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Roundtable: What is Holding Librarianship Back from Being more Inclusive of Visible Minorities

open access: yesPartnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2018
For this issue, we asked three librarians and one MLIS candidate to respond to the following question: “According to Statistics Canada, 19.1% of the Canadian population identify themselves as visible minorities, but in the CAPAL census, only 9.1% of ...
Tamara Noor   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Librarians in movies

open access: yesCybrarians Journal, 2004
A review of two websites about librarians in films, and how librarians and libraries appear in films.
Editorial Board
doaj   +1 more source

Information Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Community College Librarians in Florida and New York

open access: yesCommunications in Information Literacy, 2020
An online survey in Florida and New York of community college librarians with responsibility for information literacy instruction provides a snapshot of instructional objectives and practices, including librarians’ beliefs about students’ information ...
Heidi Julien   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why Your Academic Library Needs a Popular Reading Collection Now More Than Ever [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Do popular reading materials belong in college and university libraries? Although some librarians think not, others believe there are compelling reasons for including them. The trend towards user-focused libraries, the importance of attracting patrons to
Dewan, Pauline
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Law Libraries and Laboratories: The Legacies of Langdell and His Metaphor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Law Librarians and others have often referred to Harvard Law School Dean C.C. Langdell’s statements that the law library is the lawyer’s laboratory.
A Bobrie   +24 more
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Virtual Reference for Video Collections: System Infrastructure, User Interface and Pilot User Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A new video-based Virtual Reference (VR) tool called VideoHelp was designed and developed to support video navigation escorting, a function that enables librarians to co-navigate a digital video with patrons in the web-based environment.
Borgman   +17 more
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Tagungen für Lehrer und Bibliothekare „Licencja na czytanie” [Lizenz für Lesen] in der Pädagogischen Elżbieta-Zawacka-Bibliothek in Toruń

open access: yesFolia Toruniensia, 2018
Seit 2016 finden in der Pädagogischen Bibliothek in Toruń Tagungen aus der Reihe „Lizenz für Lesen“, die an die Bibliothekare und Lehrer, welche an der Leserbildung, der Popularisierung des Lesens und der Verlagsfragen interessiert sind, gerichtet werden.
Anna Broda
doaj   +1 more source

Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Sensation Seeking: A SEM Analysis of Librarians and Police Officers

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Playfulness is an understudied personality trait in adults. We examined the relationships between facets of adult playfulness and sensation seeking (SS) in distant vocational groups, namely, librarians (N = 339) and police officers (N = 399).
Kay Brauer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Y Factor

open access: yes, 2000
In my last column, I discussed the issue of faculty status, trying to analyze why librarians have failed to achieve their most desired target -- academic respectability. I concluded that faculty culture does not accept librarians as equals.
Doerksen, J. Ray
core   +6 more sources

Participation of librarians in online social networks to provide services during the covid-19 pandemic (case study: librarians of tehran public libraries) [PDF]

open access: yesتحقیقات اطلاع‌رسانی و کتابخانه‌های عمومی, 2023
Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the level of participation of public library librarians in Tehran in online social networks to provide services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maryam Ghanbari Khoshnood   +2 more
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