Chris Leeder is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information, University of Michigan, e-mail: cleeder@ umich.edu; Steven Lonn is Assistant Director of the USE Lab and Library Learning Analytics Specialist, University of Michigan, e-mail: [email protected]. ©2014 Chris Leeder and Steven Lonn, AttributionNonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC To better understa...

With biomedical information widely accessible from anywhere at any time, health sciences libraries have become less centralized, and they are challenged to stay relevant and vital to the mission and strategic goals of their home institution. One solution is to embed librarians at strategic points in health professions' education, research, and patient care. This article discusses a proposed fiv...

THISARTICLE DESCRIBES THE SOCIETAL AND professional, as well as the personal, contexts which motivated the creation of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)and its predecessor, the Asian American Librarians Caucus/Association (AALC/A) .The article includes profiles of the Asian/Pacific American library leaders who established these organizations and background information ab...

Journal articles are the most common publication format for U.S. academic health sciences librarians. This is consistent with the findings of other researchers. Of the total publications in this study, 68% were in journals. Watson found that 69% of the academic librarians' publications were published in some type of journal [8]. Similarly, Yerkey and Glogowski found that 67% of the publications...

Purpose: To examine past and future predictions about academic libraries and identify the skills that librarians will need to survive in an increasingly digital environment. Methodology/approach: A review of relevant literature, including ephemeral material such as job advertisements, indicates a broad consensus about the skills required. The lifecycle of an academic librarian is considered fro...

Information security awareness (ISA) is referred to as a state of consciousness and knowledge about security issues and is frequently found to impact security compliant behavior. However, to date we know little about the factors influencing ISA and its mediating effect on behavior. Our study addresses these gaps. We propose a research model that studies ISA’s institutional, individual, and envi...

This paper aims to identify the determinants that affect information security awareness (ISA) of college students. With the prevalence and continuous growing of information technology (IT) in our daily life, we are experiencing immense benefits of the computerintensive business environment. However, information security is a critical issue at the same time. It is necessary to examine the ISA an...