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Orienting student veterans to the library: Piloting a new model of library orientation
(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 ...
Support our troops: Strategies for serving veteran & military-affiliated students in academic libraries
(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 ...
Engaging with Entrepreneurs in Academic and Public Libraries
(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 ...
Evidence-Based Collection Management in Psychology: A Comprehensive Analysis of PsycBOOKS
(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 ...
Common Ground: A History of Public Information in the United States
(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 ...
Supporting our troops: Library services and support for veterans
(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 ...
Mining Writing Center Data for Information Literacy Practices
(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 ...
In a Research-Writing Frame of Mind
(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 ...
Service Philosophy Statements in Academic Libraries: A Qualitative Content Analysis
(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. ...
Looking for the Library: Using an Undergraduate Business Syllabi Analysis to Inform an Instruction Program
(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, ...