scholarly journals Assessment of the Research Learning Needs of University of Saskatchewan Librarians: A Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvin M. Schrader ◽  
Ali Shiri ◽  
Vicki Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Research Engagement ◽  
The University ◽  
Faculty Status

As academic librarians with faculty status increasingly embrace research engagement as a core value and requirement, one of the little-studied questions is the extent to which they possess the requisite knowledge and skills to conduct high-quality research and scholarship and what further learning needs they might have within the organizational setting. This paper summarizes an institutional case study of the research knowledge of academic librarians employed at the University of Saskatchewan, encompassing their current research interests, experiences, competencies, environmental context, and learning needs. The goal was to develop a framework for additional educational activities and institutional supports that would enhance their knowledge and skills.

scholarly journals Conflict Resolution: A Case Study about Academic Librarians and Faculty Status

2002 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Weaver-Meyers
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Third Party Intervention ◽  
University Of Oklahoma ◽  
The University ◽  
Faculty Status

The University of Oklahoma librarians underwent a dramatic challenge to their faculty status in the 1990s. This article chronicles that challenge and documents the events that led to the retention of faculty status by the librarians. The event is analyzed in the context of conflict resolution research. Conclusions suggest that a strong sense of service may help to unify academic librarians in future conflicts about their ambiguous status within the broader academic community. Third-party intervention and alternative options are also strategies discussed.

Extended and experimenting: library learning commons service strategy and sustainability

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 265-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Gunter King
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Engagement ◽  
Learning Commons ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Commons

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to share a compelling example of a library’s willingness to develop and design itself as an open-ended process. Design/methodology/approach – The case study provides a historical review of the library’s founding design, and an overview of the process and approach to redesign. The study contextualizes the library within current academic library research and literature. Findings – This paper explores the research, engagement and planning process behind the library’s exploration of new models and service configurations. The project was an engaged, inclusive, transparent, library-led process. The commons reestablishes the library as the “nerve center” of the campus. Originality/value – The paper offers an update to a 1969 report, and later book by Robert Taylor on the Harold F. Johnson Library at Hampshire College, designed as a prototype of an academic library. This paper will be of value to academic librarians, administrators, and historians.

scholarly journals Kids in the Library

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Rachel W. Gammons ◽  
Karina Kletscher ◽  
Kelsey Elizabeth. Corlett-Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Family Study ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
The University ◽  
Is Value

While children's services are traditionally associated with public libraries, the increase in students with dependent children means that academic libraries are increasingly being called to provide family-friendly spaces. Using the University of Maryland Libraries as a case study, the authors detail the process of developing, implementing, and overseeing family-friendly services, including a family study room and activity kits for children. They argue there is value in welcoming families into the academy and projects, such as a family study room, worthy not only for the contributions they make to the community but also for the opportunity to enact joy in our daily practice as academic librarians.

Your place or mine? Face‐to‐face reference services across campus

2007 ◽  
Vol 108 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 247-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darcy Del Bosque ◽  
Kimberly Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Outreach Programs ◽  
Reference Services ◽  
Outreach Services ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The University

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a case study which describes reference and instruction outreach programs promoted by the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Library. Direct‐2‐U Reference, Crash Courses, and Drop‐In Tours reached out to students in innovative ways to encourage non‐library users to see what they were missing and to give current library users even more choices. Direct‐2‐U Reference provided opportunities for students to get research help on their own turf. Librarians offered assistance at several locations across campus, combining the benefits of face‐to‐face reference with the convenience of getting help without going to the physical library. Library Crash Courses promoted subject‐specific assistance without the formality of in‐class instruction. Drop‐In Tours allowed curious students to figure out the layout of the library and get answers to their questions.Design/methodology/approachThis case study describes researching alternative services, and includes practical information on how services were implemented. Information is presented about ongoing evaluation of the outreach programs that improved the direction, marketing, and overall success of the programs.FindingsThe outreach programs promoted by the library reached additional users, provided more options for patrons, and improved the visibility of the library campus‐wide.Originality/valueThis case study will be of interest to other academic librarians wanting to provide library services outside the library. It builds on the existing literature regarding library outreach services.

scholarly journals Potential Students’ Grammatical Errors in Translation: A Case Study at the Fourth Semester in English Department of Letters Faculty at Universitas Pamulang

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tutut Sumartini
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
English Department ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
The University ◽  
Reading Texts

Students at English Departement, Letters Faculty, The University of Pamulang get one subject namely English-Indonesian translation at the fourth semester. In studying translation, all English knowledge and skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading dan Writing) are required to get the translation result satisfied to readers. However, there are lots of problems faced by the students which are caused by grammar and other related factors in translation. The process of translation begins with skimming in  a reading texts (Source Language=SL) until to get the main idea of the text. The students often think that careful reading is wasting of time so that they tend to try to find unfamiliar words in the dictionary straight away. This article is trying to recognize potential grammatical errors faced by a student and identify the types of errors made by the fourth semester students of the English Department,  Letters Faculty of the University of Pamulang at the periode of 2012/2013.

scholarly journals Implementing Electronic Conferencing Within A Distance-Based University: University Of South Africa Case Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
E. Kritzinger ◽  
K. Padayachee ◽  
M. Tolmay
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Student Interactions ◽  
Electronic Conferencing ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The outcome of this paper is primarily to survey and analyse student interactions with electronic conferencing systems and to reflect on the impact of such a system on the students’ learning within an open distance learning context. This pilot study is articulated within action research methodology to generate critical reflection on collaborative, online environments such as electronic conferencing systems for teaching and learning. This study aims to assess the benefits and feasibility of integrating such a system within the University of South Africa’s (UNISA) current organisational structure. These results are intended to generate debate and further research within the university into possible evolution in practice within the institution that would address contemporary learning needs of students. As this was a feasibility study, a comparative study of the current tools available for electronic conferencing was warranted. The findings of this study may be used as a basis for further investigation on the challenges that might face the university if online learning were to be implemented. The success of the online conference is nevertheless significant within the context of the University of South Africa. It provides the opportunity to re-examine the current print-based delivery system, and to devise strategies and solutions to significantly increase the quality of learning within the organisation.

scholarly journals Steven Salaita, the Critical Importance of Context, and Our Professional Ethics

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 92-103
Author(s):  
Sveta Stoytcheva
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
North American ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
The University ◽  
Institutional Oppression

Shared professional ethics are an important aspect of North American librarianship; these ethics highlight values including diversity, social responsibility, and intellectual freedom. However, these values are contested, politically charged signifiers that are often in conflict. This paper proposes an “ethics of contingency” for librarianship that acknowledges that our values are contextually bound and negotiated and explicitly draws attention to power. As a case study, the paper considers Steven Salaita’s dismissal from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the context of institutional oppression—a context that has been under-examined in discussions of the case within librarianship. Interrogating the issue through these lenses can help illuminate the stakes of this debate, and others like it, for our work as academic librarians.

scholarly journals Towards a Symbiotic Relationship Between Academic Libraries and Disciplinary Data Repositories: A Dryad and University of Michigan Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine G. Akers ◽  
Jennifer A. Green
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Medical Data ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
The University ◽  
Support Research

In addition to encouraging the deposit of research data into institutional data repositories, academic librarians can further support research data sharing by facilitating the deposit of data into external disciplinary data repositories. In this paper, we focus on the University of Michigan Library and Dryad, a repository for scientific and medical data, as a case study to explore possible forms of partnership between academic libraries and disciplinary data repositories. We found that although few University of Michigan researchers have submitted data to Dryad, many have recently published articles in Dryad-integrated journals, suggesting significant opportunities for Dryad use on our campus. We suggest that academic libraries could promote the sharing and preservation of science and medical data by becoming Dryad members, purchasing vouchers to cover researchers’ data submission costs, and hosting local curators who could directly work with campus researchers to improve the accuracy and completeness of data packages and thereby increase their potential for re-use. By enabling the use of both institutional and disciplinary data repositories, we argue that academic librarians can achieve greater success in capturing the vast amounts of data that presently fail to depart researchers’ hands and making that data visible to relevant communities of interest.

scholarly journals Using Open Calais to Identify the Research Areas of Engineering Faculty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Berry ◽  
Jeanine Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mining Tool ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
The University ◽  
Text Mining Tool

To meet the research, teaching, and learning needs of their users, academic librarians, particularly those functioning as subject liaisons, are expected to know the institution’s curriculum and research areas so that they can help shape library strategies to meet those needs and to connect users to the library’s resources and services. The present study investigated the use of Refinitiv’s free web demo, Open Calais, as a text mining tool to help learn about the research areas in the University of Tennessee’s Tickle College of Engineering. We investigated the following research questions: What interdisciplinary research areas in the College does Open Calais reveal? What are the differences in Open Calais’ tagging of Scopus and web pages? What terms were uncovered by Open Calais that were unexpected by the subject librarian? The results showed a mixed picture of the usefulness of Open Calais for learning the research areas of the College of Engineering.  

scholarly journals Using phenomenography to inform curriculum development in the areas of Digital Curation and Digital Sustainability

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Digital Curation ◽  
Outcome Space ◽  
Professional Practitioners ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Assets

A British university is proposing to introduce two new postgraduate certificate qualifications in Digital Curation and Digital Sustainability. The proposed courses are intended to formalise this knowledge into a curriculum that enables professional practitioners working in related areas to develop their knowledge of how to manage digital assets in a sustainable manner. This case study sought to investigate the knowledge and skills required by digital professionals working in the areas of Digital Curation and Digital Sustainability at the university. The roles and responsibilities of these professionals were diverse, and the sample included specialists in the areas of digitisation and preservation of archive film and photography, copyright for digital assets, database and web development, bid writing, and managing digitisation projects. A phenomenographic methodology was used to identify the variations in how these professionals understood their work, and the categories of description emerging from the study identified them as researchers, specialist advisors, technical specialists, service providers, and perpetual students. The data analysis and resulting outcome space suggested that a problem-based learning curriculum would provide an effective way of preparing students to succeed as professionals in the areas of Digital Curation and Digital Sustainability.

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