Presentations

Understanding Undergraduate Engineering Student Information Access and Needs: Results from a Scoping Review., at OLA SuperConference, 2018 Toronto, Ontario

Authors: Kate Mercer, Ariel Stables-Kennedy, Kari Weaver

How do undergraduate engineering students access information and understand what constitutes a good and legitimate source in the field? This scoping review summarizes the existing research on this topic, identifies potential future research directions, and provides librarians with guidance on the conduct of scoping review methodology.

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Minding the Gaps: Conducting and Using Scoping Reviews in the Library Context. Accepted, at ALA, Washington, DC June 2019

Authors: Kate Mercer, Ariel Stables-Kennedy, Kari Weaver. 

What is a scoping review? How does it differ from other knowledge transfer approaches? Why would we employ it within a library context? How can a librarian actively lead or contribute to scoping reviews? Scoping reviews are an increasingly popular way of synthesizing research and identifying gaps in existing evidence, especially in the health field (Pham et al., 2014). Arksey and O’Malley (2005) highlight the importance of scoping reviews in address broad, complex research questions, or research questions that are...

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