Mapping IDEA in collection development: A scoping and bibliometric review

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Half of Vermont Academic and Public Libraries Lack Written Confidentiality Policies Despite Directors’ Support for Principles of Patron Confidentiality

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 Albarillo, F. (2018). Super-diversity and foreign-born students in academic libraries: A survey study. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 18(1), 59-91. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2018.0004
 Abstract
 Objective – To evaluate the relationship between academic and public library usage and various characteristics of foreign-born students.
 Design – Survey questionnaire.
 Setting – Medium-sized public liberal arts college in the northeastern United States.
 Subjects – 123 foreign-born students enrolled at the institution in fall 2014.
 Methods – The researcher emailed a five-part survey to participants who indicated on a screening survey that they were foreign-born students currently enrolled at the college. Of the participants emailed, 94 completed the survey. The survey used a super-diversity lens to assess academic and public library use by foreign-born students in relationship to multiple variables, including student status, race and ethnicity, immigration status, first-generation student status, gender, age, age of arrival in the United States (US), years living in the US, and ZIP Code (used to approximate median income based on the US Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey). Respondents reported frequency of use on a Likert-type scale of 1=Never to 6=Always. The author adapted items from the In Library Use Survey Instrument (University of Washington Libraries, 2011). Usage types included: computer, Wi-Fi, staff assistance, electronic resources, physical resources, printing/scanning/photocopying, program attendance, and physical space. Independent sample t-tests were used to evaluate mean differences in reported library usage based on demographic variables. The author used Somers’ d statistical tests to explore the relationship between library use and age, age on arrival in the US, years lived in the US, and median income. The survey asked participants to describe both academic and public libraries in five words. To show term frequency, the author used word clouds as a visualization technique.
 Main Results – The study reported on the results of the library use survey section. Overall, foreign-born students used college libraries more frequently than public libraries. The author reported on findings that were statistically significant (p ≤ 0.5), focusing on those with mean differences ≥ 0.5. Key findings included: undergraduate students used public libraries and Wi-Fi/e-resources onsite at college libraries more often than graduate students; first-generation students gathered at the library with friends more frequently; no significant difference was reported in library resource use by gender; and non-white students used the college library more frequently as a study space and for printing. The author was surprised no significant differences in usage were found between participants with permanent vs. temporary immigration status. Somers’ d associations showed an inverse relationship between age and Wi-Fi use and age of arrival in the United States and likelihood of eating in the library. Overall, both library types were positively described in open-ended responses as places with social and academic value.
 Conclusion – The author suggested the concept of super-diversity equips librarians with a more inclusive approach to studying library user perspectives and behaviors. The author used survey data and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity Standards (2012) to highlight library service considerations for foreign-born students. Examples of suggested service improvements included supporting printing in Unicode non-English fonts, cultivating a diverse library staff, and providing culturally appropriate library orientations and outreach. The author recommended that more research with foreign-born students was needed to assess culturally appropriate areas for eating and socializing, unique information needs, and expectations and awareness of library services. The author suggested first-generation students’ use of the library for socializing and non-white students’ higher use of libraries for studying as two areas for further qualitative study. The author also suggested creating services and partnerships between public and academic libraries could support foreign-born students, even recommending cross-training of library staff.

Researching graphic novels and their teenage readers

Email Reference Transactions Reveal Unique Patterns about End-User Information Seeking Behaviour and Librarians’ Responses in Academic and Public Libraries Outside the U.S. and Canada

All librarians in the academy have a responsibility to promote the value of open access scholarship. Alongside the strident open access rhetoric heard in the academic library world is the need for continued emphasis on practical strategies for adding relevant scholarly “free to reader, free to library” materials to collections. Librarians involved in collection development roles must now reach as far as possible into the larger world of web scholarly content to add, organize, promote and make quality material discoverable and accessible. Librarians need to expose the research materials housed in repositories and on the open web, even as these materials are often hidden from scholars due to lack of indexing, inadequate crawling by major search engines, existence of poor quality metadata, or a lack of librarian effort at marketing of material that might maximize usage and accessibility. Collection development librarians and subject specialists are best poised to know which public domain materials might best be digitized and made more accessible to institutional scholars and to local communities. Collection development librarians can identify new digitization initiatives, seek grant funding, and leverage collaborations and partnerships to maximize the availability and dissemination of open web scholarly research materials. These are new roles for collection development librarians, many of whom have seen other changes to their positions in an increasingly digital age. Collection development librarians add value by integrating valuable open web content alongside traditional library materials. Organizing available quality scholarly materials through weblists, research guides, LibGuides, course management systems, and integrated library systems can and must include free web materials. Collection development with open access materials requires a different skill set; one not dependent on traditional patterns of acquisition or the usual benchmarking for quality that may be dependent on traditional metrics or publisher reputation. Vetting of relevant, quality open access resources requires knowledge of all sources of such materials, whether the products of disciplinary or institutional repositories, open access journals and articles of all types, open educational resources, large monograph digitization initiatives, and indexes to the open access literature such as DOAJ(Directory of Open Access Journals). These materials represent a treasure trove of content, and extend the library’s traditional holdings out into the open web. Continued relevance for collection development as an “art” hinges on librarians’ willingness to embrace and add scholarly content regardless of business model. There are no barriers to adding open access content to the academic library, and the collection development policies will not have to be redefined to integrate the many sources of this “free to reader, free to library” content. Partnering with public services librarians to integrate this content into user services initiatives will result in further showcasing of these nontraditional materials. Collaboration and partnerships in promoting library production of open scholarship as well as librarians’ participation in shared open access discussions and initiatives can be seen as an appealing future scenario for collection development in academic libraries. Smaller or less well funded libraries can take advantage of material being made available by research libraries with robust repositories and journal and even book publishing programs. Along with purchasing or licensing content, many libraries are becoming “knowledge creators” and are eager to share the material with other libraries and scholars.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the knowledge structure based on the articles published in Library Hi Tech. The research hotspots are expected to be revealed through the keyword co-occurrence and social network analysis.Design/methodology/approachData sets based on publications from Library Hi Tech covering the time period from 2006 to 2017 were extracted from Web of Science and developed as testbeds for evaluation of the CiteSpace system. Highly cited keywords were analyzed by CiteSpace which supports visual exploration with knowledge discovery in bibliographic databases.FindingsThe findings suggested that the percentage of publications in the USA, Germany, China, and Canada are high. Further, the most popular keywords identified in Library Hi Tech were: “service,” “technology,” “digital library,” “university library,” and “academic library.” Finally, four research issues were identified based on the most-cited articles in Library Hi Tech.Originality/valueWhile keyword plays an important role in scientific research, limited studies paid attention to the keyword analysis in librarian research. The contribution of this study is to systematically explore the knowledge structure constructed by the keywords in Library Hi Tech.

In response to budgetary crises, academic libraries are often forced to relegate traditionally professional librarian duties to student assistants, paraprofessionals, and other support staff. Among the newly transferred roles is collection development including the analysis, selection, and maintenance of materials and resources. Review of the literature reveals that this trend has substantially grown over past years; however, the scope and level of responsibility of the transferred projects has been limited. Additionally, the literature severely lacks mention of the roles played by graduate students working in academic libraries, while pursuing their MLIS degrees. The objective of this session is to explore the use of graduate student assistants working toward their MLIS degree in the conduction of complex collection evaluation, selection, and analysis from the perspective of one graduate student assistant and one professional academic librarian. The attendees will learn about the benefits of involving graduate student assistants in the collection development process, in terms of the need to acquire hands on experience prior to firsttime professional employment, issues of current subject specialty knowledge, curatorial objectivity, and professional development in the mentor-mentee relationship. Introduction Collection-related duties have been part of the job description of public services library professionals since the 1970s (Wang et al., 2010). Sometimes referred to as the “liaison model,” this approach combines the typical responsibilities of public services, such as reference, instruction, and research consultations with outreach, relationship-building, and collection services for faculty and students. According to Wang et al. (2010), it is necessary for collection development to be an integral part of public services, in order to expand, diversify, but also more importantly, to increase the depth and focus of library holdings. Communication with faculty doing research in collection areas is necessary for this, along with an awareness of the research needs of the university community at large, which can only be gathered at the point of need and within the context of the service-desk environment. The expansion and diversification of public services duties, however, also brought a great need, both on MLIS programs and on university libraries who work with MLS graduate students, to adequately prepare them for liaison duties. Additionally, the traditional “reference” duties continued to expand to include multimodal technologies, serving the needs of many and remote users. Although a scheduled activity, reference is no longer only restricted to a 9 to 5 format and, in order to properly serve users, reference librarians are more so than ever actively engaged in reaching out and responding to unmet needs. On the other hand, funding for new positions has inversely diminished in recent years, creating both a gap in users’ need for both responsive and timely public services and well-crafted and immediately accessible library collections. In fact, it can be argued that budgetary restrictions today are shaping library operations more than anything else in the recent past, possibly since the advance of digital technologies and the Internet. Paraprofessionals and student assistants play an important and timely role in filling the human capital gap. Although frequently utilized in general public services, such as reference and instruction, the profession has been much slower in transferring the roles of collection development, such as the analysis, selection, and maintenance of materials and resources, to a non-MLIS workforce, including graduate assistants. Moreover, it is unclear if the curriculum of MLIS programs emphasizes collection development strongly enough. The reality is that most librarians entering the workforce have had little if any practical experience with collection development. This is somewhat counterintuitive, considering the importance of hands-on experience in the process. It is also not necessarily a failure on the part of MLIS students to seek more experience, but may be an oversight on the part of professionals

Using an unobtrusive quantitative method, this study investigates whether there is a bias in recent collection development practices at academic and public libraries in California. Influenced by Asheim's article «Not Censorship, but Selection» and Fiske's landmark 1957 California study, Book Selection and Censorship, the investigator applies a research method involving ten judges and the Online Computer Library Center's (OCLC) database holdings for eight representative books. These books (portraying a spectrum along the prochoice/pro-life abortion controversy) are used to demonstrate that the collection development activities of academic and public libraries in California appear to have a bias. Based on 580 reported holdings of these eight books, California academic and public libraries were found three times more likely to collect pro-choice than pro-life books. Interestingly, the evidence also shows that, comparatively, collection practices of religious-affiliated academic libraries in California appear to result in collections holding only slightly more representative pro-life books than pro-choice ones. Therefore, a conclusion may be inferred that stereotypical «conservative» libraries are doing a better job of providing different points of view on controversial issues than their «secular» institutional counterparts

SELF-e 101: A Lesson for Academic Libraries in Connecting Self-Published Authors and Readers

Reviewed by: Rethinking Collection Development and Management ed. by Becky Albitz, Christine Avery, and Diane Zabel Madeline Kelly Rethinking Collection Development and Management, ed. Becky Albitz, Christine Avery, and Diane Zabel. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2014. 394 pages. $60.00 (ISBN 978-1-61069-305-9) Collection development and management have changed dramatically over the last twenty-five years. A quick search of the Library Literature & Information Science Index for collection development reveals the rise and demise of collection development paradigms: the decline in articles on book selection; an increase in library cooperation and serial publications; and the appearance of such terms as information resources management. Put simply, collection development has shifted and grown into something more dynamic and challenging than ever. It is in this context that experienced collections librarians Becky Albitz, Christine Avery, and Diane Zabel present Rethinking Collection Development and Management, an edited volume intended to supplement core collection development works such as Peggy Johnson’s Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (Chicago: ALA Editions, 3rd ed., 2014). Rethinking Collection Development and Management looks at the ways librarians have pushed beyond the traditional functions of acquiring and managing resources. Contributors include serials, collection development, instruction, metadata, and media librarians, as well as consortia employees, vendor representatives, archivists, professors, and library directors. They work at all levels of the library hierarchy—from technician to dean—and represent public, academic, and special libraries. Readers will find that Rethinking Collection Development and Management succeeds in its mission to supplement earlier core collection development titles. There is a diversity of voices and viewpoints, and rather than dedicating entire chapters to traditional topics such as evaluation of print resources or writing a collection development policy, the book addresses the current environment libraries face. Rethinking Collection Development and Management is divided into four thematic sections: selection and assessment; acquisitions; access, cooperative efforts, and shared collections; and preservation and special collections. There are chapters on the publishing climate; the current state of traditional tasks such as weeding and assessment; types of materials and their acquisition; developments in access; shared and cooperative efforts; and preservation prospects. Topics that were mere footnotes in earlier works on collection development, such as demand-driven acquisitions, self-published works, streaming media, the rise of collaborative collections, floating collections (in which items have no permanent home library), and discovery services, now receive the attention they deserve. Ongoing challenges such as e-book management and Big Deals get thoughtful and comprehensive treatment. The interconnectedness of libraries is explored and emphasized in ways that promise an exciting future of collaboration. Rethinking Collection Development and Management also addresses the context of our collections, with chapters on the publishing industry, library staffing, cataloging, and library school curricula. Each chapter includes references, additional readings, and compelling case studies. Some chapters may seem outrageous or shocking, like chapter 2, which suggests that local-level collection development may be a waste of time, or chapter 20, which proposes discarding the Dewey Decimal System. Others will strike readers as less than innovative or downright repetitive. Nevertheless, even these chapters are [End Page 554] relevant to today’s collection management climate and are well argued and thoroughly researched. Rethinking Collection Development and Management is both scholarly and practical, even at its weakest points, and complements the existing literature nicely. This collection is both inspiring and overwhelming. As shrinking budgets force librarians to innovate, the variety and complexity of library materials only continue to grow. In Rethinking Collection Development and Management, librarians and administrators will find creative ideas and thoughtful approaches to the many challenges of twenty-first century collection development. [End Page 555] Madeline Kelly Head of Collection Development George Mason University Libraries Fairfax, Virginia mkelly25@gmu.edu Copyright © 2015 Johns Hopkins University Press

L'auteur s'interroge sur le chemin a suivre dans la recherche et le developpement des bibliotheques electroniques aujourd'hui aux Etats-Unis, ce qui revient a poser la question du but reellement poursuivi dans cette entreprise. Il examine la facon dont cette question d'objectif se pose, dans une perspective historique, d'abord dans les bibliotheques publiques, puis dans les bibliotheques d'enseignement superieur et de recherche, avant de se pencher sur le cas des bibliotheques (ou collections) electroniques proprement dites.

The Alert Collector is one of RUSQ's most popular columns, offering selectors in both academic and public libraries starting points for developing collections focused on specific topics, subject areas, or genres. With a long-running column, it can be useful to occasionally step back, examine the premise of the column, and offer suggestions to readers who might be interested in contributing to the Alert Collector in the future. Here, current editor Kelly Myer Polacek and past editor Neal Wyatt collaborate to examine the art of writing about collection development and to give some guidance to potential authors.--Editor Collection development is not a simple task. In 2001, Deborah Barreau conducted an extensive investigation into the responsibilities, strategies, and tools associated with the task of collection development in public libraries. (1) She reported that collection development librarians not only choose but they also contribute to policy design, analyze collections, evaluate offerings, and weed materials. In addition to this extensive list of responsibilities, librarians are faced not only with the confines of time, space, and money, but must also overcome the challenges of evaluating the need for e-materials, developing subject matter expertise, and predicting patron usage (for which there remains no exact science). Collection development librarians utilize a variety of resources to aid in these pursuits including recommendations by patrons, vendors, publishers, and media sources, among others. Attempting to simplify collection development by relying solely on statistical models derived from usage data or citation analyses can leave a library without the breadth and depth of materials ultimately desired by patrons. Editors of the Alert Collector advocate for collection development strategies that allow librarians to use the multiple approaches that will result in the carefully assembled collections that best meet their specific users' needs. We seek to help this endeavor by publishing curation devices that not only describe essential materials on specific subjects but also provide models for thinking about how to develop collections on innumerous subjects. It is our hope that the Alert Collector pieces we publish identify key resources and include annotations that illuminate how and why these items are essential to collections. Instead of simply providing lists of undoubtedly important titles, good columns enable librarians to supplement, start anew, or complete a collection. Alert Collector articles should be usable by public librarians, academic librarians, and other professionals specializing in user-oriented information services. They should include print and e-resources, books, periodicals, individual articles, databases, websites, and other forms of media when appropriate. The not-so-secret goals of the Alert Collector are to advocate for collection development and model its best practices. Exceptional columns are those that illustrate the myriad aspects of building a collection and the important and expansive work of selectors. Sometimes columns, such as Andrew Walsh's Learning Spanish Today: A Research Guide, remind us that the borders of our collections are not bound by what can be bought and easily cataloged. (2) Changes in language learning afforded Walsh a particularly rich opportunity to make this point. His column mixes traditional print resources with free podcasts, social websites, and free email courses. He also includes smaller paid subscription services and textbooks. While at first glance such resources might be dismissed as problematic or even unsuitable for a collection, Walsh reminds us that valuable resources can be included in a collection even when they are not for sale. With the growing flexibility and widening scope of library catalogs and websites, such resources can be added through specially designed bibliographic records or the creation or augmentation of research guides. …

Purpose– The study aims to explore the factors which influence collection development and management in academic libraries. In libraries and information centres, collection development is considered an essential element of the information life cycle. Collection development and management activities do not emanate from a vacuum. Several factors have a direct bearing on the way in which collections are developed and managed in the academic libraries. These factors are bridges and barriers for effective collection development and management.Design/methodology/approach– An extensive review of the available literature was made to conduct the study.Findings– The study found that several factors have a direct bearing on the way in which collections are developed and managed in the academic libraries. These factors include goals of collection development and management policies and procedures, user needs, collection development policies (CDPs), collection development budgets, collection evaluation to determine the strength and weaknesses of various subjects in the collections, selection of reading materials, formats in which materials are selected, the issues of access versus ownership, cooperative collection development, resource-sharing programs and legal issues in collection development and management.Originality/value– This study provides an overview of various factors that influence collection development activities in the academic libraries. It provides an insight for the selectors of library resources to take these factors into account for building effective collections in the academic libraries of Pakistan and abroad.

This study offers a thorough bibliometric analysis of Islamic education in contemporary culture, examining 324 papers indexed in Scopus and Web of Science from 2019 to 2024. The research employs VOSviewer and Biblioshiny to map keyword co-occurrence, author collaboration, and country networks, therefore elucidating the intellectual and geographical framework of the topic. The findings reveal five predominant themes: pedagogical modernization, multicultural education, gender discourse, digital integration, and Islamic ethics. The United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, and Indonesia are identified as the primary donors and centers of collaboration. The findings indicate a distinct shift from theology-focused studies to interdisciplinary methodologies that incorporate technology, social inclusion, and educational reform. This study enhances understanding by illustrating worldwide research patterns and pinpointing new chances for collaboration and theoretical advancement.