Supervising academic library internships for non‐LIS undergraduates

Academic library performance measures and undergraduates’ library use and educational outcomes

This study investigated the relationship between an institution’s academic library performance measures and undergraduates’ library use and educational outcomes. The sample consisted of 7,958 undergraduates attending 36 colleges and universities representing four institutional types. Regression analyses determined the relationship between academic library performance measures and library use an...

Predicting Academic Success in Undergraduates

College academic success and retention twvc tradi tionally been prcdich..-U using demographic and academic variables. This study in vcstigall.:tilhc influence of student heal th on or A and intent 10 drop out of college. A longitudinal survt.:y of 242 freshmen rcvc.1lcd that cmOlional and social faclors (e.g., stress, living in the donn, being in a study group) prcdiC1I."d second semester Or A ...

Terms for Academic Library Directors

IN 1973, ARTHUR MCANALLY AND ROBERTDOWNSauthored a seminal article on the changing role of the university library director. This article takes a look at McAnally and Downs’s findings twenty years later to determine whether the changes outlined in 1973 are still valid today. Additional sources of strife for university library directors are outlined and requirements for today’s library directors ...

Developing academic information literacy for undergraduates through inquiry based learning

This paper describes the design and implementation of an information literacy module for first semester undergraduate students at Loughborough University. These students were taking Information Management and either Business Studies or Computing, or a degree in Publishing with English or Publishing with Ebusiness or Web Development and Design. The purpose of the module was to enable them to wor...

Evolving academic library specialties