Libraries share a perception of embracing and providing for all users. However, they also share a common philosophical stance shaped by librarians' individual discursive formations and the dominant cultural hegemony that ...

One aspect of faculty effectiveness can be measured through research productivity, and publication and citation rates can serve as an indicator of that productivity. This study, the fourth in a series to examine LIS faculty ...

LIS schools have produced a limited number of Latino MLS graduates, but they have not attracted them back to pursue doctoral studies and teaching positions. Using a semistructured interview technique, eight “expert” Latino ...

Coming to a large state university, many students have not yet mastered how to effectively learn and study. Creating a freshman learning strategy website would be a step in the right direction to guide and inform students ...

Instead of the typical argument against a two-sided issue (such as whether moral ambiguity is justified), Steven Johnson changes the roles of the main separation of agreement between the evolution of popular culture and ...

Ensure that patients who incur serious trauma receive tranexamic acid (TXA) within 3 hours of the injury. Stength of recommendation: B: An analysis of a large randomized controlled trial (RCT).

In library literature, the collection of romance novels has produced a fairly vociferous debate that has not surrounded other genres. However, there is relatively little in the literature that examines current practices. ...

We surveyed 40 reference instructors at 28 North American ALA-accredited programs of library and information studies about instructional methods they used in teaching about reference sources in print and electronic formats. ...

Based on interviews with Latino undergraduate students, Latino and Native American graduate students in library and information science, and Latino librarians, this paper documents some techniques librarians unintentionally ...

Though literacy is often presented as a universal and monolithic achievement, it is in fact context-dependent, and largely dependent upon the kinds of texts available in a particular community. This paper presents an ...

Youth services instructors from five countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States) were surveyed as to the content of youth-oriented courses they had taught between 2000 and 2003. A ...

Nine years of photographic and interview data with Ndzundza Ndebele women artists and their families have informed my view of the transitions in Ndebele art and culture since the end of the apartheid era. I am writing an ...

This paper reviews the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Census 2000 data in library planning. An example of the data accessible through Census 2000, and how libraries can use that data, is given.

This article looks at learning styles of library and information science (LIS) students. Felder and Solomon’s Index of Learning Styles was administered to 108 LIS students between 2001 and 2002. These results were analyzed ...

This article investigates requirements and responsibilities for public library youth services librarians. Position advertisements were published in American Libraries in five-year increments, from 1971 to 2001. Youth ...

Public libraries are increasingly advertising for children's librarians with "technological savvy." In a field that used to be dominated by books and reading, this new focus on technology has been somewhat unexpected. This ...