoption of library 2.0 technologies among undergraduate students in the African context, and focused at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) of Tanzania. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the IS success model, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Information Systems, Models
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Thompson, Bruce; Cook, Colleen; Kyrillidou, Martha – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
The LibQUAL+[TM] protocol solicits open-ended comments from users with regard to library service quality, gathers data on 22 core items, and, at the option of individual libraries, also garners ratings on five items drawn from a pool of more than 100 choices selected by libraries. In this article, the relationship of scores on these locally…
Descriptors: Libraries, Surveys, Library Services, User Satisfaction (Information)
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Munroe, Mary H.; Ver Steeg, Jennie E. – Library Quarterly, 2004
Conspectus tools are used to gather collection data for a variety of reasons. Criticisms of the instruments are equally varied. Conspectus users frequently express uncertainty about the accuracy and validity of judgments about collections based on conspectus evaluations. An overview of decision-making research demonstrates that uncertainty is…
Descriptors: Library Services, Data Collection, Participative Decision Making, Validity
Thompson, Bruce; Cook, Colleen – 2000
Research libraries are increasingly supplementing collection counts with perceptions of service quality as indices of status and productivity. The present study was undertaken to explore the reliability and validity of scores from the SERVQUAL measurement protocol (A. Parasuraman and others, 1991), which has previously been used in this type of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Library Services, Measurement Techniques
Webster, Peter – Computers in Libraries, 2002
Discussion of remote access to library services focuses on proxy servers as a method for remote access, based on experiences at Saint Mary's University (Halifax). Topics include Internet protocol user validation; browser-directed proxies; server software proxies; vendor alternatives for validating remote users; and Internet security issues. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Software, Higher Education, Internet
Cook, Colleen; Thompson, Bruce – 2000
The SERVQUAL measure was developed by A. Parasuraman, L. Berry, and V. Zeithaml (1988) to measure perceptions of service quality, originally in the retailing sector. However, libraries and other educational institutions are also service providers. Librarians in particular have increasingly become interested in measuring quality of service as the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Library Services, Measurement Techniques
Brooks, Terrence A. – Library Research, 1982
A sample of library-output statistics measuring circulation, reference, and in-library use was collected from 76 libraries and tested for redundancy, correlation, and variation using time-series analysis to test the Relative Fidelity of Measurement Model (RFM). The 275 sample statistics correlated in an unpredicted pattern. Twenty-three sources…
Descriptors: Correlation, Library Circulation, Library Research, Library Services
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Pfeifer, Mark P.; Snodgrass, Gwendolyn L. – Academic Medicine, 1992
Survey of 95 medical school libraries found that 91.5 percent of copies of retracted articles were not tagged as being invalid, that 79 percent of the libraries had tagged none of the retracted studies; and only 16 percent had policies for managing articles that report invalid science. A common attitude against perceived library censorship was…
Descriptors: Censorship, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Library Materials
Schlesinger, Aaron – 1997
This paper reports on a study conducted to determine if staffing changes were necessary at the information desk at the main branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library (Ohio). Questions addressed included: (1) What times are busiest in the library? (2) Should there be changes in staffing the reference desk that could lead to…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Personnel, Library Planning, Library Research
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Thomsett-Scott, Beth; Reese, Patricia E. – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
The incorporation of technology into library processes has tremendously impacted staff and users alike. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries is no exception. Sixteen years of reference statistics are analyzed to examine the relationships between the implementation of CD-ROMs and web-based resources and the number of reference questions.…
Descriptors: Library Services, Reference Services, Interviews, Questioning Techniques
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Wittig, Glenn R. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1992
A study was conducted at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Library Science to quantitatively determine whether courses adequately addressed program goals and objectives. Results showed that service goals and librarianship were reasonably addressed, but research and management goals were addressed in few courses. The statement of…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Objectives, Elective Courses
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Murray, Janet – Orana: Journal of School and Children's Librarianship, 2000
Discusses building self-esteem and confidence of disabled students through school library programs, based on Australian case studies. Topics include validity and reliability of case studies; the influence of teacher attitudes on student attitudes toward the disabled; physical accessibility; information literacy; information technology use; and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Case Studies, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education