Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2019.1691966
H. Howard, Dave Zwicky
ABSTRACT At a large Midwestern university, librarians work closely with an annual undergraduate agricultural innovation competition to guide students through the process of conducting market research and assessing patentability. In 2018, the authors conducted an exploratory study using focus groups of students who had participated in that year’s competition in order to learn how students find and use information in a competition setting, to evaluate the impact of library support on the students’ success, and inform further assessment activities. Results showed that students used information from the library and from their own research, notably seeking out first-hand expertise, to practice evidence-based decision-making.
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{"title":"The Ecology of Assessment: The Environment of The Library","authors":"Ellen L. Hardsog","doi":"10.4324/9780429343926-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429343926-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35386,"journal":{"name":"Reference Librarian","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41842420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-22DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2019.1670321
S. Black, James D. Allen
ABSTRACT Educational interventions are manipulations implemented to change students’ thoughts, emotions, or behaviors. Brief, easily implemented interventions have been shown to have long-lasting positive effects if they cause students to change recursive psychological processes. Successful interventions require a deep understanding of both theories of psychological processes and specific contexts. One size cannot fit all, and seemingly minor variations in an intervention can result in unexpected effects. Collaboration with faculty and others who support student learning can benefit all parties involved.
{"title":"Insights from Educational Psychology Part 12: Interventions and Collaborations","authors":"S. Black, James D. Allen","doi":"10.1080/02763877.2019.1670321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2019.1670321","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Educational interventions are manipulations implemented to change students’ thoughts, emotions, or behaviors. Brief, easily implemented interventions have been shown to have long-lasting positive effects if they cause students to change recursive psychological processes. Successful interventions require a deep understanding of both theories of psychological processes and specific contexts. One size cannot fit all, and seemingly minor variations in an intervention can result in unexpected effects. Collaboration with faculty and others who support student learning can benefit all parties involved.","PeriodicalId":35386,"journal":{"name":"Reference Librarian","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02763877.2019.1670321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44220190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-16DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2019.1665829
Loriene Roy, K. Scott
ABSTRACT Reference education instruction is compatible with the theories and praxis of feminism. This column features key concepts in feminist theories and provides examples of how current education for future reference librarians illustrates and encompasses these theories.
{"title":"Material-Mind-Method: On the Teaching of Reference Incorporating Feminist Pedagogies in Reference Education","authors":"Loriene Roy, K. Scott","doi":"10.1080/02763877.2019.1665829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2019.1665829","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Reference education instruction is compatible with the theories and praxis of feminism. This column features key concepts in feminist theories and provides examples of how current education for future reference librarians illustrates and encompasses these theories.","PeriodicalId":35386,"journal":{"name":"Reference Librarian","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02763877.2019.1665829","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48937173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-08DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2019.1645077
Jeanie Austin, Melissa Villa-Nicholas
ABSTRACT This article addresses an approach to library services for people who are incarcerated that meets the situated information needs and desires of people within jails and prisons. By creating a flow of information between LIS students and individuals who are incarcerated through a Reference by Mail program, resources available to incarcerated people are increased while students engage in a humanizing and self-reflexive project, with the understanding that the regulation of information within jails and prisons has lasting effects for the life chances of incarcerated people.
{"title":"Information Provision and the Carceral State: Race and Reference beyond the Idea of the “Underserved”","authors":"Jeanie Austin, Melissa Villa-Nicholas","doi":"10.1080/02763877.2019.1645077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2019.1645077","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article addresses an approach to library services for people who are incarcerated that meets the situated information needs and desires of people within jails and prisons. By creating a flow of information between LIS students and individuals who are incarcerated through a Reference by Mail program, resources available to incarcerated people are increased while students engage in a humanizing and self-reflexive project, with the understanding that the regulation of information within jails and prisons has lasting effects for the life chances of incarcerated people.","PeriodicalId":35386,"journal":{"name":"Reference Librarian","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02763877.2019.1645077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42298631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-20DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2019.1631938
N. Tran
ABSTRACT Providing research consultations is an essential job responsibility for all academic librarians. One software option that can help to facilitate the process of scheduling research consultations is Springshare’s Appointments Scheduler (SAS), a feature within their LibCal software product. SAS has a number of features that make it easy for patrons and librarians to create, manage, and optimize the appointment. This article describes the SAS product and provides tips and recommendations that will help librarians to leverage all of its features.
{"title":"Leveraging Springshare’s Appointments Scheduler for Research Consultations: Experiences and Recommendations","authors":"N. Tran","doi":"10.1080/02763877.2019.1631938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2019.1631938","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Providing research consultations is an essential job responsibility for all academic librarians. One software option that can help to facilitate the process of scheduling research consultations is Springshare’s Appointments Scheduler (SAS), a feature within their LibCal software product. SAS has a number of features that make it easy for patrons and librarians to create, manage, and optimize the appointment. This article describes the SAS product and provides tips and recommendations that will help librarians to leverage all of its features.","PeriodicalId":35386,"journal":{"name":"Reference Librarian","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02763877.2019.1631938","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48517146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-10DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2019.1626317
S. Black, James D. Allen
ABSTRACT Educational psychologists have investigated which learning strategies are most effective at promoting long-term learning. The best strategies involve students generating knowledge through sustained engagement. Two of the most valuable strategies are distributing learning over time and testing oneself. Resource-based assignments should require students to submit drafts for formative feedback to promote successive relearning. Students generate understanding through selecting what to pay attention to, organizing what they learn, and integrating it with what they already know. Learning is not easy, students need to experience desirable difficulties to truly learn.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-05DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2019.1625295
Anamika Megwalu, Kate Barron
ABSTRACT This paper aims to discuss the incorporation of reference services into a trending service point model called the Unified Service Point (USP). Driven by organizational shift, the model was recently adopted by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library of San Jose State University. An anonymous survey was conducted to understand student perspectives on reference services, including the USP. The survey also asked questions about student motivation for seeking help from a librarian, and their level of satisfaction with the reference services. The authors offer recommendations to improve reference services at the USP based on the results of the study.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-03DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2019.1626578
Loriene Roy, Ye Seul Cho, Regis Junearick, Tina Lassiter, Christopher McCluney, Jayeeta Roy, Jiarong Yang
ABSTRACT Students reflecting on their time as students in a school of information provide advice and commentary for their faculty. By revealing their challenges as well as their successes, educators can themselves reflect on the impact of their teaching and the potential it has to assist students on their career paths.
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ABSTRACT Despite wide recognition of MOOCs, little is known about the lecturers’ perception and what are their needs before encouraging them to integrate MOOCs in their pedagogical practices. To gain such an understanding, this study conducted in-depth interviews probing Thai lecturers’ perception and paying special attention to their needs in designing their MOOCs. Strengths and challenges in integrating MOOCs were highlighted. The study proposed that for MOOCs to exert power in Thai institutions, it might be necessary for Thai institutions to introduce systematic and effective workshops for lecturers to acquire the skills and confidence to design their MOOCs.
{"title":"Perception Matters: Exploring Thai lecturers’ views, preferences and needs of MOOCs","authors":"Nagaletchimee Annamalai, Sanit Noonin, Setthapoom Buathong","doi":"10.1080/02763877.2019.1618780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2019.1618780","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite wide recognition of MOOCs, little is known about the lecturers’ perception and what are their needs before encouraging them to integrate MOOCs in their pedagogical practices. To gain such an understanding, this study conducted in-depth interviews probing Thai lecturers’ perception and paying special attention to their needs in designing their MOOCs. Strengths and challenges in integrating MOOCs were highlighted. The study proposed that for MOOCs to exert power in Thai institutions, it might be necessary for Thai institutions to introduce systematic and effective workshops for lecturers to acquire the skills and confidence to design their MOOCs.","PeriodicalId":35386,"journal":{"name":"Reference Librarian","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02763877.2019.1618780","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47193550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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