Browsing by Subject "academic libraries"
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(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-04)Sedentary behavior has increased over the last several decades, and this has led to major life-threatening health issues. Texas A&M University Libraries has introduced an innovative idea in three of their buildings. This ...
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(2015-10-08)Government documents and scholarly communication have much in common: notably, a shared emphasis on the open and persistent availability of high quality resources to a broader public than might concern other units in a ...
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(2021)Purpose – The authors’ goal in writing this article was to provide background information and detailed considerations to assist those wishing to provide patent and trademark assistance at their libraries. The major ...
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(Routledge, 2010-11-15)Texas A&M University Libraries has been hard at work putting the power of course reserves in the hands of its users. Reserves services have traditionally been restrictive, granting only faculty the authority to place items ...
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(Emerald, 2015)The purpose of this paper is to explore how academic and public libraries support entrepreneurial researchers and, in doing so, demonstrate impact and share best practices. The authors discuss their own experiences as ...
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(American Library Association, 2015-06-27)This study examines usage patterns of psychology e-books and equivalent print titles held in Texas A&M University (TAMU) Libraries collections. The authors sought to determine how well PsycBOOKS, a specialized subject-based ...
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(2021-04-19)Teaching librarians are educators within higher education contexts. Despite their role in undergraduate student learning, little is known about the beliefs teaching librarians hold about teaching and learning and how those ...
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(2022-06-16)This paper will describe a study in which we examined service philosophy statements at a diverse group of North American academic libraries. We used qualitative content analysis to examine their form and content to identify ...
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(American Library Association, 2016)Librarians have been coordinating with composition instructors to offer information literacy instruction in composition classrooms long enough that it can no longer be considered a new trend, but rather a standard feature ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2008-04-17)Many colonists brought books, atlases, and maps to America; some assembled personal libraries that would ultimately benefit public institutions. The establishment of academic and subscription libraries initiated institutional ...
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(2020-01-31)Librarians are well situated to assist students with more than simply citation management or research papers. The specific skills of librarians lend themselves to working collaboratively across the campus to address students’ ...
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(Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2009-07)This paper describes the reasons for establishing a standing committee for faculty searches at Texas A&M University Libraries, the committee’s practices as they have evolved over time, and the successes the committee has ...
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(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)This study analyzed 260 syllabi representing a year of the undergraduate curriculum from a business school. The syllabi were examined based on the mentions of the library from across three categories: spaces, resources, ...
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(2020-01-28)Librarians that support business programs are weathering competing priorities in business collection management driven by requests from faculty and students, increasing resource costs with limited budgets, institutional ...
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(Reference Services Review, 2017)● Purpose ○ Collaborations between writing centers and libraries create opportunities for providing information literacy intervention for students doing researched writing. This case study gathered data from writing ...
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(American Library Association, 2018-06-24)Student veterans and military service members are a unique population on college and university campuses. They are non-traditional students and often transfer students who can feel isolated among a large population of ...
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(2020-10-13)Like many public services librarians, we spend much of our time focused on improving service quality. We think of excellent service quality as meeting or exceeding customer expectations consistently over time. One approach ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Some academic libraries use service philosophy statements to strengthen the quality of their service culture. A service philosophy statement communicates directly to users what they can—and should—expect from the library. ...
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(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2017-03-27)College and universities around the United States are enrolling veteran and military-affiliated students in ever-increasing numbers. Many of these colleges and universities have developed programs and services for veteran ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Veterans are a unique population that can be found in libraries across the United States. Libraries of all types are developing new approaches to the veterans in their patron populations in the wake of the wars in Iraq and ...