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Brittany Fleming – Knowledge Quest, 2024
According to the author, we are all creators and consumers of media. Technology has made it easy to copy, paste, and transfer anything educators might want to use in their classrooms. As educators, school librarians have an obligation to honor the law and be the role models that learners and other staff members need them to be. So many times the…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Copyrights, Intellectual Property
Joyce Valenza – Knowledge Quest, 2024
For a librarian with an innovator's mindset, inquiry can be a collaborative strategy for continual growth. When a librarian innovates with their community, radical, human-centered change is possible. According to the author, school librarians see the needs in the communities across grades, content areas, and demographics. The best advocacy is…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Problem Solving, Holistic Approach
Katy Webb; Laurents Sesink – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Library labs are dedicated spaces with highly trained library, IT, and research support staff. The staff are on hand to help teach faculty and advanced graduate students new and emerging methodologies and technologies. Such a lab is a place to engage in new ways of, for example, doing digital scholarship or putting Open Science into practice. This…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Services, Learning Laboratories
Stacy Gilbert; Kyunghye Kim; Rebecca Kelley; Alyssa Wright; Alessia Zanin-Yost – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2024
News aggregator databases offer different content and features, but there is little guidance on how these databases compare. This article compares the coverage scope, availability of 35 U.S. newspaper titles, and features of six news aggregators available to U.S. academic libraries: "Newspaper Source Plus" (EBSCO), "Factiva,"…
Descriptors: Databases, Library Automation, Access to Information, Information Sources
Rebecca Donald – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Caring for others is integral to what makes us human. We have all experienced the care of others that has helped us to survive and thrive, and in turn, others rely on us for care. A pedagogy of care, based on a feminist ethics of care, recognizes the centrality of care in our lives and thus its relevance for education. This pedagogy encourages…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Caring, Librarian Attitudes
Eric Silberberg – Journal of Information Literacy, 2024
This study demonstrates that a library instruction observation instrument can effectively foster critical self-reflection among academic library faculty and staff on their teaching practices. The paper outlines the instrument's design, which gathers low inference observations on instructors' use of questioning as a pedagogical strategy based on…
Descriptors: Librarians, Teaching Experience, Library Personnel, Academic Libraries
Melissa Stormont; Maria Cahill; Bobbie Sartin Long; Denice Adkins; Alicia K. Long; Derek T. M. Daskalakes; Caroline Gooden; Carol Russell – Young Exceptional Children, 2024
Public libraries offer a wide range of developmental support and learning opportunities for young children with and without disabilities. Libraries in many communities function as hubs and places of support for parenting, literacy, education, technology, as well as general local, and health information. A research team recently conducted focus…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Community Information Services, Early Childhood Teachers, Disabilities
Rebecca Bryant; Brian Lavoie; Amanda K. Rinehart – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2023
This report provides actionable recommendations based on real-world case studies that libraries can apply to help make their own collaborations successful and sustainable. The report shares experiences from the Texas Data Repository, Portage Network, and Data Curation Network to illuminate the challenges, opportunities, and considerations of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Institutional Cooperation, Capacity Building
Cletus D. Kuunifaa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Employability is key to libraries as they continue to diversify their services to include career services to meet the job seeking needs of community members. In fulfilling this crucial role, public libraries face challenges in providing career services for their community members. This dissertation probed and sought ways to continuously improve…
Descriptors: Libraries, Users (Information), Library Services, Careers
Fuhr, Justin – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Research data services are increasingly offered by academic libraries. As a result, librarians may need to upskill to provide data services and build capacity. This study measures the current level of data services skills of academic librarians and explores preferred methods of continuing education. An online survey was circulated asking…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Data, Job Skills
Sarah Voels – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2024
The Master's degree is a necessary step for any library and information science professional who wants to advance in the field. This requires potential students to go through the graduate school application process, which often includes additional requirements set by the School of Information (or equivalent college). Application requirements offer…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science, College Admission, Accreditation (Institutions)
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