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Preserving Our Heritage: Protecting Law Library Core Missions Through Updated Library Quality Assessment Standards, Sarah Hooke Lee
Preserving Our Heritage: Protecting Law Library Core Missions Through Updated Library Quality Assessment Standards, Sarah Hooke Lee
Sarah Hooke Lee
Professor Lee argues that traditional quality criteria for judging law libraries are now inadequate because they no longer capture the vital multiple missions of today's libraries. She suggests ways that law librarians can begin to develop indicia of quality that can adequately evaluate the contemporary law school library and preserve its core missions.
Challenges In Building An Incremental, Multi-Year Information Literacy Plan, Mary C. Macdonald, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Joanna M. Burkhardt
Challenges In Building An Incremental, Multi-Year Information Literacy Plan, Mary C. Macdonald, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Joanna M. Burkhardt
Joanna M Burkhardt
The authors discuss the plan for building an incremental, multi-year information literacy program at the University of Rhode Island. Review of the current library instruction program leads to why and how they plan to change the program by focusing on the concepts of understanding what information is in addition to learning how to gather, evaluate, and use information. The Draft Plan for Information Literacy at the University of Rhode Island Libraries addresses the information and research needs of undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty needs. The development of credit-bearing courses in information literacy, the creation of information literacy …
Blueprint For Planning A Successful Program, Joanna M. Burkhardt, Mary C. Macdonald, Andree J. Rathemacher
Blueprint For Planning A Successful Program, Joanna M. Burkhardt, Mary C. Macdonald, Andree J. Rathemacher
Joanna M Burkhardt
Discusses program planning for librarians whose experience in this area is limited. How to plan and coordinate the program; Dealing with details; What to do on the day of the event; Ways to follow up; The program packet and what to include.
Report Of The Electronic Information Resources Task Force, Robin Devin, Nadine Baer, Joanna Burkhardt, David Clayton, Ken Morse, Pauline Moulson, John Osterhout, Andree Rathemacher, Tim Tierney, Charlene Yang
Report Of The Electronic Information Resources Task Force, Robin Devin, Nadine Baer, Joanna Burkhardt, David Clayton, Ken Morse, Pauline Moulson, John Osterhout, Andree Rathemacher, Tim Tierney, Charlene Yang
Joanna M Burkhardt
Report of the Electronic Information Resources Task Force of the University of Rhode Island Libraries. The report outlined a set of twelve recommendations related to Web-based access to electronic indexes and journals. The charge to the task force was the following: "Evaluate the range of the electronic information and delivery mechanisms relevant to the programs of the University of Rhode Island; Identify means to provide access to relevant electronic journals; Develop a plan for implementing new resources and/or changing the configuration of existing resources; Develop a working strategy and plan for integrating traditional library resources with electronic resources. "Work with …
Does Gender And Race Have An Impact On Earnings In The Library And Information Science Labor Market In The United States Of America?, Darren Sweeper, Steven A. Smith Phd
Does Gender And Race Have An Impact On Earnings In The Library And Information Science Labor Market In The United States Of America?, Darren Sweeper, Steven A. Smith Phd
Steven D. Smith
Using data from the 2003 US National Survey of College Graduates, a longitudinal survey administered by the US Bureau of Census for the National Science Foundation, this study examines earnings in the library and information science labor market and assesses the impact of gender and race on the earnings attainment process. This cross-sectional dataset is used to determine if there are significant differences in income among library and information science professionals with respect to gender and race. The approach taken in this study is to build a theoretical model of earnings attainment for librarians and information scientists. This is followed …
Erasing Boundaries: Global Resource Sharing In The 21st Century, Robert A. Seal
Erasing Boundaries: Global Resource Sharing In The 21st Century, Robert A. Seal
Robert A Seal
Academic libraries have long been accustomed to participating in cooperative ventures with neighboring institutions as well as with those in other regions of their country. In large part, such activities have grown out of a desire to reduce or control costs, as well as to provide users with a broader base of materials for research, study, and teaching. Because not even a well-developed national library is able to fulfill all its users' needs all the time, today's university libraries must depend upon one another to fulfill those needs. For many decades, the resource sharing tradition has been particularly strong among …
The U.S.-Mexico Interlibrary Loan Project, Robert A. Seal
The U.S.-Mexico Interlibrary Loan Project, Robert A. Seal
Robert A Seal
Initiated in the fall of 1989, the U.S.-Mexico Interlibrary Loan Project is a cooperative effort providing for the formal exchange of books, photocopies, and microforms between libraries in the Southwest United States and Mexico City. The 25 U.S. participants are all members of the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council and are primarily academic libraries. The Mexican collaborators include six libraries at private colleges and universities and the Benjamin Franklin Library of the United States Information Service. The University Library of the University of Texas at El Paso coordinates the program, the first of its kind between the United States and its neighbor …
Collaboration With Contentdm: Building Local History Collections, Rose Fortier, Emily Pfotenhauer
Collaboration With Contentdm: Building Local History Collections, Rose Fortier, Emily Pfotenhauer
Rose Fortier
An exploration of collaboration between institutions for the creation of digital collections using CONTENTdm. Wisconsin Heritage Online and the Milwaukee Public Library reveal how they were able to enter into a partnership to host digital collections from smaller institutions who would not be able to afford to purchase or subscribe CONTENTdm on their own.
Technology Management Trends In Law Schools, Carol A. Watson, Larry Reeves
Technology Management Trends In Law Schools, Carol A. Watson, Larry Reeves
Carol A. Watson
Discusses the role of librarians in law school technology management and analyzes technology staffing survey results for 2002, 2006, and 2010. While survey results indicate a trend toward establishing separate information technology departments within law schools, librarians are and will continue to be actively involved in law school technology.
Connecting Staff Skills To Performance Reviews, Dennis J. Smith
Connecting Staff Skills To Performance Reviews, Dennis J. Smith
Dennis J Smith
The University of South Florida (USF) Library initiated a task force to develop a listing of skills needed by staff personnel within the library. This task force was able to draw from several sources to recognize some core competencies needed within the library. This effort highlighted the need for the library to develop a correlation between these competencies and how staff members will be evaluated. The Performance Indicators document was developed to facilitate this. The last step of the task force was to translate this information into a program for evaluating staff, an on-boarding process for training new staff members …
Patron-Driven Acquisitions: Transforming Library Collections In The Virtual Environment, Doug Way
Patron-Driven Acquisitions: Transforming Library Collections In The Virtual Environment, Doug Way
Doug Way
How do Patron-Driven Acquisitions (PDA) programs work? What challenges do PDA programs present? What are some key benefits of PDA programs? How do PDA programs supplement, enhance, or replace traditional collection development models? What have libraries learned from implementing PDA programs? Doug Way joins us for a presentation and discussion of e-book PDA in academic libraries. He will also discuss what Grand Valley State University has learned since implementing a PDA program in 2009.
Assessment On The Go: Surveying Students With An Ipad, Jennifer Link Jones, Bryan Sinclair
Assessment On The Go: Surveying Students With An Ipad, Jennifer Link Jones, Bryan Sinclair
Jennifer L. Jones
Ongoing assessment in academic libraries, particularly the measurement of student perceptions, preferences, and satisfaction, can be a challenge to schedule and execute. This paper describes a pilot project at Georgia State University Library that combined assessment with the portability of the tablet computer. A tablet computer--in this case, Apple’s iPad--loaded with survey software became a digital clipboard with the added benefit of automatic data compilation. Subjects were surveyed quickly in the library buildings, maximizing convenience for both subjects and researchers alike. The result was a model that other libraries, as well as campus student services divisions and classroom instructors, can …
A Case Study Of Rules-Based Weeding, Doug Way, Julie A. Garrison
A Case Study Of Rules-Based Weeding, Doug Way, Julie A. Garrison
Doug Way
Presented at Implementing a Disapproval Plan: A Case Study of Rules-Based Weeding. Speakers: Doug Way, Grand Valley State University; Julie Garrison, Grand Valley State University; Rick Lugg, Sustainable Collection Services. In 2013, Grand Valley State University will open a new library building. At that time materials in the library's existing off-site storage facility will be moved into the new library's automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), reintegrating them with the main collection. These materials had originally been moved into storage in 2003 because of their low use and since that time, only about 1% of the collection has circulated. Knowing …
A Case Study On The Impact Of Web‐Scale Discovery Services On The Use Of Reference, Doug Way
A Case Study On The Impact Of Web‐Scale Discovery Services On The Use Of Reference, Doug Way
Doug Way
Presented at The Role of Reference in Discovery Systems: Effecting a More Literate Search Speakers: Will Wheeler, Georgetown University; Doug Way, Grand Valley State University; Gina McCue, Credo Reference, Scott Anderson, Millersville University. Resource discovery is a top priority in libraries today, as evidenced by the ever-growing number of libraries that are making significant investments in Discovery Systems. With an equally high value placed on promoting Information Literacy, the questions now facing these libraries are: How will their students and faculty get the most out of the Discovery System, how will a variety of users learn to navigate through discovery …
Course-Integrated Information Literacy Instruction In Introduction To Accounting, Anne Kelly, Teresa Williams, Brad Matthies, J. B. Orris
Course-Integrated Information Literacy Instruction In Introduction To Accounting, Anne Kelly, Teresa Williams, Brad Matthies, J. B. Orris
Teresa Williams
Two groups of students, enrolled in Introduction to Accounting, volunteered to participate in a pedagogical study to assess course-integrated information literacy instruction. Only one group had received information literacy instruction in an earlier business course. Academic librarians provided three instruction sessions, and students completed a semester-long case to evaluate a company as a potential investment. The results suggest that information literacy skills can be learned for application in subsequent coursework. This research also provides some evidence of significantly greater improvement in information literacy and significantly higher perceptions of course-integrated instruction benefits by students who had not received the previous instruction.
Course-Integrated Information Literacy Instruction In Introduction To Accounting, Anne Kelly, Teresa Williams, Brad Matthies, J. B. Orris
Course-Integrated Information Literacy Instruction In Introduction To Accounting, Anne Kelly, Teresa Williams, Brad Matthies, J. B. Orris
Anne Kelly
Two groups of students, enrolled in Introduction to Accounting, volunteered to participate in a pedagogical study to assess course-integrated information literacy instruction. Only one group had received information literacy instruction in an earlier business course. Academic librarians provided three instruction sessions, and students completed a semester-long case to evaluate a company as a potential investment. The results suggest that information literacy skills can be learned for application in subsequent coursework. This research also provides some evidence of significantly greater improvement in information literacy and significantly higher perceptions of course-integrated instruction benefits by students who had not received the previous instruction.
School Librarians And Technology: Integrating Online Resources For Teaching, Linda Sellers, Heather Leary
School Librarians And Technology: Integrating Online Resources For Teaching, Linda Sellers, Heather Leary
Heather Leary, Ph.D.
No abstract provided.
When Practice Doesn’T Make Perfect: Effects Of Task Goals On Learning Computing Concepts, Craig S. Miller, Amber Settle
When Practice Doesn’T Make Perfect: Effects Of Task Goals On Learning Computing Concepts, Craig S. Miller, Amber Settle
Amber Settle
Collaboration With A Public Library, Margot G. Malachowski
Collaboration With A Public Library, Margot G. Malachowski
Margot G Malachowski, MLS, AHIP
Challenges And Opportunities For Medical Institutional Repositories, Dan Kipnis, Msi, Ann E. Koopman, Am, Lisa Palmer, Msls, Ahip
Challenges And Opportunities For Medical Institutional Repositories, Dan Kipnis, Msi, Ann E. Koopman, Am, Lisa Palmer, Msls, Ahip
Lisa A. Palmer
Description Thomas Jefferson University Library and University of Massachusetts Medical School Library have two important things in common: successful institutional repositories and experienced library leaders that developed them. Please join Dan Kipnis and Ann Koopman of Thomas Jefferson University, and Lisa Palmer of University of Massachusetts Medical School for a free webinar on institutional repositories (IRs) at medical schools. Speakers will explore how each organization decided to start an IR, how the IRs have evolved, unique IR collections, successful partnerships, challenges and opportunities, and the future of medical IRs.
Information Literacy: The Library's Academic Program, Cheryl B. Truesdell
Information Literacy: The Library's Academic Program, Cheryl B. Truesdell
Cheryl B. Truesdell
No abstract provided.
Drowning In The Data Deluge: Digital Library Challenges For Asia (Keynote), Christine L. Borgman
Drowning In The Data Deluge: Digital Library Challenges For Asia (Keynote), Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
Scholarly communication no longer consists merely of papers and publications. Research data have become valuable objects to be captured, documented, and shared. Funding agencies are requiring "data management plans" for all new proposals. Libraries, universities, and research institutes are assessing how to manage those data in ways that can be leveraged for future value. But what are "data"? We are drowning in them without being able to define what they are. This talk will explore the shifting landscape of scholarly information, with special attention to how these shifts may influence digital libraries in Asia. Research is disseminated by many formal …
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Sue Ann Gardner
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Sue Ann Gardner
Sue E. Gardner
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, entomologist and systematic biologist, published nearly 4,000 papers, some of them only a few lines long. Cockerell’s special interest in bees led him to describe and name specimens from the United States, the West Indies, Honduras, the Philippines, Africa, and Asia. He published at least 5,500 names for species and varieties of bees and almost 150 names for genera and subgenera. It has been estimated that this represented over a quarter of all known species of bees during his lifetime. Above all, however, Cockerell was a general systematist. In addition to extensive studies of bees and …
Letters: Elimination Of Scholarships, Sue Ann Gardner
Letters: Elimination Of Scholarships, Sue Ann Gardner
Sue E. Gardner
Jay Hegde (Letters, 29 Oct., p. 637) asserts that “science students enter graduate school for the wrong reasons” when they seek “wholesale tuition waivers and stipends.” The implication is that students, with their sights set only on the big bucks they’ll rake in as graduate students, disregard that they may be unemployed after receiving their doctorate because of the lack of professional-level positions. Anyone who has gone through graduate school on a tuition waiver and stipend knows that big bucks it ain’t, so that is unlikely to be the major reason someone chooses to continue his or her education...
Archiving & Records Management Perspectives On Electronic-Only Publications For Nomenclature, Sue Ann Gardner
Archiving & Records Management Perspectives On Electronic-Only Publications For Nomenclature, Sue Ann Gardner
Sue E. Gardner
I fully support the establishment of taxonomic names in electronic-only publications and would like to make some recommendations based on my professional experience in archival sciences, as a Scholarly Communications Librarian. The proposed amendment to the Code needs only to be explicit in what is required of authors and publishers for electronic-only publication, and all contingencies can be covered. In this generation we have one foot in the world of paper and the other now firmly planted in the electronic realm. This special position will be relatively short-lived, and we would be doing a great service to our successors if …
Review Of Digital Diaspora: A Race For Cyberspace By Anna Everett; State University Of New York Press, 2009, Sue Ann Gardner
Review Of Digital Diaspora: A Race For Cyberspace By Anna Everett; State University Of New York Press, 2009, Sue Ann Gardner
Sue E. Gardner
In the introduction, Everett declares that "The focus of this project is on early instances of African diasporic engagements with cyberspace." She expands her thesis through chapters such as: "Toward a Theory of the Egalitarian Technosphere: How Wide Is the Digital Divide?" and "The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Reimaging Africanity in Cyberspace." Throughout, Everett aims to explain why she is both hopeful and discouraged by the level of engagement either enjoyed by or denied to African Americans in the digital sphere. While the thesis is compelling, I found the book written in a style that is difficult to comprehend. Here …
Review Of Agriculture In History, 3 Volumes (R. Kent Rasmussen, Proj. Ed.; Salem Press, 2009), Sue Ann Gardner
Review Of Agriculture In History, 3 Volumes (R. Kent Rasmussen, Proj. Ed.; Salem Press, 2009), Sue Ann Gardner
Sue E. Gardner
Review of Agriculture in History, 3 volumes (R. Kent Rasmussen, proj. ed.; Salem Press, 2009).
Review Of Scattered Shadows: A Memoir Of Blindness And Vision By John Howard Griffin; Orbis, 2004, Sue Ann Gardner
Review Of Scattered Shadows: A Memoir Of Blindness And Vision By John Howard Griffin; Orbis, 2004, Sue Ann Gardner
Sue E. Gardner
Scattered Shadows, by the author of the groundbreaking Black Like Me, is a memoir comprising essays written in the 1940s and 1950s covering Griffin's gradual descent into blindness after a war injury, and the sudden, spontaneous, inexplicable restoration of his vision ten years later. Here Griffin beautifully recounts his eventual acceptance, and even embracing, of his disability. For avid readers, who read many good things all the time, it is a revelation to come across a book that is as outstanding as this one. Page after page is filled with intelligence, insight, and occasional humor. The chapter titled "The Blind …
Review Of Intercountry Adoption From China: Examining Cultural Heritage And Other Postadoption Issues By Jay W. Rojewski And Jacy L. Rojewski; Greenwood, 2001, Sue Ann Gardner
Sue E. Gardner
With little formal background in this area, the authors have produced a well-researched, accessible handbook for U.S. residents who have adopted, or are considering adoption of, Chinese children. Jay Rojewski is an occupational studies professor and Jacy Rojewski is a middle school special education teacher, and their interest in the subject was piqued when they adopted a Chinese child several years ago. From a search of the literature it appears that the book fills a relative void on the topic. The authors cover a range of issues, including the philosophical issues and concerns surrounding intercountry adoption, how adoption from China …
The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons, Sue Ann Gardner
The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons, Sue Ann Gardner
Sue E. Gardner
Provides an overview of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries’ institutional repository, the Digital Commons, on the BEPress platform.