{"title":"The role of the academic librarian in online courses: Student perspectives at a state flagship university","authors":"Jennifer Elaine Steele","doi":"10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103087","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current study seeks to utilize an online survey of students at Louisiana State University regarding the use of librarians in online courses. Survey questions focused on what library services are currently being provided for online students, what strategies for incorporating librarians into online courses have been utilized, and gathered perspectives from students in order to better establish best practices for providing the growing number of online students with the library services they need.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47762,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Librarianship","volume":"51 5","pages":"Article 103087"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Academic Librarianship","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133325000837","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The current study seeks to utilize an online survey of students at Louisiana State University regarding the use of librarians in online courses. Survey questions focused on what library services are currently being provided for online students, what strategies for incorporating librarians into online courses have been utilized, and gathered perspectives from students in order to better establish best practices for providing the growing number of online students with the library services they need.
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The Journal of Academic Librarianship, an international and refereed journal, publishes articles that focus on problems and issues germane to college and university libraries. JAL provides a forum for authors to present research findings and, where applicable, their practical applications and significance; analyze policies, practices, issues, and trends; speculate about the future of academic librarianship; present analytical bibliographic essays and philosophical treatises. JAL also brings to the attention of its readers information about hundreds of new and recently published books in library and information science, management, scholarly communication, and higher education. JAL, in addition, covers management and discipline-based software and information policy developments.