Browsing by Subject "academic libraries"

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    Cooperative Collection Development: Current Practices among ARL Libraries for Area Studies Collections
    (portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024-07) Vetruba, Brian; Faust, David
    This study examines cooperative collection development (CCD) for area studies and foreign language collections at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries, based on a 2020 survey. Respondents provided details about cooperative collection initiatives (CCIs) at their libraries and their attitudes toward CCD. Most respondents had a favorable opinion of CCD, citing access to a broader collection of materials and cost savings as primary reasons. Challenges include the work and time involved in managing CCIs. This composite picture of how libraries build collaborative collections and the perceived benefits and challenges of CCD will inform librarians and administrators alike as they consider how best to build area studies and foreign language collections.
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    Data resources on Academic LibGuides
    (2022-07-05) Hennesy, Cody; McBurney, Jenny; Kubas, Alicia; chennesy@umn.edu; Hennesy, Cody
    A collection of data resources (names and URLs) found listed on the LibGuides platform at 123 R1 institutions.
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    Embracing INTO: Library Plans and Campus Collaboration to Serve an Increased International Student Population
    (Collaborative Librarianship, 2013) Farrell, Shannon L.; Cranston, Catherine L.; Bullington, Jeffrey S.
    Universities are using private recruitment agencies to fast-track internationalization initiatives and realize tuition-based revenue increases. Colorado State University (CSU), with this dual aim of increasing the proportion of international students on campus and generating income via out-of-state tuition, signed a contract with INTO, a British organization that works to recruit international students to attend partner institutions from countries across five continents. International students, although not a homogeneous population, as a whole do bring unique challenges. Our study examined how both campus and the library could prepare for the expected large influx of international students. Seeking to understand the INTO model and the effect it would have on campus, particularly in terms of resource planning, we conducted a series of interviews with INTO staff, librarians at other U.S. INTO institutions, and CSU faculty and staff who would interact most substantially with the INTO population. Various campus departments have made significant preparations to prepare for the growing INTO population, and we identified several steps that the CSU Libraries could take to better serve these students, including enhancing existing services and fostering new campus collaborations.
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    First Year of "Creating a Data Management Plan": A New Workshop Offered by the University of Minnesota Libraries.
    (2012-04-25) Petsan, Beth; Lafferty, Meghan; Johnston, Lisa R
    This poster was presented at the USAIN (United States Agricultural Information Network) 2012 Conference in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (April 29-May 2, 2012). The topic is a University of Minnesota Libraries' workshop called "Creating a Data Management Plan for your Grant Application."
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    LibGuides dataset: Subject guides at academic libraries
    (2021-05-20) Hennesy, Cody; Adams, Annis Lee; ; chennesy@umn.edu; Hennesy, Cody
    Derived data reflecting organizational practices of 12,781 subject guides on the LibGuides platform from 114 academic institutions. Includes URLs, page titles, descriptions, subject tags, box and tab titles, and profile information collected from subject guides in 2020. Data was used to support a comparative analysis of published "best practices" related to library guides with the actual practices observable across guides.
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    Mapping Prejudice: The Map Library as a Hub for Community Co-Creation and Social Change
    (Taylor & Francis, 2022-06-14) Mattke, Ryan; Delegard, Kirsten; Leebaw, Danya
    The John R. Borchert Map Library was the ideal incubator for an experiment that has changed how a wide range of people are thinking about structural racism and the history of race in American urban environments. Mapping Prejudice used a cartographic visualization of racial covenants as the intellectual nexus of a project that transcended disciplinary boundaries and invited community members into cutting-edge research work. The Map Library provided the physical space, resources, and geospatial expertise necessary for community-driven mapping work. It also served as an intersectional hub necessary for this transformative research initiative, illustrating the synergies between map librarianship and other disciplines. The work depended on the unique contributions of the map librarian: project management; experience networking with researchers, campus departments, and community groups; and knowledge of best practices surrounding data management, curation, and reuse. This article explains how Mapping Prejudice changed academic scholarship and public understandings by engaging volunteers in meaningful research. It concludes by providing a description of future directions for this project and calls on librarians to lead more work of this kind. The example of Mapping Prejudice suggests ways that map librarians can be leading new modes of inclusive, equitable and community-responsive research.
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    Music Faculty after Pandemic Closures: A Mixed Methods Study of Evolving Resource Preferences and Libraries
    (Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 2025-03) Clark, Joe C.; Abbazio, Jessica M.; Sauceda, Jonathan
    The dramatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education and the growth in popularity of commercial services such as YouTube warrant an examination of how music faculty have and have not changed their teaching practices and what role the library has played in their pedagogy. Building on a 2017 publication, this mixed methods, multi-institutional study examined the practices of instructors at three universities to determine what materials they used to support their teaching, their preferred sources and formats of learning content, the library’s role in meeting these needs, obstacles in using library resources, and the ways in which the pandemic changed their approach to using resources. Results indicated that faculty preferred for their library to invest in electronic collections over physical materials, they favored obtaining some types of materials from non-library sources, and their use of most library services had rebounded from the declines observed during institutional closures.
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    Music Students and Library Collections after Pandemic Closures: An Examination of Format Preferences and Reported Usage
    (College & Research Libraries, 2025-07) Abbazio, Jessica M.; Clark, Joe C.; Sauceda, Jonathan
    This study details university music students’ required resources, format preferences, and information-seeking behaviors after the campus shutdowns brought about by COVID-19. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, the investigation was undertaken at three large US universities in fall 2022. Results revealed that music students continue to use and value library resources, a sentiment that rose with class standing. Longitudinal comparisons with 2012 and 2017 studies reveal that the dramatic shift towards digital resources seen between 2012 and 2017 has not continued and that format preferences are largely unchanged from 2017. Students reported heavy reliance on libraries for books, scores, and articles, while audio and video content were likely to come from freemium resources like YouTube or other streaming sites.
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    Participatory and Ethical Strategic Planning: What Academic Libraries Can Learn from Critical Management Studies
    (Library Trends, 2019) Leebaw, Danya
    This paper introduces a subfield of management studies, “critical management studies” (CMS), in order to rethink mainstream management practices in academic libraries, with strategic planning as an illustrative example. Mainstream management models from the corporate sector prioritize efficiency, productivity, and numerical measures for assessing impact. Academic libraries have generally borrowed uncritically from this mainstream management praxis, but how well does this serve our needs, especially when it comes to the most complex issues we face? CMS draws on critical theory to interrogate the methods and goals of mainstream management, with an emphasis on denaturalizing “taken for granted” practices and prioritizing ethics and worker equity. After providing a brief overview of the history and adoption of mainstream management in academic libraries, this paper focuses on strategic planning as an illustrative exploration of CMS principles in an academic library context. Strategic planning is a common managerial practice that has been embraced by academic libraries and generally modeled after mainstream approaches. Yet, CMS scholars contend that traditional strategic planning reproduces workplace inequities and universalizes managerial interests. In this article, I employ ideas from CMS to rethink library strategic planning by opening participation, reframing problems, and embracing our ethical agency.
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    Power and Status (and Lack Thereof) in Academe: Academic Freedom and Academic Librarians
    (In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2020-09-16) Leebaw, Danya; Logsdon, Alexis
    Academic librarians do not experience full academic freedom protections, despite the fact that they are expected to exercise independent judgment, be civically engaged, and practice applied scholarship. Academic freedom for academic librarians is not widely studied or well understood. To learn more, we conducted a survey which received over 600 responses from academic librarians on a variety of academic freedom measures. In this article, we focus specifically on faculty status for librarians and the ways this intersects with academic freedom perceptions and experiences. Even though all librarians who answered our survey share similar experiences when it comes to infringements on their freedom, faculty librarians are more likely to feel they are protected in their free expression. We find it useful to situate librarians within a growing cohort of “third space” academic professionals who perform similar duties to traditional faculty but lack tenure and its associated academic freedom protections. We argue that more attention needs to be paid in the library profession to academic freedom for librarians, and that solidarity with other non-traditional faculty on campus is a potential avenue for allyship and advocacy.
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    Preparing Our Librarians for the Future: Identifying and Assessing Core Competencies at the University of Minnesota Libraries
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010) Crowe, Stephanie H.; Jaguszewski, Janice M.
    In 2007, the University of Minnesota Libraries developed and administered a self-assessment tool to all liaison librarians and archivists. The purpose of the assessment was to document the liaisons' current knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) and map them against the KSAs that are expected to be needed in the future. The gaps were then analyzed to identify professional development opportunities for current staff as well as traits to seek when considering future hires.