Showing papers in "The Journal of Academic Librarianship in 2010"

TL;DR: RSS and blogs are widely adopted by academic libraries while users widely utilized the bookmark function, according to randomly selected academic library Web sites and users.

TL;DR: Selinda Adelle Berg, Clinical Medicine Librarian, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, sberg@uwindsor.ca; Kristin Hoffmann, Head, Research & Instructional Services, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada, khoffma8@uwo.ca and Diane Dawson, Natural Sciences Liaison Librarian at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

TL;DR: This article conducted a field experiment to explore how face-to-face, online, and blended learning instructional formats influenced students' retention of information literacy skills, and found that the results were discussed in relation to an inclusive model of knowledge literacy.

TL;DR: The study makes clear that by listening to the voice of the customer (VOC), relevant information may be obtained about issues that should be improved in order to increase customer satisfaction.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that librarians use Web 2.0 tools in three different levels, and overall it has a positive impact on teaching and learning.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the literature on traditional and peer mentoring models, explored Communities of Practice (CoP) within learning organizations, and discussed the implementation and evaluation of a CoP at the University of Idaho.

TL;DR: This research analyzes the topics/skills PRIMO tutorials consider essential and the teaching strategies they consider effective and advocates a design and development towards supplanting class instruction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence of the extent to which libraries from around the world are experiencing financial hardship as a result of the world-wide economic downturn and provide comparative analyses on the grounds of country, sector and size of institution.

TL;DR: Information literacy learning outcomes of randomly selected first-year and capstone students were analyzed using an assessment instrument based on the ACRL competency standards.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how middle managers from 22 academic libraries in the Pacific West perceive their own agreement, participation and recognition of shared leadership, and examine the extent shared leadership exists in academic libraries.

TL;DR: An exploration of the potential utilization of social bookmarking web sites by academic libraries, which allow users and organizations to create accounts for bookmarking online content, is presented.

TL;DR: The results show mixed search reliability, depending on the database and type of search performed, in academic databases' search interfaces versus the EndNote search interface.

TL;DR: The authors explored diversity training of librarians and the impact that training has on their efforts to promote cultural competency at their libraries and found that only a small portion of Librarians have been trained to lead efforts in diversity awareness and training.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated job satisfaction at a South African university library undergoing change on many fronts and found that only 51% claim to be proud to work at their library and 50% are open to other job offers.

TL;DR: This paper explored the educational role of archivists and special collections librarians in providing instructional services aimed at undergraduate students and found that although these professionals spend a lot of time teaching, they are hesitant to articulate their contribution to the classroom and to identify themselves as educators.

TL;DR: This article analyzed job advertisements to identify the contemporary development of academic reference librarianship in the United States and found that more job openings, higher educational backgrounds, more duties and responsibilities, and a variety of titles were assigned to academic Reference librarian positions from 1966 through 2009.

TL;DR: Drawing upon a range of library research and policy analysis, this paper argues for changes in both concept and practice in the provision of government information by FDLP and other academic libraries and in the educational preparation of future academic librarians.

TL;DR: The authors examined the management experience, preparation, and training possessed by middle managers in academic libraries through the analysis of survey results and found both advances in middle management preparation over recent decades and room for improvement in several aspects of management development and training within the academic librarianship profession.

TL;DR: In this paper, the number and types of referrals to librarians by a paraprofessional staff member at an academic reference desk were investigated. And they found that only 7.4% of the reference desk transactions required referral to a librarian.

TL;DR: This article explored the notion of information illiteracy in relation to doctoral students' information literacy activities and found that learners were competent, rather than information illiterate, even though they may not have received information literacy interventions.

TL;DR: This research explores the extent of service quality in Spanish university science and technology libraries, based on the expectations and perceptions of their users: faculty and researchers, with a specially designed BiQual tool.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors of the People's Republic of China contributed the greatest number of articles, followed by Taiwan and South Korea, with most of the collaboration occurring either among authors from the same country or with authors of non-Asian origin.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a structural equation model to examine the effect of job autonomy on the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior for university librarians in Taiwan.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated if a Web 2.0 approach to designing an institutional repository can positively impact community participation and found that the use of a Web2.0-based approach significantly enhances community participation.

TL;DR: Findings showed dissimilar use behavior and perceived importance of materials between academic- and performance-oriented music users.

TL;DR: There was some increase in journal use in most of the disciplines in the post-web era, and that the use of monographs, dissertations, and technical reports declined over the period of the study.

TL;DR: The results of an exploratory study asking faculty in the first-year writing program and instruction librarians about their research process focusing on results specifically related to serendipity are presented.