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Learning new technology is essential for students and scholars in higher education to engage in learning and research of today. Previous studies have reported various barriers to technology acceptance and application in academic communities. To foster active engagement in technology-enhanced research and learning, academic libraries could serve as a technology hub for their communities. Many researchers have already explored the role of academic libraries in promoting information literacy as well as digital and data literacy. However, technology education in library instruction, which helps students and scholars develop such literacies, has not been a major topic in the existing literature. Even when studies deal with technology related content, their topics of instruction concentrate largely on data science skills and tools. The existing literature does not capture a comprehensive landscape of what instructional support the academic libraries provide in terms of technology skills and tools, including but not limited to data science techniques. The goal of this study is to present an overview of academic library instruction for technology education for their communities. This study examines library workshops offered by 43 four-year college libraries in the US. The titles and descriptions of the workshops were manually collected and analyzed to understand the content of library instruction using both quantitative and qualitative analysis methods. The findings of this study suggest that American academic libraries play an important role in educating their patrons a wide range of technology for their academic success in technology-mediated learning and research environments. They teach various technologies for research, teaching and learning, career support, conventional library instruction, and many other purposes. We found that academic libraries teach not only popular and common tools, but also specialized and unique tools for certain fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Library instruction often involves one-shot sessions where librarians interact with students for a short period of time and are then left wondering what the students thought of the session and if students perceive the session as helpful for their course work. Using two surveys to gather data, this study compared student perceptions of a redesigned library curriculum and of their own information literacy skills immediately after attending a library workshop and six weeks later after completing a research paper. The findings indicate that the library workshop is meeting student needs and has a lasting effect. Additionally, the researchers found that students were better able to articulate gaps in their own knowledge after having the opportunity to apply their skills to a research assignment. The researchers recommend that librarians using surveys to inform one-shot curricular changes gather data after students have applied the skills and knowledge gained in the instruction session. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the discussion on Japan Institute of Public Finance (JIPF) was established in 1940 by 63 scholars. Topics include enhancing academic research in public finance, providing opportunities for members to present their research papers; and first post-war Annual Conference was held in 1949 and has been held annually since then in either October or November.

Academic libraries are in a unique position to evolve student employment into being more than merely a part-time job and to contribute to students' academic and personal success. Library student employees at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas were surveyed to determine if their participation in a co-curricular workshop series added value to their academic, professional and personal lives. The study shows statistically significant relationships between class standing and level of agreement that workshops provided students with information and/or skills that will help them in a job after college and in their day to day life outside of work and school. The results of this study indicate that students find value in having opportunities to develop academic, professional, and life skills while being employed part-time. Potential future research studies are discussed, including the impact of such a program on student retention, progression, and completion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With attendance rates at library workshops and events in decline, the authors looked to data from practice to help the field move forward. Using survey responses from providers of 161 library workshops across Canada and the United States, the authors examined 10 key variables that are widely believed to impact attendance rates (topic, month, time, duration, advertising, location, target audience, series status, buy-in, and incentives). Analysis of the responses highlights several trends in attendance and offers a better understanding of what students are looking for from extracurricular educational opportunities like those provided by libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to describe how the Understanding by Design instructional design framework can be applied to design high-quality single-session information literacy instruction. The author describes the Understanding by Design process in detail, noting modifications for single instructional session design with examples from the application of this instructional design process to design co-curricular instruction sessions for undergraduates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the process of developing a week long thesis camp for seniors in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. The library and other university groups worked together to provide the students with workshops, ready access to research assistance, and dedicated space to work on their theses. This inaugural offering was a successful experiment in collaboration. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The authors describe the use of case studies in a program of extracurricular library instruction and explain the benefits of case teaching in developing information literacy. The paper presents details of example cases and analyzes surveys to evaluate the impact of case teaching on student satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the Image Metadata Workshop organized by Online Computer Library Center Inc. and the Coalition for Networked Information in Dublin, Ohio. Emphasis on the application of the Dublin Core element set to image resource description; Details of the agreed consensus; Models supporting network-based discovery of images.

Focuses on the planning, organization, and implementation of reference workshop for public services staff of Saint Louis Public Library in Saint Louis, Missouri. Creation of model workshop to increase knowledge of African-American reference sources; Participant evaluations of the workshop; Recommendations for model modification and follow-up.

T he Library Examined was a workshop held in January 2018 at Senate House Library, University of London. The workshop was designed and facilitated by Heiba Lamara and Rose Nordin from OOMK and Hudda Khaireh from Thick/er Black Lines in discussion with Laurence Byrne and Leila Kassir, Research Librarians at Senate House Library. The Library Examined was aimed at non-library-card-holders with the ambition to help demystify library processes and spaces and to provide a forum for the discussion and critiquing of the organisation of knowledge within the library. This article describes in the first three sections the librarians' view of the workshop and why it was initiated, before Heiba and Hudda outline their invitation and research, and the workshop itself. A version of this paper was presented at the annual conference of ARLIS UK & Ireland held at the Architectural Association, London, in July 2018. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When University of Idaho (UI) Extension brought the Idaho 4-H Teen Conference to UI's main campus, the conference organizers collaborated with UI librarians to organize a workshop in the library's newly established makerspace, the Making, Innovating, and Learning Laboratory (MILL). In the MILL, the students used cutting-edge technology to foster new or existing interests in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This article describes how Extension and 4-H youth development professionals can team with librarians to use library makerspaces to introduce 4-H high school students to STEM technologies and digital literacies that will be necessary for jobs of the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This quarter's column reports on sessions from NASIG 2017: Racing to the Crossroads, held in Indianapolis, IN, June 8 to 11, and ALA Annual 2017: Transforming Our Libraries, Ourselves, which took place in Chicago, IL, June 22–27. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This case study describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a series of grants research workshops for graduate students, which were implemented to fill a gap in graduate student support. We assessed the workshops through a series of focus groups, and findings show overall satisfaction with the grants tools and workshop. However, participants noted areas of improvement around outreach and promotion and general communication with graduate students. Additional themes emerged related to graduate student socialization and research behaviors, which suggests that librarians have an important role to serve in these areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the course of 2018 the University of Sheffield Library conducted a series of interviews and workshops with stakeholders as part of a strategic project to reflect on the value of the university library in the 21st century. Using a mixed methodology, participants were asked to reflect upon the future Higher Education (HE) environment for the university and, for academic participants, their discipline. In this context participants were also asked to reflect upon the future value of the University Library in a series of questions designed to elicit value statements using a tool which the project group have called the 'Wheel of Value'. The resulting reflections upon the future environment have been grouped into four categories reflecting the drivers for change; Digitalisation, Student Experience, Diversification and Collaboration recognizing that there is considerable overlap and interconnection between these. The reflections on the future value of the library are presented by Wheel of Value higher order categorization. This approach proved useful in eliciting responses from participants in the face of recognized difficulty in getting beyond current views of the library and the approach is recommended to other universities looking to carry out a similar project. The results of this research will be used to inform the development of a view of the library for the purpose of engaging with our university community and key partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the views of the author regarding the Digital Musicology workshop of Digital Humanizes at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) annual international training event in 2015. Topics discussed include the implications of music information retrieval (MIR) for musicological research, the audio feature extraction techniques through Sonic visualiser and machine learning for music information retrieval research.

This quarter's column features a report on select sessions of the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, held January 24–28, 2014, in Philadelphia, PA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Announcements about continuing education courses and conferences for librarians are presented, including a program in music librarianship offered by the Hochschule der Medien (University of the Media) in Stuttgart, Germany, between April and June 2014, a series of workshops on information technology for libraries in Koblenz, Germany, on May 8, 2014, and symposium on literacy and early childhood education in Leipzig, Germany, on March 15, 2014.

A calendar of library-related events is presented, including a conference on digitization and digital preservation in Gernrode, Germany, from March 3-5, 2014, a workshop on the PICA library software in Erfurt and Gotha, Germany, from April 7-11, 2014, and a seminar on library public relations in Erfurt, Germany, on June 25, 2014.

Although librarians’ increasingly important role as teachers is among the most significant shifts and trends that have been reshaping academic libraries over the past few decades, most academic librarians have not received formal training in pedagogy and teaching. The authors describe how becoming familiar with educational theory and research enabled them to revamp freshmen library workshops. They provide a theoretical overview and present practical classroom applications of learning styles theory, active learning techniques, learning by analogies, collaborative learning, and group work. Learning theories and educational research findings, the authors suggest, can be readily translated into practice and inform the teaching of information literacy to freshmen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This quarter's column features a report from the 88th Annual Meeting of the Potomac Technical and Processing Librarians, held October 12, 2012 in Washington, D.C.; the XXXII Annual Charleston Conference, held November 7–10, 2012 in Charleston, SC; and, the ALCTS Continuing Resources Section Holdings Information Committee/Continuing Resource Section Cataloging Committee Joint Forum, held January 26 in Seattle, WA at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

As it is seen in the application examples in the literature, citation analysis and bibliometric studies are significant instruments to consider in the discipline and at the evaluation stage of products of the process of information production in general. In addition, to this in the treatment, in other words in the methodological approaches of citation analysis and researches based on bibliometrics, taking into consideration the deficiencies in addition to qualifications, it is necessary to put forward its powerful aspects in full as much as possible and eliminate its weak sides and this subject is still open to new methodological approaches. Literature as far as it can be traced has some certain gaps regarding the process of information production of library institution in terms of metrical studies which support its contributions with concrete data. The gap should be filled with new approaches and methodologies by colleagues engaged in research at the application level and academicians working in the field of our discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main focus of the article is to answer the question of how to evaluate the process of information production, which is being dwelled on lately in literature, in relation to national realities more sufficiently through citation analysis. In this respect, within the framework of the limitations of the study, the articles (296 articles, 7.804 citations) included in national and international bibliographic databases and the ones not included (191 articles and 4.620 citations) because of different reasons in the realities of country are evaluated in two different sets of data (1st and the 2nd set) and the acquired findings are presented. Therefore, in the study of citation analysis, 487 of 12.424 articles are analyzed. However, one of the supposed facts which are foreseen at the beginning of the study is revealed that though 60,78% of the articles take place in bibliographic control resources, 39,21 % of the articles do not exist. In other words, 39,21% of the papers, which are qualified as the results of the information production process, is not available in both national and the international level. 1.085 citations (archive records, web sites etc.) out of 12.424 citations are not evaluated; because such references are not expected to exist in the library collection. In this direction, 11.339 citations are analyzed and investigated by their availability in the printed collections and accessibility in the e-collections of Ankara University libraries. 11.339 citations acquired from the articles of social sciences academic staff at Ankara University revealed the following results: 5.684 (50,14%) out of 11.339 citations are found (in printed/electronic/ printed+e-collections). 3.333 (29,39%) of the citations are available in the printed collections. 2.351 (20,73%) of the citations are accessible in the e-collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of library science workshops with limited invitations is presented, including a telephone usage conference in Rendsburg, Germany on August 29th, the Continuing Education Conference in Koblenz, Germany on August 30th, and a meeting of the workers of the public libraries of the Wartburg district on September 12th in Bad Salzungen, Germany.

The article discusses the relation of human nature and judicial engagement. It highlights that the preparation of analytical challenge of trending an appropriate judicial standard for engagement of the Institute. It further details regarding the effect that the Institute upon appreciation Justice O'Connor's of the right of property in relation to the public use limitation in the Fifth Amendment in court case of Kelo v. City of New London.

An essay is presented on judicial and civic engagement. It offers that Institute and the staff who work on center with a little constructive criticism also target some important symptoms in constitutional culture. The author relates challenges of the U.S. Supreme Court to the constitutionality of several provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The article discusses a librarian workshop in Bad Urach, Germany held July 9 until 11, 2012 with its main focus on the role of public libraries in early infantile education. Other topics mentioned were the workshop on libraries and senior citizen in Bad Urach, Germany held July 4 until 6, 2011, new digital information sources such as ebooks and Wikipedia, as well as further training of library employees.

Reading is an intellectual act in which signs are decoded to find what they mean. Scientific reading is an advanced stage of reading that is aimed at assessing the transcendence and veracity of texts. In other words, the interpretation and criticism of sources is the intellectual act that ensures the right interpretation of texts, considering their times, spaces and the persons involved. Sources are defined as information that is closely connected with the events and facts that are being studied and reconstructed, and whose value rests on their originality, veracity and authenticity. A didactic model for teaching scientific reading to undergraduate students, which is exemplified with the Spanish novel and film "Soldiers of Salamina". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article lists further training programs and workshops for library employees in Germany from January until December 2012, on topics such as service improvements for young library users, research on libraries and social media, and international cooperation among German libraries.

The study evaluates the present situation of fashion technology institute libraries in Bangalore city. The study is intended to elicit opinion from the students of fashion technology institutes in Bangalore city regarding the resources and services of their respective libraries. A questionnaire was used to collect required information and data from the students of the institutes under study. The analysis of the collected data covers the use of library resources, services and physical facilities available in the libraries. Concludes that the students' utilization of the fashion technology institute library resources was observed to be functional since they use the library to accomplish their study goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the expansion of Monash University Library's role to incorporate learning skills services, programs, and resources, within the context of the University's evolving learning landscape. It explains the Library's now holistic approach to students' development of information research and learning skills as interconnected skills for lifelong independent learning. The final section recounts the completion of the set-up and establishment phases of the learning skills implementation through a formal review process, and considers future directions and opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the collaborative work of Oxfam and the Scottish Poetry Library (SPL) with the refugees and their communities in Scotland. This initiative serves as an organic process which started with community poetry workshops, enabling participants to learn poetry as well as about themselves and one another. It notes that many of the poems were exhibited in public areas, and that this project gave asylum seekers and local residents an opportunity to meet and work together.

The article offers information on various topics related to Catholic Library Association (CLA). The meeting of the CLA Executive Board members at the Chicago Cenacle Retreat and Conference Center on September 10, 2010 discussed various topics, which include CLA's finances by Jim Elvekrog, the meeting of the Catholic Periodical and Literature Index by Cait Kokolus, and presentation of retiring committee chair and CLA board member by Nancy Schmidtmann. Thirty-three communities from the U.S, Canada, and Great Britain attended the workshop at the fourth Introductory Archives Workshop for Religious Communities at the Techny Conference and Retreat Center in Techny, Illinois on July 25-30, 2010. Professor John L. Gresham, who is a member of CLA, has written a basic introduction to Christology.

Professional development for instruction librarians is in danger of coming to a standstill in difficult economic times. COIL on Wheels is a professional development roadshow developed by the Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians to allow librarians with budget and staffing issues to benefit from peer training. By matching member librarian interests with institutional needs, librarians can visit institutions in their geographic area to provide their colleagues with low-cost or free training. This article discusses the origins of and rationale for this program and describes a successful implementation of this traveling professional development project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a calendar of seminars and meetings for library workers from June 2010 to June 2011, including the annual meeting of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) in Göteborg, Sweden, a workshop "Gestaltung und Usability -- Hands on" in Cologne, Germany, and "Neues vom Buchmarkt" on what's new in books in Potsdam, Germany.

Objective: To determine if after-school nutrition workshops conducted in public libraries were related to lasting changes in food choice. Methods: "Snack Smart" workshops, based on Social Cognitive Theory, were conducted in 8 branch libraries (49 ethnically diverse children, ages 9 to 14) to assess changes in consumption of targeted food items by pretest, posttest, and follow-up food frequency questionnaires. Results were analyzed using the Friedman test for repeated measures and Wilcoxon signed rank test. Results: Intake of milk, vegetables, and water significantly increased at 3-week posttest (P < .05), but only water intake showed a significant change from pretest to follow-up 3 months later. Conclusions and Implications: This low-intensity program did not produce lasting behavior change, as measured by changes in food frequency at 3 months post- intervention. The study supports the need to critically evaluate out-of-school nutrition programs for lasting impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In early 2007, staff from the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Office of the Vice President for Research began a collaboration to present a workshop covering grant resources. The session introduced faculty, staff, and graduate students to four key databases of external granting opportunities as well as intramural funding sources. We explain the context, development, and implementation of this ongoing, popular workshop; mention extensions of the workshop effort; and hope to inspire fellow librarians to identify and explore routes to broad institutional engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a calendar of 2010 library-related seminars and professional courses offered in Germany, including a January reading seminar in Koblenz, Germany, a February workshop on the curricular promotion of reading in Kelsterbach, Germany, and a training course on dealing with mold in archives, in Berlin, Germany.

The article reports on the results of a study on the effects of war on school children and how books helped them cope and stay human in an inhumane environment. The author cites statistics on the increase in number of books read per child and number of library users during the first year of war in Croatia where libraries were accessible and librarians worked to promote reading. Programs before and during the war included workshops, book talks and playroom activities for preschool children.

This article explores the types of digital information research libraries typically deal with and what factors might influence libraries' decisions to take on the work of data curation themselves, to take on the responsibility for data but market out the actual work, or to leave the responsibility to other organisations. The article introduces the issues dealt with in the LIBER Workshop 'Curating Research' to be held in The Hague on 17 April 2009 (http://www.kb.nl/curatingresearch) and this corresponding issue of LIBER Quarterly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the spring of 2006, Eastern Washington University Libraries received an institutional strategic planning grant to hold a two-week strategic planning institute with faculty members representing the six colleges at Eastern Washington University (EWU). The purpose of the institute, titled “Reinventing the Library,” was to articulate a five-year vision for the role of the library within the university. The institute was held at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library on the Cheney campus of EWU from July 24 through August 4, 2007, and was planned and facilitated by Dean of Libraries Patricia Kelley. Thirteen faculty members, including two members of the library faculty, participated. The curriculum for “Reinventing the Library” included presentations by guest speakers on national and institutional trends affecting EWU Libraries, group discussion, and planning activities. In the last days of the institute, participants achieved consensus on the future role of the EWU Libraries and drafted a vision statement. The institute has had a significant impact on library planning and operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A picture is presented of the state of library and information science university education in Spain. Statistical data is provided about both the number and type of university programs, describing existing institutions, degree levels and providing data on student enrollment and teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]