Bøger udgivet af Association of College & Research Libraries

The primary objective of this comprehensive review is to provide academic librarians with a clearer understanding of what research about the performance of academic libraries already exists, where gaps in this research occur, and to identify the most promising best practices and measures correlated to performance.

Informed Learning provides a unique perspective on helping students become successful learners in our rapidly evolving information environments. It presents a new framework for informed learning that will enable teachers, librarians, researchers and teacher-researchers to work together as they continue to respond to the need to help students use information to learn.

Covers best practices for 3D data preservation, management, metadata, legal issues, and access. Beginning with surveys of current practices, the authors provide recommendations for implementing standards and identify areas in which further development is required. A glossary of key terms and acronyms is included for easy reference.

Academic librarians can apply storytelling in the same way that teachers, entertainers, and businesspeople have done for centuries, as education within information literacy instruction and as communication in the areas of reference, outreach, assessment, and more. This volume explores applications of storytelling across academic librarianship.

In seven highly readable chapters, How to Be a Peer Research Consultant provides focused support for anyone preparing undergraduate students to serve as peer research consultants, whether you refer to these student workers as research tutors, reference assistants, or research helpers.

Provides a snapshot of critical work that library workers are doing to support ethnic studies, including areas focusing on ethnic and racial experiences across the disciplines. Chapters are broken into: Instruction, Liaison Engagement, and Outreach; Collections Projects and Programs; Collaborations, Special Projects, and Community Partnerships.

The Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education presents complex threshold concepts, developed without prescriptive lists of skills and with flexible options for implementation, which can be explored and understood through visualization. This book offers a visual opportunity for thought, discovery, and sense-making of the Framework.

Provides a blueprint that academic librarians can apply to their instructional design that facilitates a change in students' motivation and learning strategies. The book provides the tools necessary to teach learners to identify, evaluate, and apply appropriate cognitive, learning, and motivation strategies.

Helps partners within the library bridge the gap between expectations and outcomes, and hire and train students to deliver high-quality work on behalf of all involved parties. Case studies examine partnerships with academic departments, writing centres, career centres, cultural centres, tutoring services, technology services and IT departments.

Examines the methods and processes of peer review, as well as the stories of those who have been through it. The book offers questions for reflection at the end of chapters in order to assist in the continued exploration of your own experiences with peer review, and encourages the use of these reflections in creating improved peer review methods.

Creativity in librarianship - and creating a culture that values trial and error along with successes - needs to be encouraged in library leadership, in the library profession more broadly, and in institutions of higher education. This book can be the first step in developing your own creativity and advocating for it across your institution.

Offers an inspirational collection of perspectives and tools from library leaders who have created and maintained successful programs, plus thoughtful explorations of the theories and motivations that inform peer learning.