2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2014.07.012
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Academic Library Mission Statements, Web Sites, and Communicating Purpose

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“…Ayers, 2015; Bragg, 2001; Fitzgerald, 2003; McCartan, 1983) or Catholic institutions (Weigert et al , 2018). Other researchers focus on specific academic divisions of colleges and universities, such as colleges of business (Davis et al , 2007; Palmer and Short, 2008), law schools (Butler, 2000), schools of social work (Holosko et al , 2015) or academic libraries (Colón-Aguirre, 2017; Salisbury and Griffis, 2014).…”
Section: Extant Literature On Mission Statementsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ayers, 2015; Bragg, 2001; Fitzgerald, 2003; McCartan, 1983) or Catholic institutions (Weigert et al , 2018). Other researchers focus on specific academic divisions of colleges and universities, such as colleges of business (Davis et al , 2007; Palmer and Short, 2008), law schools (Butler, 2000), schools of social work (Holosko et al , 2015) or academic libraries (Colón-Aguirre, 2017; Salisbury and Griffis, 2014).…”
Section: Extant Literature On Mission Statementsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Accordingly, library websites have been evaluated to see how they are being used to communicate messages to stakeholders. Salisbury & Griffis (2014) reviewed the presence and accessibility of library mission statements on the websites of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries and found that 84% had their mission statement accessible. Library websites have also been evaluated to detect trends and adoption of Web 2.0 technologies; Rod-Welch (2012) noted that members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) were less likely to have reference and social networking tools on their homepage than other pages of their websites while Boateng & Liu (2014) assessed library websites of the top 100 colleges from US News & World Report 2013 rankings and found that all the libraries had a social networking presence (Facebook and Twitter), with wikis, podcasts and social bookmarking/tagging as the least applied Web 2.0 tools.…”
Section: Academic Libraries' Support For Facultymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Salisbury and Griffis examined the presence and placement of mission statements on 113 ARL websites. 9 Operating under the principle that considers website content as hierarchical (e.g., the most important information is most visible), the authors documented the number of steps necessary to reach the library's mission statement. Eighty-four percent (n=95) of library websites contained a mission statement and 3.5% (n=4) of libraries contained a direct link from the homepage.…”
Section: Academic Library Mission Statementsmentioning
confidence: 99%