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Successful information literacy through librarian-lecturer collaboration
… structured and fuller collaboration between the librarian and the lecturer responsible for the first year Physiotherapy students. The collaborative partnership employed strategies to teach information literacy competencies which were significantly more satisfactory with the students' abilities to …
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Portraits of Professional Collaboration: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Partnerships
… and student learning outcomes. Through embedded librarianship practices, librarians are now taking a leading role in developing and promoting users’ information literacy skills and in adopting an active classroom teaching approach. Faculty-librarian team teaching is a best practice for …
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The Professional Staff and Librarian Learning Community at Rowan University
… basis of my work with the Professional Staff and Librarian Learning Community (PSLLC). The PSLLC engaged in a collaborative, discussion-based, four-year process to design, implement, and institutionalize a new orientation program. This project also provided a context for developing my leadership …
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The effective evidence-based high school librarian: a journey to decision.
This thesis aims to establish how high school librarians in Scotland and America can become effective evidence-based decision-makers. Initial data collection consisted of written questionnaires to elicit background data from librarians on the extent of their evidence-based practice. Three main …
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THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: A Q-STUDY OF LIBRARIAN ATTITUDES
… assess the attitudes and perceptions of academic librarians toward a social justice role for the university library. Among librarians and others in higher education, there is a great deal of confusion around social justice as a concept because over the past forty years, it has often been subsumed …
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Ask a librarian: The profession, professional identities, and constitutive rhetoric of librarians
… of profession and professional identity for librarians. Specifically, this research analyzed librarians’ rhetoric about their work. Interviews with public and academic librarians were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using modified grounded theory approaches combined with rhetorical …
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Librarian subject searching in online catalogs: An exploratory study of knowledge used
… characterize the knowledge used by experienced librarians while searching for subject information in online catalogs. If we begin to understand what knowledge is used by skilled searchers of online catalogs, then perhaps that knowledge can be built into library systems so that the inexperienced …
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Coyote Ugly Librarian: A Participant Observer Examination of Lnowledge Construction in Reality TV.
Reality TV is the most popular genre of television programming today. The number of reality television shows has grown exponentially over the last fifteen years since the premier of The Real World in 1992. Although reality TV uses styles similar to those used in documentary film, the “reality” of …
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Academic Librarian Experiences and Perceived Value of OER Professional Development: A Case Study
<p>Academic librarianship is a constantly changing profession. Open education librarianship has developed as an area of specialization. Effective continuing professional development (CPD) for learning about open educational resources (OER) is needed to meet academic librarians' knowledge and …
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Evaluating the role of the professional children's librarian: an analysis of functions and development
… examines the role and function of children's librarians in the United Kingdom; investigating the factors involved in the decline of both specialist posts and specialist education. An identified crisis in the specialism has culminated in a national report outlining the serious issues which need …
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An e-librarian service : supporting explorative learning by a description logics based semantic retrieval tool
… this information. Our vision is to create an E-Librarian Service, which is able to retrieve multimedia resources from a knowledge base in a more efficient way than by browsing through an index, or by using a simple keyword search. In our E-Librarian Service, the user can enter his question in a …
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The Value of The Search Request Form in The Negotiation Process Between Requester and Librarian
… in the negotiation process between requester and librarian in the online setting. The formal hypothesis was: users who complete the search request form before talking to an information specialist will get better results than those who do not complete such a form prior to talking to the information …
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Developing a Faculty-Librarian Community of Inquiry: A Blended Learning Approach to Facilitate Information Literacy Education
… might be achieved between faculty members and librarians through the design and implementation of a blended Community of Inquiry (CoI) (Garrison, 2011) Faculty-Librarians CoI Workshop (FacLibCoI) within a social constructivist epistemology. A mixed methods, design-based research (DBR) approach …
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A study of the knowledge and skills requirements for the humanities librarian in supporting postgraduate students
… a knowledge and skills framework for humanities librarians supporting postgraduate students against which such librarians may 'measure' their current knowledge and skills; as well as ascertain areas for new skills acquisition. This objective was supported by five critical questions which …
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Student teachers need a shot in the arm: a study of librarian/teacher collaboration through teacher preparation programs
… the potential collaborative role of the teacher-librarian. The study used a short written survey questioning pre-service teachers about any instances of collaboration with a school library media specialist, knowledge about and exposure to collaborative ideas or methods involving school library …
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Teaching the Voices of History Through Primary Sources and Historical Fiction: A Case Study of Teacher and Librarian Roles
… The classroom teacher and the school librarian both have a prominent stake in creating educational experiences that foster the development of perspective, empathy, and understanding.</p> <p>This case study was designed to investigate the idea that teaching with primary sources and …
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Automated Reference Librarians for Program Libraries and Their Interaction With Language-Based Editors (Software Engineering, Program Development Tools)
An automated reference librarian is a tool that helps programmers find and use objects in program libraries. Its function is similar to that of a human reference librarian: it is to be an expert at locating information. When a client comes to a human librarian with a request for information the …
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A narrative of Augusta Baker's early life and her work as a children's librarian within the New York Public Library system
… Braxston Baker (1911-1998) was a Black American librarian whose tenure within the New York Public Library (NYPL) system lasted for more than thirty years. This study seeks to shed light upon Baker’s educational trajectory, her career as a children’s librarian at NYPL's 135th Street Branch, her …
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