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Updating learning outcomes and engaging library faculty with the ACRL Framework
Publication date: Available online 6 June 2019Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Cara BergAbstractThe arrival of the ACRL Framework and the removal of the ACRL Standards posed a new challenge to the user education coordinators at William Paterson University: how can the ACRL Framework be implemented and buy-in acquired from other library faculty? Not all librarians who teach are information literacy librarians; many never fully interacted with the Framework or knew about threshold concepts. Simply informing the other library faculty about the ACRL Framework was ineffective. They were not using it and s...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - June 8, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

‘So near while apart’: Correspondence Editions as Critical Library Pedagogy and Digital Humanities Methodology
Publication date: Available online 4 June 2019Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Francesca GiannettiAbstractThe following case study describes two library-led text encoding projects involving correspondence collections. The first, a documentary edition of personal papers held by Peter Still, a former slave, was conceived as an independent research project involving the participation of two undergraduate research assistants; the second, based upon letters to and from the Rutgers College War Service Bureau (1917–1919), has been designed as a two-week text encoding unit in a proposed undergraduate cours...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - June 5, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

An exploratory study of the relationship between the use of the Learning Commons and students' perceived learning outcomes
This study proposes and empirically tests a model explicating the impact of the Learning Commons on university students' learning behaviors and skills development. Adapting the information literacy instruction model that is based on expectation disconfirmation theory, a series of hypotheses were developed, and data were collected through an online survey at a Hong Kong university. Responses from 388 students were subjected to a partial least squares structural equation modeling analysis. The results suggest that expectation disconfirmation theory can be applied in the domain of the Learning Commons, and that the degree to ...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - May 26, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Open science disrupting the status quo in academic libraries: A perspective of Zimbabwe
This study draws from a wider study which explored utilisation of institutional repositories in Zimbabwe's public universities. The study sought to answer the question: What is the role of the academic librarian in promoting the institutional repository? The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of technology (UTAUT) informed the study, while a mixed methods approach was employed using document analysis, questionnaires and interviews to collect data from librarians in eight public universities. Findings revealed that in some instances IR responsibilities were added to existing duties for incumbent staff while in others, sta...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - May 23, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Determinants of perceived usefulness of social media in university libraries: Subjective norm, image and voluntariness as indicators
Publication date: July 2019Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 45, Issue 4Author(s): Roland Izuagbe, Goodluck Ifijeh, Edith I. Izuagbe-Roland, Olajumoke Rebecca Olawoyin, Lilofa Osamenfa Ogiamien (Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - May 22, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research