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How Service Learning Can Promote Soft-Skills Acquisition: Lessons Learned from a Project in LIS Education

This research explores the acquisition of soft skills in a service learning project in the Complutense University of Madrid’s library and information science undergraduate program. Reaching its fifth edition in 2021–22, the project aimed to integrate older persons into Read more

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Back from Crisis Mode: Exploring Care-Centered Approaches to Teaching in LIS

While implementing COVID-era online education caused frustration for many, the hasty change in educational format put a spotlight on the existing challenges faced by many students. Students experience struggles related to child care, elder care, unstable housing conditions, poverty, Read more

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Guest Speakers as Mentors: What Classroom Experiences Mean to Them

Resulting from the collaboration between five practicing professionals and an LIS faculty member, this article illuminates the experiences of librarians and archivists who engage with LIS students on a continuous basis as guest speakers in LIS classrooms. The phenomenological Read more

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High-Impact Information Literacy Learning Opportunities in Postsecondary Education in Health, Civic Engagement, and Personal Finance Courses

This article extends Kuh and associates’ research describing high-impact learning as kinds and types of projects and assignments shown to benefit postsecondary students and increase rates of student retention and engagement. Given that the content and implementation of postsecondary Read more

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Readiness of Future Librarians to Work in Today’s Digital Environment in Kazakhstan

The purpose of this research is to determine the optimal pedagogical conditions in the context of the formation of information and communication competencies of future librarians, as well as to reveal the basics of professional training of information-library specialists Read more

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Developing a data quality assurance ontology for research data repositories

Developing a data quality assurance ontology for research data repositoriesDong Joon Lee, Besiki Stvilia, Fatih Gunaydin, Yuanying PangJournal of Documentation, Vol. 81, No. 7, pp.63-84

Data quality assurance (DQA) is essential for enabling the sharing and reuse Read more

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