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John Eye – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Much of the literature in library leadership and management focuses on strategies and practices based on discrete attributes and sweeping human behaviors intended to improve operational effectiveness. This paper challenges the reader to build a mindset for leadership that reflects the real world, where leaders and managers work within parameters…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Administrator Role, Leadership Styles, Organizational Culture
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Aubree Tillett – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Military Families and the Arts is an ArcGIS StoryMaps collection that serves military families by mapping art museums and arts centers located near active-duty military installations. The interactive maps are organized by military branch and browsable by an alphabetical list of active-duty military installations. The ArcGIS StoryMaps collection…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Family (Sociological Unit), Geographic Information Systems, Art Education
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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
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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
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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
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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