“A Library Within a Library”: Organizational Design as Perceived by Academic Government Information Librarians

Trujillo, Nicole; Tallman, Kathryn

doi:10.1080/01930826.2020.1845545

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“…The majority of government documents librarians surveyed stated that general reference and instruction was a primary duty of their positions. 50…”

Section: Claudene Sproles and Anna Marie Johnsonmentioning

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The Merger of Government Documents and Reference at a Mid-Size University: A 24-Year Retrospective

Sproles,

Johnson

2024

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T he University of Louisville (UofL) Libraries consists of the main library, Ekstrom Library, along with five branches. The Libraries are a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and possess approximately 2.2 million items. UofL has served as a Federal FDL Program. As of 2023, the University of Louisville Libraries' Government Documents Department and the Reference Department have been merged for 24 years, beginning in 1999.Several writers argued that the key to successful documents reference is knowledgeable staff and brisk user instruction of documents collections. 1 Maggie Farrell stated that a "merged reference center must 'intellectually' integrate the documents collection into reference services, library instruction, and library promotion activities." 2 She believed that integrated reference service would lead to higher documents use. So did this intellectual integration occur with the department mergers at the University of Louisville and what was the outcome when government documents became the responsibility of every librarian in the merged department? This paper explores how the University of Louisville Libraries handled the documents merger, what changes have occurred since the merger, and the state of the library's government documents reference services today.

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“…The majority of government documents librarians surveyed stated that general reference and instruction was a primary duty of their positions. 50…”

Section: Claudene Sproles and Anna Marie Johnsonmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Merger of Government Documents and Reference at a Mid-Size University: A 24-Year Retrospective

Sproles,

Johnson

2024

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“…This "fear or intimidation" of government information is due to its organization by agency, multiplicity of formats, perceived specialization and difficulty, and more. 3 This leads both subject specialists and general librarians with a "lack of confidence" surrounding utilizing these resources when teaching information literacy classes. 4 According to a questionnaire done by Rogers, this lack of confidence surrounding the teaching of government information during IL instruction extended across the board of librarians surveyed with all librarians, despite their experience levels, indicating that they "would benefit from additional training in or experience with government information."…”

Section: A Review Of the Literature: Government Information Within The Classroommentioning

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More Than a Domain: An Approach to Embedding Government Information Within the Instruction Landscape Using Active and Passive Collaboration

Simms¹,

Johnson²

2021

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While the state of government information librarianship continues to evolve alongside the libraries in which those librarians work, there remains a consistent lack of full integration of government information into the instruction landscape. The reasons for this have been covered within the literature as well as suggestions on how to overcome those barriers. Even with this literature, a gap in implementation remains. This article highlights the collaborative partnership between a government information librarian and student success librarian that attempts to bridge the gap between scholarship and practice in the hopes of creating a more robust government information presence in the academic instruction landscape at their university both in the classroom and beyond.

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“…A huge body of literature has been asserted that e-libraries are providing information and knowledge to the patron in the globe 27,[31][32][33][34] . Similarly, the stud findings show that e-libraries provide online information through digital resources including audio, video, e-books, e-journals, reports, and CD/DVD 1,[35][36][37] .…”

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“…Similarly, Pashootanizadeh and Rafie 47 highlight the views of users and public library directors through social media. Moreover, several researchers assert the significance of online libraries through different lens including use of web based information resources in university library and public library collection 48 , libraries in distance education in Nigeria 25 , Internet in public libraries of South Africa 49 , technology in libraries 50 , reconceptualization system in terms of digital library 51 , digital reference services 52 , access service in academic library 53 , data privacy policy in public library 54 , library services and data insecurity 55 , services for digital collections 56 , library resources and research support 15,16 , copyrights in university library 57 , information libraries 31 , Internet resources in Russia 58 , grey literature in Belgium library 59 , e-learning library 60 , e-books in library 61 , and online library 2 .…”

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Steady ship: Digital, online, and e-libraries (1971–2020)

Ali

Shoaib

Syed

2021

Journal of Information Science

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This paper attempts to examine the e-libraries, digital libraries, electronic libraries, and online libraries employing bibliometric study techniques from 1971 to 2020. It focuses to consolidate the published documents on the library indexed in Web of Science. It has been observed that we found 4266 published documents employing bibliometric analysis. The study findings show that digital libraries are the top topic, proceeding paper is the top type of document, and most are published in the English language. Similarly, the year 2006 to 2010 has the highest number of published documents, top author Fox EA, Dept. Comp Sci top organisation, United States top country, and digital libraries as a top keyword has been found. Further, the name of Liu et al. has been at the top of the author’s list. Moreover, the results are presented in tables and figures to show the trend of data.

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“A Library Within a Library”: Organizational Design as Perceived by Academic Government Information Librarians

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

The Merger of Government Documents and Reference at a Mid-Size University: A 24-Year Retrospective

The Merger of Government Documents and Reference at a Mid-Size University: A 24-Year Retrospective

More Than a Domain: An Approach to Embedding Government Information Within the Instruction Landscape Using Active and Passive Collaboration

Steady ship: Digital, online, and e-libraries (1971–2020)

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