The Self as Subject: Autoethnographic Research into Identity, Culture, and Academic Librarianship. Edited by Anne-Marie Deitering, Robert Schroeder, and Richard Stoddart. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017. Pp. xiii+361. $70.00 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-8892-3.

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-71
Author(s):  
Ryan T. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Academic Librarianship

scholarly journals An Analysis of Articles by College Librarians

1998 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 421-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickey Zemon ◽  
Alice Harrison Bahr
Keyword(s):  
Professional Growth ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Academic Librarianship

College librarians recognize research and publication as important components of professional growth and communication. Yet, compared to their counterparts in universities, they author fewer articles in the professional literature. This paper examines articles published by college librarians in College & Research Libraries and Journal of Academic Librarianship from 1986 to 1996 to provide a profile of college librarian authors and to identify factors that contributed to their success in publishing.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Research Areas of the Articles Published in C&RL and JAL between 1990 and 1999

2000 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 536-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue-Ming Bao
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Major Portion ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
College Libraries

A total of 682 refereed articles from College & Research Libraries (C&RL) and Journal of Academic Librarianship (JAL) (376 and 306 articles, respectively) between 1990 and 1999 were analyzed with respect to the Research Agenda developed by the ACRL College Libraries Section (ACRL-CLS). The analysis finds that articles on collections, services, staffing, and the Internet have taken up the major portion of the peer-reviewed sections of C&RL and JAL. It also reveals that a wide variety of researchable questions remain to be studied and reported. This presents a challenge and an opportunity for academic librarians who wish to engage in research.

scholarly journals A List of Best Practices That May Improve the Use of Telephone Interviews During the Recruitment Process

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
David Herron ◽  
Lotta Haglund
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Search Committee ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
In The Beginning

A Review of: Engel, Debra, and Sarah Robbins. "Telephone Interviewing Practices within Academic Libraries." Journal of Academic Librarianship 35.2 (2009): 143-51. Objective – To investigate the use of telephone interviews in academic libraries and identify best practices when conducting telephone interviews. Design – Survey and open-ended questions. Setting – Academic libraries in the United States. Subjects – Academic institutional members of the Association of Research Libraries. Methods – A fifteen-item survey (Appendix A, 150) concerning telephone interviewing practice was sent to 112 institutional members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The survey contained multiple choice-type questions as well as open-ended questions. Main Results – The response rate was 66% (74 of 112 research libraries; 56 public institutions and 17 private). Of the respondents, 90% used telephone interviews to screen applicants for professional positions (ranging from occasionally to always) and only 10% never used telephone interviews. The main reason for holding telephone interviews was to “screen candidates in order to narrow the pool of applicants who will be invited for in-person interviews” (146). Other reasons given included minimizing expenses involved in interviewing out-of-town candidates (39% respondents), shortening the length of time to complete the search process (27%) and meeting library or campus hiring requirements (3%). On average, the majority of libraries (51%) hired between 2-4 professional positions each year. For each open professional position, the number of candidates telephone-interviewed varied from less than 3 to 9 depending on library and position. Interviews typically lasted between 16 and 45 minutes (77% respondents) with all the search committee members (staff involved in the recruitment process) being present (75%) and taking turns to ask questions to the candidates (90%). Questions were most often the same for all candidates applying for a particular position (91%) and candidates were nearly always allowed in return to ask questions of the committee (96%). In answer to the open-ended question, “In your opinion, what best creates a collegial and effective environment for conducting telephone interviews?”, the dominating responses included: all search committee members being present and participating actively, using a script and taking notes, introducing all interview participants, and giving candidates adequate notification and documentation. The majority of respondents “would not change anything about their institution’s current (telephone interview) practice” (147). Some thought that “training and/or a need for consistency in procedure for all interviews conducted” (147) would be relevant changes in practice. The results of the survey were compared to the findings in the library, personnel management and human resources literature. Conclusion – From the survey and responses to open-ended questions, a number of best practices when conducting telephone interviews emerged (148–150): 1. Properly train the search committee (e.g., in knowing about the position, organization and protocols for conducting interviews properly) 2. Involve the search committee throughout the recruitment process 3. Help the interviewee be prepared (e.g., by sending institutional information packages) 4. Maintain and use suitable technology (e.g., by choosing suitable conferencing facilities with the interviewee situation in mind) 5. Put the candidate at ease (e.g., by explaining who will be present, how long the interview will last and how many questions there will be) 6. Provide introductions (e.g., both in the beginning of the interview and even before individual questions) 7. Listen and take notes during the interview 8. Discuss the interviews immediately afterwards Engel and Robbins suggest that further research could include looking into job candidate and search committee experiences of the telephone interviewing procedure.

scholarly journals Academic Librarians and Research: A Study of Canadian Library Administrator Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 560-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selinda Adelle Berg ◽  
Heidi LM Jacobs ◽  
Dayna Cornwall
Keyword(s):  
Future Climate ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Academic Librarianship

Within the literature exploring the role of research in academic librarianship, very little attention has been paid to the perspectives of upper library administrators. This perspective is critical because library administrators play a key role in hiring, evaluating, supporting, promoting, and tenuring professional librarians. As a way of bringing the administrative perspective to these discussions, our study examines how library administrators within the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) view the role of research in their own libraries and within academic librarianship, as well as how they perceive the current and future climate for librarians’ research. Our study reveals key areas in need of further research and identifies several issues that librarians and upper administrators would benefit from exploring together to advance discussions about research.

scholarly journals Library School Programs and the Successful Training of Academic Librarians to Meet Promotion and Tenure Requirements in the Academy

2010 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rickey D. Best ◽  
Jason Kneip
Keyword(s):  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Library School

This article relates an investigation of tenure and promotion practices for librarians at academic institutions. The study employed two surveys. The first survey determined the level of impact on promotion and tenure by recent publication in two top-tier peer-reviewed journals: College & Research Libraries and Journal of Academic Librarianship. The second survey was developed and distributed to authors of articles in the two journals requesting information about the nature of their library positions. Although more research is warranted, it appears that librarians at academic institutions tend to publish more frequently in top-tier journals, enhancing our professional literature.

Specialties and strategies in academic libraries: a cluster analysis approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masanori Koizumi ◽  
Michael Majewski Widdersheim
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
Job Titles ◽  
Staffing Patterns

Purpose Professional work is becoming more specialized and diffused, with new specialties emerging on the boundaries of established professions. The purpose of this paper is to examine current specialties in academic librarianship in order to infer what strategies they employ. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a sample of 60 US research libraries to investigate current specialties in academic librarianship, in order to analyze and classify the specialties into groups based on similarities, and categorize academic libraries based on the staffing patterns identified, and illustrate the challenges and strategies of each classification. The sample was selected from the membership of the Association of Research Libraries, and designed to include both large and medium-sized research libraries. 888 different job titles were identified for 2,074 specialist positions extracted from staff directories containing information on 11,688 librarians. The positions were analyzed and classified using the framework provided by Cox and Corrall (2013), and the specialty composition of the libraries was investigated with Ward’s (1963) hierarchical method of cluster analysis, using 28 variables. Findings The cluster analysis identified subspecialties within the groups and revealed seven distinct staffing strategies of the libraries. Originality/value Describing specialties and strategies in academic libraries by cluster analysis based on huge data is a significantly novel and effective approach for capturing the concept of specialization.

Trends and issues in Jamaican academic libraries 2010-2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 117 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 721-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasekea Harris
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Lesson Drawing ◽  
American Academic

Purpose Observing trends and issues plays a key role in the success of any industry. Since 2010, the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) has been publishing papers on top trends and issues in academic libraries in the USA, allowing for reflection, tracking, lesson drawing, adaptation, planning and direction. Such a publication is absent in the Jamaican library industry. This paper aims to examine the extent to which these trends and issues, as reported by ACRL, are evident in Jamaican academic librarianship. Design/methodology/approach Through document and thematic analysis of publications written on Jamaican academic librarianship 2010-2016, this paper highlights trends and issues in Jamaican academic librarianship. Findings There are similarities in the trends and issues in Jamaican academic librarianship and American academic librarianship; the similarities sometimes vary, however, in focus. Additionally, there are trends and issues in Jamaican academic librarianship not mentioned in the literature reviewed on American academic librarianship and vice versa. Research limitations/implications A survey of the chief librarians’ perceptions regarding the trends and issues would be a useful follow-up. Practical implications This paper allows for reflection, comparison, benchmarking, lesson-drawing, planning and direction for academic libraries and other types of libraries in Jamaica and the rest of the developing world. Social implications The gaps highlighted, particularly those with the most potential, can be discussed with the objective of exploring how these can be translated into new or revised services for the community of users. Originality/value This paper is of value, as there is no publication with an explicit focus on trends and issues in Jamaican academic libraries; this paper will be the first publication on trends and issues in Jamaican academic librarianship. In this regard, this paper makes an important contribution to the literature on academic librarianship generally, and to the literature on Caribbean and Jamaican academic librarianship, specifically.

scholarly journals Collaborative Authorship in the Journal Literature: Perspectives for Academic Librarians Who Wish to Publish

2000 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 410-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Harrison Bahr ◽  
Mickey Zemon
Keyword(s):  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Journal Literature ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
College And University ◽  
Collaborative Authorship ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
Author Productivity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Successful Collaboration

Academic librarians, particularly college librarians, may increase their contributions to the professional literature through collaborative authorship. For example, university librarians, who published 69 percent of the articles in College & Research Libraries and the Journal of Academic Librarianship between 1986 and 1996, contributed almost 90 percent of the coauthored research in those core journals. This study examines the increase in collaboration in the literature of academic librarianship and in other disciplines, explores the relationship between collaboration and article quality as well as author productivity, compares collaborative patterns of college and university librarians, and considers factors that lead to successful collaboration.

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