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Make Me Think! Exploring Library User Experience through the Lens of (Critical) Information Literacy The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Alison Hicks,Karen P. Nicholson,Maura Seale
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“Still Open and Here for You”: News Media’s Framing of Canadian Public Libraries during COVID-19 The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Nicole Dalmer,Meridith Griffin
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Public Library Patrons’ Views of Their Psychosocial Needs and How the Library Can Help The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Elizabeth A. Wahler,Colleen Rortvedt,Tasha Saecker
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Patrons’ Satisfaction with Self-Service Public Libraries: A Demographic Study The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Yihong Zhang,Dickson K. W. Chiu,Tianji Jiang,Kevin K. W. Ho
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Questions of Trust: A Survey of Student Expectations and Perspectives on Library Learning Analytics The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Andrew D. Asher,Kristin A. Briney,Kyle M. L. Jones,Mariana Regalado,Michael R. Perry,Abigail Goben,Maura A. Smale,Dorothea Salo
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Faculty-Librarian Collaborations: Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses. Edited by Michael Stöpel, Livia Piotto, Xan Goodman, and Samantha Godbey. Chicago: ACRL, 2020. Pp. x+227. $65.00 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-4852-1. The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Loretta L. Spangler
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The Library Outreach Cookbook. Edited by Ryan L. Sittler and Terra J. Rogerson. Chicago, IL: ACRL, 2020. Pp. xi+230. $65.00 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-4845-3. The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Margaret Dawson
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Mapping Intersections of Politics and Information in Twenty-First-Century Cyberculture The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Maurice B. Wheeler,Samuel Muwanguzi
Current observation of social media suggests the fusion of politics and information is possibly more pronounced in recent history than ever before. The turbulent sociopolitical ecosystem, exemplified by the Black Lives Matter movement, the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2020 US presidential election, has dominated recent print and electronic media and highlighted the malleable nature of information
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On Adaptation: In Time, in Art, in Starfish, and in the Scope and Policies of the Library Quarterly The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Karen Kettnich,Paul T. Jaeger,Shannon M. Oltmann,Natalie Greene Taylor
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Exercising at the Library: Small and Rural Public Libraries in the Lives of Older Adults The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Noah Lenstra,Fatih Oguz,Christine D’Arpa,Lindsey S. Wilson
Public libraries are often regarded as having the potential to support healthy aging. Past work has shown that public librarians increasingly endeavor to offer programs and services for those aging in place. However, research about the effects that public library services and spaces have on the lives of older adults and the affordances they bring is limited. This article presents the results of a nationwide
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Digital Literacy Training in Canada, Part 2: Defining and Measuring Success The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Heidi Julien,David Gerstle,Brian Detlor,Tara La Rose,Alexander Serenko
This study explores how public libraries and other local community organizations can best deliver and evaluate the digital literacy initiatives they provide to the communities they serve; this article focuses on program evaluation. Interviews with 14 administrators of digital literacy programs revealed that administrators espouse idealistic intentions for digital literacy programs, particularly to
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Creating Award Winners in the Library: An Account of “Reprizing” The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 E. E. Lawrence,Diana Floegel
Literary awards—understood here as formal, collective, and public declarations of aesthetic excellence—have been criticized for perpetuating structural inequities that harm oppressed authors and readers. However, the library as an institution continues to participate in prizing through a system of interlocking norms and conventional practices that we term “library reprizing.” We track reprizing through
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Perceptions of the Public Library Social Worker: Challenges and Opportunities The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Mark Giesler
Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, this article explores the work of library social workers. Drawing on individual interview and focus group data from three public library sites around the country, the study assesses the self- perceptions of the social workers and the views of their colleagues about this work. Findings indicate that the call to enact a culture shift in the library to better
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The Complete Collections Assessment Manual: A Holistic Approach. By Madeline M. Kelly. Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2020. Pp. xx+250. $57.99 (ALA Member $52.19) (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-1868-5. The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Maggie Z. Saponaro
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Library Quarterly Reviews Committee: Reformation The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Jordan S. Sly
W hen I joined the editorial board of Library Quarterly (LQ) as the reviews editor, many of our early discussions centered around the opportunity that most scholarly journals, including LQ, have missed to demonstrate the scope of the literature and the level of scholarly engagement possible in reviews. I have always seen the reviews section as a critical window into the robust conversation of scholars
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Information Literacy, Work, and Knowledge Creation: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Point of View The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Anna Suorsa,Jenny S. Bossaller,John M. Budd
This theoretical article examines the conceptual premises of the research and practice of information literacy (IL) in the workplace in relation to research on knowledge creation in the field of knowledge management. As with education more generally, IL should prepare students for life after formal schooling ends. How can we make the leap, though, from IL in the educational context to successful participation
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Digital Literacy Training for Canadians, Part 1: “It’s … Just Core Public Works” The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Heidi Julien,David Gerstle,Brian Detlor,Tara La Rose,Alexander Serenko
In the first of two articles, interviews with administrators of digital literacy programs in Canadian public libraries and other community organizations revealed a sector working to address the digital divide, focusing on marginalized people. Programs narrowly defined digital literacy as skillful use of a range of basic and more advanced technologies. Funding from corporate or other external sources
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Not Just for Patrons: Book Club Participation as Professional Development for Librarians The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Laila M. Brown,Valerie Brett Shaindlin
Librarians run book clubs for patrons, but do they participate in book clubs themselves? The authors of this article met while enrolled in the library and information science (LIS) master’s program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where Shaindlin founded an extracurricular book club and Brown joined as a participant. Their experience inspired this study. The data reported derive from a 27-question
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Tales from Three Countries and One Academia: Academic Faculty in the Time of the Pandemic The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Keren Dali,Nadia Caidi,Kim M. Thompson,Jane Garner
S ince the start of the pandemic and the related major disruptions introduced to all aspects of university work and life, one invariable focus has been on students and the effects of dislocation, lockdown, illness, and isolation, not only on their academic performance and career advancement but also on their physical well-being and mental health. In departure from this focus, this editorial turns attention
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Student Wellness and Academic Libraries: Case Studies and Activities for Promoting Health and Success. By Sara Holder and Amber Lannon. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020. Pp. viii+292. $86.00 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-4864-4. The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Kristina Clement
The book consists of 14 independent chapters, written by academic librarians from the United States and Canada, that each present a case study in which student wellness is centered within the academic library. With this book, Holder and Lannon set out to provide a collection of inspiration and insight into the academic library's role in student wellness. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Library
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Libraries Reclaiming “Social Justice Warriors” during “Miss Rona’s” Global Pandemic Crises The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Bharat Mehra
T he SARS-CoV-2 strain of the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease has ushered in a global pandemic of terrifying proportions (Horton 2021). A new slang term for the coronavirus, “Miss Rona,” emphasizes its perceived sassiness and personality (Ibrahim et al. 2020). “Miss Rona” represents a form of neologism (i.e., new lexicon and vocabulary) appearing in an emerging and immersive social media reality
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Factors Influencing Library Usage among International Students and the Potential Role of Library Orientation The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Frank Kofi Essien,Zhangping Lu,Wencheng Su
This study assesses factors influencing library usage among international students, with a specific focus on the role played by library orientation. Correlational and multivariate regression analyses were used to determine the relationships between the variables and to ascertain the degree of influence on library usage. Students who were admitted earlier used library resources more than recently enrolled
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Storytime Programs as Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors? Addressing Children’s Needs through Diverse Book Selection The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Maria Cahill,Erin Ingram,Soohyung Joo
Much research suggests that exposure to diverse books that feature the lived experiences of people with marginalized or underrepresented identities influences how children perceive their own value and the significance of others who do and do not look like them. Library associations have recently called for greater attention to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion to be reflected across all aspects
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We Call to #ProtectLibraryWorkers: A Rallying Cry for Library Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Abigail L. Phillips
Schools and other businesses temporarily closed as the rates of COVID-19 increased in March and April 2020, but libraries and other information organizations did not quickly follow suit. Instead, some libraries remained opened or moved to a seemingly less interactive method of public library engagement, such as curbside service. In this editorial, I will introduce the #ProtectLibraryWorkers hashtag
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Race and School Librarianship in the Jim Crow South, 1954–1970: The Untold Story of Carrie Coleman Robinson as a Case Study The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Wayne A. Wiegand
On December 23, 1969, the National Education Association and the Alabama State Teachers Association (a black organization) filed a class action suit in federal court against the Alabama Department of Education on behalf of Carrie Coleman Robinson, Negro School Library Supervisor in Alabama’s Department of Education. The suit argued that Robinson had suffered racial discrimination in hiring and stated
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Sustaining and Enhancing the Scholarly Communications Department: A Comprehensive Guide. By Kris S. Helge, Ahmet Meti Tmava, and Amanda R. Zerangue. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2020. Pp. vii+164. $70.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-1-4408-6699-9. The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Ashley T. Hoffman
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Measuring Self-Efficacy in Public Library Storytime Providers The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Roseanne Marie Perkins,Brook E. Sawyer
Research has demonstrated that self-efficacy among teachers is positively related to quality of instruction, including literacy instruction, and children’s academic outcomes. However, self-efficacy is understudied among public library storytime providers who design and implement programs to promote children’s early literacy skills. This dual-pronged study had two aims: to develop and test the reliability
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The Treatment of Privacy in Professional Codes of Ethics: An International Survey The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Mary Francis
Privacy is a major issue within libraries; however, the general concept of privacy varies across culture, context, and era. To understand what libraries mean when they discuss privacy, this article looks at the codes of ethics from 70 international library associations to find references to privacy. Using a content analysis, several themes emerge as issues that should be considered and asserted when
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“Killing It from the Inside”: Acknowledging and Valuing Black, Indigenous, and People of Color as LIS Faculty The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Nicole A. Cooke,Mónica Colón-Aguirre
George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020, on the heels of the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. The deaths seemed to inspire a racial awakening that manifested in a spate of webinars, booklists, and pledges to be antiracist. And just like clockwork, conferences and journals began adopting antiracism as their special theme and topic. But what was different about the deaths of these young Black
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Social Innovations in Public Libraries: Types and Challenges The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Joseph Winberry,Devendra Potnis
The existing research on classifying innovations by libraries does not treat social innovation as a separate category. As a result, library practitioners interested in implementing social innovations might not find and benefit from the specific guidance for planning and managing social innovations. Using thematic analysis of the library innovations literature from 2009 to 2019, this study identifies
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Evaluating the Use of Journal Prestige as a Metric for Academic Research Faculty: A Case of Library and Information Science Faculty in the United States and Canada The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Brady Lund
This article addresses concerns about the effect of extradisciplinary researchers on recent rankings of library and information science (LIS) school researchers’ productivity by proposing a measure based on Laura Manzari’s 2013 study of LIS journal prestige. Journal ratings from Manzari’s study are assigned to the publications in each of more than 400 LIS faculty-researcher curricula vitae. A cumulative
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Editing through Six Unruly Years: An Appreciation of Ursula Gorham The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Paul T. Jaeger,Natalie Greene Taylor,Karen Kettnich
A lthough Library Quarterly has just entered its tenth decade of publication, it has had a surprisingly small number of senior editors (see Jaeger and Kettnich 2014; Jaeger 2018). This issue represents a goodbye to one of the people who has filled that role. After more than 6 years as an associate editor and then an editor of the journal, Dr. Ursula Gorham has decided to turn in her metaphorical red
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Enough Crocodile Tears! Libraries Moving beyond Performative Antiracist Politics The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Bharat Mehra
T his editorial calls for social justice actions in libraries and discusses possible ways the library and information science (LIS) professions (including practitioners, educators, administrators, and students) can move beyond solely performative antiracist politics in responding to the contemporary social unrest against racial injustices in the United States. My critical push is for authenticity,
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Sustaining Library Makerspaces: Perspectives on Participation, Expertise, and Embeddedness The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Árni Már Einarsson
As the novelty of makerspaces in libraries slowly fades, this study examines how participation, expertise, and embeddedness in the library organization and surrounding community are sustained in library makerspaces. Based on interviews with makerspace practitioners in 13 Danish libraries, practices of maintaining, scaling, replicating, and evolving library makerspaces are analyzed. The findings propose
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Change Management for Library Technologists: A LITA Guide. By Courtney McAllister. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. Pp. vii+114. $37.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-1538118696. The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Jessica Martinez
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Confusion Made Its Masterpiece: The Political Climate of Libraries (and Moving Forward) The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 John Buschman
T his editorial was hard to write. An editorial about the political climate of libraries is not a simple task in ordinary times (whatever those were or will ever be again), but it is much more difficult to tackle since the 2016 US election. There is far more complexity now, for the country and for libraries too. Now that the 2020 US election is over, it does not look any simpler. As AbrahamLincoln’s
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“How Much Is Not Enough?”: Public Library Outreach to “Disadvantaged” Communities in the War on Poverty The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Jeff Wheeler
This article explores the class politics of urban public librarianship through “outreach” efforts during the federal War on Poverty, using the Chicago Public Library as a case study. Using federal money available through the Library Services and Construction Act of 1964, major metropolitan library systems spent nearly a decade opening experimental branches in “disadvantaged” Black and Latinx neighborhoods
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Librarian Responses to Public Lending Rights in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom and Implications for the United States The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sarah Bartlett Schroeder
In 2019, the Authors Guild of the United States announced their intent to pursue federal legislation for public lending rights (PLR). PLR provide remuneration to authors, publishers, and/or illustrators for the circulation of their works in public, and sometimes school, libraries. A number of countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, instituted PLR in the 1970s and 1980s. This
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Navigating Children’s Use of Screen Media: An Analysis of Guidance Information Provided on Public Library Websites The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Eric Ely,Rebekah Willett,June Abbas,Denise E. Agosto
Library websites are potentially important resources for parents and caregivers seeking guidance information regarding children’s screen media use. This article analyzes a representative sample of 500 US public library websites to determine the discursive construction of children’s use of screen media and the role of public libraries in providing guidance information. Descriptive analysis determined
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Arsenals of Lifelong Information Literacy: Educating Users to Navigate Political and Current Events Information in World of Ever-Evolving Misinformation The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Paul T. Jaeger,Natalie Greene Taylor
The seemingly limitless amount of false information online, especially about important political and current events, has become an increasingly sizable problem for the health of democratic governance around the world, most especially in the realm of social media. Misinformation online now has significant tangible real-world impacts, with libraries being the best situated social institution to help
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Supporting Today’s Students in the Library: Strategies for Retaining and Graduating International, Transfer, First-Generation, and Re-Entry Students. Edited by Ngoc-Yen Tran and Silke Higgins. Chicago: ACRL, 2020. Pp. v+275. $68.00 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-4662-6. The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Nicole Helregel
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Place Consciousness: A Narrative Inquiry of the Advocacy Practices of Five Rural/Frontier School Librarians The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Ann Dutton Ewbank
This study investigates how place consciousness affects the advocacy practices of five rural/frontier Montana school librarians. Eighteen Montana rural/frontier school librarians were interviewed about their advocacy activities. A grounded theory analysis revealed that the recognition of community context is vital to effective school library advocacy. A secondary data analysis using narrative inquiry
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The Light, of Course, in the Library: Pandemic, Protests, and Being What the Community Most Needs The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Paul T. Jaeger,Natalie Greene Taylor,Ursula Gorham,Karen Kettnich
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Crisis-Related Research in Service to Practice: Researchers Step Up The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Mega Subramaniam,Linda W. Braun
T he previous editorial gave an excellent historical snapshot to how libraries responded to past crises such as World War II, the Cold War, the 9/11 terror attack, the Great Depression, and the Great Recession. Unfortunately, at the time we are writing this editorial, we are facing two crises—the COVID-19 pandemic that is affecting the entire world, and the systemic racism and police brutality in the
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Library Information Systems. 2nd ed. By Joseph R. Matthews and Carson Block. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2020. Pp. xxiv+321. $75.00 (paper). ISBN 978-1-4408-5194-0. The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Joseph Koivisto
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Supporting Trans People in Libraries. By Stephen G. Krueger. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2019. Pp. ix+154. $45.00 (paper). ISBN 978-1-4408-6705-7. The Library Quarterly (IF 1.239) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Laura Wimberley