...M. Sara Lowe; Sean M. Stone; Katharine V. Macy Purpose This paper discusses a program to train undergraduate students as near peer teachers delivering course-embedded information literacy instruction to undergraduate students. Design/methodology/approach The approach involved the development...

... 12 2022 10 12 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Peer reference services Student employees Undergraduates Community college libraries In August 2021, the Pellissippi State Community College Libraries launched...

...Annie R. Armstrong; Glenda M. Insua; Catherine Lantz Purpose This paper explores the academic reading behaviors of first-year students in an attempt to understand their experiences and develop potential reading interventions to support undergraduate students. Design/methodology/approach...

...Karlene Clark; Avery Breiland Purpose This paper describes the benefits found in undergraduate students working to provide research assistance to their peers. The discussion includes how soft skills are built, along with how the position has aided in both educational and building towards...

... if introducing the language of the frames explicitly – in addition to using them as the implicit foundation of our teaching – resonated with these undergraduates. This case study investigates how undergraduates at a liberal arts institution interpreted the Framework’s language and concepts in relation...

... to their undergraduate peers, and the steps taken to create buy-in for the program from campus and librarians. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide a description of peer reference services and describe how a remodel of the library building facilitated a redesign of services. The paper covers the process...

... to Research Party participants (n = 43) over the course of three semesters to discover the profiles of the undergraduate students who attended and how they heard about the event and to assess the value of the interaction to the student. Findings Respondents unanimously agreed...

...Dany Savard Purpose This paper aims to investigate upper-undergraduate and graduate students’ perceptions of interdisciplinarity in relation to their information-seeking habits by analyzing their beliefs, rationalizations and preferences around the retrieval, evaluation and use of information...

... rights only Academic libraries Higher education Collaboration Undergraduates Partnerships Transfer students For those who work in higher education, the first image that may come to mind upon hearing the phrase “new student” is that of an 18-year-old freshman, transitioning from high...

... of the UL had been hearing the buzz about personal librarian programs from a variety of institutions focusing on undergraduate education. Conceptually, she found the idea of students having their own personal librarian interesting because such a program would provide librarians a path to reach students...

... identify themselves as a unique group separate from other undergraduates because of their prior experience, shortened timeline at the university and their need to balance academic, work and family commitments. Because transfer students often have little time to learn about and effectively use campus...

... to see students feeling confident after the instruction session – that they have made headway within their own search process and feel that the session is useful. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information literacy Undergraduates...

... instruction. Design/methodology/approach The Project Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (SAILS) test was administered to assess the information literacy proficiency of a cohort of undergraduate students taking courses on two regional campuses of a four-year institution. In total, 114...

...Darcy Del Bosque; Rosan Mitola; Susie Skarl; Shelley Heaton Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the awareness of library research services, the top desires for new services and overall satisfaction of undergraduate students to plan outreach and marketing efforts. Design...

...Sophie Bury Purpose This paper aims to investigate faculty conceptions of information literacy (IL) in a digital information landscape by examining faculty definitions of IL in the context of undergraduate education, as well as faculty perceptions of, and expectations for, undergraduate IL...

... entrepreneurs alike learn the skills to successfully traverse this landscape. Courses in entrepreneurship at the college and university undergraduate level are an increasing part of the business school curricular landscape. At the same time, colleges or universities with majors or minors in entrepreneurship...

... reference services. Through student learning assessment, librarians can develop strategies, such as the authors Reference Notes forms, to increase the quality of learning during reference transactions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Academic libraries Reference services Undergraduates...

... information skills (p. 295). Collaboration Assessment Information literacy Undergraduates Curriculum The WPA was eager to pre-schedule one-shot instruction sessions for the second course in a two-semester first-year writing sequence (“Writing 102”) to embark on the first consistent...

...Susan Avery; Daniel G. Tracy Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine how undergraduate students search in the context of a library instruction session. The results of an assessment of transaction logs are shared to provide evidence of student search behavior within a class setting...

... by participating sophomore and junior English composition students are explored. Design/methodology/approach – Instruction librarians adopted ACRL standards to government information in order to address difficulties undergraduates have in identifying and evaluating common federal government resources...