Donaldson, Katherine S.(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2018)
The profession of librarianship in the United States of America remains predominantly white. According to an American Library Association (ALA) Diversity Counts survey in 2012, nearly 88% of professional librarians identified ...
Hixson, Carol G.(University of Regina, Dr. John Archer Library, 2007-01-15)
How is the digital age affecting the way that humanities scholars
conduct their research and share their results? What role can and
should academic libraries play in supporting the new research and
scholarly communication ...
Munro, Karen; McLure, Merinda(Communications in Information Literacy, 2010)
The authors conducted a study concerning student and instructor attitudes toward accessing library resources and services from within course management systems (CMS). In spring 2008, the authors held semi-structured ...
Smith, Ted D.; Watson, Mark R. (Mark Randall)(2006-01-24)
An essay describing an introductory college course on research methods that uses baseball as a subject focus. The work details the authors’ experience in teaching the course and explains the theory behind using baseball ...
Hixson, Carol G.; Williamson, Susan G.; White, Howard D.(American Library Association, 1986-10)
Surveys of student and faculty attitudes toward proposed online public access catalogs were conducted in 1984 with largely identical questionnaires at two colleges. Support for the traditional card catalog was strong among ...
The International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC), comprised of 325 members from 86 countries, has a long history of resource sharing based on personal connections among ...
We suggest a number of ways in which federal policies could be strengthened and improved to provide greater public access to peer reviewed articles originating from federal grant funding.
Cain, Jonathan(Washington, D.C. : Coalition for Networked Information, 2020.., 2020)
Statistical consulting offered as part of an academic research library’s suite of services is not unusual, but the approach taken at the University of Oregon (UO) may be unique. This briefing will describe a two-year pilot ...