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Archives Annual Report, 2022-2023, Meg Miner
Archives Annual Report, 2022-2023, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
No abstract provided.
Archives Annual Report, 2021-2022, Meg Miner
Archives Annual Report, 2021-2022, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
No abstract provided.
Archives Annual Report, 2020-2021, Meg Miner
Archives Annual Report, 2020-2021, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
No abstract provided.
Report On A Survey Of Iwu Faculty And Staff Attitudes About Archiving Honors And Jwp Works, Meg Miner
Report On A Survey Of Iwu Faculty And Staff Attitudes About Archiving Honors And Jwp Works, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
This report is a complete account of responses to a survey I disseminated after Spring semester of 2021. That survey purposefully asked more questions than what I needed for the book chapter I was working on.* Library personnel recognize that the interactions students have with departmental staff and faculty advisors influence the views students may form about self-archiving in DC@IWU. We have tried at various points to educate our colleagues about our work, but until this year we have not formally sought to understand if our goals match those of our departmental colleagues. I also added survey questions specific to …
Supporting Teaching With Primary Sources At Illinois Wesleyan University, Meg Miner
Supporting Teaching With Primary Sources At Illinois Wesleyan University, Meg Miner
Scholarly Publications
This report contains a summary of IWU’s participation in Ithaka S&R’s Supporting Teaching with Primary Sources study.[1] That work is “an exploratory examination of the pedagogical practices of humanities and social sciences instructors teaching with primary sources at the undergraduate level. The goal of the study is to understand instructors’ undergraduate teaching processes toward developing resources and services to support them in their work.”[2]Five Illinois Wesleyan University faculty teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences were interviewed for this project. Based on the analysis of the interview transcripts, the findings are grouped as follows: the value and purposes of teaching …
Chris Sweet On The Role Of Women In Bicycle History, July 20, 2019, Willis Kern
Chris Sweet On The Role Of Women In Bicycle History, July 20, 2019, Willis Kern
Interviews for WGLT
Willis Kern from WGLT speaks with IWU Librarian and bike historian Chris Sweet about the role women played in bicycle pioneering and how female bike riding impacted society. Chris Sweet was one of several local historians discussing bike history at the 3rd annual "Wheels Through Time: Historic Bike Show".
Archives Annual Report, 2017-2018, Meg Miner
Archives Annual Report, 2017-2018, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
No abstract provided.
Archives Annual Report, 2016-2017, Meg Miner
Archives Annual Report, 2016-2017, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
No abstract provided.
Conflicting Philosophies: Two Librarians And A Presidential Bibliophile, Meg Miner
Conflicting Philosophies: Two Librarians And A Presidential Bibliophile, Meg Miner
Scholarly Publications
This case study explores how one personal interest of President Minor Myers, jr.—that of a life-long book collector—influenced the University’s library collections and its leaders. Myers arrived with a desire to make IWU a nationally recognized, Phi Beta Kappa–affiliated institution. As one tactic for achieving these goals, Myers actively engaged in library collection development through practices shaped by his methods of book collecting. Bulk acquisitions—through gifts-in-kind and lot purchases—and a prohibition on weeding aided in his pursuits. His vision for the library challenged the style of the first university librarian (UL) who resigned two years after Myers’ arrival. The actions …
Archives Annual Report, 2015-2016, Meg Miner
Archives Annual Report, 2015-2016, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
No abstract provided.
Archives & Special Collections Preservation And Reformatting Report, Meg Miner
Archives & Special Collections Preservation And Reformatting Report, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
No abstract provided.
Portrait Of A Collector: Reflections On An Influential Bibliophile, Meg Miner
Portrait Of A Collector: Reflections On An Influential Bibliophile, Meg Miner
Scholarly Publications
The purpose of this essay is to bring together disparate information on Myers’ book collecting habits. President Myers used both the objects of his collecting and the intellectual ideas they represent in the course of his presidential responsibilities. This work offers an overview solely of this aspect of Myers’ activities, in both written records and oral histories, and is not an attempt to analyze the entire arc of Myers’ tenure. The following contains an overview of this project, a summary of collectors’ characteristics, generally, and an exploration of the specific type of collector Myers was based both on documentary evidence …
Portrait Of A Collector: A View From The Shelves Of Minor Myers, Jr., Meg Miner
Portrait Of A Collector: A View From The Shelves Of Minor Myers, Jr., Meg Miner
Scholarly Publications
The purpose of this essay is to provide an analysis of the books that President Minor Myers, jr. collected and that were subsequently transferred to Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) after Myers’ death. For reasons that will be discussed below, keeping Myers’ collection in its entirety at IWU was not practical or desirable. Most of the collection was dispersed at auction and a brief discussion of that event and of the decisions about what to retain conclude this work. Even though most of his books are no longer at IWU, it is still possible to appreciate the breadth of Myers’ book …
Three Legs On The Stool: Service Learning Projects, Community, And Library, Karen Schmidt, Deborah Halperin
Three Legs On The Stool: Service Learning Projects, Community, And Library, Karen Schmidt, Deborah Halperin
Scholarly Publications
Illinois Wesleyan University’s Action Research Center launches many different service learning projects in the Bloomington-Normal community. Often these projects originate from the community, and employ the action research model that imbeds the participant-researcher in the organization or program that is being studied. The IWU library has seized on opportunities to integrate library research and critical thinking skills into service learning projects. Some are obvious - working with faculty and students in senior seminar classes to assist with research papers and presentations - while others are more subtle. Using a service learning project as a case study, the authors discuss the …
Intellectual Entrepreneurship: A Frame For Engaging Undergraduates In Scholarly Communication, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Intellectual Entrepreneurship: A Frame For Engaging Undergraduates In Scholarly Communication, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Scholarly Publications
Author's accepted manuscript of a chapter published in Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Implementation (Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson, eds.), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Faculty Self-Archiving, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Faculty Self-Archiving, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Scholarly Publications
Authors' accepted manuscript version of a book chapter from Making Institutional Repositories Work (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences), Burton B. Callicott, David Scherer, Andrew Wesolek (eds), Purdue University Press, 2016. Available for purchase and Google Books.
Archives Annual Report, 2014-2015, Meg Miner
Archives Annual Report, 2014-2015, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
No abstract provided.
Digital Preservation Strategies For A Small Private College, Meg Miner
Digital Preservation Strategies For A Small Private College, Meg Miner
Scholarly Publications
Well established “best practices” in digital preservation (DP) do little to address day-to-day realities in repositories that cannot dedicate funds or staff to DP workflows. What can a Lone Arranger do to ensure good stewardship for born digital and digitized institutional records before a complete preservation system is in place?
Secret Shopping As User Experience Assessment Tool, Crystal Boyce
Secret Shopping As User Experience Assessment Tool, Crystal Boyce
Scholarly Publications
Secret shopping is a form of unobtrusive evaluation that can be accomplished with minimal effort, but still produce rich results. With as few as eleven shoppers, the author was able to identify trends in user satisfaction with services provided across two entry-level desks at Illinois Wesleyan University’s The Ames Library. The focus of this secret shopping program was on user experiences, rather than whether correct answers were given by student employees working at the desks. Overall, users were satisfied or very satisfied with their experiences, though user feedback identified one desk as providing consistently better service.
Pre-Print - Secret Shopping As User Experience Assessment Tool, Crystal Boyce
Pre-Print - Secret Shopping As User Experience Assessment Tool, Crystal Boyce
Scholarly Publications
Secret shopping is a form of unobtrusive evaluation that can be accomplished with minimal effort, but still produce rich results. With as few as eleven shoppers, the author was able to identify trends in user satisfaction with services provided across two entry-level desks at Illinois Wesleyan University’s The Ames Library. The focus of this secret shopping program was on user experiences, rather than whether correct answers were given by student employees working at the desks. Overall, users were satisfied or very satisfied with their experiences, though user feedback identified one desk as providing consistently better service.
Ala Emerging Leaders Poster Presentation 2015, Elizabeth Boatright, Crystal Boyce, Sarah Espinosa, Rebecca Marrall, Angela Kent
Ala Emerging Leaders Poster Presentation 2015, Elizabeth Boatright, Crystal Boyce, Sarah Espinosa, Rebecca Marrall, Angela Kent
Scholarly Publications
This poster represents the work of an Emerging Leaders (EL) Team tasked by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Publications Committee to investigate whether RUSA should create resources for 21st-century reference and user services librarians interested in the concept of “library as publisher.” Within this report, readers will find a proposed definition of library publishing, the results of an environmental scan of support provided by library and affiliated professional associations, results of a survey gauging interest in library publishing services, and recommended next steps for RUSA.
Archives Annual Report, 2013-2014, Meg Miner
Archives Annual Report, 2013-2014, Meg Miner
Administrative Reports
No abstract provided.
Practice Makes Perfect: Updating Borrowing Policies And Procedures At A Small Academic Library, Crystal Boyce
Practice Makes Perfect: Updating Borrowing Policies And Procedures At A Small Academic Library, Crystal Boyce
Scholarly Publications
In 2011, staff from the undergraduate libraries at the College of William & Mary came together to evaluate circulation policies related to borrowing periods and billing. In an attempt to better align the policies across each unit, and with the intention of creating a more consistent user experience, new policies were proposed and implemented in the fall of 2012. These changes were found to dramatically decrease staff time necessary for billing, while improving user satisfaction with the borrowing policies. Significantly fewer books went into billing, suggesting no adverse effects on collection maintenance.
What’S In The Box? Introducing Research Environments To First-Year Students, Crystal Boyce
What’S In The Box? Introducing Research Environments To First-Year Students, Crystal Boyce
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
Service-Learning And Information Literacy: Creating Powerful Synergies, Christopher Sweet
Service-Learning And Information Literacy: Creating Powerful Synergies, Christopher Sweet
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
Promoting Active Learning Through Undergraduate Economics Journals, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Robert Leekley, Michael Seeborg
Promoting Active Learning Through Undergraduate Economics Journals, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Robert Leekley, Michael Seeborg
Scholarly Publications
We draw upon our own experience to discuss the use of undergraduate student journals to promote active learning by comparing and contrasting institution-focused (Park Place Economist) and externally-focused (Undergraduate Economic Review) publications, suggesting ways of integrating these journals into upper-division coursework, and describing ways in which economics departments can partner with libraries to facilitate the editorial process and increase the accessibility of the journal.
Disruption And Disintermediation: A Review Of The Collection Development And Management Literature, 2009 And 2010, Marcia Thomas
Disruption And Disintermediation: A Review Of The Collection Development And Management Literature, 2009 And 2010, Marcia Thomas
Scholarly Publications
This paper reviews the literature of collection development and management from 2009 and 2010. Themes and trends reflect the profound effect of environmental forces on libraries, including the economic recession, changes in scholarly communication, and an increasingly networked environment. Libraries reduced print collections and moved them to storage or shared repositories and assessed collections to find efficiencies and demonstrate value. Research libraries moved away from collecting everything to mission-focused collecting, with an emphasis on unique collections. Collaboration across libraries, within institutions, and with non-library partners continued as a key management strategy. Nascent plans emerged to develop a national strategy for …
Wikipedia’S Success And The Rise Of The Amateur-Expert, Christopher Sweet
Wikipedia’S Success And The Rise Of The Amateur-Expert, Christopher Sweet
Scholarly Publications
The Free Online Encyclopedia, as Wikipedia called, is a radical departure from traditional encyclopedias and traditional methods of knowledge creation. This chapter explores how a community of amateurs on Wikipedia has challenged our notions of expertise in the 21st century. It does so by first looking at the roots of Wikipedia in a phenomenon known as the “wisdom of the crowds” and in the open source software movement. The reliability of Wikipedia is examined as are the claims of major critics of the project. Throughout, epistemological questions raised by Wikipedia are addressed.
"Illinois" And "Richard The Raker", Christopher Sweet
"Illinois" And "Richard The Raker", Christopher Sweet
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
Intellectual Entrepreneurship & Library Publishing Programs, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Intellectual Entrepreneurship & Library Publishing Programs, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Scholarly Publications
This presentation was given as part of the Library Publishing Services workshops sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in May 2011.