Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Interdisciplinary approach in education -- United States.
Academic libraries -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
Abstract:
This article proposes that we extend our information literacy instruction programs to include tenets of genre theory as a way to move toward a more critical stance in our pedagogy. By developing an anthropologist's sensitivity to culture, academic librarians can learn the characteristics of the academic disciplines and then help students learn these characteristics as a way for them to understand the rhetorical practices in these fields. In making tacit practices visible, librarians can facilitate students' transitions into the cultures of their chosen disciplines. In this way, we can help students see that information is constructed and contested not monolithic and apolitical.
Business information services -- Pennsylvania -- University Park -- Use studies.
Abstract:
Business faculty members teaching at undergraduate campuses of the Pennsylvania State University were surveyed in order to assess their satisfaction with free Web sources and with subscription databases for their professional research. Although satisfaction with the Web's ease of use was higher than that for databases, overall satisfaction for professional research with databases was higher among those who use them than Web users' satisfaction with the Web. The findings also have implications for marketing and librarians training faculty in database use as well as having implications for reference and liaison work with business faculty members.
Academic libraries -- Reference services -- United States.
Information services -- Social aspects -- United States.
Abstract:
Although many social sciences theories have been applied to the field of library and information science, one theory that has received relatively little attention is dramaturgy. The dramaturgical perspective posits that social life is inherently theatrical in nature. When applied to the academic library setting, both librarians and library users are seen as performers who play a variety of roles in front stage and backstage areas within the library. They strive to deliver convincing performances to their respective audiences by engaging in various forms of impression management. The application of dramaturgy to the academic library setting is critical for understanding the taken-for-granted nature of behavior in libraries. The dramaturgical perspective calls into question the common assumption that information seeking behavior is an exclusively logical, rational, instrumental process. Instead, it suggests that behavior in libraries is motivated, at least in part, by the attempt to maintain a favorable impression among those with whom performers interact.
Burke, Gerald.
Germain, Carol Anne.
Xu, Lijuan, 1964-
Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- New York (State) -- Albany.
State University of New York at Albany -- Curricula.
Academic libraries -- Reference services -- New York (State) -- Albany.
Academic libraries -- New York (State) -- Albany -- Use studies.
Abstract:
Colleges and universities are integrating information literacy into their undergraduate curricula. Accreditation commissions of higher education are integrating information literacy into their general education standards. Students enrolled in programs that promote information literacy are instructed to utilize library resources and services to complete assignments and papers. Students in these courses turn to the library's reference services to complete their academic work. In this study, the authors evaluated the increase in reference desk transactions at the University Library reference desk at the University at Albany. Additionally, they surveyed students enrolled in information literacy courses to measure patterns of reference activity.
Connell, Tschera Harkness.
Rogers, Sally A.
Diedrichs, Carol Pitts.
Electronic journals -- Ohio -- Columbus -- Use studies.
Ohio State University. Libraries -- Use studies.
Abstract:
A five-question survey randomly presented to users at Ohio State University (OSU) as they viewed articles in OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center (EJC) in fall 2002 probed the user's status, academic unit, reason for viewing, path to the article, and frequency of EJC use. Usage by faculty and graduate students, by frequent users, and by those in the sciences predominated, as did usage for a class assignment and browsing a journal's issues. OSU Polls in 2003 and 2004 probed EJC awareness and actions after viewing articles. Half of undergraduates were non-users. Printing was favored over reading entire articles online.
Academic libraries -- Aims and objectives.
This paper discusses the complex nature of transformational change required to achieve a learning culture. Peer mentoring will be discussed as an example of a learning process that is in harmony with the values-based transformational leadership and change process, the professional values of librarianship, and the democratic nature of a learning culture.
Academic libraries -- California -- Los Angeles -- Use studies.
Youth -- California -- Los Angeles.
University of Southern California. Library.
Abstract:
This article presents the results of a 2003 undergraduate library user survey as a case study of Generation Y. Survey data support four main traits attributed to Generation Y, which are discussed within the context of library use and satisfaction. Implications for future directions in academic library services based on the new ways Generation Y learn and use the library are explored.
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