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Don Latham; Melissa Gross; Heidi Julien – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This paper shares the results of semi-structured interviews with 30 community college librarians who have instruction duties. The interviews explored these librarians' perceptions of students' information literacy (IL) strengths and weaknesses as well as their views of students' self-perceptions. Participants believe that students are confident in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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Michelle Giles; Sheila Baker; Jana Willis – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2024
This mixed methods study explored the impact of a collaborative experience on perceptions of school librarian candidates (SLCs) and preservice teacher candidates (PTCs) as they worked to integrate technology into lesson plans effectively. The group under investigation consisted of 83 PTCs in the teacher preparation program who were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Graduate Students, Library Science
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Kathia Salomé Ibacache Oliva; Elizabeth Novosel; Stacy Gilbert – College & Research Libraries, 2024
According to a 2021 Pew Research report, over 80 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds use social media. Studies also show that higher education students use social media in both academic and everyday life. However, there is minimal research about how, or whether, librarians utilize social media in their library instruction as a source of information for…
Descriptors: Social Media, Information Literacy, Information Sources, Literacy Education
Flordeliza Linda Cadiz Marks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the diverse roles and professional development needs of K-12 school librarians in the Greater DC area, particularly within the Mid-Atlantic Public Schools System (MAPSS, a pseudonym). The researcher used mixed methods research, to identify their needs and goals. The outcome of this study will inform the development of a…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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Hobscheid, Maya; Kerbavaz, Kristin – Communications in Information Literacy, 2022
This paper describes a project undertaken at Grand Valley State University in which a co-creative model was used to develop a rubric for assessing student learning in library instruction. It outlines the design process as well as the training and support provided throughout implementation. It concludes with the authors' reflections on the…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, College Students, Student Evaluation, Library Instruction
Kathy M. Irwin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this constructivist, phenomenological study was to describe and interpret women academic library deans' lived experiences with workplace networking as they interact with other university administrators to accomplish organizational initiatives. Possessing strong political skills, including networking ability, is essential especially…
Descriptors: Deans, Library Personnel, Women Faculty, Administrators
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O'Neill, Brittany; LeBlanc, Allen – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
This study explored the language preferences of instructors at Louisiana State University for library resources and whether library terminology influenced those choices. Participants were presented with both screen captures and definitions of electronic library resources and were asked to identify them in their own words. Faculty did not use…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Research Libraries, Library Materials, Language Attitudes
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Buljung, Briannaa; Vuletich, Seth; Dunn, Lisa – Education for Information, 2023
Incorporation of information literacy into the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum can be a challenge for academic librarians, in part due to different terminology than used by disciplinary faculty colleagues. Aligning terminology used in information literacy frameworks with the scientific method can provide a means…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Information Literacy, Vocabulary, STEM Education
Valenza, Joyce Kasman; Boyer, Brenda; Mohamad, Gihan; Bushby, Rebecca; Elliott, Ewa Dziedzic – Online Submission, 2023
Purpose: This study examined a criterion-based sample of high school librarians who met AASL's definition of effective school library practice to uncover how they translated their professional practices during COVID-19. Methods: Three instruments were used to compare pre-COVID-19 school librarian practice with its evolution during two specific…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Libraries, Library Role, COVID-19
Robbie Barber – Knowledge Quest, 2023
Soft or self-censorship is when librarians' modify their book choices, not based on a selection policy, but on the climate. To avoid getting in trouble, they choose books that will not be controversial. The result may be that their self-censorship is a greater threat to school libraries than the actual book challenges. In this article, Robbie…
Descriptors: Censorship, Books, School Libraries, Reading Material Selection
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Elizabeth A. Brown; Kathleen H. Flynn; Amanda McCormick; Clara Y. Tran – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
Preprint articles are available on servers, such as arXiv and ChemRxiv, at no-cost to benefit the movement toward open access of research. However, the use of preprint research articles as a reference source in academia is not heavily documented. To examine if researchers are utilizing preprint articles, this paper examines citation trends in the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Doctoral Programs, State Universities
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Matthews, Amber – Education for Information, 2021
While contemporary revisionist narratives frame the public library as a benevolent and neutral community resource, it has existed for over two centuries and has a deeply shaded past. Particularly, public libraries played key roles in projects tied to the industrialist mission of states and the education of select social groups during key…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Inclusion, Public Libraries
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Wasserman, Varda; Berkovich, Izhak – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The present study examines how changes in higher education systems -- caused mostly by neoliberal ideologies and the knowledge revolution -- affect non-faculty professionals such as academic librarians, and how they cope with these changes. Specifically, relying on Bourdieu's theory of distinction, we show how Israeli academic librarians adopt…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Individual Power, Social Capital
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Mikulski, Richard M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This article studies how government documents librarians describe their field within scholarly publications. Treating published works as primary source texts, it examines language, themes, and self-depiction within academic publications authored by documents librarians, arguing that a qualitative analysis provides insights into the professional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Government Publications, Library Science
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Ma, Leo F. H.; Horban, Yurii; Skachenko, Olena – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This study explores the role of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Library and the Scientific Library of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (KNUCA) in Ukraine in enhancing academic integrity in the university community. It compares the methods of academic integrity training offered by the libraries of the two universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrity, Ethics, Cheating
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