Lynn Silipigni Connaway

PPPUA13 | The Value of Academic Libraries | Goal: Academic libraries demonstrate alignment with and impact on institutional outcomes Promote impact & value of libraries to higher education community | The team compared the differences in proportion of themes discussed in documents from the higher education literature versus the LIS literature.
Search terms used for the database searches included the word “Library” and its derivatives.
For this reason, this comparison is only able to inform of differences in the proportion of themes between what is being said about student learning outcomes as related to libraries within the higher education literature versus the LIS literature, not student learning outcomes in general.
We are going to conduct a search more broadly to identify trends in higher education related to outcomes that advance the mission and goals of the university, including student outcomes
Results of this literature review will be contained in the final version of the report
Documents labeled as higher education literature were those retrieved from higher education databases that were not indexed by LIS databases and reports from Ithaka S R. Therefore, a total of 354 documents of the total 535 documents (66%) were reviewed when making this comparison given that the team retrieved documents for review that were not indexed by databases (e.g., AiA studies). There were:
n=18 documents designated as higher education literature (about 5% of the total documents)
n=52 documents (15%) designated as both higher education and LIS literature since they were indexed by both databases
n=284 documents (80%) were from LIS literature.
This figure illustrates the percent difference between thematic code by whether a document is from the higher education literature, LIS literature, or higher education and LIS literature.
Which themes vary most by the proportion of documents to which they are applied?
LIS literature and higher ed. and LIS literature combined discuss service more than higher education literature
LIS literature discusses service and success in college more than in higher education and LIS literature

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