Reference Services Review: Volume 48 Issue 4

Editorial

Sarah Watstein, Elizabeth Johns

Library orientation practices in special libraries

Melissa Fraser-Arnott

The library orientation session is an important marketing tool because it offers the first opportunity for library staff to connect with new clients (Craft and Ballard-Thrower…

Relating library user education to business students’ information needs and learning practices: a comparative study

Yifei Zhang, Patrick Lo, Stuart So, Dickson K.W. Chiu

The paper aims to investigate current library instruction programs to help business students make better use of library resources and improve their information. However, students’…

Belief in importance of information literacy abilities among undergraduates. Underlying factors and analysis of variance

Maria Pinto, David Caballero, Dora Sales, Alicia Segura

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the levels of belief in importance of information literacy abilities (BILAs) among an undergraduates’ sample. The aim is, on the one hand…

Development, implementation and importance of an undergraduate peer research consultant program at the University of North Dakota’s Chester Fritz Library

Karlene T. Clark, Holly M. Gabriel, Kristen Borysewicz

This paper aims to describe both the development of a peer research consultant program – using student assistants to staff the reference desk with minimal supervision while…

Library instruction and information literacy 2019

Tessa Withorn, Joanna Messer Kimmitt, Carolyn Caffrey, Anthony Andora, Cristina Springfield, Dana Ospina, Maggie Clarke, George Martinez, Amalia Castañeda, Aric Haas, Wendolyn Vermeer

This paper aims to present recently published resources on library instruction and information literacy, providing an introductory overview and a selected annotated bibliography…

OhioLINK librarians and Google Scholar over time: a longitudinal analysis of attitudes and uses

David Luftig, Joan Plungis

This study aims to focus on how librarians use and promote Google Scholar (GS) within their library instruction sessions. This study also examines how Google Scholar and the…

Developing and evaluating an asynchronous online library microcredential: a case study

Rebeca Peacock, Heather Grevatt, Ellie Dworak, Lindsay Marsh, Shelly Doty

This paper aims to describe the evolution of an academic library’s approach to first-year student information literacy instruction from face-to-face instruction to a fully…