Bøger udgivet af Association of College & Research Libraries

Advocating for the library within your institution, with stakeholders, and across the system in a unified way is an evolving focus of consortia member leadership. Leading Together aims to fill the gap in LIS literature of models of consortia advocacy plans, actions, and assessments.

Defines a framework for practicing librarianship with critical reflection, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence. This book can help you become more purposeful in your daily interactions with students, faculty, and staff, and create pathways to authentic engagement.

Collects current strategies from all types of academic libraries for retaining and graduating non-traditional students, with many of them based on learning theories and teaching methodologies. The book explores methods for overcoming language barriers, discusses best practices, and presents case studies that support the changing student population.

Examines how the library profession can foster skill development for new leaders through the leadership stories and development of assistant/associate deans. Each of the ideas presented include questions and recommendations that offer a holistic approach to shrinking the leadership gap and preparing the next generation of library leaders.

Explores the challenges and opportunities of independent American-modeled institutions of higher education through perspectives that are inherently international and intercultural because of the authors' own backgrounds, and in particular because of their institutional environments.

Provides lesson plans, resources, ideas, and inspiration to empower librarians in helping students develop the crucial critical thinking and information and media literacy skills they need. 96 recipes explore evaluating information, recognizing scholarly sources, how technology mediates our experiences with information, and more.

In three parts - Library Organizations and Academic Culture, The Seven Stages of Leadership Development, and Cultural Intelligence and Global Leadership - Becoming a Library Leader offers a wealth of resources to help you progress through the seven stages of leadership development.

Provides a collection of best practices, lessons learned, approaches, and strategies of how librarians, library professionals, and others in academic libraries are successfully providing evidence of their contributions to student academic success and demonstrating their library's value and worth to institutional administrators and stakeholders.

A thorough handbook designed to guide you from library school through your first several years as an academic librarian. This book can help you apply for your first position, find your bearings in your new job, establish yourself in the profession through scholarship and service, and transition to your next position.

Offers insights from experts in higher education pedagogy and educational development to open a window on the wider world of teaching and learning. This unique collection asks what do we as educators need to learn (or unlearn) and experience so we can create teaching and learning communities across disciplines and learning levels?

Addresses complex legal issues at the intersection of copyright and information literacy. The book provides detailed explanations of the issues and considerations and offers prescriptive tips and advice for teaching and applying the information.

Explores the various ways in which librarians experience and respond to political polarization and its effects, both in our everyday work and in our professional communities. This book can be a catalyst and a resource for reflective and constructive dialogue, and a prompt for asking hard and sometimes uncomfortable questions.

Provides librarians with a comprehensive guide to effective practices for serving international students, contributing to their retention and success, increasing campus diversity, and helping the students better enjoy their collegiate experience.

Offers an action-oriented research agenda designed to provide practical, actionable information for academic librarians; includes the perspectives of historically underrepresented communities in order to expand the profession's understanding of research environments; and points librarians toward important research questions.

Engages SoTL through different lenses and provides a sense of the varied ways it's currently being conducted in academic libraries in North America and Europe. Each section begins with a foundational chapter from SoTL leaders that discusses central questions, and highlights important theories and literature.

Addresses the innovative ways that libraries are actively occupying more central space on campus as practical laboratories outside of the classroom. Authors describe efforts to curate student work, explore intellectual property issues, and provide tips for promoting and preserving access to this production through new programming and services.

Presents chapters from librarians detailing how their work has become globalized and demonstrating new ways to address language and cultural differences, the international purchase and processing of materials, professional development and growth of librarians, and information literacy needs of students from all over the world.

Explores research-based, broad-level considerations of student motivation as it relates to short-term information literacy instruction, both in person and online. The book then moves into activities and lesson plans that highlight specific motivational strategies and pedagogies: Each encourages the spirit of play, autonomy, and active learning.

Examines how both critical pedagogy and critical information literacy are applied throughout a credit-bearing course as well as in specific lesson plans. The ideas explored in this book can be adapted for a variety of class and course lengths and for a range of students, from first-year undergraduates to doctoral students.

Presents a critical examination of major issues facing colleges and universities and the unique challenges their libraries face. The Changing Academic Library can be used as a text in library and information science courses, as well as an introduction for new professionals and academic administrators.

Library outreach can be tough: there's no standard definition of outreach among libraries, and what it consists of differs from institution to institution. The cases in The Library Outreach Casebook provide creative and reproducible formats, ideas, and inspirations, from engaging social media to hosting performances to creating exhibits.

Focuses exclusively on institutional repositories at colleges and small universities by collecting relevant survey data about the planning, funding, staffing, and implementation of repositories at these institutions, as well as documentation on best practices, policies, and guidelines.

Takes proven ideas from instructional design and user experience web design and combines them into easy-to-understand principles for making your research guides better teaching tools. It doesn't matter what software your library uses; the advice and techniques in this book will help you create guides that are easier for your users to understand and more effective to use.

Presents lesson plans grounded in theory and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. These six volumes provide explanations of the ACRL Frames, various learning theory, pedagogy, and instructional strategies, and how they are used to inform the development of information literacy lesson plans and learning activities.

Presents lesson plans grounded in theory and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. These six volumes provide explanations of the ACRL Frames, various learning theory, pedagogy, and instructional strategies, and how they are used to inform the development of information literacy lesson plans and learning activities.

Presents lesson plans grounded in theory and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. These six volumes provide explanations of the ACRL Frames, various learning theory, pedagogy, and instructional strategies, and how they are used to inform the development of information literacy lesson plans and learning activities.

Presents lesson plans grounded in theory and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. These six volumes provide explanations of the ACRL Frames, various learning theory, pedagogy, and instructional strategies, and how they are used to inform the development of information literacy lesson plans and learning activities.

Presents lesson plans grounded in theory and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. These six volumes provide explanations of the ACRL Frames, various learning theory, pedagogy, and instructional strategies, and how they are used to inform the development of information literacy lesson plans and learning activities.

Takes a positive inquiry approach by providing first-hand accounts of success stories, best practices, and practical advice from a collection of diverse authors. Instead of looking at academic library ""failures"" when it comes to diversifying the leadership workforce, this book highlights what's going right and how to implement it across the profession.

A comprehensive, annotated, guide to current books, Internet resources, and journals in chemistry designed for use by students, faculty, and researchers. Includes coverage of over 1,800 resources in all major fields, including analytical, physical, organic, inorganic, and environmental chemistry. Contains 11 chapters plus extensive index.