Giovanna BadiaMcGill University | McGill · Libraries
Giovanna Badia
B.A., M.L.I.S.
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Introduction
I work at McGill University Library. My research and professional interests include citation analysis, database comparison and evaluation, library assessment, and information literacy. I also author the Teaching Practicalities column of the journal, College & Undergraduate Libraries.
May 2018 note: I will update this page infrequently in the future. See my ORCID ID (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1544-2728) or Google Scholar Profile page for the most recent information.
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Publications (49)
Multiple data collection or research methods exist for evaluating library spaces. Faced with numerous choices and limited time for gathering data, it becomes challenging for information professionals to determine the best way to proceed with evaluating their libraries’ physical spaces. There is a gap in the literature on best practices for combinin...
Studies about the assessment of information literacy instruction have reported the use of specific grading criteria, also known as rubrics, to evaluate students’ responses. Rubrics can be divided into two general categories: (1) holistic, where one score is assigned for evaluating the successful completion of a task; and (2) analytic, where a grade...
There are different types of questions that can be used to determine whether students learned what they were taught in an information literacy (IL) session. This article summarizes best practices from the education literature for constructing short-answer, alternative-response, matching, multiple-choice, interpretative, and essay questions, as well...
Purpose
Performing efficient literature searches and subscribing to the most comprehensive databases for interdisciplinary fields can be challenging since the literature is typically indexed in numerous databases to different extents. Comparing databases will help information professionals make appropriate choices when teaching, literature searchi...
Teaching information literacy (IL) sessions can be emotionally exhausting, especially when faced with a heavy instructional workload that requires repeating similar course content multiple times. This article lists forty practical, how-to strategies for avoiding burnout and thriving when teaching.
Educators need to reflect critically on their instruction to continue to be effective. This paper will employ case studies to demonstrate how librarians can improve their teaching by applying critical reflection and action research to their information literacy (IL) sessions. The four lenses model of Stephen Brookfield, an adult education expert, w...
Successful teaching requires careful preparation. This article presents steps for designing information literacy sessions, including strategies for dealing with technology failures and human issues during the actual delivery of the class.
Research question or topic formulation is an important skill for individuals to learn in order to become information literate. There are few reports in the literature on how to teach this skill and assess the instruction delivered. This article presents instructional strategies and an active learning activity that librarians can use to teach studen...
A Review of:
Cavacini, A. (2015). What is the best database for computer science journal articles? Scientometrics 102(3): 2059-2071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-014-1506-1
Objective – To compare the coverage of computer science literature in four bibliographic databases by checking the indexing of a selection of journal articles. The purpose...
This article employs case studies, as well as observations and research findings from the published literature, to explore how sponsored projects and service in professional associations can be used to develop and apply the leadership potential of academic librarians. Tapping into the leadership potential of its librarians can help academic librari...
A Review of:
Grabowsky, A. (2015). Library instruction in communication disorders: Which databases should be prioritized? Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 79(Winter). doi:10.5062/F4707ZFB
Abstract
Objective – There are two objectives in this research article. The first is to identify databases that librarians usually recommend to s...
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A Review of:
Tewell, E. C. (2014). Tying television comedies to information literacy: A mixed-methods investigation. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 40(2), 134-141. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2014.02.004
Abstract
Objective – This study assessed the effects of showing television comedy clips to demonstrate information literacy concepts when teac...
Objective – The research project examined university faculty’s publications in order to find professors with previous data experiences. The professors could then be approached with an offer of the library’s data services.
Design – Bibliographic study.
Setting – Department of Crop Sciences in the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmenta...
Objective – The research project examined university faculty's publications in order to find professors with previous data experiences. The professors could then be approached with an offer of the library's data services. Design – Bibliographic study.
Objective – To present the initial results of an academic library’s one-year pilot with patron-driven acquisition of e-books, which was undertaken “to observe how user preferences and the availability of e-books interacted with [the library’s] traditional selection program” (p. 469).
Design – Case study.
Setting – The University of Iowa, a major...
This paper reports on best practices for engaging individuals and groups in a web conferencing environment, and translating active learning techniques and exercises to synchronous online learning. The best practices are arranged into: 1) introducing and orienting; 2) informing; 3) active learning and feedback; 4) humanizing the environment; and 5)...
Objective – To discover how faculty perceives information literacy and examine whether professors in different disciplines view and approach information literacy differently. Particularly, the study seeks to address the following questions:
• “How do faculty members define or understand information literacy? Are they familiar with existing standar...
Full text available at http://www.sla.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Sun-Badia-ComparingIndexing.pdf -- Update: Note that the Scopus interface changed since this paper was written. To extract the cited references of your results in Scopus, click on "More..." > "View references" and then select all the references and click on "Export."
Objective – To discover how faculty perceives information literacy and examine whether professors in different disciplines view and approach information literacy differently. Particularly, the study seeks to address the following questions:• “How do faculty members define or understand information literacy?o Are they familiar with existing standard...
Available at https://www.milieuxdoc.ca/2012/congres-des-milieux-documentaires-corporatif.php?id=14362
Objective – To examine how the Key Mediating Variable (KMV) model of Morgan and Hunt’s Commitment-Trust Theory of Relationship Marketing can be used to look at the relationships between librarians and faculty as reported in the literature. Relationship marketing stresses customer retention and long-term customer relationships, rather than focusing...
Objective – To examine how the KeyMediating Variable (KMV) model of Morganand Hunt’s Commitment-Trust Theory ofRelationship Marketing can be used to look atthe relationships between librarians andfaculty as reported in the literature.Relationship marketing stresses customerretention and long-term customerrelationships, rather than focusing on thepr...
Objective – To investigate and compare the nature of e-mail reference services in academic and public libraries outside the United States.
Design – Longitudinal comparative study.
Setting – A total of 23 academic and public libraries in ten countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, an...
Objective – To investigate and compare the nature of e-mail reference services in academic and public libraries outside the United States.Design – Longitudinal comparative study. Setting – A total of 23 academic and public libraries in ten countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, and t...
Objective – To determine the construct validity of a search assessment instrument that is used to evaluate search strategies in Ovid MEDLINE.
Design – Cross-sectional, cohort study.
Setting – The Academic Medical Center of the University of Michigan.
Subjects – All 22 first-year residents in the Department of Pediatrics in 2004 (cohort 1); 10 se...
Objective – To determine the construct validity of a search assessment instrument that is used to evaluate search strategies in Ovid MEDLINE. Design – Cross-sectional, cohort study. Setting – The Academic Medical Center of the University of Michigan. Subjects – All 22 first-year residents in the Department of Pediatrics in 2004 (cohort 1); 10 senio...
A Review of:
Stokes, P., Foster, A., & Urquhart, C. (2009). Beyond relevance and recall: Testing new user-centred measures of database performance. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 26(3), 220-231.
Objective – The research project sought to determine which of four databases was the most useful for searching undergraduate nursing topics....
Objective – The research project sought to determine which of four databases was the most useful for searching undergraduate nursing topics. Design – Comparative database evaluation. Setting – Nursing and midwifery students at Homerton School of Health Studies (now part of Anglia Ruskin University), Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 2005-2006. Subjects...
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Walters, W. H. (2009). Google Scholar search performance: Comparative recall and precision. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 9(1), 5-24.
Objective – To compare the search performance (i.e., recall and precision) of Google Scholar with that of 11 other bibliographic databases when using a keyword search to find references on later-l...
Objective – To compare the search performance (i.e., recall and precision) of Google Scholar with that of 11 other bibliographic databases when using a keyword search to find references on later-life migration. Design – Comparative database evaluation. Setting – Not stated in the article. It appears from the author’s affiliation that this research...
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Vibert, N., Ros, C., Le Bigot, L., Ramond, M., Gatefin, J., & Rouet, J.-F. (2009). Effects of domain knowledge on reference search with the PubMed database: An experimental study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(7), 1423-1447.
Objective – To determine whether neuroscientists and life scienti...
Objective – To determine whether neuroscientists and life scientists’ domain knowledge affects their search performance in PubMed for neuroscience topics.Design – Cross‐sectional experimental study.Setting – State‐funded research laboratories in the cities of Paris, Bordeaux and Poitiers, France.Subjects – There were 32 participants in the study: 1...
