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View article: Academic librarianship in flux
Academic librarianship in flux Open
Academic librarians have faced many changes and challenges since the 1980s as a result of rising costs, technological advances and policy developments, which have turned their focus to different areas of service provision, but with support…
View article: Alignment, Collaboration and the Social Turn: Our Agenda for the Relational Library
Alignment, Collaboration and the Social Turn: Our Agenda for the Relational Library Open
Our profession is "Moving from collecting to connecting" (
View article: Innovations in Learning and Teaching in Academic Libraries: Alignment, Collaboration, and the Social Turn
Innovations in Learning and Teaching in Academic Libraries: Alignment, Collaboration, and the Social Turn Open
Academic libraries are central to the learning, teaching and research enterprise of their institutions. As emphasised by Brophy (2005, p. 216) “Academic libraries are here to enable and enhance lea...
View article: The Social Mission of 21st Century Research Libraries: Building Data Literate Communities
The Social Mission of 21st Century Research Libraries: Building Data Literate Communities Open
The datafication of research, higher education, and society has made data literacy a key requirement for academic and professional success. It is also a prerequisite for successful participation in citizen science, open government, communi…
View article: Librarians as Teachers: Reframing our Professional Development
Librarians as Teachers: Reframing our Professional Development Open
Professional development for teaching roles is a big issue for librarians, who often have little formal teacher education and feel underprepared for their work as educators. Professional organizations provide valuable support through journ…
View article: The Wicked Problem of Data Literacy: A Call for Action
The Wicked Problem of Data Literacy: A Call for Action Open
Calls for urgent action on data literacy are coming from all sectors of society, including educators, employers, journalists, non-profits, policy makers, scientists, and advocacy groups, but there is no consensus on what data literacy mean…
View article: Designing Research Libraries for Digital Scholarship Innovation: Exploring Global Practices to Revitalize Local Strategies
Designing Research Libraries for Digital Scholarship Innovation: Exploring Global Practices to Revitalize Local Strategies Open
Digital publishing, new business models, open access policies, and social networking have created opportunities for research libraries to engage in scholarly communication at a deeper level across the scholarly knowledge cycle. Libraries a…
View article: Reflect, connect, perform: Reframing teacher development for inclusive library learning
Reflect, connect, perform: Reframing teacher development for inclusive library learning Open
L2L: Library Staff Learning to Support Learners Learning is a groundbreaking initiative that transformed the professional lives of librarians and library assistants in Irish academic libraries and gave fresh impetus, new meaning and direct…
View article: Human rights and information access in a digital world: A library and information science perspective
Human rights and information access in a digital world: A library and information science perspective Open
The United Nations has recognized Internet access as a basic human right. However, Internet access is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for public access to information. Information literacy (already recognized as a human right) i…
View article: Corporate power, surveillance, and the future of Open Access
Corporate power, surveillance, and the future of Open Access Open
We live in an information economy, and the future of democracy and equity depend on everyone’s ability to access information. Yet, even as scholars and organizations work to make scholarly work openly available, the increased commercializa…
View article: The Missing Link? Using Reflection to Advance Qualitative Evaluation and Assessment in Libraries and Information Services
The Missing Link? Using Reflection to Advance Qualitative Evaluation and Assessment in Libraries and Information Services Open
Library assessment and performance measurement have turned to qualitative approaches including narrative and ethnographic methods for more meaningful demonstrations of the value and impact of services and facilities. Reflective practice is…
View article: Developing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
Developing a Teaching Philosophy Statement Open
Developing a statement of teaching philosophy is established practice for teaching faculty in American higher education, with such statements routinely used in job applications, appointment reviews, and promotion decisions across the disci…
View article: The iSchool View: Transferability of Data-Related Roles and Competencies
The iSchool View: Transferability of Data-Related Roles and Competencies Open
Library engagement with data has evolved from specialized social science and geospatial data services through growing involvement in research data management and ancillary activities to a situation where data has moved from the periphery t…
View article: Advancing the Reflective Conversation in Teaching and Learning
Advancing the Reflective Conversation in Teaching and Learning Open
Reflective practice is a defining characteristic of professional work and a formal requirement for professional credentials in our own and other fields, supporting evidence-based practice and professional development. Reflection is associa…
View article: Crossing the threshold:
Crossing the threshold: Open
Do we think enough about what we are doing as information literacy practitioners? The relationship between reflection and information literacy development is well documented in academic and professional literature, particularly in the cont…
View article: Revisiting Data Literacy in the Big Data Landscape
Revisiting Data Literacy in the Big Data Landscape Open
As Graham Pryor observed in 2012, “Technology has enabled data to become the prevalent material and currency of research”, replacing information and publications as its accepted deliverable, and presenting significant challenges for academ…
View article: Advancing the Reflective Conversation in Information Literacy
Advancing the Reflective Conversation in Information Literacy Open
Reflective practice is a defining characteristic of professional work, a feature of Subject Benchmark Statements for professional disciplines, and required for professional credentials: the ability to reflect and evaluate is part of the CI…
View article: Ethical Issues of Big Data 2.0 Collaborations: Roles and Preparation of Information Specialists
Ethical Issues of Big Data 2.0 Collaborations: Roles and Preparation of Information Specialists Open
The emerging Age of Big Data 2.0 promises myriad opportunities to advance human knowledge for the benefit of society. Across the globe, Big Data collaborative ventures are launching “moonshot” projects and establishing new organizations, s…
View article: Community Engagement in Collection Development: Social Responsibility or Professional Abdication?
Community Engagement in Collection Development: Social Responsibility or Professional Abdication? Open
The paper uses collection development as a case study to illustrate how the historical background of a subject is an essential part of our approach to introducing students as new professionals to the principles and practices of our field a…
View article: Big Data 2.0: Critical Roles for Libraries and Librarians
Big Data 2.0: Critical Roles for Libraries and Librarians Open
Big Data is a live issue in e-commerce and market intelligence, e-government and politics, national security, and smart healthcare; a key feature of digital scholarship and open science; and an emergent concern for education and the cultur…
View article: Taming a wicked problem: Meeting academic standards, institutional goals and professional expectations in online courses
Taming a wicked problem: Meeting academic standards, institutional goals and professional expectations in online courses Open
E-learning and online education have the potential to transform professional learning by widening access and participation, customizing and personalizing learning experiences, building communities of interest and practice, developing profe…
View article: The challenge for librarian skills: Transforming professional competencies
The challenge for librarian skills: Transforming professional competencies Open
Academic libraries and information services must continually evolve in response to challenges in the wider organization and environmental context. Key trends include rapid development and convergence of digital technologies, massive growth…
View article: Turning professional education inside out for the 2020 information landscape
Turning professional education inside out for the 2020 information landscape Open
Changes in the operating environment of information professionals have significant implications for library and information science education. The current situation requires more than the tinkering, quick fixes, and incremental changes tha…
View article: The Open Movement: What Libraries Can Do
The Open Movement: What Libraries Can Do Open
Open approaches have moved beyond open access, open source software, and open courseware to developments with open infrastructure and open processes. Open initiatives are gaining momentum as a result of both bottom‐up grassroots activism a…
View article: Library space assessment: A review and professional education case study.
Library space assessment: A review and professional education case study. Open
Purpose. The research aimed to review the current state of library space assessment, and to investigate how new professionals, represented by a cohort of graduate students taking a course on academic libraries, approached the task of desig…