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- ItemAha moments and continued confusion: an analysis of threshold concepts through student reflections in the ACRL framework(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2021) Eva, Nicole; Rocca, Marissa S.; MacKay, D. BruceWith the advent of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in 2015, librarians everywhere have tried to adapt their existing information literacy sessions to incorporate the revised concepts. This article discusses how the librarian responsible for a series of four labs in a first-year course reformed the lab content around the six ACRL Frames. Student reflections from three semesters’ worth of classes were analyzed for content related to each of the six Frames, as well as for areas of enlightened understanding (evidence of crossing a threshold into higher understanding, as first outlined by Meyer and Land, 2003) and continued confusion, with applicability for all instructors trying to incorporate the Frames.
- Item"Always at work": Canadian academic librarian work during COVID-19(The Partnership. Provincial and Territorial Library Association of Canada, 2022) McLay Paterson, Amy; Eva, NicoleTo learn about the experiences of librarians working through COVID-19, we conducted semi-structured interviews with academic librarians from across Canada on issues such as workload, collegiality, and overall satisfaction with their working conditions during the pandemic. Themes emerged around job security, workload changes (both in terms of hours worked and the type of work being done), working from home, relationships with colleagues and administrators (including the perceived speed of the institution’s pandemic response and the state of communication from or with administration), and hopes for the future. This article focuses on the semantic elements of librarian work during COVID-19 uncovered during thematic analysis, including an in-depth discussion of how academic librarians’ workload changed; a second planned article will focus on latent themes on the caring nature of library work. This study connects isolated individual situations with the overall picture of what librarians’ work looked and felt like during the COVID-19 pandemic. For library administrators, we identify the ways in which institutional support helped or hindered librarians in doing their work.
- ItemAmplify your impact: An interview with Mark Aaron Polger, editor of Marketing Libraries Journal(American Library Association, 2018) Eva, Nicole; Shea, Erin
- ItemAmplify your impact: Marketing libraries in an era of "fake news"(American Library Association, 2018) Eva, Nicole; Shea, Erin
- ItemAn analysis of management and economics journals at the University of Lethbridge: beyond usage data(2016-01-18) Eva, NicoleThis article investigates the importance of journal titles in the area of Management and Economics at the University of Lethbridge in southern Alberta, Canada. Not wanting to rely solely on usage data, the author undertook a citation analysis to see which journals were most frequently published in by the institution’s authors. The analysis also illuminated publishers providing journals which were most frequently used. Other business libraries may be interested to replicate the analysis in their own libraries as well as to see the results from this mid-sized academic library.
- ItemAnnotated literature review: student evaluations of teaching (SET)(University of Lethbridge Faculty Association, 2018) Eva, Nicole; University of Lethbridge Faculty Association. Gender, Equity & Diversity Committee
- ItemThe Canadian dollar versus the collection: How Canadian university libraries are coping(The Partnership. Provincial and Territorial Library Association of Canada, 2016) Scott, David R.; Eva, NicoleThrough 2015 and into 2016, Canadian academic libraries’ collections budgets were severely strained due to the steady decline of the CAD/USD exchange rate. As most subscription fees for electronic resources (e-resources) are billed in US dollars, the falling value of the Canadian dollar significantly reduced libraries’ purchasing power. This study is based on a survey of the English-speaking member institutions of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), a Canadian collections consortium, carried out to determine the impact of the poor exchange rate on collection development and how libraries are coping with new budgetary pressures. Librarians from 33 universities provided survey responses. Of these, 22 participated in telephone interviews to further discuss concerns and ideas regarding the current crisis. The study finds that all participant libraries have taken actions to address the budgetary shortfall, including cancelling serial and database subscriptions, negotiating lower costs with vendors, purchasing fewer monographs, and soliciting additional funding from their institutions. While the financial strain resulting from exchange rate fluctuations is indeed a significant problem for which solutions should be sought, several respondents stressed that it only exacerbates the ongoing inflation of e-resource subscriptions. This deeper and enduring issue, which is expected to outlast the present exchange rate crisis, is enabled by an inherently flawed scholarly publishing system. Thus, librarians engaged in discussions with their wider academic communities concerning collections budgets should not focus exclusively on the exchange rate but should leverage the opportunity to explore alternatives to the current scholarly communication model. If solutions exist, they will likely only be achieved through the support of faculty and university administrators, as well as cooperation among post-secondary institutions and library consortia.
- ItemChanging our aim: infiltrating faculty with information literacy(Communications in Information Literacy, 2016) Cowan, Sandra A.; Eva, NicoleLibrarians are stretched thin these days – budget cuts and decreasing numbers are forcing us to look at new ways of doing things. While the embedded information literacy model has gained popularity in the past number of years, it may be time for a new model of information literacy. We must arm teaching faculty with the tools they need to teach information literacy to their students. Ideas and examples of how academic librarians can weave information literacy into the teaching culture on campus, and provide instruction to faculty members on how to teach research and information skills to their classes, are explored. By meeting faculty members in their usual ‘learning spheres’ we can show them a more holistic perspective on information literacy and give them examples of how libraries can help them in their own teaching and research, thus encouraging them to transfer some of that knowledge to their students.
- ItemDO get technical! Using technology in library instruction(The Partnership. Provincial and Territorial Library Association of Canada, 2011) Eva, Nicole; Nicholson, HeatherToday’s post-secondary students are digital natives. Much has been said and written about how to reach this generation, and the consensus seems to be that we need to meet them on their turf. In this session, presented at WILU 2011 in Regina, SK, two librarians from the University of Lethbridge shared their experiences with using technology to engage students in library instruction. The hands-on session introduced some simple tools librarians can learn quickly and apply to spice up their instruction with technology. These include creating online animated videos using Xtranormal, a low-cost way to create polished and humorous videos to introduce or summarize key information literacy concepts; and adding interactive polling to PowerPoint presentations using a tool called Poll Everywhere, which is an effective way to instantly engage students in instruction using the web or web-enabled devices. Interactive polling eliminates many of the challenges of using clickers which are prevalent in many post-secondary library instruction environments. The presenters also discussed how they have experimented with wikis to encourage active learning and student collaboration in a series of library instruction sessions. Wikis allow for free and paperless student participation in knowledge creation in an online forum. Finally, they demonstrated how they have used Skype to deliver library instruction at a distance, including the use of the screen sharing feature. The presenters stressed the ease of use of these free or low-cost tools to improve classroom engagement and add interest to sessions.
- ItemHow information literate are they? : a SAILS study of (mostly) first-year students at the U of L(University of Lethbridge, Teaching Centre, 2016) Cowan, Sandra A.; Graham, Rumi Y.; Eva, Nicole[No abstract available]
- ItemImproving library services to satellite campuses: a follow-up study at the University of Lethbridge(2015-12-16) Eva, NicoleDiscusses a study conducted to determine knowledge of and use of library services that were provided by the University of Lethbridge Library to two satellite campuses located in Calgary and Edmonton.
- ItemImproving library services to satellite campuses: The case of the University of Lethbridge(Routledge, 2012) Eva, NicoleA survey was done of instructors at two satellite campuses located at a distance from the main campus of the University of Lethbridge in order to ascertain both utilization and awareness of library resources and services. Results were enlightening, indicating that lack of awareness and communication is one of the biggest obstacles for these distance instructors to make use of the University Library and its services such as information literacy instruction for students.
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- ItemInformation literacy and liberal education: from Google to scholarly sources(Brill, 2019) MacKay, Bruce; Eva, NicoleInformation literacy is a fundamental literacy which underlies all other disciplines and is interdisciplinary in nature – much like a liberal education itself. In this chapter, students’ struggles with certain threshold concepts in information literacy are explored, with possible solutions. In today’s age of information overload and fake news, information literacy and the critical thinking that goes along with it is more important than ever for students to acquire, not only for academics but for life.
- ItemInformation literacy as an essential component of liberal education(University of Lethbridge, Teaching Centre, 2015) Eva, Nicole; Cowan, Sandra A.
- ItemInformation literacy instruction during COVID-19(The Partnership. Provincial and Territorial Library Association of Canada, 2021) Eva, NicoleThe quick shift to online instruction taken by most post-secondary institutions in spring 2020 continued into fall 2020 and, in most cases, spring 2021. A survey was conducted to discover how this online shift might have affected the number of instruction requests academic librarians received compared to a typical year. Results were somewhat mixed, but overall, information literacy instruction requests seem to have decreased as a result of the pandemic.
- ItemInformation literacy instruction for satellite university students(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011) Nicholson, Heather; Eva, NicoleThis paper provides a broad outline of the current climate in adult information literacy for distance education students according to our research. The successes, challenges and lessons learned from our pilot project are also shared.
- ItemIt's time to stand up to the academic publishing industry: and here's how we can do it(Universities Canada, 2018) MacDonald, Adriane; Eva, Nicole
- ItemLegally satisfied: a survey of law library workers and job satisfaction(2009) Eva, Nicole; McCormack, NancyThe authors surveyed law library workers across Canada in an attempt to discover whether they were satisfied with their jobs, and to compare these findings to previous surveys of those working in other types of libraries. Findings indicated that while law library workers are generally quite satisfied with their work, issues were discovered including salary, stress, and opportunities for advancement.
- ItemLess money, less children, and less prestige: differences between women and men academic librarians(Elsevier, 2021) Eva, Nicole; Le, M. L.; Sheriff, JohnAcademic librarianship is a heavily feminized profession, with women making up between 72-74% of the workforce based on statistics from Canada and the US (American Library Association, 2012; Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2017). As a result, gendered issues such as salary discrepancies and a glass ceiling phenomenon might be expected to be magnified in such an environment. The authors analyzed linked data from a 2018 census of academic librarians to uncover and examine the experience of motherhood and librarianship, specifically by looking at potential connections between gender, salary, number of dependents, and academic rank. Results demonstrate that women earn, on average, $10,000CDN/year less, are less likely to become a parent as their career progresses, and are overly represented at the lower ranks (e.g., Assistant Librarian) than their men counterparts. Drawing upon the literature on motherhood, salary differences, and career progression in academia, we demonstrate that issues long standing in the profession have yet to be resolved.