"Written specifically to address the library's role in education, this book provides guidance on performing assessment at academic institutions that will serve to improve teaching effectiveness and prove your library's impact on student learning outcomes--and thereby demonstrate your library's value"--

"This collection of collaborative, high-impact learning experiences in information literacy teaches librarians how to engage students in hands-on, experiential learning"--

"Presenting strategies for improving academic library services for first-generation students, this timely book focuses on programs and services that will increase student academic engagement and success. The book makes the case - both explicitly and implicitly - that academic libraries can help address the known risk factors (e.g. by helping students build academic cultural competencies) and therefore improve success, persistence, and retention for...

"How do groups of people come together to produce something not only truly useful but also a breakthrough that propels users to another level of creativity and productivity? Is an innovative library culture essential for the future of the research library and, if so, how is this culture to be realized? In addressing these questions, Managing Creativity: The Innovative Research Library presents a rich and rigorous analysis of the environmental, organizational,...

"Reveals progressive insights developed over a six-year period while serving as Assistant Dean at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Associate Dean at San José State University, and University Librarian at the University of Colorado Denver."--Page [vi].

The authors look at collaborating with faculty and engaging with students to the point where they begin their research: in their learning management system (LMS) classroom. The embedded librarian develops a sense of partnership, participation, and community with students and faculty, becoming an active participant in the course.

This book introduces and explores the work of embedded librarianship, specifically focusing on librarians who are embedded in actual (not virtual) college classrooms.

How do college students really conduct research for classroom assignments? In 2008, five large Illinois universities were awarded a Library Services and Technology Act Grant to try to answer that question. The resulting ongoing study has already yielded some eye-opening results. The findings suggest changes ranging from simple adjustments in service and resources to modifying the physical layout of the library. In this book the editors, both anthropological...