A community of practice for instruction librarians is essential to ongoing development of
pedagogical knowledge, fostering community, and cultivating meaningful teaching practices …

Despite the general consensus that field experience during library school is important for
applying theory to practical situations, there is a lack of understanding about what students …

Academic libraries frequently require that professional librarians obtain a master's degree
from a Library and Information Science (LIS) program accredited by the American Library …

As knowledge workers, library staff are assumed to be highly autonomous, meaning that
they are in control of how work is done. Yet, this work is heavily influenced by the …

Purpose This article describes an onboarding program created for liaison librarians at an
academic library and details a replicable framework for effective implementation at other …

LIS education has historically come under fire for what some perceive as a disconnect
between what is taught in the classroom and what the job really entails. This study is part of …

The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if the demographics or personality
traits of participating library leaders predicted emotional intelligence. Few, if any studies …

Academic libraries have always needed to be responsive to changes in emerging
technology over time. In recent decades with the arrival of the internet and the ubiquity of …

The current study is a follow-up to a 2019 study that found that practicing librarians viewed
the MLIS as irrelevant and outdated. Focus group transcripts from that study were analyzed …