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Samantha Kannegiser; Julie Hunter – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Over 100 chat providers in academic libraries were surveyed in a premier study measuring experiences of sexual harassment among library workers providing online chat reference. The anonymous survey measured the prevalence and frequency of 11 sexual harassment behaviors across three sexual harassment dimensions: gender harassment, unwanted sexual…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Library Personnel, Computer Mediated Communication, Responses
William H. Walters – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Estimates of the price or value of the individual journals within a full-text database may be useful to librarians engaged in serials reviews or other collection development projects, to scholars investigating the determinants of journal prices, and to publishers seeking to rationalize their pricing strategies. This paper evaluates six methods of…
Descriptors: Databases, Costs, Publications, Periodicals
Dina Pinsky; Emily Brenner – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
Book censorship efforts in the USA have become increasingly concerning for champions of freedom of expression and civil liberties. The movement to ban books is seemingly driven by a desire to curtail adolescents' access to information about sexuality and gender diversity. This paper details the findings of a content analysis of the American…
Descriptors: Books, Sexuality, Censorship, Diversity
Catherine Meals; Meghan Kowalski; Faith Rusk – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This article reports the findings and implications of a qualitative exploratory study of writing composition instructors' approaches to teaching research skills and designing research assignments. The authors present the common learning goals, instructional approaches, and research teaching challenges that surfaced through semi-structured,…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
Kumaran, Maha; Maddison, Tasha – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
For the most part, information landscapes such as libraries are structured, organized, created, and used by the dominant groups. These spaces may be unfamiliar territory for many students. Humour used in library orientation elicits enjoyment and helps to connect librarians and students. Low and high inference humour used during orientation can…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Library Services, Humor, Orientation
Lucy Ibarra Podmore – Knowledge Quest, 2022
School libraries remain a hallmark of society. They are places where all students are welcome to use the abundant resources available to them to research topics for class study or explore ideas about which they are curious. At some school libraries it is also a place where students meet with military recruiters, sit for college interviews,…
Descriptors: Voting, School Libraries, Public Libraries, Citizenship
Slebodnik, Maribeth; Cahoy, Ellysa Stern; Jacobsen, Anna Liss – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This article provides background information about evidence synthesis, the process of collecting, evaluating, and summarizing results from multiple studies that have investigated the same research question. The article also examines the critical role of librarians in conducting evidence synthesis, and examines the accelerating uptake of systematic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Role, Evidence, Synthesis
Seale, Maura; Hicks, Alison; Nicholson, Karen P. – College & Research Libraries, 2022
In the past decade, cataloguing and classification and information literacy have experienced a critical turn, acknowledging the political, economic, and social forces that shape complex information environments. Library user experience (UX) has yet to undergo such a transformation, however; instead, it continues to be seen as a toolkit of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Usability, Library Science, Information Science
Gray, Peter; Solomon, Autumn Erdahl; Tatgenhorst, Leah – American Journal of Play, 2022
The authors surveyed public libraries to learn about the opportunities for play they offered and children's freedom to engage in such play without adult supervision. The authors conclude that, in recent years, public libraries in the United States have increasingly created spaces and programs enabling free play for children and teens. These…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Play, Library Role, Surveys
Becky Calzada; Nicole Cruz; Jacob Gerding; Maegen Rose; Suzanne Sannwald – Knowledge Quest, 2022
This group of school librarians from across the country answer questions from "how do you approach collection development," to "share a story of a book you added to your collection that had a meaningful impact on a student," as well as preparing for challenges and the importance of EDI in collection development.
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Materials, School Libraries, Librarians
Jasmyne R. Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The role of public libraries is changing in response to a multitude of influences and trends. The exponential growth of technology as the primary method of information access, funding challenges, changing demographics, and other mitigating factors have forced public libraries to become more than book repositories. Community library leaders and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Library Role, Public Libraries, Library Personnel
Noah Lenstra; Nicole Peritore – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2024
This article introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to the LIS community to propose a new way of thinking and teaching about how health is supported in public libraries. The topic of consumer health literacy has been a mainstay in the discourse of public librarianship, but we argue that this approach has not fully supported public…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Public Health, Partnerships in Education, COVID-19
Philangani Sibiya; Patrick Ngulube – Education for Information, 2024
Education curricula need constant updates in response to job market requirements, which may be influenced by the changing technological environment. In the library and information science (LIS) job market there are dynamics brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). These dynamics call for LIS schools to reconsider their curricula in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Science, Information Science, Curriculum Development
Mansoor, Faiqa; Arshad, Alia; Usmani, Muhammad Haroon – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
An unfair division of resources and biased treatment favoring the ruling elites have perpetuated social discrimination in the postcolonial societies in developing countries. Pakistan, one of these countries, has struggled to emerge from the legacies of colonialism. The situation demands strong support of equality, social justice, and the rule of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Social Justice, Universities
Breen, Michelle; Waters, Jesse; O'Shea, Louise – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
This study will provide some inspiration and practical insights to academic libraries and educators within tertiary education who wish to experiment with digital upskilling programmes in their institutions. 2,661 students registered for extra-curricular digital skills workshops over a three-week period in the spring of the 2021 academic year, at a…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy