Reframing library student employment as a high-impact practice: Implications from case studies

Scenarios Research and Cognitive Reframing: Implications for Strategy as Practice

Motivational Practice in High-Schools in Vietnam: EFL Teachers’ Strategies from Student Perspective

Despite abundant research on teachers’ motivational strategies worldwide, scant attention has been paid to this in Vietnam. Thus, the current study aimed to investigate the high school EFL teachers’ use of motivational strategies reported by students and their attitudes towards these motivational strategies. The participants consisted of 416 students taught by 30 EFL teachers from ten high scho...

Using Library Impact Data to Inform Student Marketing Campaigns Original Citation Using Library Impact Data to Inform Student Marketing Campaigns

This article uses an evidenced based approach using the finding of the Library Impact Data Project to help market library resources to students at the University of Huddersfield. Initiatives discussed include the roving librarian, desk-top visits and Lemontree (library game). Reading list software is also used to drive usage and the marketing of these services is also discussed. Finally, the pa...

Reframing Information System Design as Learning Across Communities of Practice

This article frames the requirements definition phase of systems design as a problem of knowledge transfer and learning between two communities of practice: IS designers and system users. The theoretical basis for the proposed approach is Wenger’s (1998) framework for social learning, which involves three dimensions: alignment, imagination, and engagement. The article treats the requirements de...

The Library as “Student Heaven”: Re-Designing Library Spaces to Enrich the Student Experience

In 2016, the ground-floor of the Reid Library at The University of Western Australia (UWA) was transformed from a ‘cold, dusty and dated’ 50-year-old space to a ‘stylish, open and social’ 750 seat collaborative learning facility. This paper will focus on how libraries are re-designing library spaces to enrich and enhance the student experience. Discussing the Reid Library Project as a case stud...