While librarians in schools often face significant budgetary cuts, they can play an important role in supporting learning in literacy and literature. However, little is known about the practices that ...they may employ to this end. Of particular interest is the role of librarians in schools in supporting struggling readers, as these students may be increasingly disadvantaged as they move through the years of schooling. Semi-structured interview data were collected from teacher librarians at 30 schools and analysed to identify practices exercised by teacher librarians that aligned with extant research around supporting struggling readers. Teacher librarians provided support by identifying struggling readers, providing them with age and skill-appropriate materials, undertaking skill scaffolding supporting choice, supporting students with special needs, providing one-to-one matching, promoting access to books, enhancing the social position of books and reading, reading aloud to students, facilitating silent reading, and preparing students for high-stakes literacy testing.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, user education activities at the IAIN Kudus Library were held online. This activity is a form of adaptation carried out by the IAIN Kudus Library to continue to be able ...to work effectively and efficiently in serving users during the pandemic. As an activity that is fully online, it requires a very complex role from the librarian so that it can be carried out optimally. This study aims to discuss how the librarian of the IAIN Kudus Library implements the role of the blended librarian in the implementation of the user education activities. This research was conducted with a descriptive qualitative research method. The data collection method used in this research is through the observation method combined with the literature study method. The results of this study indicate that online-based user education activities at the IAIN Kudus Library can run smoothly because librarians at the IAIN Kudus Library can apply the role of blended librarians in carrying out these activities. The forms of blended librarian's roles include academic librarian, IT librarian, communicative librarian, teaching librarian, and manager.
It's all about the relationships! How the librarian develops connections is key to the embedded process. This paper describes the path one librarian went through from January, 2010 through December, ...2013 at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. With a little help ... ok, a lot of help from coworkers, faculty, IT and most of all students, a program morphed into something past traditional or liaison to embedded librarianship.
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This study aims to determine the implementation of a structured coaching program by describing the process of improving the performance of librarians in each cycle (I and II), and knowing the results ...of improving the performance of librarians and teachers in managing libraries as learning resources through structured coaching at SD Negeri Sulur Kapanewon Samigaluh in the 2021/2022 academic year. used is School Action Research. The research was carried out in two cycles, each cycle consisting of planning, implementing actions, observing, and reflecting. The subject of this research was carried out on all librarians and teachers of SD Negeri Sulur for the academic year 2021/2022. The data collection used in this study is qualitative data with percentages. Qualitative data were obtained from observation sheets on the implementation of structured coaching activities carried out by school principals on librarians and teachers supported by the results of interviews. The results obtained from this study are 1) The process of implementing structured coaching carried out by the principal has increased quite significantly from the first cycle related to the management of final results at the 3rd meeting the average score reached 81.87%; following Cycle II, the 3rd meeting, the average score based on percent reached 92.15%, an increase of 10.28%; The process of implementing structured coaching activities; what the researcher did for 30” (thirty minutes) in the study was said to be successful with the success indicator already exceeding 75%; Cycle II, 3rd meeting; 91.46% increase 18.63%; The results of improved performance in providing services to users have reached more than 75%; The activity of the first cycle of the 3rd meeting; 74.68% while Cycle II is the 3rd meeting; reached 91.36% increase reached 16.68%; The following is the active process of participants in participating in structured coaching. researchers for 30” (thirty minutes) participants in the study were declared successful with indicators of success reaching more than 75%. 91.28% increase of 21.70%; The results of improving the performance of library management through structured coaching of librarians and teachers have reached more than 80%
The core task of academic librarians are to support academic research. The recruitment for the following librarians’ positions including scholarly communication librarians, research data management ...librarians, and digital scholarship librarians is popular in American academic libraries. Few university libraries provide in-depth digital scholarship services in Taiwan. In order to learn experiential knowledge about digital scholarship services of American academic libraries, qualitative interviews were applied in this research. The interviewees include 4 scholarly communication librarians, 3 research data management librarians, 2 digital scholarship librarians. The research result were stated as the following items: core job descriptions, multiple skills including communication and challenges, the personal trait of good librarians and their passion, the roles and tasks in digital age. Several suggestions were provided in this study, including prioritizing tasks for future work, proposing plans for most challenging works, flexible organizational structure, and developing librarians’ competencies and skills. The research results are helpful to propose the plan for the practical work of digital scholarship services in university libraries in Taiwan.
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A study on gender stereotypes experienced by academic librarians can significantly contribute to the ongoing efforts to promote inclusivity, diversity, and gender equality in the academic library ...environment. In this light, this study sought to examine the stereotype issues that persist in academic libraries in the Philippines in the hope of offering recommendations in order to promote gender equality and build a positive image of librarianship. The quantitative method was utilized to collect sex-disaggregated data on academic librarians in Nueva Ecija, and the phenomenological qualitative method was used to gain insights on the narratives about their stereotyped experiences in the workplace. Results show that male and female academic librarians experienced various stereotypes on their physical appearance and job role. These come from their clientele, which include students, co-workers, and administrators. The majority of academic librarians claimed that despite coming across unfavorable assumptions at work, they maintain positive attitudes towards work. The study offers implications of the findings that can address stereotypes and which can serve as catalyst for image rebuilding of librarians towards inclusivity in the workplace.
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The main purpose of this research is to identify the necessary competencies for the “Digital Librarian” job category advertisements. The approach of this research is qualitative and its methodology ...is content analysis. In a purposeful sampling, 596 job advertisements from 10 countries on indeed.com were selected and analyzed. The findings show that four job categories, namely IT Librarian, Digital Librarian, Metadata Librarian, and Digital Archivist, have 38% (227), 36% (213), 17% (103), and 9% (53) of the job advertisements, respectively. Moreover, the findings indicate that communication skills are most in demand in the “Digital Librarian” job category advertisements. To the author's knowledge, the present research is the first to comprehensively identify and categorize newly emerging IT-based job titles in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS).
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Online library guides are one of the bridges that librarians build to connect users to available resources and services. Since the time when library guides were conceived in the pamphlets and book ...lists of the early days, a historical brand bearing public and instructional services librarians' merit and reputation has been watermarked in their presentation. In the internet age, have technical services librarians also played a role in contributing to library guides in academic libraries to assist students' learning and faculty teaching? If so, do technical services librarians who are working as faculty tend to produce more library guides than ones as professionals? Do librarians working in six functional areas, namely, Acquisition, Cataloging &Metadata, Collection Development, Continuing & Electronic Resources, Preservation, and Technical Services (Solo) have similar contributions to library guides? What types of library guides do they tend to produce more? Any recommendations for future library guide work which technical services librarians will engage in? This research examined 233 colleges and universities and examined 296 academic libraries, attempting to find answers to these questions.
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The purpose of this study is to get an overview and explanation of the various weaknesses of Bengkulu University Library management to improve social services to users by using Ishikawa diagram ...analysis consisting of Manpower/People, Materials, Methods/Processes, Machines/Equipment, Measurement/Minutes and Market/ User. This research method uses a qualitative descriptive method using a qualitative approach. Data were collected through in-depth interview techniques, observation, and documentation studies as well as Focus Group Discussion. The results of the study found that there were still many weaknesses in the administration, processing, circulation services and information technology. This weakness is related to human resources, materials and equipment, machinery/equipment, funds, and time and market (users). The problem that becomes this weakness is the lack of policy from the leadership to place quality human resources in the Bengkulu University Library UPT and provide opportunities for librarians and librarians to take part in internships and various training/workshops related to literature and the lack of budget allocations to repair and improve the quality of human resources, materials/equipment, machines/equipment, and other facilities and infrastructure that are damaged and not in accordance with the times
The subject of this study is an embedded librarian approach to a capstone course within a College of Business Administration (CoBA) at a large California public university. Discussed are how the new ...tenure track Business and Economics Librarian approached a long standing embedded collaboration. The implementation of feedback forms provided a method to identify instructional gaps resulting in discussions informing future semesters. Continued collaborations have benefited from use of reflective practice informing adjustments for improved pedagogy and modifications to embedded approaches. Facilitation of such an embedded approach has required partnership and collaboration with faculty to realize a shared vision for research, synthesis, and application of knowledge to make a strategic diagnosis of a business problem. This study adds to the knowledge of benefits and challenges to an embedded librarian approach and implementation in a business capstone course. Discussed are plans for assessment of student perceived value of embedded librarian practices, and approaches to collecting data leading to future improvement of embedded practices.
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