Editorial • April 2019
Recasting the Narrative: Adapting and Leading the Transition to New Roles
Wendi Arant Kaspar
As I write this editorial, I am attending SXSW EDU in Austin—not your average library conference as it focuses on trends in education more broadly (higher education and K–12) and the impacts or opportunities that emerging technologies present. My primary motivation for attending was to gain a new perspective and challenge well-ingrained mental models—in truth, to get out of a rut. The sessions definitely aligned with trends we see in education. ...
Article • April 2019
Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study
Julie Arendt, Bettina Peacemaker, Hillary Miller
To examine changes in the open access landscape over time, this study partially replicated Kristin Antelman’s 2004 study of open access citation advantage. Results indicated open access articles ...
Article • April 2019
If Research Libraries and Funders Finance Open Access: Moving Beyond Subscriptions and APCs
John Willinsky, Matthew Rusk
Following the examples of SCOAP3, in which libraries fund open access, and eLife, in which funding agencies have begun to directly fund open access scholarly publishing, this study presents an analysis of how creatively combining these two models might provide a means to move toward universal open access (without APCs). This study calculates the publishing costs ...
Article • April 2019
Evolving and Enduring Patterns Surrounding Student Usage and Perceptions of Academic Library Reference Services
Jodi Jameson, Gerald Natal, John Napp
This descriptive study analyzes results from an 18-item survey which assessed students’ usage and perceptions of library reference services at a comprehensive public metropolitan university. Among 235 surveys completed between November 2016 and January 2017, the majority of respondents represented the “Generation Z” population of college students ...
Article • April 2019
Implementing the ACRL Framework: Reflections from the Field
Don Latham, Melissa Gross, Heidi Julien
In an exploratory study, interviews were conducted with fifteen librarians to learn about their perceptions of and experiences with the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Participants reported that they are implementing the Framework implicitly rather than explicitly, and their instruction has become ...
Article • April 2019
Student Constructions of Authority in the Framework Era: A Bibliometric Pilot Study Using a Faceted Taxonomy
James W. Rosenzweig, Mary Thill, Frank Lambert
Using bibliometric data and a faceted taxonomy first published by Leeder, Markey, and Yakel, this pilot study examines student constructions of authority generated from a sample of 60 research papers by students in a freshman-level English composition course. The taxonomy classifies ...