First-Year International Undergraduate Students and Libraries

Flierl, Michael A.; Howard, Heather; Zakharov, Wei; Zwicky, David; Weiner, Sharon A.

doi:10.1353/pla.2018.0032

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“…This preference for consuming and processing information appears to align with the comments about watching online videos and in-the-field learning, in a search for more "authentic" learning experience (Herrington, 2006;Reeves, Herrington, & Oliver, 2002). Flierl et al (2018) observed a similar preference with respect to person-to-person interaction, as did Sheppard and Vibert (2016) with respect to video content. While these focus groups were not able to dig too deeply into this phenomena, it is something that may warrant further exploration in future studies.…”

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Student Information Use and Decision-Making in Innovation Competitions and the Impact of Librarian Interventions

Howard

Zwicky

2019

The Reference Librarian

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At a large Midwestern university, librarians work closely with an annual undergraduate agricultural innovation competition to guide students through the process of conducting market research and assessing patentability. In 2018, the authors conducted an exploratory study using focus groups of students who had participated in that year's competition in order to learn how students find and use information in a competition setting, to evaluate the impact of library support on the students' success, and inform further assessment activities. Results showed that students used information from the library and from their own research, notably seeking out firsthand expertise, to practice evidence-based decision-making.

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Student Information Use and Decision-Making in Innovation Competitions and the Impact of Librarian Interventions

Howard

Zwicky

2019

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“…2016); medical coding (Lucyk, Tang, and Quan 2017); and public libraries (Most 2011). Recent studies by Flierl et al (2018) and Yevelson-Shorsher and Bronstein (2018) use thematic analysis to explore international students' familiarity with and perceptions of academic libraries, and librarian, faculty, and student perceptions of information literacy, respectively. Of particular relevance is Bossaller, Burns, and VanScoy's (2017) secondary thematic analysis of librarians' experiences of time while providing reference and information service.…”

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confidence: 99%

Time, New Public Management, and Canadian Academic Librarians’ Scholarship and Service

Nicholson

2019

Can. J. Acad. Lib.

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Time is a critical factor in the success of librarians’ scholarship. Shared perceptions of organizational time enable, regulate, and constrain performance. Under the values and practices of New Public Management (NPM), intended to increase accountability and efficiency in the public sector, time in the university has become accelerated, intensifed, fragmented, and commodifed. Feminist and anti-colonial scholars remind us of the differentiated temporal impacts of NPM on women and other minorities in higher education, yet to date, its impact on the feminized profession of librarianship has not been examined. Using data from semi-structured interviews with 24 librarians working in Canadian U15 public research-intensive universities, the present article seeks to address this gap by exploring the impact of neoliberal timescapes on librarians’ scholarship and professional-service activities. Findings indicate that time is an important mechanism through which neoliberal governmentality is enacted. Being a “successful” researcher is largely dependent on intrinsic motivation and self-regulation. Trying to work with, rather than against, neoliberal timescapes facilitates research. Results also suggest that conficting organizational timescapes may exist between library directors and librarians, and that, as researchers, Canadian academic librarians are being held accountable to ambiguous performance standards and impracticable timescapes.

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“…Namun demikian, ketersediaan sumber informasi perpustakaan perguruan tinggi belum menjamin akan digunakan oleh dosen atau mahasiswa. Pengetahuan akan ketersediaan sumber informasi serta kemampuan mengakses, dan menggunakan sumber tersebut merupakan salah satu faktor pemanfaatan sumber informasi bagi mahasiswa, terutama strata 1 (Flierl, Howard, Howard, Zwicky, & Weiner, 2018). Kajian tentang kemampuan mahasiswa dalam mengakses dan menggunakan informasi sudah banyak dilakukan.…”

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Heriyanto¹

2020

J. Kaji. Inf. Perpust.

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A wide range of information sources is available to students in various forms providing opportunities for students to utilize these information sources for study purposes. However, studies on the extent to which students know and use it to complete lecture assignments are still rare. This study aimed to identify undergraduate students' experience at one faculty in a university in Semarang when exploring various kinds of information resources to do their assignments. This qualitative study used interviews as the only technique in obtaining data. By employing purposive sampling method, eleven undergraduate students who met the specific criteria participated in this study. All the participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. The data were then analyzed by using thematic analysis, to uncover the undergraduate students’ information sources preference and how they used them. The findings revealed students’ selections of information sources for conducting their information retrieval process. They also identified the complexity of student information retrieval activities that were heavily affected by external factors such as the type of assignment, and internal from the students themselves, for example, knowledge of available information sources and motivation to use them. The findings provided evidence to inform the development of library services and information literacy responses to enhance undergraduate students learning.

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First-Year International Undergraduate Students and Libraries

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Student Information Use and Decision-Making in Innovation Competitions and the Impact of Librarian Interventions

Student Information Use and Decision-Making in Innovation Competitions and the Impact of Librarian Interventions

Time, New Public Management, and Canadian Academic Librarians’ Scholarship and Service

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