Tag Archives for Academic Libraries
Analysis of Academic Libraries’ Facebook Posts: Text and Data Analytics
This research analyzed a dataset of academic libraries’ posts on Facebook. It applied a text and data analytics approach to a dataset collected from the Facebook posts of academic libraries at the top 100 English-speaking universities, as listed by the … Continue reading
Effective outreach techniques for the promotion of library information resources in academic libraries in Tanzania: A case of Sokoine National Agricultural Library
This study examines the techniques for promoting library information resources and services through outreach activities and how librarians and other library patrons perceive the techniques for promoting the resources and services, and the factors affecting the perceptions regarding effectiveness of … Continue reading
Collaboration and Academic Libraries: An Overview and Literature Review
The chapter provides an overview and an extensive literature review of collaboration and academic libraries. There is consideration of different aspects of internal collaboration including: collaboration within the library service; collaboration of academic libraries with faculties, other support departments, and … Continue reading
Exploring the efficacy of training and development for liaison librarians at Deakin University, Australia
Australian universities are operating in a complex, dynamic and competitive global market. Increasingly university administrations are seeking the competitive edge over rival institutions. In order to support their institution’s strategic agenda and maintain their relevance to their institution, libraries will … Continue reading
Beyond metrics: Connecting academic library makerspace assessment practices with organizational values
The purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to developing a makerspace assessment plan. This approach focuses on connecting organizational and service point mission statements with outcome-based assessment plan goals, strategies, methods, and success measures. Read More
Scholarly work in the Internet age: Co-evolving technologies, institutions and workflows
This study explores how ICTs and the Internet are influencing, and being influenced by, the evolution of institutions, organizations and workflows that play a role in scholarly work. Based on a literature review and a structured analysis of 8 carefully … Continue reading
Supporting the employability agenda in University Libraries: a case study from the University of Sheffield
The paper starts with a brief review of literature on employability and student skills in the UK HE sector, the place of information literacy as an employability attribute and information literacy in the workplace. It goes on to outline work … Continue reading
Trending: IFLA Releases 2017 Trend Report Update
Libraries have a vital mission to provide access to information to all. In a changing world, this work is essential, allowing users to be informed, and empowered to build better lives for themselves and their communities. But libraries in turn … Continue reading
Transformative? Integrative? Troublesome? Undergraduate Student Reflections on Information Literacy Threshold Concepts
In this exploratory study the authors ask students enrolled in a credit-bearing undergraduate research methods course to rank and evaluate the troublesome, transformative, and integrative nature of the six frames currently comprising the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. … Continue reading
The secret lives of ebooks : A paratextual analysis illuminates a veil of usage statistics
The paratextual study leads to a closer investigation of the usage statistics themselves and concludes that despite industry standards, they are not calculated consistently across vendor platforms and that while these data are invisible to researchers outside of the library, … Continue reading