Purpose
As learning analytics, an emergent field, nowadays is seen as a way to break barriers to intra-institutional collaboration that will ultimately lead to educational deep transformational change, HE administrators and library and information science (LIS) researchers argue on the purpose of connecting in-library user activity data to campus-wide initiatives, their relevance and potential contribution to library strategic alignment with broader institutional goals. In this realm and framed within a PhD research, this paper aims to provide an overview of preliminary findings relevant to the exploration of the potential of Spanish and Greek academic libraries to becoming involved in learning analytics initiatives
Design/methodology/approach
Spanish and Greek public university library director large scale mini-survey and LIS undergraduate curricula desk research.
Findings
Analysis of public university library director mini-survey bring to light a series of negative correlations between different LRRC types, in-library use data collection and sharing practices and library-based learning analytics conversations, while LIS undergraduate curricula review identified a limited integration of learning analytics and assessment critical skills.
Originality/value
It is the first Greek and Spanish university library-specific study aiming to contribute to the dialogue on whether, how and when the wealth of in-library use-generated knowledge could be capitalized within future learning analytics initiatives.
The history of Kyiv university library of the educational experiments period (from 1920 to beginning 1930th) is presented in this article. The research is based on archived materials. The author described structures, the main directions of work and ways of library funds refill. The basic obstacles of the normal functioning of library are found out in an indicated period. Information about the chief librarians of the 1920s – 1930s was specified. The term of work of V. Kordt in the Kiev Institute of Public Education was specified, his successors are indicated. Main attention is paid to the difficult period of 1925-1929, related to the library reorganization, allocation of a significant part of funds and transfer of them to the National Library of Ukraine and other educational and scientific institutions of Ukraine. The activity of О. Nazarevskyi on the post of library director has been analyzed. It was accentuated the efforts that had been made by the administration of institute and Nazarevskyi as a senior librarian for the purpose of decreasing the negative consequences of library funds distribution during the second half of 1920th.
«FORGOTTEN DIRECTOR» (O. NAZAREVSKYI AND THE LIBRARY OF KYIV UNIVERSITY DURING 1920’S – AT THE BEGINNING OF 1930’S)
