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In the pursuit to change scholarly communication, libraries have undertaken a number of initiatives. These may include establishing a formal program, creating a committee, or taking other concerted actions at their institutions. While librarians have been engaged in targeted activities for some time, there has been no attempt to describe what constitutes a successful program. This paper proposes that five stages that are experienced in organized attempts to change scholarly communication, arguing that the use of stages provides a practical approach to addressing a nearly intractable problem. The author defines these stages, offers illustrative examples, provides measures of success, and details strategies that support the efforts toward change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During a two-year period, over 1,900 undergraduate students completed a version of an online asynchronous library module either with or without decorative images. Two instruction librarians compared quiz scores and affective feedback from both versions to determine the impact decorative images had on student performance and analyzed the results through the lenses of multimedia and user experience studies. The study finds that decorative images have little impact on student performance and expounds on how these findings impact design concerns of future online library modules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dream of every student on entry any institution of learning is to excel academically and this can be achieve through self-belief facilitated by effective reading which is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning as an essential skill for academic success. Above all, the library should be seen by such student as information warehouse where desired information can be obtained through reading. This study therefore is an assessment of the effect of self-efficacy, reading culture and utilization of library habits on the academic achievement of student-librarians. The study employed a descriptive survey method with a population sample of 250 student-librarians as respondents selected through stratified sampling techniques from five public universities in Nigeria. The study was guided by five objectives and research questions respectively as well as five formulated and tested hypotheses. The principle instrument used in collecting data was a structured questionnaire designed by the researcher titled: 'The effect of self-efficacy, reading and utilization of library habits on academic achievement'. The instrument was tested for reliability using Cronbach alpha after being validated by two experts in the field of measurement and evaluation and the reliability coefficient indicated that self-efficacy scale=0.88, reading habits=0.67; library utilization habits=0.90 and academic achievement=0. 90 The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Coefficient (PPMC) and Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA). The outcome of the study showed that there was statistical significant relationship between self-efficacy and academic achievement, there exist also a positive relationship between reading habits and academic achievement while the result also indicated no significant relationship between library utilization habits and academic achievement. However the result of this study did reveal that self-efficacy, reading and library utilization habits are effective predictors of academic achievement of student-librarians and by extension, all students. It was based on the findings that it was recommended that students-librarians should be effectively encouraged, mentored, monitored fortified and persuaded by school management, lecturers and librarians into believing in themselves, reading and utilize the library regularly and that government, university management and university librarians as well as other stakeholders in the management of higher education should ensure that academic libraries are equipped with enough print and e-materials with state-of-the-art facilities as to making the library attractive, functional and conducive, for the students to use among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study surveyed librarians, researchers, administrators, and others engaged in research on the impact of academic libraries on student success. This study, sponsored by an ACRL Impact Grant, specifically sought to expand the ACRL Academic Library Impact report, which defined strategic directions for library impact research, largely defined from the perspective of high-level administrators. This study addressed this limitation by surveying and interviewing professional librarians who are directly conducting library impact research, asking about their research experience, their attitudes about impact research, and their response to the ACRL report. Notable findings include differences in attitudes between librarians and library administrators about the helpfulness of impact research, administrators' greater agreement with the ACRL report themes, and some pushback among librarians regarding quantitative impact research who are interested in qualitative research and findings that lead to more actionable improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How libraries affect student success has become an increasingly important question to many academic librarians. To investigate this phenomenon, we explored student success via two approaches in this multimethod study: 1) through individual student interviews to capture the student voice; and 2) through hierarchical linear and logistic modeling of institutional data to capture the institutional perspective. Through the qualitative component, students articulated how they define success and how the library contributes to their success, especially in terms of providing a sense of belonging and facilitating the work of a community of scholars. The quantitative data provides additional context by demonstrating a small positive correlation between use of library resources and student persistence, further highlighting the community building impact of the libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

News reports and well-publicized government studies have led to a popular perception that reading is an endangered activity, particularly among youth. In this study we surveyed college students, librarians, and college writing instructors about students' attitudes toward reading for pleasure, examine barriers to voluntary reading among college students, and explore academic libraries' potential role in promoting reading. Our findings suggest that students have a far higher interest in reading than is typically believed and recommend steps academic librarians can take to encourage reading for lifelong learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study which analyzes the impact of self-efficacy and prior computer experience on the creativity of new librarians in selected university libraries in Southwest Nigeria. It was observed that organizations continue to look for creative employees, same as university libraries. A strong sense of personal efficacy is related to better health, higher achievement and creativity, and better social integration.