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Connecting with Health Science Students and Faculty to Facilitate the Design of a Mobile Library Website
(2014-07-29)
Observing increasing usage of smartphones by students and faculty of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, librarians at Rowland Medical Library decided to explore student and faculty interest in a mobile website ...
When Will We Use this in Real Life?: Problem-Based Learning and Its Use in Effective Information Literacy Instruction
(2014-10-27)
Have you thought about using real world problems in your library instruction classroom? Modeling real world scenarios can increase student
engagement and provide context to show students how they can use library
skills ...
Smartphone Use to Answer Clinical Questions: A Descriptive Study of APNs
(2024-05-06)
This study examines the use of smartphones by Alabama Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) to find information to address clinical questions and seeks to describe the types of questions answered using smartphones; barriers to ...
Information and Interaction Needs of Distance Students: Are Academic Libraries Meeting the Challenge?
(2014-03-31)
One of the trends currently affecting academic libraries is higher education’s expanding use of online instruction and a rising number of totally online degree programs. As libraries have transitioned from primarily print ...
Facilitating Interdisciplinary Competence: Collaboration Between Undergraduate Baccalaureate Nursing Students and Graduate Students Specializing in Communication Disorders
(2017-12-01)
The fast-paced nature of the healthcare setting, coupled with the number of allied professionals involved, demands accurate and concise written communication. It is imperative that written communication between nursing and ...
Collecting Pre-class Information from First Year Pharmacy Students in Order to Increase Student Engagement with Library Instruction
(2016-07-14)
Objectives: To increase student engagement, both in a one-shot library instruction session and with the Pharmacy subject guide which provides supplemental instruction information.
Methods: Setting/Participants: 151 first ...
Hosting an International Graduate Student Orientation
(2023-12-14)
In Fall 2022, Auburn University Libraries faculty and staff hosted an orientation event for newly arrived
international graduate students. Highlights of the event included tours of major library service points, a
shared ...
Three Heads are Better than One: Organizational Changes in Collection Management Leadership
(2015-11-16)
Financial pressures, shrinking staff, shifting user expectations, and advances in format access and availability mean that organizational change seems to have become a constant in today’s academic library. The area of ...
Skills for success: Tailoring research boot camps to graduate student needs
(2023-06-16)
As they prepare for academic and professional careers, graduate students must acquire skills needed to conduct scholarly research, organize and work with information sources, and effectively communicate research findings. ...
Expanding access: An evaluation of Readcube as an interlibrary loan alternative
(2016-07-14)
Objective: Readcube is a patron-driven, document delivery system which provides immediate access to articles from all journals owned by the Nature Publishing group. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of ...