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Self-censorship by middle school librarians
<p>Middle school librarians are faced with difficult decisions when choosing books for the middle school library collection because of the students' ages, and involvement from the administration, staff, parents and special interest groups who want to protect children from certain material. Middle …
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Transmitting Whiteness: Librarians, Children, and Race, 1900-1930s
… States during the early twentieth century, local librarians began providing library services for those whom they deemed to be their most valuable resources, children. Representatives of a new profession, children’s librarians campaigned for better tomorrows by collecting good books specifically …
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Emerging online roles for academic librarians in Canada
… library services, spaces and roles. Academic librarians have a further transition with changing pedagogies for online learning. Less is known, however, about the preparation of academic librarians for these changing roles. This study employs an online survey of academic librarians’ perceptions …
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Developing a model for school librarians in Scotland
… not fit neatly within the UK model of school librarianship, and much can be learned from the US model, which boasts an impressive body of research suggesting that school libraries there improve student attainment. Our model represents an ideal set of circumstances for school libraries in …
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Can fair use be adequately taught to librarians? Assessing librarians’ confidence and comprehension in explaining fair use following an expert workshop
… use is often viewed as a topic too difficult for librarians and library staff to engage with and, hence, avoided altogether. However, with the right training, librarians can learn how to employ fair use in their daily work. This study utilized testing both before and after an expert led fair use …
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Electronic book usage amongst academic librarians in South Africa
… a need for competent and knowledgeable librarians has come to the forefront of information seeking and use. The research question addressed in this study is to what extent are e-books being used among academic librarians in their work environment? The purpose of this study was to …
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The Evolving Roles of School Librarians in Diverse Instructional Settings
… Role tensions may emerge between school librarians and other school positions. School librarians’ lived experiences within this congruence of tensions provides a unique research opportunity. The methodology of the study is phenomenology. A purposive, non-random sample of six school …
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Sources of training and professional development for academic acquisitions librarians
… be a preponderance of opinion among acquisitions librarians that more formalized library school training is needed. A survey of acquisitions librarians employed in ARL-member libraries was used to determine where contemporary training for acquisitions does occur and where it should occur. In …
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Educating pre-service school librarians about race, racism, and whiteness
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Educating pre-service school librarians about race, racism, and whiteness
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Leadership styles of senior librarians in the City of Cape Town
… the following: “Leadership styles of senior librarians in the City of Cape Town”. Stueart and Moran (1998) state that despite the vast amount of knowledge, training and focus on management, little is known about how to lead efficiently and effectively. The motivation behind this study …
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A Developmental, Sequential Method of Teaching Library Skills to Student Librarians
… library. The units were used to train student librarians, and to develop library skills in students with little or-no previous acquaintance with the reference tools and resources of the high school library.
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The extent to which New Jersey public librarians promote early literacy skills
… the extent to which New Jersey public librarians were providing and promoting early literacy skills in their weekly preschool storytimes; the use by these librarians of the<em> Every Child Ready to Read</em> early literacy initiative, as well as the ways in which these librarians were …
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Professional Development of Reference Librarians in a University Library: A Case Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:01:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0023345.pdf: 11014815 bytes, checksum: 3ecc87a20ae90d4dabe68a40a5b459f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1957
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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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Attitudes of Librarians towards the use of Information and Communication Technologies in Zambia
… however, largely depends on the attitudes of librarians towards them. The purpose of this study was therefore to survey the attitudes of librarians towards the use of Information and Communication Technologies in Zambia. The study was intended to find out whether librarians were trained in the …
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The variations and the changes in the school librarians' perspectives of information literacy
… the variations and changes in Syrian school librarians conceptions of information literacy. The main target group was a twenty Syrian school librarians working in high schools in Damascus and its Suburb, ten of them graduated librarians and the rest are classroom teachers who were transferred …
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