Finding Religion: An Analysis of Theology LibGuides

Dyk, Gerrit van

doi:10.31046/tl.v8i2.384

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“…Studies that analyzed guide content used a variety of approaches. Some studies attempted to be as comprehensive as possible in examining what resources guides include (van Dyk, 2015; Osorio, 2014). Others devised survey instruments aimed at capturing whether a guide addressed particular categories or questions of interest (Furay, 2018; Insua, 2018; Pendell and Armstrong, 2014; Suiter and Moulaison, 2015).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sampling techniques in guide analyses are similarly diverse. Studies exclusively focused on guide content often first search the LibGuides content management platform for relevant guides and then select a random or structured sample from the search results (van Dyk, 2015; Osorio, 2014). Studies interested in both assessing the prevalence of guides on a specific topic and reviewing guide content often define their sample in relation to an existing association or consortium of academic libraries.…”

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Desperately seeking funding: library guides to student funding

Lundy

Curran

2020

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Purpose This study aims to examine online research guides as a measure of academic library support for students seeking educational funding opportunities. Design/methodology/approach The library websites of 38 members of a regional academic library consortium were examined for guides that address funding for educational purposes. The guide content was manually reviewed. Information regarding institutional characteristics was gathered from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Findings Despite relatively few reports of educational funding support in the library literature, online guides exist at 42% of studied institutions. However, few guides are comprehensive and many lack features that promote discoverability. Instructional content – guidance, advice or information beyond resource descriptions – and in-person funding support rarely appear in the studied guides, presenting opportunities for academic libraries to contribute to student retention and success. Practical implications This paper provides information on and examples of online guides to educational funding useful to academic libraries looking to support students facing affordability concerns. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature on non-disciplinary uses of online research guides and is the first to survey academic library guides on educational funding opportunities.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Desperately seeking funding: library guides to student funding

Lundy

Curran

2020

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“…These overviews sketch a picture of the typical LibGuide and feature statistics on which databases, ebooks, subject headings, journals, websites and instructional videos a student in these disciplines might find in a subject LibGuide. Stankus and Parker (2012) examined nursing LibGuides, van Dyk (2015) analyzed theology LibGuides and Dougherty (2013a, 2013b) examined geology and geography (2013) LibGuides. Dougherty also investigated the subtopics that might be found in a geology guide.…”

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confidence: 99%

Performance review: online research guides for theater students

Furay

2018

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Purpose This study aims to assess current academic library services to theater students through an examination of online research guides. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a representative sample of 100 universities that offer theater degrees; the library website at each of these institutions is examined for the existence of a theater research guide. Each research guide was analyzed in depth. Findings The vast majority of the universities in the sample did create research guides for theater students, though the contents of these guides varied greatly. The study highlights findings including popular databases and journals for theater students, as well as media resources and common subjects for subsections or course guides. Research limitations/implications This study only examined a sample of 100 institutions; many theater research guides were not examined for this study. Additionally, analysis of online content is a time-specific endeavor: a guide may look significantly different from one month to the next, though the recommendations in this article might prove useful even if the sites at these institutions have since been updated. Practical implications Through an examination of a great number of guides, a few practical suggestions emerge for librarians looking to create theater research guides, such as highlighting playscripts and other print materials and including hyperlocal information (such as university production history). Originality/value Though several studies have been performed on research guides in various disciplines, this article is the first on those to theater students.

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“…Content analysis, a research technique used to make "replicable and valid inferences from texts…to the contexts of their use" (p. 24), 25 has been used to analyze research guides for content and organization in engineering 26,27 and other disciplines. [28][29][30][31][32][33] Such studies can help identify what sources and tools librarians are currently recommending to patrons and how their research guides are organized.…”

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Chemical Pricing Information for Student Design Projects and Cost Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities

Hubbard

2018 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Chemical prices are an important component of cost engineering for chemical engineering students and researchers, as well as other disciplines that might be interested in chemical processes (e.g., agricultural engineering, business, economics, and industrial engineering). Students in chemical engineering senior design (or capstone) courses are especially in need of chemical pricing to demonstrate the economic feasibility of their process designs. Over the last 12 years, bulk chemical prices have become increasingly difficult to locate as information providers publishing such information have consolidated and gradually removed that content from their publications. This paper first summarizes the history of published chemical prices in the literature and then reports on a quantitative content analysis of library research guides containing chemical pricing sources at institutions with ABET-accredited chemical engineering programs. Despite the aforementioned challenges, there are some opportunities for engineering librarians. One such opportunity involves locating citations for chemical prices from a variety of sources and placing them into a searchable database that could be a community-based solution.History Some of the earliest surviving published prices of goods in the Western world emerged during the late sixteenth century in major trading cities like Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Venice, and then spread throughout Europe, and ultimately to the United States via England. [1][2][3] These publications, referred to as price-currents, listed market prices for various goods that included many agricultural products and a limited number of chemicals, such as potash, saltpeter, sulfur, etc. 3,4 One of the first price-currents published in colonial America was the South Carolina Price-Current and it included chemicals such as indigo, turpentine, and various animal/plant oils. 1,5 Price-currents continued into the early 1800s and then developed into, or

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Finding Religion: An Analysis of Theology LibGuides

Cited by 9 publications

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Desperately seeking funding: library guides to student funding

Desperately seeking funding: library guides to student funding

Performance review: online research guides for theater students

Chemical Pricing Information for Student Design Projects and Cost Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities

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