A Collaborative Model for Teaching E-Resources: Northwestern University's Graduate Training Day

Lightman, Harriet; Reingold, Ruth N.

doi:10.1353/pla.2005.0008

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“…Students who participated in the third year gave positive evaluations for the program. Also in the third year, doctoral students in the social sciences were included in the program (Lightman and Reingold 2005).…”

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Working Together: Academic Librarians and Faculty Collaborating to Improve Students' Information Literacy Skills: A Literature Review 2000–2009

Mounce

2010

The Reference Librarian

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Section: Multiple Disciplinesmentioning

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Working Together: Academic Librarians and Faculty Collaborating to Improve Students' Information Literacy Skills: A Literature Review 2000–2009

Mounce

2010

The Reference Librarian

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“…A synthesis of the published research shows that studies on the information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students can be classified into three broad approaches, as follows:Information literacy approach (e.g. Hoffmann et al , 2008; Rempel and Davidson, 2008; Chu and Law, 2008; Hooks and Corbett, 2005; Lightman and Reingold, 2005). These studies either have either implications for enhancing the information literacy skills of graduate students; or are exclusively dedicated to exploring information literacy in relation to information‐seeking behaviour.Use of resources approach, which focuses on how users deal with electronic information resources in terms of searching behaviour and interactions with either the web or with a specific database.…”

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Modelling information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University

Al-Muomen

Morris

Maynard

2012

Journal of Documentation

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PurposeThis paper seeks to report the results of research conducted to model the information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University and the factors influencing that behaviour.Design/methodology/approachThe research employed a number of different approaches: a questionnaire survey to 800 graduate students studying at Kuwait University; a questionnaire survey to 180 academics at the university; semi‐structured interviews with eight academics; face‐to‐face and online interviews with 11 university library staff, four focus groups with 24 students and three focus groups with ten faculty staff.FindingsSignificant factors influencing students' information‐seeking behaviour were found to be related to library awareness, information literacy, organisational and environmental issues, source characteristics, and demographics (specifically gender and nationality).Research limitations/implicationsThe research focused on graduate students at a Kuwait University which is affiliated to the government sector, however, the information seeking model is more widely applicable, particularly to other developing countries.Originality/valueProposed is an information‐seeking model that extended two other relevant and influential models of information‐seeking behaviour. The extended model shows promise for its intended utility in identifying factors that influence the information behaviour of graduate students.

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“…Gold (2003) described the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) library's effort to unite various campus groups including the campus courseware services of the academic computing services to support the creation of an electronic text reserve service. Similarly, Lightman and Reingold (2005) reported that Northwestern University's graduate training day represented a collaboration among campus information technology professionals, librarians, administrators, and humanities faculty to address "the gap between teaching research skills and computer skills" (25).…”

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A Librarian's Internship in a Campus Computing Center: Lessons Learned and Implications for Community College Libraries

Blummer

Martin

Kenton

2009

Community & Junior College Libraries

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This research reports on the conduction of a needs assessment and the development of a training and evaluation program for a student associate position at the campus computing center. The center provides faculty support for a range of software and technologies. At the project's onset, the majority of students performed basic office duties such as greeting faculty, logging computers, as well as answering phones and referring requests to the appropriate center staff member. The project's goal aimed to enhance students' technology skills to improve the level of service they provided to faculty. The qualitative study included interviews with current student employees to gauge their digital literacy competencies as well as discussions with the students' supervisors and full-time center staff members on the types of skills necessary for upgrading the position. The second phase of the project centered on the development of a training plan and skills assessment for the student workers. The authors draw on the similarities between libraries and campus computing centers to advocate for the conduction of technology training programs for library staff. In addition, the article proposes increased collaboration between libraries and campus computing centers to enhance their collective services and programs for patrons.

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A Collaborative Model for Teaching E-Resources: Northwestern University's Graduate Training Day

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

Working Together: Academic Librarians and Faculty Collaborating to Improve Students' Information Literacy Skills: A Literature Review 2000–2009

Working Together: Academic Librarians and Faculty Collaborating to Improve Students' Information Literacy Skills: A Literature Review 2000–2009

Modelling information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University

A Librarian's Internship in a Campus Computing Center: Lessons Learned and Implications for Community College Libraries

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