Browse Items (26 total)
- Tags: Academic Libraries
Sort by:
The Effectiveness of a University’s Single-Session Information Literacy Instruction
Purpose – The purpose of this paper it to determine the effectiveness of “single‐session” information literacy instruction as it was integrated into the curriculum of a general education course at Monmouth University, New Jersey.
Position: 105 (570 views)
Next generation or current generation? A study of the OPACs of 260 academic libraries in the United States and Canada
Purpose– The study described in this paper aims to identify the progress made in the efforts to model current online public access catalogs (OPACs) after the next generation catalog (NGC) in academic libraries in the USA and Canada.
Position: 132 (554 views)
"Discovering" what's changed: A revisit of the OPACS of 260 academic libraries
This paper aims to determine the current usage of next generation online public access catalogs (OPACs) and discovery tools in academic libraries in the USA and Canada.
Tags: Academic Libraries, Canada, Discovery tools, Next generation catalog, Online catalogues, OPACs, United States of America
Position: 107 (568 views)
Promoting and teaching information literacy on the Internet: Surveying the websites of 264 academic libraries in North America
A survey was conducted between July and November 2012 to determine how academic libraries in the United States and Canada marketed and delivered information literacy on the Web. A random sample of 264 institutions was taken from Peterson's Four-Year…
Tags: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic instruction, Information literacy, Library instruction, Library Web sites, Marketing, Promotion
Position: 253 (498 views)
Delivering reference services on the Web: An investigation into the current practice by academic libraries
This article describes a study on web-based reference services in academic libraries. A random sample of 362 institutions was taken from Peterson's Four-Year Colleges 2013. The authors scanned each library's website for reference-related activities,…
Tags: Academic Libraries, Chat, Digital reference, Library technologies, Remote reference, Virtual reference
Position: 314 (480 views)
Libraries as gateways of learning and librarians as capable facilitators
Investigating and discussing how librarians in academic libraries change their roles and services following the changes in the libraries due to emerging technologies applied in the libraries.
Position: 80 (591 views)
Featured Item
A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix
In 1826, sheltered and obedient Xiang is destined for a submissive life as the wife of a rich businessman. Defying her mother’s expectations, Xiang…
