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Institutional Repositories: A Disruptive Response To An Established Paradigm, Mark J. Caprio Oct 2010

Institutional Repositories: A Disruptive Response To An Established Paradigm, Mark J. Caprio

Mark J Caprio

Presentation focused on Institutional Repositories as a disruptive technology, and as an essential system for the new unit of scholarly communication, that is, the complex digital object, components of which may exit in distributed environments.


“Should I Copy That Photograph?”Real-World Duplication Quandaries, Erin Passehl Apr 2010

“Should I Copy That Photograph?”Real-World Duplication Quandaries, Erin Passehl

Erin Passehl Stoddart

Archivists grapple with hard decisions about reproducing images every day. Aside from the copyright gray zone that so many photographs fall under, there are also issues of professional courtesy, digitization, cultural sensitivity, political pressures, and commercial use. In this panel four archivists discuss some of the more difficult reproduction questions, and resultant solutions, they have encountered. These questions will resonate to similar situations that other archivists have encountered and provide some measure of clarity for dealing with difficult reproduction questions. The panel will also be open to questions and situations presented by the audience.


Tutorials On The Fly: Directing Students From A Distance, Marisa Walstrum Apr 2010

Tutorials On The Fly: Directing Students From A Distance, Marisa Walstrum

Marisa Walstrum

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A Collaborative Approach To Building A Student Information And Technology Literacy Program, Kenetha Stanton Mar 2010

A Collaborative Approach To Building A Student Information And Technology Literacy Program, Kenetha Stanton

Kenetha Stanton

This is a brief overview of the Information Commons program at Butler University presented during an EDUCAUSE Midwest Lightning Round. The Information Commons is professional development program jointly sponsored by The Center for Academic Technology (formerly Instructional Technology) and the Butler Libraries for student staff that provides information and technology literacy support to Butler students through scheduled desk hours and peer-to-peer training and consulting.


Solving The Rubrics Cube: Using Assessment To Sharpen Library Instruction, Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan Gardner Dec 2009

Solving The Rubrics Cube: Using Assessment To Sharpen Library Instruction, Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan Gardner

Susan Gardner Archambault

Loyola Marymount University's (LMU) Reference Department designed a rubric to measure student learning outcomes for freshman English. Students sequentially completed an "English 110 Library Research Worksheet” during library instruction. The rubric which is set up to analyze learning outcomes from parts of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education is applied to collected student worksheets. The Department undertook a multi-step process to try to calibrate the rubric and achieve consensus estimates of inter-rater reliability. During fall 2009, reference & instruction librarians collected 755 worksheets and graded a random sample of 100 students. This poster session will present the …