The Benefits and Challenges of Working in an Academic Library: A Study of Student Library Assistant Experience

Many college students choose or need to work, and academic libraries offer a potentially convenient on-campus location for employment. Students serving in these roles may benefit from the experience both academically and socially. By examining students' experience as workers in the library, academic libraries have the opportunity to understand the benefits that such work might provide and intentionally plan to enhance learning and demonstrate library value in a novel way. This basic qualitative study sought to explore the experiences of student assistants working in an academic library and identify the benefits and challenges they perceived as a result of enacting the role. Individual interviews were conducted with seven undergraduate student library assistants at a doctoral-granting institution to determine benefits and challenges they noted that resulted from their experiences in this student employment role, and findings reveal opportunities for academic librarians in training and supervising student employees.     

A Simple Step: Integrating Library Reference and Instruction into Previously Established Academic Programs for Minority Students

Nationally, universities fail to retain African-American, Hispanic, and Native-American students at the same rate as White students. In recent studies, libraries were shown as one of the only campus facilities that positively impacted minority student retention. Partnerships between the library and Minority Student Affairs programs can produce effective results for both minority students and university libraries. Federally funded, targeted academic summer programs such as the Ronald E. McNairs Scholars Program, the Summer Research Opportunities Program, and the Upward Bound Program provide academic libraries with an ideal foundation to offer reference and instruction services to minority students.     

Information Literacy Instruction in an English Capstone Course: A Study of Student Confidence,Perception, and Practice

An English professor and an instruction librarian at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester felt that the college's new English Capstone course for majors provided a unique opportunity to assess the information literacy skill levels of graduating English majors. They therefore engaged in a three-year study to evaluate the IL competency of these students, to gauge their perceptions of library instruction provided during the Capstone course and throughout their academic careers, and to determine students' confidence and self-efficacy with respect to these skills. The researchers sought to determine the ways in which the IL program for English majors effectively met established IL goals and to identify areas for improvement.     

国内数字图书馆建设模式研究-以国家数字图书馆与中国高等教育数字图书馆为例

国家数字图书馆与中国高等教育数字图书馆是国内数字图书馆工程中较为典型的代表,通过对两者建设进展的分析把握当前国内数字图书馆建设模式,得出国内数字图书馆发展需要协调和合作,从战略高度确立数字图书馆建设管理的实体,从而避免分散建设、各行其是,并推动面向用户数字图书馆建设。     

Academic Libraries and Engagement: A Critical Contextualization of the Library Discourse on Engagement

This article argues that the concept of engagement as it is used in the academic library literature requires greater structure and depth if the librarian community intends to appropriate and advance the usage of a phrase that resonates loudly across higher education. In reviewing the literature around engagement as well as in introducing critical perspectives from outside the library literature, this literature review and investigation demonstrates that engagement is a variously defined and used term that is both difficult to nail down but is essential to the healthy participation of an academic library in its respective community. The external perspectives introduced stem from the behavioral, psychological, and conceptual organizational approach to student engagement, whose application to academic libraries could be strengthened with a more critical grounding in the compelling terms and discourses of engagement as they are understood by those outside libraries. The framework of intellectual capital is introduced as a productive way of capturing the differing definitions and usages of the terms ‘student engagement’ and ‘engagement’.     

Implementing ILLiad: A Successful Collaboration of the Systems and Interlibrary Loan Departments in an Academic Library

In libraries, collaboration between departments or individuals can be the best way to implement a new project. This article will examine the implementation of ILLiad at the University of Toledo and show how a successful collaborative relationship was formed between the Interlibrary Loan and Systems Departments. It will demonstrate that, although challenging at times, collaboration is worth the effort in order to introduce a new service successfully.     

美国大学学科馆员服务的典型案例及其启示

开展学科馆员服务项目是目前图书馆服务的重要内容之一，本文就康涅狄格州大学图书馆和佛罗里达大学健康科学中心图书馆的学科馆员服务做了介绍和分析，并在此基础上提出了我国高校图书馆有效开展此项服务的建议。     

借鉴AARLIN经验,构建我国科技型图书馆服务新模式

本文首先对AARLIN及其服务模式进行了简要描述；其次，探讨了当前电子信息环境下科技用户信息需求的特点，借鉴AARLIN经验提出了以用户为中心的我国科技型图书馆服务新模式的基本要求。     

The Future of Information Literacy in the Library: An Example of Librarian/Publisher Collaboration

ABSTRACT

As information sources have expanded, there have been parallel changes in the way students and researchers find and use that information. The role of the library has shifted to embedding information literacy skills into the curriculum as a primary function. This presentation explored how librarians are becoming more involved with information literacy curriculum and how publishers can assist them, particularly regarding access to information and the scholarly publishing process. Since 2015, Rebecca Donlan at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) and Stacy Stanislaw at Taylor & Francis Group have been collaborating on an information literacy program for FGCU students and faculty that focuses specifically on navigating the scholarly publishing landscape. Donlan and Stanislaw provided an overview of the project, its formation, implementation, and progress to date.     

《大学图书情报学刊》引文数据比较分析

科学文献的相互引用关系是引文分析的主要依据.引文分析是以文献引用数据为基础,用以揭示其数量特征和规律的一种文献计量分析方法.作者对<大学图书情报学刊>1998年与2004年的引文数量进行了量化分析,指出了刊物在引文数量、引文文献类型、引文语种、引文主题、引文原始来源期刊的发展和变化情况,提出了值得重视的有关问题.     

Extreme Makeover: A Blueprint for Redefining the Role of the Liaison Librarian in the Academic Library

Utilizing the concepts of change management and intentional change theory, this column delves into the issues facing new liaison roles and provides tips for those who are undergoing a similar process through a lens of organizational change that addresses reviewing what is working, as well as what is not, developing a clear vision and direction, breaking down the change into smaller segments, cultivating a sense of identity through shared purpose, and supporting new habits.     

Engaging the Campus Community Through New Roles and New Relationships: The McMaster University Library Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Recent reports identify a problem concerning university libraries—that of trending toward the disintermediation from the research process. Many experts have called for libraries to begin leading scholarship and to keep themselves relevant to faculty and students in light of recent work illustrating that within the hierarchy of answering questions regarding information evaluation and searching, librarians fall below Internet search engines, instructors, and even friends. In order to be successful and stay relevant, libraries must be reestablished as leaders within the university community. McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada has taken the approach of “library as lab” by matching the needs of the library with the interests of an emerging scholar. This has led to the creation of three library-funded postdoctoral fellowships in a program sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources. The new positions have been successful in facilitating a greater number of university partnerships in both teaching and research through such initiatives as the creation of the Virtual Museum of the Holocaust and the Resistance and the opening of the Lyons New Media Center. The ongoing success of the postdoctoral initiative is insured with the creation of the McMaster Centre for Digital Scholarship.     

以学习《宣言》为契机,进一步推动高校图书馆合作与资源共享——论《图书馆合作与信息资源共享武汉宣言》的内容特点与发表意义

《图书馆合作与信息资源共享武汉宣言》内容全面,体现出国际性、时代性、开放性、新颖性、客观性等众多特点,它的发表不仅具有象征意义,而且有利于统一人们的思想认识、为高校图书馆的合作与信息资源共享指明发展方向、促进高校图书馆在更大程度上融入社会、推动高校图书馆整体事业的发展。     

近五年《大学图书情报学刊》载文引文统计分析

文章运用文献计量学的方法,对2001-2005年2月<大学图书情报学刊>的载文、引文情况进行了统计分析,为该刊今后的发展提供参考数据.     

Commuter Students and the Academic Library: A Mixed-Method Study of Space

Abstract

This study discusses the library space assessment of the Stark Campus Library of Kent State University. The commuter student experience is underrepresented in the literature, which often focuses on residential campuses. A mixed-method research approach is used to understand commuter students’ experiences and preferences of an academic library. Researchers used photo-elicitation interviews, hourly floor sweeps, and unobtrusive observation to gather data on student use of the library. The study shares its findings on students study habits and how their commute affects time spent on-campus.     

美国高校图书馆延伸服务及其对我国的借鉴意义

延伸服务是高校图书馆冲出图书馆围墙的限制,主动为高校师生提供的服务。以案例分析的方式介绍美国高校图书馆面向不同用户群开展的延伸服务,其中包括:大学新生、少数民族生、住校生和专门院系的师生。美国高校图书馆延伸服务的创新对我国高校图书馆更好地开展延伸服务具有重要的借鉴意义。在开展延伸服务的过程中,高校图书馆应该在拓展服务内容的基础上,合理安排时间和空间、采用灵活多样的宣传方式,并积极与高校相关部门开展合作活动。     

The Use of Visual Tools in the Academic Research Process: A Literature Review

An academic librarian, especially one who works primarily in a research consultation capacity, often encounters individuals who are seeking in-depth help with research projects that they struggle to explain. The number of concepts, interdependencies and assumptions involved in research projects today can make them difficult to define and discuss with other people. The multidisciplinary nature and globalization of many areas of research is forcing researchers to not only discuss, but to collaborate with many others from different academic backgrounds and disparate physical locations. Many researchers struggle with project paralysis at various points along the way as they attempt to manage both the myriad of details and the bigger picture relationships and implications of their project.A number of visual tools including concept mappers and mind mappers are well suited to help advanced students, faculty, researchers and librarians to organize the ideas and knowledge throughout the various stages of complex research, from envisioning an idea to the early stages of actively researching and documenting research findings. This paper will discuss the potential uses of visual mapping tools and review the current state of academic literature surrounding the topics of mind mapping and concept mapping.     

打造更为紧密的战略协作链--后疫情时代资源建设与馆配服务的若干思考

新冠疫情的全球大流行,正在潜移默化地改变着人们既有的思维方式、消费模式、生活习惯与价值观念。随着疫情防控常态化对策与措施的持续施行,作为社会文献资源建设与服务链组成部分的图书馆事业和出版发行业,迫切需要重新思考包括理念、技术、方法、实验在内各种要素的重组与配置。本文概述了后疫情时代信息获取与利用的变革及其特征,分析了信息资源建设提质增效的路径选择,围绕馆配服务的转型升级作了探讨与思考。     

高校图书馆参与学习分析服务的实践及启示——以伍伦贡大学Library Cube项目为例

文章总结了现阶段学习分析技术在图书馆行业的应用情况,介绍了澳大利亚伍伦贡大学Library Cube项目的设计原理、构建过程及应用情况。Library Cube项目为高校图书馆在拓展服务内容、提升服务品质、加强多方协作和人才队伍建设等方面提供了有益经验。但因为各方面的基础条件差异,国内高校图书馆深度参与学习分析仍面临着跨部门协作、技术实现、道德风险和思维转变等方面的问题。