Factors Affecting Faculty Perceptions of Academic Libraries

Davis, Jinnie Y.; Bentley, Stella

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“…23 At Memphis State, a significantly lower number of faculty respondents serving fewer than five years, between five and ten years, and between ten and fifteen years, found the collection poor. Faculty at MSU for more than fifteen years found it significantly better (see table 6).…”

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Teaching Faculty Perceptions of Academic Librarians at Memphis State University (Research Note)

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1994

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In recent years academic librarians have shown increasing concern over how their teaching faculty colleagues perceive their role in the universityany recent studies focus on the public's perception of librarians. Academic librarians show increasing concern over how they are perceived by their faculty colleagues. Several constant factors affect the relationship between librarians and teaching faculty. They include the number of academic librarians, the strength or weakness of the collection, and the size of the institution, the faculty, the student body, and the library facility. Currently, diminishing financial resources strain this relationship even further. As early as 1%8, florence Holbrook cited Robert Leigh's observation that much of the librarian's unfavorable image can be ascribed to the fact that the nonprofessional library worker is more visible, and subsequently, patrons cannot deter-. mine who is a librarian and who is not.

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Teaching Faculty Perceptions of Academic Librarians at Memphis State University (Research Note)

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1994

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“…En 1977, Davis y Bentley (1979) realizaron una investigación a partir de una encuesta enviada a los profesores de tres instituciones de enseñanza superior localizadas en Worcester (Massachussets, USA): Clark University, el College of the Holly Cross y el Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). El objetivo del estudio era realizar, a través de una serie de variables, una exploración estadística acerca de las percepciones de los profesores hacia su biblioteca.…”

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“…Existencia de una correlación positiva entre el número de años en la institución y la percepción sobre los servicios de la biblioteca, lo que confi rma el estudio de Davis y Bentley (1979).…”

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Bibliotecarios universitarios – Profesores. ¿Caminos convergentes?

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2012

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Resumen: Los cambios que el proceso de Bolonia ha impuesto en la educación universitaria no sólo atañen a la docencia sino también a organismos incluidos dentro de la propia institución cuya aportación en el proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje es vital para cumplir los requisitos exigidos. Entre ellos, la biblioteca universitaria y sus responsables ocupan un lugar central que los obliga a replantearse sus cometidos profesionales y a adoptar una metodología de trabajo que ayude a la adquisición de las competencias y habilidades que actualmente la sociedad demanda. Un primer paso para delimitar el nuevo rol del bibliotecario universitario consiste en analizar las percepciones que los docentes tienen sobre ellos y, de esta manera, planificar la necesaria e imprescindible colaboración entre ambos colectivos.Palabras clave: Bibliotecas universitarias, relaciones bibliotecario-profesor, análisis bibliográfico. University librarians -Teaching staff. Convergent paths?Abstract

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“…As early as 1979, Davis and Bentley suggested that librarians could form meaningful relationships with disciplinary science faculty and improve perceptions of librarians by getting involved "in the teaching process" and through "attendance at departmental meetings." 11 In the subsequent decades, engineering librarians have taken that advice; the literature abounds with examples of engineering librarians impacting the engineering curriculum through partnerships with engineering faculty. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] But while engineering librarians have made remarkable gains in shaping the education of engineers by integrating information literacy into engineering curriculums, meeting with students a handful of times in a lecture setting cannot overcome the dominant culture of library non-use that exists within engineering disciplines.…”

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