Valeda F. Dent

TL;DR: The Kitengesa Community Library as mentioned in this paper is a small library built from the ground up near the rural village of Kitaenge, Uganda, which provides access to books and other services to roughly 50 members of the community and over 300 school students.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a cursory overview of economic development in Uganda, and discuss some important links between the rural library and the ways it might impact human development areas such as economic uplift, education and literacy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore connections between the presence of a library at two schools in rural Uganda and certain student academic engagement indicators, such as scholastic performance, reading habits, study habits, and library use patterns.

TL;DR: In a usability study designed to test the Hunter College Libraries Web site for ease-of-use and clarity of purpose, twenty-eight students were observed as they performed exercises using the links on the home page's navigation sidebar as the starting point for each task.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the development, construction and evaluation of an information literacy testing instrument connected with the VOILA! online information literacy tutorials, developed by librarians at Hunter College libraries for students enrolled in the college's first-year orientation seminar (ORSEMs).