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Now more than ever, academic libraries are being asked to demonstrate value to their institutional stakeholders, funders, and governance boards. Academic Library Impact builds on ACRL's 2010 Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report and the results of the subsequent Assessment in Action program. It demonstrates how libraries are now measuring library contributions to student learning and success, and recommends where...
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User experience is everywhere. From your library's website to the signage by the elevators, everything contributes to the overall user experience of our patrons. Just one simple idea can transform your library: put the user first. But as you likely already know, just because something's simple doesn't mean it's easy. How best to identify, implement, and evaluate user-driven changes in order to improve physical and virtual services? The good news is...
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Reimagining the Academic Library paints a simple straightforward picture of the changes affecting academic libraries and what academic librarians need to do to respond to the changes would help to guide future library practice. The aim is to explain where academic libraries need to go and how to get there in a book that can be read in a weekend. David Lewis provides a readable survey of the current state of academic library practice and proposes where...
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"In three sections--Results, Reflections, and Advancing Assessment to the Future--as well as eleven appendices of supporting material about the development and execution of the program, Shaping the Campus Conversation on Student Learning and Experience paints a vivid picture of the thinking that went into creating AiA, the results of the individual projects, the impact on participating teams, and the broader importance for the profession. While designed...
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Adaptive technologies. Anti-discrimination laws. Equity and compliance issues. In-house policies (and politics). All of these support, in one form or another, the development and promotion of appropriate services for students with physical, learning, or, increasingly, psychological disabilities. But what of service quality? To date, there is a dearth of literature--in marketing, library and information science, and other disciplines--that applies...
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How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments? In 2008, five large Illinois universities were awarded a Library Services and Technology Act Grant to try to answer that question. The resulting ongoing study has already yielded some eye-opening results. The findings suggest changes ranging from simple adjustments in service and resources to modifying the physical layout of the library. In this book the editors, both anthropological...
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"As the number of service learning courses and their requirements increase, it is essential for academic librarians to partner with faculty and administration to include lifelong research skills components. This crucial book provides insights and case studies that will help you do just that"--
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Imagine this: it's your first day of library instruction. You have one hour, one academic library full of millions of resources, one classroom packed with instructional technologies, and 25 18-year-old students who want to write their research papers using only Google. Are you ready? Information Basics for College Students provides critical information and knowledge relevant to library instructors - both for those just starting out in the field as...
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Studying Students: A Second Look presents the results of further ethnographic projects within the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries. Topics range from how college students learn the ropes to their use of technology and how they study and write their research papers. The volume also discusses what professors expect of their students and the similarities and differences among faculty, student and librarian research practices. Filled with...
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"This book and its website address the implementation of the The Framework of Information Literacy in Higher Education. It gives the tools and strategies to implement Framework-based information literacy experiences for students and faculty, creating a campus culture that understands, and integrates, information literacy in its educational mission"--
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The new ACRL information literacy concepts bring renewed interest in information literacy instruction and skills for librarians. This volume offers guidance in planning for and implementing information literacy instruction programs in a wide range of instructional situations, including course-related instruction, freshman composition courses, professional medical education, new course development and delivery, one-shot sessions, formal credit courses,...
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"The Health Sciences Library Liaison Today provides fodder for discussion, ideas for programming potential, implementation and evaluation methods, planning processes, and recommendations for library liaison programs. It discusses challenge for librarians to be proactive, current collaborators in the academic and clinical environments"--
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