{"title":"Personalized instruction and assistance services for distance learners: Cultivating a research relationship","authors":"Linda L. Lillard","doi":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Student preferences for remote access to information coupled with their preference for face-to-face assistance provide a unique challenge for librarians. Providing equitable library services for distance learners that meet these preferences becomes increasingly important as the number of courses offered online grows at a rapid pace. The author suggests that the presence of a librarian in the online classroom and the application of business models of relationship-based services to the online course environment can result in the development of exemplary library services for this population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"19 3","pages":"Pages 204-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.resstr.2004.11.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77784330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model for strategic business instruction","authors":"Signe Boudreau, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes","doi":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Collaboration among business faculty, composition faculty, and librarians at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has resulted in an innovative instructional model that integrates library research, writing, presentation, and team building within the context of “learning business.” The model combines the expertise of faculty members and utilizes active learning principles to improve skill development in research, communication, and teamwork. This article focuses on the model's evolution and three key features—recitations, collaboration, and reframed assignments—that other institutions may adapt.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"19 2","pages":"Pages 148-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.resstr.2004.03.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78787442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acquisition of computer skills by older users: A mixed methods study","authors":"Susan Shoemaker","doi":"10.1016/j.resstr.2005.01.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resstr.2005.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Much of the current research on training older adults to use computers focuses narrowly on cognitive aspects of the training situation. This study reports data on affective and contextual variables related to acquisition of computer skills by older people. The results suggest that the narrow focus on cognition in research on older computer users does a disservice to this varied group. Findings from this study are used to suggest more effective instruction practices, especially for older women.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"19 3","pages":"Pages 165-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.resstr.2005.01.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88743628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring international students' understanding of concepts related to the use of library-based technology","authors":"Philip C. Howze, D. M. Moore","doi":"10.1016/S0734-3310(03)00005-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0734-3310(03)00005-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"59 1","pages":"57-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91298563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The learning environment: First-year students, teaching assistants, and information literacy","authors":"Sue Samson, Michelle S Millet","doi":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This manuscript describes the development of an information literacy program that targets first-year students and their graduate student teaching assistants into a fully integrated learning environment. This learning environment not only imbeds information literacy into the curriculum of the required English Composition and Public Speaking courses but relies on the teaching assistants to provide the instruction within the framework of their classes. This is accomplished by a high degree of collaboration among teaching librarians, teaching assistants, and faculty coordinators to create a learning environment that is student centered. Ongoing assessment is described and supports the success of this model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"19 2","pages":"Pages 84-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.resstr.2004.02.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82151401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating information literacy and its assessment into a graduate business course: A collaborative framework","authors":"Martha Cooney , Lorene Hiris","doi":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article supports the need for information literacy instruction for business students at the graduate level, and describes the use of a collaborative framework for integrating information literacy into a graduate finance course and for assessing the results. The framework provided a guide for a more structured and fuller collaboration between the librarian and the classroom instructor. A checklist for assessing learning outcomes was also developed and was an important instrument for evaluating student performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"19 3","pages":"Pages 213-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.resstr.2004.11.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89152753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The origin of library instruction in the United States, 1820–1900","authors":"Stephen C. Weiss","doi":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resstr.2004.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The origins of present-day instructional practices can be found in a dedication to “personal assistance” that emerged relatively early in the minds of American librarians. Bibliographic and information skills initiatives that have evolved into information literacy programs<span> of today have roots in traditions dating back more than two centuries. Scholarship evolved from an amateur's avocation to a full-time profession in the nineteenth century. The result was an increased regard for the importance of libraries to the progress of scholarship. It was not until after the new spirit and method emerging at midcentury transformed the library into a tool for scholarship that the concept of library instruction could evolve.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"19 3","pages":"Pages 233-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.resstr.2004.11.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72803096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring international students' understanding of concepts related to the use of library-based technology","authors":"Philip C Howze , Dorothy M Moore","doi":"10.1016/S0734-3310(03)00005-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0734-3310(03)00005-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ACRL Instruction Section's Committee on Instruction for Diverse Populations developed a multilingual glossary of terms related to the use of library-based technology. This study is a field test of the glossary. Methodology involved two parts, a survey of international students' perceived knowledge of the terms, followed by a series of test questions to measure the degree of their actual knowledge. Degrees of knowledge ranged from not understanding enough English to know what a term meant, to knowing what a term meant to the degree of being able to explain it to others. The majority of students believed that such a glossary would be helpful when using the library, as well as other library materials presented in translation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"19 1","pages":"Pages 57-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0734-3310(03)00005-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91759376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nontraditional undergraduates at home, work, and school: an examination of information-seeking behaviors and the impact of information literacy instruction","authors":"Jennifer L. Branch","doi":"10.1016/j.resstr.2003.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resstr.2003.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined nontraditional undergraduates' home, work, and school information seeking and the perceived impact of an information literacy course on their information-seeking behaviors. The participants in the study were students in the College at Work (CAW) program, a joint venture of the State University of New York at Albany and the New York State Education Department (NYSED). Participants needed a variety of information for home, work, and school. The Internet (and NYSED intranet) was used as the primary source of information for work and school and often for home as well. People (e.g., friends, family members, coworkers, and professionals) were the next most used sources of information. The information literacy course taught participants the skills needed to find information effectively and efficiently on the Internet and in an academic library. Students gained confidence as searchers and as students from the course. Participants indicated that the knowledge and skills gained in the course were transferred to work and home information seeking.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"19 1","pages":"Pages 3-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.resstr.2003.09.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90971721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Having your say in a scholarly way","authors":"Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe","doi":"10.1016/j.resstr.2005.01.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resstr.2005.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101076,"journal":{"name":"Research Strategies","volume":"19 3","pages":"Pages 163-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.resstr.2005.01.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88467520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}