Introduction. Teachers in Finland are demanded to develop students’ competencies in information literacy. However, they can meet this demand only by collaborating with public librarians. The aim in this case study was to explore the perspectives of teachers, librarians and students in a problem-based project and to analyse the advantages and challenges of collaboration between teachers and libr...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether academic reference librarians, archivists, catalogers, distance education librarians, public librarians, records managers, school librarians, special collections librarians, and systems librarians differ in personality traits measured by the Personal Style Inventory: i.e. adaptability, assertiveness, autonomy, conscientiousness, customer service ...

Purpose – This study seeks to establish and compare the research and publication patterns and output of academic librarians in Eastern Africa from 2000 to 2009 using informetric techniques. Design/methodology/approach – The study confined its scope to publications produced between 2000 and 2009. The informetric technique (through content analysis) was used as a research method. The documents th...

purpose: the current research aims to investigate the status of knowledge sharing amongst librarians in lis, ala and alia discussion groups. methodology: through purposive sampling, librarians from three discussion groups (ala, alia & lis-iranian discussion list) who announced their intention to participate in the research (460 people) were asked to complete the questionnaire between 2010/10/23...

Librarians and archivists are intimately involved in scholarly communication systems, both as information providers and instructors. However, very little is known regarding their activities as scholars. This study seeks to examine the scholarly communication practices of librarians and archivists, the role that tenure plays in scholarly communication practices, and the degree to which instituti...

An Examination of Digitization Capacity and Skills of Academic Librarians in Nigeria Akinniyi A. Adeleke E-resources Management Unit, RUN Library Redeemer’s University, Nigeria Email address: [email protected]; [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------------Increasing number of Niger...

introduction: the most important variable in success of every organization is attention to ethics. since library and information sciences naturally involve service provision to users, commitment to professional ethics is necessary. the purpose of this research was to determine the attention rate of librarians in isfahan university of medical sciences and isfahan university to professional ethic...

Future researchers may want to study in greater depth the positions of individuals writing as librarians in health sciences journals. It may also be interesting to determine what motivates health sciences librarians to write articles for biomedical journals. Health sciences librarians' motivation (or lack of motivation) in doing research and publishing their findings should also be further exam...

OBJECTIVE The research sought to identify the general use of medical librarians in pediatric residency training, to define the role of medical librarians in teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) to pediatric residents, and to describe strategies and curricula for teaching EBM used in pediatric residency training programs. METHODS We sent a 13-question web-based survey through the Association...

The authors love assessment and evaluation, and we believe it should be integrated into all aspects of library programming. There. It's been said. Reaching this point in our relationship with assessment and evaluation has definitely had its ups and downs, and we still struggle with it. So why speak out about this now? The current economic environment makes it more important than ever for librar...