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Career advancement in academic libraries: A systematic review

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103046

Ash Faulkner , Lauren Reiter

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Assessment of a textbook affordability initiative: A framework for measuring the impact on student enrollment and retention outcomes

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103025

Katie Bishop , Omer Farooq , Andrew Swift , Craig Finlay

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Designing effective library treasure hunts: Theory, practice, and framework alignment

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103048

Ellwood Colahan

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What kind of short videos do users like? A vignette experimental study

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103047

Chen Xin , Liu Yingxi

{"title":"What kind of short videos do users like? A vignette experimental study","authors":"Chen Xin , Liu Yingxi","doi":"10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103047","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103047","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the development of mobile Internet and smart phones, short videos and their platforms are experiencing explosive growth worldwide. This study explores the communication effects of different types of short videos published by university libraries on Bilibili(A large short video platform in China) to improve the promotional strategies for these videos and the quality of library services they represent. Vignette experiment was employed to collect user evaluation data on library short videos. Finding reveals notable differences in user satisfaction across different categories of library short videos. Users preferred service notification videos, followed by those focused on information literacy education, image promotion, and resource recommendation. In contrast, event promotion short videos received slightly lower evaluations. Based on these findings, three key recommendations for improving the marketing of library short videos were proposed: First, short videos with good communication effects and high user satisfaction should be promoted. Second, different types of short videos should be promoted to different user groups. Third, the differences and diversity of short video themes should be balanced.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47762,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Librarianship","volume":"51 3","pages":"Article 103047"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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What's in a name? Exploring how voluntary library data literacy workshop titles and descriptions affect learner motivations to enroll

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103045

Michelle Kelly Schultz

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Libraries facilitating knowledge creation through podcasting: Exploring podcasts as a form of scholarship

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103042

Annette Bochenek, Sarah Huber, Renusree Varma Mudduluru

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Scaffolding AI literacy: An instructional model for academic librarianship

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103041

Katherine A. LaFlamme

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Information studies: Library development of an undergraduate curriculum for the information age

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103044

Heather Howard, Erla P. Heyns , Matthew N. Hannah, Dave Zwicky, Clarence Maybee

{"title":"Information studies: Library development of an undergraduate curriculum for the information age","authors":"Heather Howard, Erla P. Heyns , Matthew N. Hannah, Dave Zwicky, Clarence Maybee","doi":"10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In today's information-rich environment, students need to understand how to navigate information challenges such as mis/disinformation, conspiracy theories, algorithmic and information literacy, and artificial intelligence. As we have seen, such information challenges will continue to have an outsized impact on our online lives, civic health, and democratic norms. To address these challenges, librarians at a large public university used both qualitative and quantitative methods such as an environmental scan, stakeholder analysis, focus groups, and interviews to inform the development of an Information Studies Minor designed to intervene in this complex information landscape. The Information Studies Minor is intended for a broad audience of students across all disciplines who seek opportunities to combine their disciplinary knowledge with a focused education in all aspects of information. Such a curriculum will not only provide important understandings of being a digital citizen, but also essential workplace and academic skills for the twenty-first century. Understanding the social, political, and economic dynamics of information will be an essential cornerstone of comprehensive higher education in the United States, and our minor will play a central role in advancing such educational objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47762,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Librarianship","volume":"51 3","pages":"Article 103044"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Generative artificial intelligence in the activities of academic libraries of public universities in Poland

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103043

Grzegorz Gmiterek , Sebastian D. Kotuła

{"title":"Generative artificial intelligence in the activities of academic libraries of public universities in Poland","authors":"Grzegorz Gmiterek , Sebastian D. Kotuła","doi":"10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103043","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The article presents the results of a study conducted, using both survey and content analysis (of the websites and fan pages) of all the libraries of the public universities in Poland to establish their use of generative artificial intelligence. The general findings showed that not all libraries were active in promoting artificial intelligence solutions. Most (57 %) of the libraries supported the inclusion of GAI in the repertoire of library tools, although only 39.3 % dealt with GAI issues. 46 % actively used them despite 50 % of the libraries creating conditions favorable for the use of GAI. Interestingly, 43 % of libraries indicated that they did not think there was a need to use GAI tools with the main reasons given including a lack of staff competencies and the appropriate regulations in the area. For those libraries using GAI or AI, 47 % of them had information about this published on their home pages and 39 % on their fan pages. The most common information found was about the promotion of AI tools, the resources available in the library, organized events (49,67 % of all information) and documents on the subject (36,77 % of the published information).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47762,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Librarianship","volume":"51 3","pages":"Article 103043"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143644194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Libraries as research enablers: A content analysis of research excellence framework environment statements

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Journal of Academic Librarianship Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103039

Claire Pike , Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes

{"title":"Libraries as research enablers: A content analysis of research excellence framework environment statements","authors":"Claire Pike , Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes","doi":"10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Research Excellence Framework (REF) assesses the research quality of UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). One element of this assessment, the environment statement, allows discipline-specific Units of Assessment (UoAs) to detail aspects of their HEIs wider research environment. As academic libraries play a crucial role in facilitating research, it would be expected that recognition of this would be acknowledged within these environment statements. To test this, a content analysis of all 3769 environment statements submitted to REF2014 and REF2021 was conducted. It found that only 63.4 % of UoAs mentioned the library in their environment statements. Moreover, environment statements in non-STEM disciplines were approximately twice as likely to mention the library than those in STEM disciplines. Interestingly, while the acknowledgment of ‘traditional’ support services remained consistent over time, acknowledgement of ‘non-traditional’ services (e.g., open research support, and research data services) increased significantly between REF2014 and REF2021 across all disciplines. Therefore, while academic libraries are often recognised by their HEIs as contributing to the institutional research environment, this is by no means universal. Instead, recognition depended on discipline and has shifted over time. These findings have important implications for understanding and prioritising library research support.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47762,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Librarianship","volume":"51 3","pages":"Article 103039"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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