Community colleges educate an estimated two-fifths of United States college students. Yet community college librarians do not disseminate enough research to enable their colleagues and their libraries to reach their potential. Little is known about what types of supportive measures might increase productivity. The authors collected quantitative and qualitative survey data, finding that a slight majority of participants conduct research, but less than one third of those who research share their findings. Key challenges include lack of time, lack of funding, and lack of confidence. A new baseline understanding will provide a foundation for initiatives to support increased representation.
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Standards for information literacy challenge institutions to create expert depth of knowledge in students. One potential way to do this is through an instructional method called Decision-Based Learning, which seeks to build conceptual, procedural, and conditional knowledge explicitly. This paper details the results of a multisemester study involving groups of engineering and technology students taught using this method. Students tended to engage with a pre-class learning module based on the new method more fully than the comparable groups of students used pre-class instructional videos. Those taught with the new method also showed significant improvement in their performance in post-tests.
{"title":"Teaching Expert Information Literacy Behaviors through Decision-Based Learning","authors":"David Pixton","doi":"10.5860/crl.84.6.934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.84.6.934","url":null,"abstract":"Standards for information literacy challenge institutions to create expert depth of knowledge in students. One potential way to do this is through an instructional method called Decision-Based Learning, which seeks to build conceptual, procedural, and conditional knowledge explicitly. This paper details the results of a multisemester study involving groups of engineering and technology students taught using this method. Students tended to engage with a pre-class learning module based on the new method more fully than the comparable groups of students used pre-class instructional videos. Those taught with the new method also showed significant improvement in their performance in post-tests.","PeriodicalId":10686,"journal":{"name":"College & Research Libraries","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135318306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Quinn Galbraith, Alexandra Carlile Butterfield, Chase Cardon
Given academia’s frequent use of publication metrics and the inconsistencies in metrics across disciplines, this study examines how various disciplines are treated differently by metric systems. We seek to offer academic librarians, university rank and tenure committees, and other interested individuals guidelines for distinguishing general differences between journal bibliometrics in various disciplines. This study addresses the following questions: How well represented are different disciplines in the indexing of each metrics system (Eigenfactor, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar)? How does each metrics system treat disciplines differently, and how do these differences compare across metrics systems? For university libraries and academic librarians, this study may increase understanding of the comparative value of various metrics, which hopefully will facilitate more informed decisions regarding the purchase of journal subscriptions and the evaluation of journals and metrics systems. This study indicates that different metrics systems prioritize different disciplines, and metrics are not always easily compared across disciplines. Consequently, this study indicates that simple reliance on metrics in publishing or purchasing decisions is often flawed.
鉴于学术界经常使用出版指标和跨学科指标的不一致性，本研究考察了度量系统如何以不同的方式对待不同的学科。我们试图为学术图书馆员、大学排名和终身教职委员会以及其他感兴趣的个人提供区分不同学科期刊文献计量学之间一般差异的指南。本研究解决了以下问题:在每个指标系统(Eigenfactor, Scopus, Web of Science, b谷歌Scholar)的索引中，不同学科的表现如何?每个度量系统如何以不同的方式对待学科，这些差异如何在度量系统之间进行比较?对于大学图书馆和学术图书馆员来说，这项研究可能会增加对各种指标比较价值的理解，这将有助于在购买期刊订阅和评估期刊和指标系统方面做出更明智的决定。这项研究表明，不同的指标系统优先考虑不同的学科，并且指标并不总是容易跨学科进行比较。因此，这项研究表明，在发布或购买决策中单纯依赖指标往往是有缺陷的。
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ChatGPT was released on November 30 th 2022, and very quickly popularized generative artificial intelligence (AI) to the extent that it is now seen as a mainstream technology and used by many. However, this mainstreaming and popularity has also resulted in a hype, thereby overwhelming us by a wide range of opinions and news related to its current and future applications. While we can test generative AI applications and read news about their added value, it might be hard to envision the short-, medium- and long-term impact of these tools on library operations, resources, and services. Reflecting on how libraries and their existing workflows are evolving alongside the rise of generative AI is intriguing, yet extremely challenging due to the rapid development of the technology. This is further complicated by the variation across each library’s organization, management, and use. Indeed, even two libraries in the same institution might have a different approach regarding collection management, curation, user engagement, and technology integration. These differences can be further amplified by library size, disciplinary focus (e.g., university library, medical library, law library), services offered (e.g., education and training, evaluation), communities served (e.g., students, medical trainees, researchers, faculty, public), overall approach to technology, as well as their budget. Each library is made up of several units with specific goals and responsibilities. The same technology may have a different impact on each department of a library, as well as each employee, depending on their role and background. As a result, despite various opportunities and challenges presented by generative AI, librarians should consider charting their own personal roadmap to learn about and familiarize themselves with this technology based on their unique circumstances, interests, and needs.
{"title":"The Evolution of Library Workplaces and Workflows via Generative AI","authors":"Mohammad Hosseini, Kristi Holmes","doi":"10.5860/crl.84.6.836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.84.6.836","url":null,"abstract":"ChatGPT was released on November 30 th 2022, and very quickly popularized generative artificial intelligence (AI) to the extent that it is now seen as a mainstream technology and used by many. However, this mainstreaming and popularity has also resulted in a hype, thereby overwhelming us by a wide range of opinions and news related to its current and future applications. While we can test generative AI applications and read news about their added value, it might be hard to envision the short-, medium- and long-term impact of these tools on library operations, resources, and services. Reflecting on how libraries and their existing workflows are evolving alongside the rise of generative AI is intriguing, yet extremely challenging due to the rapid development of the technology. This is further complicated by the variation across each library’s organization, management, and use. Indeed, even two libraries in the same institution might have a different approach regarding collection management, curation, user engagement, and technology integration. These differences can be further amplified by library size, disciplinary focus (e.g., university library, medical library, law library), services offered (e.g., education and training, evaluation), communities served (e.g., students, medical trainees, researchers, faculty, public), overall approach to technology, as well as their budget. Each library is made up of several units with specific goals and responsibilities. The same technology may have a different impact on each department of a library, as well as each employee, depending on their role and background. As a result, despite various opportunities and challenges presented by generative AI, librarians should consider charting their own personal roadmap to learn about and familiarize themselves with this technology based on their unique circumstances, interests, and needs.","PeriodicalId":10686,"journal":{"name":"College & Research Libraries","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135317875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Little research exists that evaluates the existence and importance of mentoring for academic librarians with faculty status who have already achieved tenure but have not yet been promoted to a more senior rank, such as full professor or full librarian. This study represents the second of a two-part research project seeking to better understand the existence and accessibility of mentoring, career planning, and other supports for mid-career, tenure-track librarians. The authors conducted seventeen structured interviews with individual librarians who were at associate or full professor/librarian rank with tenure in order to gain insights into these questions. Analysis of the interviews identified several areas of support and guidance that are of particular importance for promotion and career growth for mid-career academic librarians: Criteria, Mentoring, Process, and Responsibilities.
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Amidst a competitive job market, a constantly evolving digital sphere of communication, and the many pressures (ecological, economic, and otherwise) facing students upon graduation, academic institutions are charged with the task of best preparing students to thrive. Embracing Change: Alternatives to Traditional Research Writing Assignments meets this challenge by inspiring information literacy instructors to consider their unique student populations and their corresponding needs; to be open-minded regarding resources available; and, above all, to be creative and nuanced in moving past written essays and reports toward assignments that better reflect student learning.
{"title":"Embracing Change: Alternatives to Traditional Research Writing Assignments. Silke Higgins and Ngoc-Yen Tran, eds. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2022. 319 p. Paper, $86.00 (978-0-8389-3766-2).","authors":"Nicole Doro","doi":"10.5860/crl.84.6.997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.84.6.997","url":null,"abstract":"Amidst a competitive job market, a constantly evolving digital sphere of communication, and the many pressures (ecological, economic, and otherwise) facing students upon graduation, academic institutions are charged with the task of best preparing students to thrive. Embracing Change: Alternatives to Traditional Research Writing Assignments meets this challenge by inspiring information literacy instructors to consider their unique student populations and their corresponding needs; to be open-minded regarding resources available; and, above all, to be creative and nuanced in moving past written essays and reports toward assignments that better reflect student learning.","PeriodicalId":10686,"journal":{"name":"College & Research Libraries","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135319397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This two-volume set contains forty-five invited contributions that offer examples of how individual academic libraries are supporting the teaching of critical reading at their institutions. According to the editors, the project is inspired by the 2015 essay collection Critical Reading in Higher Education: Academic Goals and Social Engagement (Manarin, 2015), which “provided the theoretical basis for these volumes and helped us explore what critical reading could look like as practiced and interpreted by academic librarians” (v. 1, XIII).
{"title":"Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians. Hannah Gascho Rempel and Rachel Hamelers, eds. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023. 2v. 256p. Paper, $120.00 (ISBN: 978-0-8389-3961-1).","authors":"David Durant","doi":"10.5860/crl.84.6.999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.84.6.999","url":null,"abstract":"This two-volume set contains forty-five invited contributions that offer examples of how individual academic libraries are supporting the teaching of critical reading at their institutions. According to the editors, the project is inspired by the 2015 essay collection Critical Reading in Higher Education: Academic Goals and Social Engagement (Manarin, 2015), which “provided the theoretical basis for these volumes and helped us explore what critical reading could look like as practiced and interpreted by academic librarians” (v. 1, XIII).","PeriodicalId":10686,"journal":{"name":"College & Research Libraries","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135318656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Like other “helping” professions at this time in history, librarians live and work in a context of diminishing resources, vanishing support systems, challenges to our profession’s values, perpetual violence, and a lingering sense of doom due to continuous catastrophes and political instability. We are expected to continue to work and maintain normalcy while all of this happens around us, with a frequency sufficient to produce exhaustion and stress. Add to these factors ever-increasing workloads, constant role ambiguity, financial precarity, and the emotional labor required of professions like ours, and librarians are particularly prone to burnout. Are academic librarians unique in this regard? Not necessarily. That we have plenty of company should contribute to a greater sense of solidarity with all who are fatigued and overloaded by sagging systems. What we learn as we are responding to our own crises and strengthening our own networks is that we do have the power to empathize with and work toward improving conditions for all. Academic Librarian Burnout investigates the potential causes of the problem and works to identify strategies for interventions in this process.
{"title":"Academic Librarian Burnout: Causes and Responses. Christina Holm, Ana Guimaraes, and Nashieli Marcano, eds. Chicago, IL: ACRL, 2022. 370p. Paper, $98 (ISBN: 978-0-8389-4856-9).","authors":"Joanna Gadsby","doi":"10.5860/crl.84.6.1000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.84.6.1000","url":null,"abstract":"Like other “helping” professions at this time in history, librarians live and work in a context of diminishing resources, vanishing support systems, challenges to our profession’s values, perpetual violence, and a lingering sense of doom due to continuous catastrophes and political instability. We are expected to continue to work and maintain normalcy while all of this happens around us, with a frequency sufficient to produce exhaustion and stress. Add to these factors ever-increasing workloads, constant role ambiguity, financial precarity, and the emotional labor required of professions like ours, and librarians are particularly prone to burnout. Are academic librarians unique in this regard? Not necessarily. That we have plenty of company should contribute to a greater sense of solidarity with all who are fatigued and overloaded by sagging systems. What we learn as we are responding to our own crises and strengthening our own networks is that we do have the power to empathize with and work toward improving conditions for all. Academic Librarian Burnout investigates the potential causes of the problem and works to identify strategies for interventions in this process.","PeriodicalId":10686,"journal":{"name":"College & Research Libraries","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135318657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Academic libraries invest thousands of dollars in assistive technologies (AT) for enhancing the delivery of information services to disabled patrons. However, offering AT might not result in their use by the patrons who need them, thereby leading to a service divide. The analysis of qualitative responses, including more than 1,400 quotations, elicited from academic library administrators and librarians in 186 public universities across the United States, reveals that academic libraries encounter 51 challenges related to the knowledge and skills of librarians, hardware and software concerns, institutional factors, finances, and external actors, when serving disabled patrons with AT. Finally, the researchers propose 15 solutions for bridging this service divide.
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Among texts that examine Black embodiment—that examine our existence beyond and transcendence from the horrific bounds of State-sanctioned supremacies— Black Utopias stands out. Beautifully layered, Jayna Brown connects the lived experiences and artistries of Black American preachers, speculative fiction authors, and jazz musicians, charting expansive understandings of what utopia means within dialects of Black radical thought. This is by no means an introductory text; it demands study. Neon highlights and copious scribbled-in-the-margins notes. Regardless, this book moves; unsettles while restructuring current understandings of Blackness at large.
{"title":"Jayna Brown. Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds. Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 224p. Paper, $25.95 (ISBN 978-1-4780-1167-5).","authors":"Jennifer Brown","doi":"10.5860/crl.82.6.924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.6.924","url":null,"abstract":"Among texts that examine Black embodiment—that examine our existence beyond and transcendence from the horrific bounds of State-sanctioned supremacies— Black Utopias stands out. Beautifully layered, Jayna Brown connects the lived experiences and artistries of Black American preachers, speculative fiction authors, and jazz musicians, charting expansive understandings of what utopia means within dialects of Black radical thought. This is by no means an introductory text; it demands study. Neon highlights and copious scribbled-in-the-margins notes. Regardless, this book moves; unsettles while restructuring current understandings of Blackness at large.","PeriodicalId":10686,"journal":{"name":"College & Research Libraries","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87371867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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