The June 2024 Issue of EBLIP is here!

The June 2024 issue (Vol. 19, No. 2) of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice has been published.

 

Editorial

• Evidence Summary Theme: Artificial Intelligence

Heather MacDonald

1

 

Research Articles

• A Survey on Student Use of Generative AI Chatbots for Academic Research

Amy Deschenes, Meg McMahon

2-22

 

• Gauging Academic Unit Perceptions of Library Services During a Transition in University Budget Models

Margaret A Hoogland, Gerald Natal, Robert Wilmott, Clare F. Keating, Daisy Caruso

23-50

 

• Beyond Cost Savings: The Impact of Open Textbooks on Writing Studies Course Grades

Sarah LeMire

51-62

 

• Conceptualization and Practice of Information Literacy Pedagogy at Universities in Kenya

Johnson Mulongo Masinde, Frankline Mugambi, Daniel Muthee Wambiri

63-73

 

• “Wellbeing Through Reading”: The Impact of a Public Library and Healthcare Library Partnership Initiative in England

Anita Phul, Hélène Gorring, David Stokes

74-93

 

• Systematic Review Research Guides and Support Services in Academic Libraries in the US: A Content Analysis of Resources and Services in 2023

Elizabeth Sterner

94-108

 

Using Evidence in Practice

• Evidence Based Principles to Accelerate Health Information Flow and Uptake Among Older Adults

Nick Ubels, Lauren Albrecht

109-118

 

• Increasing Student Engagement in a Re-opened Regional Campus Library: Results from a Student Focus Group

Isabel Vargas Ochoa

119-126

 

Evidence Summaries

• Academic Libraries’ Citation Guides to ChatGPT Show Mixed Levels of Accuracy and Currency

Abbey Lewis

127-129

 

• Students’ Perspective of the Advantages and Disadvantages of ChatGPT Compared to Reference Librarians

Kathy Grams

130-132

 

• Machine-learning Recommender Systems Can Inform Collection Development Decisions

Kristy Hancock

133-135

 

• Academic Libraries Can Develop AI Chatbots for Virtual Reference Services with Minimal Technical Knowledge and Limited Resources

Matthew Chase

136-138

 

• A Study on the Knowledge and Perception of Artificial Intelligence

David Dettman

139-141

 

• Machine Learning Offers Opportunities to Advance Library Services

Samantha Kaplan

142-144

 

• ChatGPT not Useful as a Tool to Streamline Library Cataloguing Processes

Andrea Miller-Nesbitt

145-147

 

News

• Call for Volunteers for EBLIP Journal: Peer Reviewers from Public Libraries

148-149