Showing papers in "The Journal of Academic Librarianship in 2014"

TL;DR: A preliminary study aimed at developing a comprehensive skills statement which would provide an objective framework against which professional LIS practitioners in the modern academic library environment in South Africa may both measure their existing competencies and also identify the need for further skills acquisition.

TL;DR: Because many students are actively using social media platforms for a variety of information-seeking purposes, it is suggested that IL programs embrace social media as potential information sources and offer effective strategies for using and evaluating these increasingly popular social media sources.

TL;DR: Investigation of first-year undergraduate students' use of the academic library, academic achievement, and retention suggests that students who used academic library services and resources at least once during the academic year had higher GPA and retention on average than their peers who did not use library services.

TL;DR: In the next several months, ACRL will likely approve a new and important document: the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, intended to replace the Standards for information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.

TL;DR: The Olin Library sought to learn the role of library space in users' learning by surveyed users about their learning behaviors in a specific space prior to a scheduled renovation and then in the same space after.

TL;DR: For instance, this article explored faculty members' current awareness of open access (OA) and perceptions of OA publishing, focusing on demographic characteristics to understand whether these variables correspond to specific perceptions and behaviors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate student usage of such technologies as instant messaging, cell phones, e-readers, social networking, RSS feeds, podcasts, and tablets, and determine which technologies students prefer the library to utilize for a variety of services, such as reference assistance or book renewals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the self-efficacy perceptions of Israeli library and information science students regarding their information seeking behavior and examined the judgments that participants make of their searching abilities.

TL;DR: This article discusses how commercial web metrics might be adapted for use in academic libraries and major key performance indicators used in the commercial sector are reviewed in the academic library context.

TL;DR: The results of a survey of librarians and library staff in the United States about their awareness of various copyright policies, partnerships with campus groups to address copyright issues, and training needs are reported in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the plagiarism component has been integrated in a Research Methodology course for Engineering Master students at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and the course director and librarians developed this part of the course in close collaboration.

TL;DR: Librarians need to develop skills that bridge traditional liaison work with the increasingly data-driven demands of scientific research, so that they can support researchers with their data management needs and help users discover data across myriad collections and resources.

TL;DR: This research utilizes a pre and post-test analytical model to compare an experimental, learner-centered approach to library instruction, supplemented with clickers, to a more traditional pedagogical approach and finds no statistically significant difference between these two approaches.

TL;DR: The engagement of one university library with two social media platforms popular with academic libraries is characterised to identify the forms of Twitter and Facebook activity that engage library stakeholders in social media conversations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the usefulness of theories of occupational sub-culture, jurisdictional struggle and Third Space to understand how librarians, IT staff and research administrators view developing services to support RDM.

TL;DR: Kairos is an ancient Greek theory of time married to measure used by both Plato and the Sophists to understand the emergence of truth from context and can usefully direct the energy of teaching librarians toward their particular students and classrooms.

TL;DR: In this article, three groups were surveyed in 2012: research and teaching faculty, sponsored programs office staff, and institutional repository librarians, and the survey results indicate that while faculty desire to share their data, they often lack the skills to do this effectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the development of a program for subject librarians which focuses on the practical aspects of how to integrate information literacy into an academic curriculum, based on the doctoral research of Dr. Li Wang who developed a systematic model for integrating IL into an undergraduate program at the University of Auckland.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on a study of the awareness, perceptions and use of e-books by academic staff in Further Education (FE) colleges throughout Northern Ireland (NI).

TL;DR: The authors explored possible leadership perceptions of Millennials working in academic libraries, specifically their definition, the attributes they associate with leadership, whether they want to assume formal leadership roles, and whether they perceive themselves as leaders.

TL;DR: This paper presents the place of the obligatory course Multimedia Document in the LIS curriculum at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade and shows how successful this approach has been, both from teachers' and students' point of view.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the occurrence of descriptors (responsibilities and qualifications) from job ads posted between 2005 and 2009 to build on NASIG's core competencies by expanding the time period considered, and found both rising and declining trends reflecting changes in electronic resources librarian responsibilities and requirements.

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the inquiry-oriented parts of the current and emerging information literacy Standards and Framework shows significant differences in the approach needed for teaching research information literacy, and promising instructional outcomes for information literacy training based around original research include gap analysis, theoretical and methodological discovery, and practical skills like funding search and analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, a post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) method was proposed to investigate sedentary behaviors in a campus library and identify designs and practices to help promote movement.

TL;DR: Findings show that eBooks and mobile device use in the classroom have a significant impact on the student's educational experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of developing copyright education for students as part of an overall information literacy curriculum by describing the development of a relevant, active learning online course targeting students' competencies as both users of and creators of creative content.

TL;DR: It is recommended that academic libraries in Nigeria should digitize theses and adopt the cloud computing preservation model through the operations of institutional repositories.

TL;DR: The authors propose that an embedded, mixed-methodology, and longitudinal approach can be used to collect data and assess outcomes in terms that describe and measure the value of library services and resources.

TL;DR: The IDEA Model is a library-specific systematic approach to integrating information literacy instruction and resources within academic courses and is based upon instructional design best practices and cognitive and behavioral learning theories.

TL;DR: The authors investigated librarians' teaching skills for serving international students using an online survey and found that participants perceived an importance in developing skills specifically for international students and tried to accommodate students' unique needs and optimize teaching approaches using their own experience working with the students.