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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

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Faculty-librarian collaboration in improving information literacy skills of educational opportunity program students

This study aims to examine the instruction of basic information literacy (IL) skills taught to the socio‐economically disadvantaged students in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at Rider University in summer 2011. The study set out to…

Tags: Assessment, Disadvantaged groups, Faculty‐librarian collaboration, Information literacy, Library instruction, Socio‐economically disadvantaged college students, United States of America

Position: 184 (526 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)

Comparative study of academic digital copyright in the United States and Europe

The advent of Internet and digital media has added more complications to the already complex copyright laws. This paper will first summarize the history of copyright laws in the United States and Europe. It will then analyze and compare the digital…

Tags: Copyright, Digital copyright law, European, Fair dealing, Fair use, United States

Position: 228 (506 views)

Captivating the students: online library instruction for a psychology class and lessons learned

This paper presents the first attempt of teaching library instruction via a Web-based tutorial for a Psychology and Law online course taught during the summer of 2009 at Rider University. Students received information literacy instruction through the…

Tags: Captivate, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Information literacy, Online Tutorials, Psychology

Position: 216 (512 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.

Tags: Academic Libraries, Catalogues, Online catalogues, Search engines

Position: 132 (554 views)

Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation, 1st Edition

Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation focuses on the practical applications of emerging technologies in libraries, defining the technologies in the context of their use in real situations. Each chapter includes an…

Tags: IT personnel working for libraries, Librarians, Library administrators, Library support staff

Position: 125 (558 views)

Emerging Technologies for Academic Libraries in the Digital Age

This book is written to promote academic strategic management and envision future innovations for academic library resources, services and instructions in the digital age. It provides academic executives, consultants, instructors, IT specialists,…

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Rethinking Information Literacy Instructions in the Digital Age

Over twenty years ago, the American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Committee on Information Literacy defined information literacy. Since then, numerous scholarly papers have been published which explored the best approaches for improving…

Tags: Academic Learning, Information literacy, Information Literacy Competency Standards, Information Literacy Instruction, Library Literacy

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Enhancing Academic Library Information Literacy Instructions in the Digital Age

For over a decade, hundreds and thousands of researches have been made to initialize information literacy programs and leverage information literacy instructions. Facing up to the new information explosion in the digital age, many academic institutes…

Tags: Academic Instruction, Information literacy, Library Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Scale Effectiveness, Scale Instruction