Showing papers in "The Journal of Academic Librarianship in 2017"

TL;DR: This article used a phenomenological approach and institutional theory to explore social media postings at six different public and private university libraries in two Midwest states and found that libraries create a sense of outreach and advocacy with the goal of establishing community connection, providing an inviting environment, and access to content as needed or desired.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed multiple factors from current university students' high school experiences, including demographic, educational, and economic factors, and current standing and grade point average (GPA) to evaluate the students' information literacy skills associated with a 1000 level course on information literacy which is part of the university's general education requirement.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the debate within bibliometrics regarding the H-index and concluded that librarians should be cautious in their recommendations regarding this metric, at least until better evidence becomes available.

TL;DR: It is found that UG and PG students do not show significant differences in adopting m-learning by smartphones despite the fact that they have different learning patterns, and content displaying issues are barriers for most subjects in using these m- learning services.

TL;DR: It is suggested that green open access is the most economical approach to comply with open access policies, and that it provides researchers with at least as much research impact as gold open access.

TL;DR: Analyzing the results in this area of research will give libraries a better understanding of who is using academic e-books, why academice-books are being used, and how to influence the behaviour of the academic libraries' patrons to increase their use of academic E-books.

TL;DR: In this article, the current state of open educational resources (OER) including notable library-lead and multi-institutional programs is explored and the potential for OER and affordable course material creation and adoption programs to impact student retention and persistence is examined.

TL;DR: Findings of a survey of 104 undergraduate students in information technology courses at a large research university indicated that students considered access to information and computer resources and study support services as the most important library services offered.

TL;DR: How library employees perceive knowledge management, as well as which KM tools and techniques are adopted by academic libraries are explored, indicate that although practitioners are aware of knowledge management and appreciative of its benefits, there is a lack of clarity on fundamental KM issues.

TL;DR: The authors conducted interviews with 15 undergraduate and graduate students and found that students are most likely to consult faculty and peers for assistance and are largely unaware of librarians' roles, while they tend to begin research using library databases and do not necessarily start with Google.

TL;DR: A comparison showed that Zotero and Mendeley are the most suitable managers for reference managers and several mistakes were caused by technical limitations of the reference managers, while other mistakes originated due to incorrect setting of the citation styles.

TL;DR: A rigorous literature search was undertaken to investigate whether web search engines might replace bibliographic databases, using empirical research in health and social care as a case study and recommendations are made for improving the rigour and quality of reporting studies of academic literature searching.

TL;DR: This research represents a significant step forward in the quest to link libraries with student learning and success, but the limitations of this approach are beginning to surface.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the concept of engagement as it is used in the academic library literature requires greater structure and depth if the librarian community intends to appropriate and advance the usage of a phrase that resonates loudly across higher education.

TL;DR: Although this survey was implemented in chemistry, it could provide some inspirations for designing a range of library services for other disciplines, particularly in promotion, consulting and training of research data management and sharing, and research data storage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the use of undergraduate library assistants specifically to staff chat reference services at an academic library and found that well-trained undergraduate students can provide satisfactory chat reference service, comparable in quality and content to that of paraprofessional staff and professional librarians.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the benefits of transformational leaders and how they impact the lives of academic librarians and found that the interviewees valued the mentoring, visioning, and generosity those leaders provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the confidence gap in information literacy skills between men and women, particularly in international graduate students, and found that female international business students tended to be slightly more confident than their male counterparts (n = 102) regarding their perceived IT skills as evidenced by their average score across all six IL topics, 3.78, vs. male student's average score of 3.58.

TL;DR: In the last few decades, researchers have only begun investigating information-seeking self-efficacy, and multiple studies have demonstrated the importance of information literacy instruction in developing selfefficacy as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a substantive grounded theory about how the library director can ensure the library's relevance to university and external stakeholders in the face of rapid changes in technology and higher education.

TL;DR: The study shows how users perceive and use the academic library, and provides insights into how libraries can strengthen their place and advance their role in the academic community.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the history, deployment, and content of institutional repositories (IRs) in public universities in South Africa and identified the local, national and international drivers and enablers that ensure the establishment and survival of the institutional repositories.

TL;DR: The preliminary results indicate that most job positions require that the successful job candidate must be able to serve faculty and students to collect, manage, and analyze research data with essential qualifications to carry out those tasks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the social media accounts of the four university libraries in Montreal and, based on data gathered over the course of an 8-month period, seek to determine the influence of each libraries' social media activity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case study of an advisory role that librarians successfully developed with faculty editors to increase the visibility and readership of an open access scholarly publication.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to understand the experiences of academic librarians as they seek out and participate in professional development that they consider to be meaningful or transformational to their careers.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study describing the multifaceted strategies employed to assess a major outreach event, Texas A&M University Libraries annual Open House event, is presented, as well as the specific strategies used and the insights gleaned from each assessment strategy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the opinions of LIS professionals to make an assessment about CE needs and the role of library schools to address these needs and recommend concrete suggestions to act upon.

TL;DR: Virtual reality, in this case, provides a browsing platform that allows for the type of search activity typically associated with research in the physical books stacks and preserves the benefits thereof.