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Download full textHelkenberg, Davin; Schoenberger, Nicole; Kooy, S. A. Vander; Pemberton, Amanda; Ali, Karim; Bartlett, Sarah; Clair, Jillian; Crombleholme, Sydney; Dee, Alison; DePierro, Kristy; Greenwood, Timothy; Lobzun, Meagan; Petersen, Cassandra; Saunders, Sabrina Redwing; Tarzi, Mary; Ward, Kristyn; Zip, Stacey – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2018
This paper was produced as a collaborative project by a Progressive Librarianship class at an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program located in Canada. Recent research in LIS has identified a need for issues of social justice to be discussed more prominently in LIS education. From a uniquely student perspective,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Information Science Education, Library Science
Head, Alison J.; Wihbey, John; Metaxas, P. Takis; MacMillan, Margy; Cohen, Dan – Project Information Literacy, 2018
This executive summary provides a snapshot of the larger report, "How Students Engage with News: Five Takeaways for Educators, Journalists, and Librarians" (ED591128). The report represents perhaps the largest and most comprehensive research effort exploring how U.S. college-age students are accessing, consuming, and engaging with news…
Descriptors: College Students, Information Seeking, News Media, Handheld Devices
Rinio, Deborah – Online Submission, 2018
Social capital, in the form of relationships among teachers, results in sharing information and resources, which leads to improved student academic achievement. However, school librarians in secondary schools often face challenges when it comes to collaboration. Not surprisingly, collaboration between teachers and librarians is a major focus of…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Social Networks, Network Analysis, School Libraries
Direct linkCram, Jennifer – Australian Library Journal, 2011
This article puts forward a credo of librarianship, particularly public librarianship. The writer addresses the differences between academic and public librarianship and suggests that there is little actual difference, and that apparent differences are differences in how librarians react to the environment in which they operate. The effects of the…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Librarians, Library Role, Library Services
Houk, Kathryn M.; Thornhill, Kate – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2013
Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library created a Facebook page and a corresponding managing committee in March 2010. Facebook Page Insights data collected from the library's Facebook page were statistically analyzed to investigate patterns of user engagement. The committee hoped to improve posting practices and increase user engagement…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Health Sciences, Web 2.0 Technologies, Web Sites
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
Regazzi, John J. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
This study compares the overall spending trends and patterns of growth of Academic Libraries with Public Libraries, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and hospitals in the period of 1998 to 2008. Academic Libraries, while showing a growth of 13% over inflation for the period, far underperformed the growth of the other public institutions…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, School Libraries, Special Libraries
Blummer, Barbara; Kenton, Jeffrey M. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2014
Web 2.0 tools offer academic libraries new avenues for delivering services and resources to students. In this research we report on a content analysis of 100 US community college libraries' Websites for the availability of Web 2.0 applications. We found Web 2.0 tools utilized by 97% of our sample population and many of these sites contained more…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Community Colleges, College Libraries, Web Sites
Nielsen, Jordan – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2014
In 2012, "U.S. News & World Report" ranked nineteen institutions on its Up-and-Coming national universities list. The universities were put on the list based on rankings from experts in higher education administration. The experts were asked to identify institutions that had implemented innovative ideas in the areas of academics,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Distance Education, Trend Analysis, Educational Trends
Johnson, L.; Adams Becker, S.; Estrada, V.; Freeman, A. – New Media Consortium, 2014
The internationally recognized "NMC Horizon Report" series and regional "NMC Technology Outlooks" are part of the NMC Horizon Project, a 12-year effort established in 2002 that annually identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years in every sector of education around the…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Information Management
Jiang, Qian; Zhang, Yonghong – International Education Studies, 2011
From many aspects such as the resource construction, the talent group, and the mechanism and system, main factors to restrain the development of college library are analyzed, and corresponding countermeasures are proposed in this article.
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Barriers, Library Administration, Library Personnel
Yoshida, Yuko – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Introduction. The purpose of this research is to investigate the significance of public libraries as educational institutions. The meaning of lifelong learning in public libraries from the perspective of women's autonomous activities is re-examined. Method. The literature of the grassroots library movement and that of the empowerment of women is…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Learning Activities, Active Learning, Empowerment
Hobbs, Renee – Knowledge Quest, 2017
It's indisputable: disinformation, hoaxes, propaganda, and hyper-partisanship are increasingly global phenomena. Educators, librarians, policymakers, and community leaders are wondering about the implications of the changing information landscape. Anyone can publish and promote anything, and increasing political polarization is being combined with…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Media Literacy, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Misconceptions
Braun, Steven – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Measuring research impact has become a nearly ubiquitous facet of scholarly communication. At the University of Minnesota Medical School, new administrative directives have directly tied impact metrics to faculty assessment, promotion, and tenure. In this paper, I describe a platform for the analysis and visualization of research impact that was…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Research, Medical Schools
Green, Harriett E.; Lamprin, Patricia – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Researchers increasingly engage with the digital archives built by libraries, archives, and museums, but many institutions still seek to learn more about researchers' needs and practices with these digital collections. This paper presents a user assessment study for "Emblematica Online," a research digital library that provides digitized…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Archives, Use Studies, Case Studies
