Showing papers in "The Journal of Academic Librarianship in 1999"
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TL;DR: The best ebooks about Stress And Job Performance Theory Research And Implications For Managerial Practice that you can get for free are listed here.
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TL;DR: Criteria for good library instruction practices were applied to Web-based tutorials selected by the ALA Library Instruction Round Table, and can guide librarians in developing good online instruction.
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TL;DR: Abstract Concepts from Strategic Alignment, a technology management theory, are used to discuss the Information Commons as a new service delivery model in academic libraries.
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TL;DR: The literatures of many disciplines and professions, including library and information science, present and analyze service quality and customer satisfaction as mentioned in this paper, and present key literature, analyzes the application of both concepts to academic libraries and offers a research agenda.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a rationale for seeking improved librarian-faculty relations, explore various methods for evaluating the quality of librarianfaculty relationships, and discuss several published examples of programs intended to improve these relations, and call for increased attention to the evaluation of such programs.
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TL;DR: This article found that focus group participants are more sophisticated in their perceptions and appreciation of both Internet resources and traditional library resources than was hypothesized, however, they do not associate the Internet with the library and do not think of asking a librarian for help when using the Internet for research.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a study analyzes position announcements to determine the requirements, characteristics, and qualifications for those positions, including salary information and comparisons, primary responsibilities, and required and preferred education and skills.
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TL;DR: The authors conducted a survey of seven academic disciplines and found that all respondents, regardless of academic discipline, consult a narrower range of materials than was expected and regularly consult older published materials and expressed a desire for simpler and more integrated search systems.
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TL;DR: In this article, focus group interviews reveal how student artists use academic libraries to support their artwork, what these students seek, and how they feel about their experiences, while academic librarians may not fully aware of how students use library collections.
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TL;DR: The College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ) is an effective instrument to measure differences in the academic library experiences of two different racial groups as discussed by the authors, and the results indicate that African American undergraduate students used academic library services and resources more frequently than White undergraduate students.
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TL;DR: Le role educationnel des bibliotheques de lenseignement superieur n'a cesse de s'accroitre depuis les annees 1975 avec notamment la formation des utilisateurs aux nouvelles technologies de l'information.
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TL;DR: The perspectives provided in this commentary may clarify some issues, but also raise new problematic challenges for libraries adopting this new paradigm of Information Commons.
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TL;DR: This article reviewed the literature on academic library reference service, and examined changes in the traditional reference desk model based on the review from the perspectives of managers, librarians, and users.
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TL;DR: In reinterpreting its Bounds' decision in Casey vs. Lewis, the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the mandate creating prison legal collections, allowing other functions of the library to receive new emphasis.
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TL;DR: In this article, the sketch maps are used as an easy to use and understand tool for assessing library skills, knowledge, and interest among individuals and groups, and the underlying principles are found in research done with maps and surveys collected for environmental psychology, urban planning, and human geography.
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TL;DR: The authors examines a particular theory in social psychology, attribution theory, because it offers important information regarding potential unintended gender bias when performance is being evaluated, despite the many conscientious efforts that librarians make to conduct fair performance evaluations.
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TL;DR: A pilot project to include fully cataloged Web sites in a library’s online catalog, accompanied by queries sent to listservs and a literature search, demonstrates the implications for policies and practices in the areas of cataloging and collection development.