Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1976230
David Runyon, C. Steffy
Abstract COVID-19 did not disrupt higher education; it hastened the disruptions that have already been taking place. One particularly prominent disruption is the digital shift, or the move from primarily face-to-face operations to operations with a large digital component. In order to survive, higher education needs to fundamentally change. But how prepared is your library for these changes? You cannot simply wait for these changes to happen and hope to get lucky; instead, you need to make your own luck. Libraries are uniquely situated to lead the institution in this digital shift. This article will present an overview of student demographic and higher education trends such as decreasing enrollment, increasing diversity of the student body and its needs, technological disruptions, and changing workforce needs. Specific examples from two academic libraries in the United States will demonstrate how this information has informed practice, allowing these libraries to be ahead of the digital shift, to easily weather the COVID storm, and to be models for other campus departments. As humanity’s response to the COVID-19 crisis transitions from reactive to proactive, higher education cannot return to pre-pandemic operational norms. Libraries must position themselves to nimbly adjust to disruptions of traditional services rather than rely on “getting lucky” when change is forced upon them. Instead, make your own luck by intentionally integrating more digital resources into the collection and more virtual services into the workflow, using patron data to inform workflow decisions, and flexibly adapting crisis mode operations to sustainable, permanent operations. Ultimately, this article will show how librarians can combine the tried-and-true with new library practices to adjust to the digital shift in a way that positions them to lead campuses into the future of higher education.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1976231
A. Brine, Andrew Knight
Abstract Summer 2020 witnessed a large-scale temporary release of content from the publishing community to support UK universities as they moved to online-only delivery, followed by a scramble by those institutions to maintain access to resources. This paper reflects on the experiences of De Montfort University and Imperial College libraries during this period as they supported the move to remote teaching. It focuses on the complexities experienced during this transitional period, and considers how the speed of these changes increased staff workloads, stretched budgets, and compelled acquisitions teams to act without always fully gathering evidence or strategically planning how new practices might work in the longer term. The authors, who sit on various national contract management and acquisitions strategy groups, examine the repercussions of navigating from an unplanned, accelerated digital shift to a more managed, sustainable paradigm, and contemplate how the advent of multimode teaching may impact on the way libraries are resourced.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1976234
L. Matizirofa, L. Soyizwapi, Anna Siwela, Modisa Khosie
Abstract The South African Higher Education Institution (HEI) sector had to move to ‘emergency’ online learning during the covid-19 pandemic, and they embraced a humanistic approach underpinned by the need to complete the academic year in 2020 and support all students. Because this emergency online learning accelerated the digital shift, evidence of pre-existing disparities and inequalities have been magnified, such as the digital divide, infrastructure, connectivity, access to data, digital literacies, vastly different learning environments, software and hardware tools, and others. The Department of Library Services (DLS) is aligned to the University of Pretoria’s shift to online learning and to reimaging its service offerings and innovation readiness. It deliberately adopted a responsive engagement strategy for students, staff, senior management and service providers. Therefore, the DLS now offers a mix of services and programmes, with more reliance on virtual services to support and sustain the academic agenda. This paper provides real-life case study experiences of student engagement during the covid-19 pandemic, with reference to the relevant student engagement with literature. It also reflects on how the DLS previously applied attributes of service innovation, such as ‘employing’ a client-service robot at an HEI library in Africa, this being in keeping with the UP’s innovation culture.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1990092
N. Osorio, Alissa Droog
Abstract This literature review explores the impact of COVID-19 on reference and research services in academic libraries. The first half of the review identifies changes and initiatives during the previous ten years using meaningful examples of changes. Gathering information from listservs, conference schedules,trade publications, websites, and emerging research, the second half of this review revisits changes to reference and research services from Spring 2020-Summer 2021. The literature is extensive, for that reason, we have identified meaningful experiences that can be translated into the pre- and intra-pandemic service practices. The pandemic advanced many existing and emerging trends, allowed libraries to find innovative solutions to new problems, and paused other areas. While this literature review cannot predict the future, it will allow readers to reflect on real case experiences with the expectations that our work will enlighten others in creating or adapting services for a new generation of reference and research services.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-10DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1930076
Bea Winkler, P. Kiszl
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is a defining technology of the 21st century, creating new opportunities for academic libraries. The goal of this paper is to provide a much-needed analysis, interpreted in an international context, on what the leaders of academic libraries in East-Central Europe, and specifically in Hungary, think about AI and its implementation in a library setting. The survey shows that according to library directors AI is more of an opportunity for academic libraries than a threat, and it could provide support in all areas of library operation, including digitising, information service, and education. Findings indicate that a quarter of the Hungarian academic libraries surveyed use AI-supported solutions, mostly in the areas of information retrieval and data processing. Using Rogers (The diffusion of innovations. 5th ed. The Free Press, 2003) diffusion of innovation model, it may be projected that an explosive growth is to be expected in the use of AI in libraries.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-31DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1906717
J. Fagan, Hillary Ostermiller, Elizabeth Price, L. Sapp
Abstract A survey concerning perceptions of academic librarians was conducted at a large, 4-year university with three populations: librarians, faculty, and undergraduate students. This paper presents results from the student population, with comparison to the librarian and faculty samples. The major research questions address perceptions about what librarians know (expertise and skills), what librarians do (role and duties), and what librarians are like (motivations and affective characteristics). Respondents showed a little more awareness of librarians’ professional duties than in previous studies; however, librarians’ duties related to organisation, reference, and teaching remained more hidden from view. And, many students still assume librarians do clerical work, and still underestimate librarians’ salaries and required degrees. Most students still don’t consult with librarians, as they do not believe librarians’ help is needed by them—perhaps because they strongly associate librarians with books. Yet, students’ value for librarians’ expertise was high, and their value for librarians’ knowledge and skill with resources rivalled that of faculty. Gaps among the three groups related to the definition of “research” seem important to address. The study also points to an ongoing need for research into specific populations of students, how prior experience affects college library use, and the potential for disciplinary differences among students.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1906716
Mehwish Nawazish, Syeda Hina Batool
Abstract Modern and fast ways of information reproduction affect the social norms and moral responsibilities of citizens. Nowadays libraries are continuously facing the problem of maintaining the balance between providing information access and whilst also protecting authors' rights. The recent and emerging phenomenon of misinformation and disinformation have heightened the need to be informed about authentic information and their owners’ rights. This has resulted in a requirement for information professionals to know, understand and practice copyright law. A cross-sectional survey was carried out to investigate the level of awareness/knowledge and perceptions and practices of copyright legislation by information professionals in Pakistan. The findings reveal that a large number of respondents were moderately aware of Intellectual Property Rights.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-17DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1906714
B. Keisling, R. Fox
Abstract The term ‘permeability’ has morphed from is primarily technical origins into the lexicon of architecture as architects (and other professionals) sought better language to describe the relationships of spaces to their environments and other spaces and to the interactions of users with spaces. In higher education, permeability incorporates aspects of campus spaces surrounding buildings as well as the building envelope and interior spaces themselves. In these spaces, permeability may be manifested by physical characteristics as well as how the spaces are used. Documenting uses of permeability in higher education contexts reveals design elements and potential user interactions that, combined with research findings, show that academic libraries incorporating permeable spaces and features may positively influence student engagement and learning. These factors can then lead to measurable change in student success metrics which are vitally important to campus administrators and which may raise the visibility and value of libraries to their campuses.
{"title":"Permeable Learning Environments: How Developing Permeability in Library Spaces Fosters Student Learning and Engagement","authors":"B. Keisling, R. Fox","doi":"10.1080/13614533.2021.1906714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2021.1906714","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The term ‘permeability’ has morphed from is primarily technical origins into the lexicon of architecture as architects (and other professionals) sought better language to describe the relationships of spaces to their environments and other spaces and to the interactions of users with spaces. In higher education, permeability incorporates aspects of campus spaces surrounding buildings as well as the building envelope and interior spaces themselves. In these spaces, permeability may be manifested by physical characteristics as well as how the spaces are used. Documenting uses of permeability in higher education contexts reveals design elements and potential user interactions that, combined with research findings, show that academic libraries incorporating permeable spaces and features may positively influence student engagement and learning. These factors can then lead to measurable change in student success metrics which are vitally important to campus administrators and which may raise the visibility and value of libraries to their campuses.","PeriodicalId":38971,"journal":{"name":"New Review of Academic Librarianship","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13614533.2021.1906714","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44749108","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 : 2021-05-12DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1918190
Khusbu Thakur, Vinit Kumar
Abstract A vast amount of published scholarly literature is generated every day. Today, it is one of the biggest challenges for organisations to extract knowledge embedded in published scholarly literature for business and research applications. Application of text mining is gaining popularity among researchers and applications are growing exponentially in different research areas. This study investigates the variety of text mining tools, techniques, sample sizes, domains and sections of the documents preferred by the text mining researchers through a systematic and structured literature review of conceptual and empirical studies. The significant findings depict that LDA and R package is the most extensively used tool and technique among the authors, most of the researchers prefer the sample size of 1000 articles for analysis, literature belonging to the domain of ICT, and related disciplines are frequently analysed in the text mining studies and abstracts constitute the corpus of the majority of text mining studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-05DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2021.1925713
H. Keshavarz, Y. Norouzi
Abstract Owing to the extreme importance of evaluating the credibility of existing scientific websites, the present study sets out to measure a proposed model concerning the views and preferences of university students in Iran, when evaluating information. Data were collected by administrating a highly validated questionnaire among 487 students in ten top universities in Iran. Structural Equating Modelling using software SmartPLS was conducted to analyse the data collected. To evaluate the measurement and structural models, a set of criteria including Cronbach's alpha, factor loadings, convergent and divergent validities, R2 , Q2 , redundancy, and GoF were considered to measure the power and validity of the model. Considering the path coefficients and the t-statistic for the dimensions and their components, path analysis showed that the t-statistic is greater than 2.57 indicating that all of the constructs contributed to the credibility of information on scientific websites at 99% confidence level. Coefficients of correlation concerning the overall information credibility were found to be 0.728 for trustworthiness and 0.718 for expertise. Expertise with a path coefficient of 0.968 and trustworthiness with 0.948 were the first and second priorities for the main variable. Moreover, ethics with a path coefficient of 0.787 and objectivity with 0.464 were the first and last priorities for trustworthiness respectively while accuracy with 0.874 and professional information with 0.674 were the first and last priorities for the dimension expertise respectively. The model could be used to evaluate the credibility of scientific websites’ information, which also provides a potential set for further research.
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