Showing papers in "The Journal of Academic Librarianship in 2008"

TL;DR: In this paper, an observational study was performed at three universities in Stockholm, Sweden to better understand the information needs of young university researchers, and the observations revealed that most of the researchers used Google for everything, that they were confident that they could manage on their own, and that they relied heavily on immediate access to electronic information.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define workplace diversity and identify best practices supporting planned and positive diversity management, and explore how academic libraries can apply diversity management best practices and provide a reading list for leaders and human resource managers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare these social models with the traditional academic library, whose spirit is best understood as "communal" and argue that efforts to create a more social academic library threaten this communal spirit and may do more harm than good.

TL;DR: The authors examines information literacy pedagogy and considers how academic librarians can work toward theorizing their profession in such a way that we may ask new questions of it and foster creative, reflective, and critical habits of mind regarding pedagogical praxis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that academic libraries are in the midst of discontinuous change by questioning a number of assumptions that support the current practice of academic librarianship, and analyze the manner in which digital communications affect academic libraries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare problem-based learning and lecture-based Learning in library instruction for first-year engineering students and conclude that problembased learning leads to better outcomes for the learning styles of engineering students.

TL;DR: The authors explored faculty deposits in institutional repositories (IR) within selected disciplines and identified the diverse navigational paths to IR sites from library Web site homepages and highlighted the implications for the development of institutional repositories.

TL;DR: In this article, the extent of this decline with a focus on circulation and reference among ARL University, Medical, and Law Libraries, the Ivy League, other associations, systems, and individual libraries is investigated.

TL;DR: An understanding of the weaknesses of full-text searching is needed to evaluate the search and discovery capabilities of academic library databases.

TL;DR: This article analyzed Google Scholar's coverage of the engineering literature by comparing its contents with those of Compendex, the premier engineering database, and found that the percentage of records appearing in Google Scholar increased over time, approaching a 90 percent matching rate for materials published after 1990.

TL;DR: Istanbul University faculty were surveyed to examine their use of electronic journals as discussed by the authors, and the majority of respondents supported the transition from print to e-only journals, particularly provided from the faculty in the field of natural sciences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide strategies for making community a topic of instruction for librarians and discuss the importance of learning communities and communities of practice in information literate activity.

TL;DR: This paper found that book discovery is highly structured, with gender, subject discipline, and academic status offering powerful predictors of certain underlying behavioural strategies, and a model of book discovery strategies was developed and used to help segment the survey population into those with high or low levels of dependence on formal library systems or non-library-based solutions.

TL;DR: This article examined self-archiving practices of a group of physicists in both a subject repository and an institutional repository and did not find a correlation between a disciplinary culture and self-learning practices.

TL;DR: This study categorizes reference desk transactions to determine how many of the queries require the attention of a librarian, and results indicate that 89% could likely be answered by non-librarians.

TL;DR: CACUL peer reviewed research paper presented at the CLA annual conference, St. John's Newfoundland, May 26, 2007 as discussed by the authors was presented at CACUL 2007 Conference on Computational Medicine.

TL;DR: Surveys, a focus group, reference question transcriptions, and question-type tallies indicate that this service model is strongly preferred by users and librarians over the previous tiered model.

TL;DR: This paper explored how undergraduates seek information across various information structures, and pointed out several issues relating to the underlying structures of information resources, and made suggestions for structural improvements to facilitate undergraduates' information seeking.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the literature on classroom communication from both the second language acquisition and library fields, and suggested ways in which second-language acquisition research can be applied to communication with international students in library classrooms.

TL;DR: A 2007 survey of faculty at eight academic departments at Louisiana State University, asking them about the usefulness for their needs of an extension of the scholarly communication system by digital repositories was conducted by as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A survey of library Web designers from randomly selected institutions indicated that larger schools were not necessarily working with more resources or more advanced levels of technology than other institutions.

TL;DR: This study analyzes the content, location, language, and technological features of fifty-four academic library Web pages designed especially for faculty to expose patterns in the development of these pages.

TL;DR: Conversations between librarians and students in chat reference are more formal than those solely involving students, and the use of some linguistic patterns is correlated to user satisfaction.

TL;DR: Ohio State University Libraries took a toolkit approach to integrate library content in the LMS to facilitate creative and flexible interactions between librarians, students and faculty in Ohio State University’s large and decentralized academic environment.

TL;DR: The National Endowment for the Arts' 2007 report “To Read or Not to Read” discusses the distressing nationwide decline in reading as discussed by the authors, concluding that the frequency of reading for pleasure correlates strongly with academic achievement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the degree of Google Scholar adoption within academia by analyzing the frequency of Google scholar appearances on 948 campus and library Web sites, and by ascertaining the establishment of link resolution between Google Scholar and library resources.

TL;DR: A comparison of quiz results of students who utilized clickers during instruction versus students who did not showed no gain in retention, and libraries are encouraged to consider pedagogical implications before applying novel technologies to instruction programs.

TL;DR: This article examined the evolving role of the Master of Library Science (MLS) degree in academic libraries, pooled cross-sectional data were collected from job advertisements in College and Research Library News, beginning with 1975 and continuing at 5-year intervals through 2005.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed how librarians acknowledge such accreditation organizations in the context of information literacy, through content analysis of published articles and listserv postings, and found that they increasingly include student learning outcomes for information literacy in their standards and other documents.