Vol 86, No 1 (2025)

January

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Guest Editorial

Developing ALA’s Journal Publication Ethics Policy
Heather Campbell, Emily Knox, Richard Saunders, Kristen Totleben
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Articles

“I’ll Wait Zero Seconds”: Faculty Perspectives on Serials Access, Sharing, and Immediacy
Rachel E. Scott, Anne Shelley, Chad E. Buckley, Cassie Thayer-Styes, Julie A. Murphy
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First-Year and First-Gen: Assessing the Information Literacy Skills of First-Year, First-Generation College Students
Sarah LeMire, Zhihong Xu, Doug Hahn
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Job Control, Library Instruction, and Burnout: A Quantitative Analysis of Academic Instruction Librarians’ Experiences of Job Control While Teaching
Matthew Weirick Johnson
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Health Sciences and Beyond: An Investigation into Canadian Librarian Participation in Systematic Reviews Across Disciplines
Catherine Boden, Susan Bolton, Angie Gerrard
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Identifying Metadata Quality Issues Across Cultures
Julie Shi, Mike Nason, Marco Tullney, Juan Pablo Alperin
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Why Does SoTL Happen in a Librarian-Free Zone?
Anne Grant, Kyle Feenstra, Mills Kelly
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Developing a Training Program for Student Library Assistants to Make Scanned PDFs Accessible: A Case Study
Aneta Kwak
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The Impact of the Research Data Management Toolkit: Assessing a RoadShow Workshop
Abigail Goben, Megan Sapp-Nelson, Shaurya Gaur
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Book Reviews

Inside College Mergers: Stories from the Front Lines. Mark La Branche, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. 176 pp. Hardcover, $44.95, (978-1421448602)
A. Blake Denton
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Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants: Bibliographical Foundations of Information Science, Wayne de Fremery, MIT Press, 2024. 296 p. Softcover, $45.00. 9780262547598.
John C. Rendeiro
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Everyday Evidence-Based Practice in Academic Libraries: Case Studies and Reflections, Claire Walker Wiley, Amanda B. Click, and Meggan Houlihan (eds.), Association of College & Research Libraries, 2023. 376p. Softcover, $84.00. 9780838939857.
Kathleen James
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