Guiding Librarians: Rethinking Library Guides as a Staff Development Tool. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Guiding Librarians: Rethinking Library Guides as a Staff Development Tool. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Main Title:
- Guiding Librarians: Rethinking Library Guides as a Staff Development Tool
- Authors:
- Bagshaw, Anna
Yorke-Barber, Phil - Abstract:
- Abstract: Library subject guides assist students and researchers with accessing and understanding the key resources for their subject or topic areas. From the perspective of academic institutions, subject guides showcase the key subscribed (and open access) resources available to support teaching, learning and research. They are common across university libraries but there is limited research on the benefits library guides may provide librarians themselves, especially in gaining resource knowledge during the creation and maintenance of these guides. This paper proposes the idea that library guides can also function as a staff development tool for the librarians who create and maintain them, based on the results of two surveys undertaken in late 2016 and early 2017. Results reveal the majority of respondents believe that creating library guides have improved their own knowledge of subject resources. Based on our findings, we believe that further research is required on the various techniques librarians use to gain resource knowledge, and the role that subject guides have in this process.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of the Australian Library & Information Association. Volume 67:Issue 1(2018)
- Journal:
- Journal of the Australian Library & Information Association
- Issue:
- Volume 67:Issue 1(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 67, Issue 1 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 67
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0067-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 31
- Page End:
- 41
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01-02
- Subjects:
- Library guides -- academic library -- staff development -- liaison librarian -- collection management
Information science -- Periodicals
Information science -- Australia -- Periodicals
Information science -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals
Library science -- Periodicals
Library science -- Australia -- Periodicals
Library science -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals
Information science
Library science
Australia
Pacific Area
Periodicals
020.5 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ualj21 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/24750158.2017.1410629 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2475-0158
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