Downloads or Outcomes?: Measuring and Communicating the Contributions of Library Resources to Faculty and Student Success

Price, Amanda N.; Fleming-May, Rachel A.

doi:10.1080/0361526x.2011.591040

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“…Bean (2003) described places for socializing, including library study areas, as being an element common to programs designed to encourage student persistence, and Eng and Stadler (2015, p. 60) indicated that “the library can serve as a bridge between social and academic engagement to produce [a] learning outcome”. Price and Fleming-May (2011) concurred, as they observe that the library could be a third place that fosters social and academic interaction due to its central campus location and extended hours.…”

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confidence: 85%

The academic library’s role in student retention: a review of the literature

Oliveira

2017

Library Review

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Purpose This paper aims is to present and discuss the personal and educational underpinnings of undergraduate and graduate students’ persistence decision, identify initiatives and strategies academic libraries are adopting which correlates positively with student retention, identify and discuss the main causes leading to attrition and present James White Library’s experience contributing to student retention efforts at Andrews University. Design/methodology/approach A bibliographic search using databases in the areas of education and library and information science was conducted to review the literature on the relationship between library use and services and university students’ retention. Findings The main overall factors which contribute to student retention are: user-centered philosophy; involvement and engagement; student identification and sense of belonging; academic success and achievement; and point grade average (GPA) in the context of libraries, the main factors which contribute (or correlate) to student retention are: library instruction; spaces which provide social interaction and learning; and general materials’ use. Research limitations/implications This study does not provide results of actual in-person investigations conducted at libraries, rather, identifies presents, and discusses reported studies in the Education and Library & Information Science (LIS) literature. Practical implications A summary and structured presentation of the main issues concerning the library’s role in university student’s retention identifies the main personal, including non-academic and academic problems leading to student’s attrition, as well successful efforts and strategies which libraries are adopting to curtail this pressing problem within academic institutions. The paper can be used as general guidelines which academic library managers and library service providers can adopt to contribute to the university’s overall efforts to increase its graduation rate. Social implications Higher education presupposes large expenditures from providers (Universities) and students. Millions of dollars are spent by both parties each year without yielding the expected results, considering that attrition levels can reach more than 40 per cent at any given university during an academic year in the USA. Also, purposeful or intentional expensive recruitment efforts and programs can be greatly curtailed by high attrition rates. However, these can be greatly diminished by successful retention strategies. Also, society is greatly benefited with the talents, skills, and services rendered by a professional with a higher education degree. Originality value This study organizes and systematizes the many study results, ideas, and considerations concerning academic libraries and student retention which are dispersed in the literature of the field, allowing the reader and practitioner to better understand the theoretical and practical issues concerning this subject. It provides the reader with practical experiences and data which w...

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The academic library’s role in student retention: a review of the literature

Oliveira

2017

Library Review

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“…12 The most effective tactic in any library is to start by listening to users so we ask the right questions. In an academic library, this means listening to both faculty and students to hear their ideas about what is working well and what could work better.…”

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Beginning the Conversation: Discussing Scholarly Communication

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2013

The Serials Librarian

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Since the earliest scholarly journals began, journal literature answered a need to communicate scholarly and scientific findings and preserve a validated scholarly record of accomplishments and areas for further research. Scholars are profoundly interested in the transformation of scholarship and the implications for their disciplines. Librarian expertise within the digital serials realm and partnering with faculty to prioritize learning in the library will imaginatively create opportunities for learning with library resources. Discussing scholarly communication changes and traditions provides excellent common ground for serials librarians to begin conversations with disciplinary faculty.If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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“…These measures are called usage-based metrics and provide one way of evaluating how effective the metadata for a resource is in reaching a library repository's audience. Downloads and visits are outcome-based assessment-more concrete ways for libraries and their services to demonstrate value or success (Price & May 2011). According to Neylon and Wu (2009), A simple way of measuring interest in a specific paper might be via usage and download statistics; for example, how many times a paper has been viewed or downloaded, how many unique users have shown an interest, or how long they lingered.…”

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Relationships between metadata application and downloads in an institutional repository of an American law school

White¹,

Chen²,

Liu³

2018

LIBRES

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Background. The Duke Law Scholarship Repository is a successful digital repository of an American law school, with over 1 million downloads per year. A series of studies were conducted to understand the relationship between metadata work and downloads. Objective. The paper reports an analysis of the relationships between certain metadata elements and repository downloads. Methods. Quantitative statistical methods, specifically correlation, t-test and multiple regression analysis, were used. Results. Statistically significant relationships were found between download frequency and factors relating to abstract, co-authors, page count and discipline. Negative statistically significant relationships were found between download frequency and free text keywords, as well as controlled vocabulary subject terms. Contributions. This study is an example of how in-use repository system administrators can demonstrate the impact of metadata work for institutional scholarly outreach. Also, this study adds another dimension to the keyword and searching/download literature that has been building since the 1970s.

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Downloads or Outcomes?: Measuring and Communicating the Contributions of Library Resources to Faculty and Student Success

Cited by 16 publications

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The academic library’s role in student retention: a review of the literature

The academic library’s role in student retention: a review of the literature

Beginning the Conversation: Discussing Scholarly Communication

Relationships between metadata application and downloads in an institutional repository of an American law school

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