This qualitative study seeks to determine the nature of the instruction librarians provide to veterinary medical students at all 28 United States veterinary colleges. A secondary goal of the study was to determine in what ways and to what extent librarians participated in other instructional activities at their colleges. Over half of the librarians formally taught in one or more courses, predom...

cacy or outreach opportunities. Included are theory and case studies all designed to aid the reader in defining ideas for implementing, sustaining, or growing programs that will help them explore and contextualize advocacy. The book explores each of three areas in-depth—advocacy, outreach, and engagement—and offers a wealth of suggestions. It also delivers a no-nonsense “now is the time” messag...

objective: to investigate the self-efficacy status of librarians in ferdowsi university of mashhad and mashhad university of medical sciences and its relationship with their information literacy skills.methodology: eighty people was chosen by nonproportional stratified random sampling as the final sample from the population. assessment tool was self- made questionnaire. the data has been analyz...

This book is a collection of wide-ranging, informative and provocative chapters discussing the use of social networks to serve teens, both online and in the library. Comprehensive surveys on this topic are being discussed in this series. The application of social networks is a new era for library services to young adults. Social networking tools are the doorway into their worlds, and the librar...

purpose: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between tendency toward teleworking and organizational commitment (affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment) among the librarians of isfahan public universities. methodology: the research method was descriptive – correlational survey and the population consisted of all librarians in isfahan univ...

Background & Aims: Increasing pressure for having scholarly publications in accredited English medium journals emphasizes the need to enhance academic writing ability by author-researchers in various fields, especially, in medical and hard sciences. In order to enhance the language of manuscripts, many authors seek assistance from editors prior to submission to high-status journals. Various typ...