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Delinquent Borrowers in an Academic Library
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An exploratory study of the relationship between academic library work experience and perceptions of leadership skill development relevant to academic library directorship
Though research into academic library director leadership has established leadership skills and qualities required for success, little research has been done to establish where in their career library directors were most likely to acquire those skills and qualities. This research project surveyed …
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Academic Library Succession Planning in the University of California (UC) System
<p>The Library and Information Science (LIS) literature has made clear that academic libraries in the U.S. have experienced decades of hiring freezes and budget cuts that reduced staffing overall and eliminated many middle management positions. Consequently, now that baby boomer library managers …
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Understanding the Integrative Role of an Academic Library for Undergraduate Student Workers
This study explored how undergraduate library student workers at an urban, 4-year public institution perceived their work experiences in an academic library as contributing to their social and academic integration in college. Tinto's (1993) model on student departure formed the basis for this study …
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Evaluating Foundational Components of Research Consultations in an Academic Library Research Center
… who used the service during the Fall 2020 academic quarter. The results of the survey highlight that the foundational components are recognized and valued by the research consultation patrons, that there are certain environments which can impact the value and recognition of certain …
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THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: A Q-STUDY OF LIBRARIAN ATTITUDES
… to 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 …
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Case Study of E-book Use in an Academic Library: A Communication Perspective
… of electronic book (e-book) technology within an academic library. The University of Ottawa library is explored as a qualitative case study. The perceptions of use and communication pertaining to e-book adoption from the perspectives of students, faculty members, and librarians are combined with …
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Investigating popular fiction development at the University of the Free State academic Library
The study seeks to find out students' and library staff's perceptions and experiences of the popular fiction collection at the University of the Free State's Sasol Library. The purpose of the study is to examine what these perceptions and experiences mean for the future expansion and development of …
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The Information Environment of Academic Library Directors: Use of Information Resources and Communication Technologies
… both traditional and electronic, by academic library directors. The purpose is to improve understanding of managerial behavior when using information resources and communication technologies within a shared information environment. Taylor's concept of an information use environment is …
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An academic library position in a university: understanding the position and its positioning process.
This study explored the issues related to academic libraries' position and the positioning process. The study adopted an inductive and grounded theory approach to illuminate the academic library's position and positioning process through the perceptions of the study's participants. Seventeen …
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The Academic Library in Society’s Knowledge System : a Case Study of Tshwane University of Technology
Academic libraries traditionally support universities in their teaching, learning, and research activities. Their support roles can be broadly defined in terms of the organization and storage of knowledge, as well as its distribution and access. This makes them important role players in South …
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Bureaucratic and individual knowledge and action in the public services units of an academic library
… study of five public services units in an academic library, using participant observation. The data were analyzed by a framework (coorientation) which compared the staff's perceptions of shared knowledge in the unit with knowledge that is actually shared.
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Determining Standards for Sources of Free Information on the Internet for Inclusion in Academic Library Holdings by 2010.
… a consensus from a panel of experts composed of library deans/directors, reference librarians, and instructors with online teaching experience. The panel developed the methodology necessary for evaluating free sources of information on the Internet for inclusion in academic library holdings by …
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Library anxiety and the academic library: an investigation into student library experiences at the University of Cape Town
… Asia and the United States has investigated library anxiety among undergraduate students from tertiary institutions; however, a gap exists in research conducted in Southern Africa. The purpose of this study was to investigate undergraduate student experiences at the University of Cape Town …
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The Relationship Between Administrative Style and The Use of Computer-Based Systems: An Attitudinal Study of Academic Library Professionals
… the relationship between the attitude of academic library professionals toward the level of participative management used by immediate supervisors in academic libraries in the United States, and the attitude of professional academic library employees toward computer-based systems. The null …
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Coincidence of user vocabulary and Library of Congress subject headings: Experiments to improve subject access in academic library online catalogs
… needed to determine which retrieval processes in library online catalogs will increase the match success rate between user subject vocabulary and Library of Congress subject headings. Random samples of user subject terms from Northwestern University Library's NOTIS/LUIS online catalog were …
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Analysing the relationship between undergraduate students’ information needs and collection development: A study of an academic library in the Western Cape
… of students play a critical role in shaping a library’s collection, making them an essential part of the collection development process. This study sought to identify gaps between the information needs of undergraduate students and the resources available to them in the library, while also …
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User perception of academic library service quality and value: the case of the Ghana Institute of Journalism and Ashesi University College libraries
… (AUC). Concepts like value, impact, quality, academic library service quality formed the conceptual framework of the study. The study is a comparative case study that solicited information from the perspectives of students, faculty and library staff. Open and closeended questions were adopted …
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Access barriers : an investigation into the availability and accessibility of high-demand materials in the Short Loan Centre of an academic library
Academic libraries in South Africa are facing the challenge of tighter budgets, increasing student enrolments, greater diversity in students' backgrounds and library experience, and a call for greater accountability to all the stakeholders. The effectiveness of a library service can be measured in …
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