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Phillips, Kathleen; Woods, Stephen; Dudash, Andrew – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Librarians play a key role in the understanding, retrieval, and assessment of gray literature (also spelled "grey literature") as it pertains to evidence-based clinical practice, particularly nursing. With the rise of evidence-based research and curriculum-specific requirements in advanced nursing programs, gray literature instruction…
Descriptors: Library Role, Library Services, Evidence Based Practice, Information Retrieval
Fuhr, Justin – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This article summarizes and explores personal librarian philosophies. Much like widely known teaching philosophies, librarian philosophies are statements that reflect an individual's standards and beliefs about their vocation. These statements can be used to incorporate meaning, identity, and direction into professional practice. As a form of…
Descriptors: Librarians, Philosophy, Beliefs, Values
Faix, Allison; Daniels, Tristan – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
With an awareness of growing issues in teaching source evaluation, the authors explored new methods to incorporate this skill into one-credit asynchronous information literacy courses. The authors discovered improvements in student performance when using SIFT and identified key strategies for its implementation to achieve best results.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Sources, Information Literacy, Asynchronous Communication
Andrea Baer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This essay explores the tension between pursuing meaningful work in instruction librarianship and the realities of working in a society in which many jobs provide little fulfillment or pleasure, or, as the journalist Sarah Jaffe puts it, "Work won't love you back." Drawing on a recent conference keynote by Anne Helen Petersen, C. Wright…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Work Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Professional Autonomy
Slebodnik, Maribeth; Cahoy, Ellysa Stern; Jacobsen, Anna Liss – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This article provides background information about evidence synthesis, the process of collecting, evaluating, and summarizing results from multiple studies that have investigated the same research question. The article also examines the critical role of librarians in conducting evidence synthesis, and examines the accelerating uptake of systematic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Role, Evidence, Synthesis
White, Elisabeth B. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the lives of college students across the United States. These students, many of whom had never taken an online class prior to the pandemic, had to quickly adapt to the virtual learning environment and continue their studies during a time of great uncertainty. At the same time, many…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, School Closing
Swaren, Chantelle; Cowden, Chapel; Smith, Wes – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic peeled back long-held assumptions about what is wanted, needed, and possible within academia. Many academic libraries had failed to fully imagine the potential uses of online and, in short, missed many opportunities to engage and support users. From this oversight have sprung opportunities to better understand and respond to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, COVID-19, Pandemics
Daines, J. Gordon, III; Kopp, Maggie Gallup; Skeem, Dainan M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This article reports on research done at Brigham Young University on supporting teaching with primary sources. It reviews the literature on primary source literacy and lessons gleaned from interviews with faculty to begin to identify the competencies necessary to teach the skills of primary source literacy. It breaks these competencies down into…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Primary Sources, College Faculty, Information Literacy
Smith, Aida Marissa; Cook, Beth R. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This case study discusses the implementation of formal organizational learning activities at the Richard G. Trefry Library, which serves the American Public University System, an accredited, for-profit, asynchronous institution of higher education. Discussed are the challenges and solutions throughout the implementation processes along with the…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Electronic Libraries, Labor Force, Academic Libraries
Hosier, Allison – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
As library and information science scholars, we know that context matters in research because we study how various populations look for information. The information-seeking behaviors of creative people, however, are something of a blank spot in our scholarly literature. Studies of creative writers are especially rare. This study used writers'…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Research, Fiction, Information Seeking
Nutefall, Jennifer E.; Barry, Maureen; Gruber, Anne Marie; Ivey, Olivia – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Service-learning is an important practice in higher education, allowing institutions to combine essential campus functions of research and learning with meaningful engagement in the community. As service-learning has made its way into institutional strategic plans, libraries have sought to support this work by integrating community engagement into…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Program Evaluation
Kasten-Mutkus, Kathleen; Saragossi, Jamie – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
This paper sets out to identify the ways in which academic libraries can further interdisciplinary scholarship on campus. The medical humanities is presented as an example to interrogate the current practices in academic libraries and to inform future efforts in support of interdisciplinarity. Text mining was employed to illuminate trends in this…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Academic Libraries, Research, Library Services
Baer, Andrea – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
As librarians' instructional roles continue to evolve, metaphor can be a powerful tool through which to reflect on and at times to reframe librarians' evolving educational roles and pedagogical approaches, as they consider beliefs and assumptions about teaching and learning and about their unfolding work and identities. This article explores this…
Descriptors: Librarians, Role, Figurative Language, Library Instruction
Hicks, Alison; Sinkinson, Caroline – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Active learning forms a common teaching method within information literacy instruction. Commitment to participatory models of teaching and learning requires critical vigilance, however, particularly given changing information environments and broader educational priorities. This theoretical paper interrogates active learning and its prevalence…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Library Instruction, Information Literacy, Problem Based Learning
Margolin, Stephanie; Abrahamsson, Malin – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Library employees face countless changes, big and small, in their workplaces every day: not only the COVID-19 pandemic but also such commonplace events as open positions, renovations, budget cuts, and new library systems. No single handbook can anticipate all the changing needs. This case study discusses how one particular library responded, in a…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Academic Libraries, Library Personnel, Leadership
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