... at: thrmoren@uic.edu 12 07 2021 18 09 2021 09 11 2021 17 11 2021 18 11 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Libraries Ethnic minorities Culture Librarianship Feminism History Recognizing...

... information. [I] felt like I was supposed to have all the answers and “know everything” and if I was unable to answer a question on the spot, I would be deemed incompetent and a fraud. Academic libraries Culture Career development Best practice Librarianship Instructors Ah...

...Suzanne McGowan; Hannah Martinez; Marsha Marcilla Purpose This paper aims to illustrate the importance of a cultural shift to fully embrace and serve persons with cognitive, intellectual or physical disabilities into the library community. Design/methodology/approach Through a combination...

... Licensed re-use rights only Culture Reference services Workplace training Customer service Communication Foreign Language collections Librarians and skilled library para-professionals have expertise in helping patrons to define their information needs, to develop the best keywords...

...Anne C. Barnhart; Andrea Stanfield; Miriam Sweeney Purpose This paper seeks to position ready reference technologies as cultural artifacts that have meaning and value beyond pure functionality as a reference tool. The case study aims to assert that locally created reference tools and technologies...

... to help ESL students feel comfortable with librarians and libraries. Social implications Understanding the culture, values, beliefs, and practices that ESL students bring from their home countries and exhibit in the composition classroom can help librarians create programs that help define library...

... countries that deserve our attention and yet are so far ignored. For instance, the issue of “cultural plagiarism”, namely, students committing plagiarism because of cultural differences, is a complex yet very real problem (Lund, 2004). We can only hope to uncover issues that really exist and really matter...

... a portrait of efforts made by librarians and researchers. This article then focuses on East Asian students as a unique group based on shared cultural values, applies literature of East Asian/Western communication styles to library reference services, and discusses how cultural‐specific communication styles...