Objective – The primary objective of this study was to gather quantitative information on the need, development, acquisition, and application of pedagogical knowledge by academic librarians with teaching responsibilities.

Design – Online survey questionnaire.

Setting – Higher-education…

Objective – To determine the information seeking behaviours of traditional medical practitioners who treat sickle cell anemia patients.

Design – Qualitative, interviewer-administered, structured questionnaire.

Setting – City and surrounding rural area of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Subjects –…

Objective – To examine provider pessimism by comparing user and provider perception of the same instant messaging reference transaction.

Design – Instant messaging users and providers completed post-reference transaction surveys which were analyzed using the pair perception comparison…

Objective – To observe and compare the strategies that undergraduate science students use to perform information retrieval tasks in e-books and in print books.

Design – Qualitative analysis, employing a “prompted think-aloud” methodology and thematic analysis.

Setting –…

Abstract

Objectives – The main objectives of this study were the following:
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to analyze the career path and career movement of librarians in Korea
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to identify and compare factors influencing the career movement path of chief librarians…

Objective – To evaluate the efficacy of an e-health literacy educational intervention aimed at older adults.

Design – Pre and post intervention questionnaires administered in an experimental study.

Setting – Two public library branches in Maryland.

Subjects…

Objective – To identify and examine the factors of library publishing services that facilitate scholarly communication.

Design – Analysis of library publishing service programs.

Setting – North American research libraries.

Subjects – Eight research libraries selected from…

Objective – The objective of this study was to explore and understand how academic librarians use evidence in their professional decision making. The researcher aimed to gain insights on the relevance of the current EBLIP model to practice, and to…

Objective – The aim of this paper is to evaluate teaching effectiveness in one-shot information literacy (IL) instruction sessions. The authors used multiple methods, including plus/delta forms, peer evaluations, and instructor feedback surveys, in an effort to improve student learning,…

Objective – To investigate doctoral students' knowledge of and attitudes toward open access models of scholarly communication and institutional repositories, and to examine their willingness to comply with a mandatory institutional repository (IR) submission policy.

Design – Mixed method,…