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Proactive chat in research databases: Inviting new and different questions
This study analyzes over 4500 chat interactions to understand how proactivity and research context affect use of proactive chat. Quantitative and qualitative analyses show patrons ask questions that are both more complex and more likely to relate to a research need when proactively approached in research databases. The availability of proactive chat in databases results in a greater frequency and greater proportion of research related questions. Results suggest that proactive chat in databases represents an important area for expanding library reference services. (Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - February 12, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Space-choice behavior for individual study in a digital reading room
Publication date: Available online 6 February 2020Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Young Hee Min, Soyeon LeeAbstractThe present study used the notion of personal space from environmental psychology and wall-hugging from evolutionary biology to understand student seat preference in a university library's reading room. Recent years have seen an increase in requests for individual study space in academic libraries. To adequately provide such spaces, we require keen observation of human psychology and spatial behavior in the microenvironment of an individual study room. Therefore, we analyzed space-choic...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - February 6, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Factors influencing the faculty-librarian collaboration at the Vietnamese universities
This study helps the university's leaders, administrators, faculty members, and librarians find ways to boost factors in supporting the collaboration. (Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 28, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Are we represented as who we are? An assessment of library faculty online profiles within the City University of New York
Publication date: Available online 25 January 2020Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Junli DiaoAbstractAcademic librarians have been wrestling with faculty status and rank for many decades and their dual identities as professionals and faculty made their identity representations in the online profile environment designed by colleges and universities even more complicated. Misrepresentation or insufficient representation of academic librarians' identities could lead to jeopardy of their public images within colleges and universities, or even trigger suspicion that academic librarians bring an impediment...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 26, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Protecting patron privacy in the academic library during the digital age
Publication date: Available online 23 January 2020Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Kyle Valliant (Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 24, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

The Museum as an Extension of the Library: Embracing John Cotton Dana's Vision in a Modern Academic Library
Publication date: Available online 14 January 2020Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Jenifer Ishee Hoffman, David S. Nolen (Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 16, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Member structure and sharing behavior: Social network analysis of CALIS online cataloging data in China
Publication date: Available online 11 January 2020Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Jiayou Ding, Shuangshuang Yu, Wei Xu, Haining Wang, Zhuozhuo LiAbstractThe active participation of members is of great importance to the sustainable development of the information resource sharing system. This paper uses China Academic Library &Information System (CALIS) 2018 Chinese online cataloging data to build a sharing network. It employs social network analysis to uncover the reality and explain the effect of members' participation in CALIS co-construction and sharing system. It is found that it presents a long-...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 12, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Editorial Board
Publication date: January 2020Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 46, Issue 1Author(s): (Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 9, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Library and learning experiences turned mobile: A comparative study between LIS and non-LIS students
This study was set up to examine two groups of students (namely: LIS versus non-LIS students) at Peking University – their attitudes and level of activeness in adopting mobile technology in their daily life, as well as in their learning practices. Quantitative questionnaire survey was used for data collection, and a total number of 319 responses (i.e., LIS, 63 and non-LIS, 256) were collected from this study. Findings of this study reveal that no significant differences were found between the two student groups (LIS versus non-LIS) in many areas. In fact, both LIS and non-LIS student groups were using their smartphones t...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 9, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Historical development of definitions of information literacy: A literature review of selected resources
This article traces the historical progression of Information Literacy (IL) definitions from 2000 to 2015 in the published literature on first-year seminar and freshman general education IL instruction in the U.S. This period roughly corresponds to the influence of the ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (Standards) on the work of LIS professionals and scholars in IL and information literacy instruction (ILI), prior to the adoption in January 2016 of the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (Framework). Following a brief look at the background of IL in Library and Inform...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 9, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) of librarians: A bibliometric analysis of research productivity viewed through WoS
This study sought to provide a descriptive analysis of the research output pertaining to Continuous Professional Development (CPD) of librarians. CPD is crucial as it upgrades employees' skills and has the potential to increase productivity and improve customer service in libraries. Therefore, there is need for extensive research in this area. Web of Science (WoS) core collection database was used to retrieve sample data for the bibliometric analysis. A total of 165 records were retrieved. After abstract screening, 77 records specific to CPD of librarians were analysed. A statistical software package called R (Biblioshiny)...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 5, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Green and gold open access citation and interdisciplinary advantage: A bibliometric study of two science journals
Publication date: Available online 31 December 2019Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Jonathan S. Young, Patricia M. BrandesAbstractThis bibliometric study quantified the impact of different open access (OA) implementations on the number and subject diversity of citations to articles. The study compared two partial OA journals and found that green (institutional repository) OA articles received up to 106% more citations on average than gold (publisher provided) OA or non-OA articles. OA articles received up to 36% more diverse (interdisciplinary) citations than non-OA articles. This result could inform...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - January 1, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

LibQual+® as a predictor of library success: Extracting new meaning through structured equation modeling
This study aims at adopting LibQUAL+ as a measurement tool to predict library users' intention to patronize the library more in future. A theoretical model is presented to measure the relationships among the three LibQUAL+ service dimensions and the overall library user satisfaction. We estimate the effects of the three service dimensions on two indicators of students' attitudes and beliefs (Overall Satisfaction and Perceived Academic Success) and, in turn, the effects of those two variables on students' anticipated library use. We tested the research model using structural equation modeling. Our study results reveal that ...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - December 28, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

Alone with others: Understanding physical environmental needs of students within an academic library setting
Publication date: Available online 27 December 2019Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Daejin Kim, Sheila Bosch, Jae Hwa Lee (Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - December 28, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research

User preferences related to virtual reference services in an academic library
Publication date: Available online 20 December 2019Source: The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipAuthor(s): Tara MawhinneyAbstractLibrary users have a wide variety of methods at their disposal for interacting virtually with libraries. This exploratory study examines user preferences with regard to virtual reference services and factors that account for these preferences from a different vantage point than previous literature by relying on semi-structured interviews with users. Using NVivo qualitative data analysis software, I coded interview transcripts and applied grounded theory to identify preferences from among email to...
Source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship - December 21, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: research