Students, Librarians, and Subject Guides: Improving a Poor Rate of Return

Reeb, Brenda; Gibbons, Susan

doi:10.1353/pla.2004.0020

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“…One finding challenges the generally accepted view that students prefer course-specific guides over general subject guides (Reeb and Gibbons, 2004;Barr, 2010;Leighton & May, 2013). The researchers believe that generic subject guides may be as highly used as customized course guides if they can easily be found in LMS course pages.…”

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Embedded Library Guides in Learning Management Systems Help Students Get Started on Research Assignments

Daniel

2016

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the terms of the Creative Commons-AttributionNoncommercial-Share Alike License 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. AbstractObjective -To determine whether library guides embedded in learning management systems (LMS) get used by students, and to identify best practices for the creation and promotion of these guides by librarians.

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Embedded Library Guides in Learning Management Systems Help Students Get Started on Research Assignments

Daniel

2016

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“…No obstante, también se han encontrado puntos de mejora de las guías temáticas y numerosos autores abogan por explotar al máximo las posibilidades tecnológicas disponibles, en especial la Web 2.0 (VILENO, 2007;WAKEHAM et al, 2012;MORRIS;DEL BOSQUE, 2010), por tener más en cuenta las opiniones y el feedback de los usuarios (VILENO, 2007;JACKSON;PELLACK, 2004) y por intentar, en la medida de lo posible, personalizar este tipo de herramientas para ajustarlas mejor a las necesidades de los distintos tipos de usuarios (OUELLETTE, 2011;REEB;GIBBONS, 2004).…”

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El papel de las bibliotecas en el acceso a recursos web de calidad

Fernández-Ramos

2014

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Internet ha supuesto una drástica transformación en las formas de comunicación y de acceso a la información. La ingente cantidad de información disponible en la web y el hecho de que esta no pase por ningún filtro suponen un problema a la hora de localizar información de calidad. Las deficiencias de los buscadores y la falta de competencia informacional dificultan un acceso eficaz a los recursos valiosos existentes en la web. En este trabajo se describe el papel que la biblioteca juega en el acceso a la información de calidad en internet a través de las principales actuaciones que pueden llevar a cabo: la formación de usuarios en competencias informacionales relacionadas con la búsqueda y evaluación de información y el desarrollo de herramientas y servicios que permitan el acceso a recursos de calidad disponibles en internet, como son las guías temáticas, los directorios temáticos o la inclusión de estos recursos en el catálogo.

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“…These web 2.0 tools play a highly important role for every library which is connected to a University nowadays and they are referred as LibGuide. Reeb & Gibbons (2004) conducted a study to see how well students relate to LibGuide. They discuss that LibGuides can help librarians to introduce students to library materials and assist them in their search for information.…”

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“…The result proved that there was a clear missing relationship here as well. Ken Klippel, a web-coordinator at Australia's University of New South Wales and Reeb & Gibbons (2004) showed that 92.5% of the subject guides received less then 300 hits during a month. This research was conducted in a University which had over 40.000 students and 160 subject guides.…”

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Sustainability of a Web 2.0 application from the perspective of Actor Network Theory: The case of LibGuide

Koczkas¹,

Arasteh²

2012

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PrefaceWriting this thesis has been more than just a writing process. We have shared all types of feelings through this journey that includes sleepless nights, doubts in our own work and capabilities, frustration and happiness. But in the end we can both conclude that it has led to an extension of our knowledge and experience when it comes to the field of Information Systems. We would like to take the opportunity to thank a number of people through this challenging act. Håkan Sterner our supervisor:An inspiring and helping hand throughout this entire process. Thank you for your constant support and believing us. All involved respondents:Thank you all for your participation in this research, without you wouldn't this be possible Professor Geoffrey C. BowkerThank you sir for taking your time and reading this thesis, sending us some valuable comments, especially when it came to the question about the abductive reasoning. Professor Anita MirijamdotterWe are grateful for the guidance and the constructive feedback we received after the presentation which helped us to improve to make this even better, thank you so much. Professor Christina MörtbergThank you for all the guidance and feedback, this helped us in so many ways.. Our beloved families and friends:For the constant support, love and motivation. Without you we wouldn't have the energy it took in order to write this thesis. 3 ABSTRACT Title:Sustainability of a web 2.0 application from the perspective of This thesis aims to focus on relational controversy about the causes behind the inconsistency in number of students who use a Web 2.0 application named "LibGuide" inside the Linnaeus University and the attempts of program coordinator to develop certain strategies to perform a better use of it in a particular department of Healthcare. The nature of the problem will be discussed, suggesting that how the these strategies maintained a high significant of use in that department. The research foregoes, as it uses a process of translation which are the moments of struggles by a program coordinator to impose itself by its role to the definition of the situation. The research suggests a network within which the series of processes and interrelation of the sociotechnical role of each member is drawn and allocated.

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Students, Librarians, and Subject Guides: Improving a Poor Rate of Return

Cited by 93 publications

References 5 publications

Embedded Library Guides in Learning Management Systems Help Students Get Started on Research Assignments

Embedded Library Guides in Learning Management Systems Help Students Get Started on Research Assignments

El papel de las bibliotecas en el acceso a recursos web de calidad

Sustainability of a Web 2.0 application from the perspective of Actor Network Theory: The case of LibGuide

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