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Me,Myself, And I: Working As A Solo Repository Manager, Michael Pujals
Me,Myself, And I: Working As A Solo Repository Manager, Michael Pujals
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
In this session Michael Pujals of Dominican University will share how building connections with faculty and staff allows him to gracefully juggle repository management on his own.
Cultivating Team And Project Management: A Hybrid Mix, Rachel S. Evans, Karen Manning, Alexis D. Linoski, Sofia Slutskaya
Cultivating Team And Project Management: A Hybrid Mix, Rachel S. Evans, Karen Manning, Alexis D. Linoski, Sofia Slutskaya
Presentations
Managing project and team-based work within libraries can be challenging and often involves people from multiple departments performing crossfunctional tasks. Supporting collaborative efforts is a strategy that leads to improved productivity and successful outcomes. Join this session to learn informal approaches and collaborative techniques to work more efficiently and effectively among groups (cross-training, project management, team-building) and with tools such as Trello and KanbanFlow. These methods will help you connect with your peers for project and team success.
Cataloging Redesigned: Is Outsourcing Still A Dirty Word?, Amy B. Parsons
Cataloging Redesigned: Is Outsourcing Still A Dirty Word?, Amy B. Parsons
Faculty Bibliography
With today’s financial constraints, librarians can never get too far away from the challenge of reorganizing, redesigning or reimagining their workflows, staffing or departments. Does the term outsourcing still scare you? How have libraries adapted to the threat or reality of outsourcing in their organizations? This presentation is a look back at outsourcing from case studies that were published in 1997. While investigating this provocative topic I discovered the book “Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries” , edited by Karen Wilson and Mary Lou Colver. This is a book of case studies describing libraries …
Giving Credit: How Well Do Librarians Cite And Quote Their Sources?, Peter Genzinger, Deborah Wills
Giving Credit: How Well Do Librarians Cite And Quote Their Sources?, Peter Genzinger, Deborah Wills
Library Publications
The practice of citing references is integral to scholarship. This paper focuses on three prominent journals for library science: College and Research Libraries, Library Resources and Technical Services, and Reference and User Services Quarterly. Errors in both citations and quotations were found in all three journals, although no statistically significant differences among journals were discovered. Citation errors of less than 10 percent were found for all three journals, while in total, 30.3 percent of quotations were judged to be questionable in some way. The paper includes recommendations for authors, editors and librarians. It also recommends further study of errors in …
Research Proposal, Janis Joyce Shearer
Research Proposal, Janis Joyce Shearer
Beta Phi Mu Award
The purpose of this study is to contribute knowledge towards understanding the possible reason(s) for a lack of racial and ethnic diversity within librarianship. It will investigate the awareness and interest levels of library degrees and careers within an undergraduate student population to assist in determining if there is a significant difference between students of color and non-students of color.
Global Perspectives: Marking A Transition, Anne Prestamo
Global Perspectives: Marking A Transition, Anne Prestamo
Works of the FIU Libraries
This issue of Journal of Library Administration marks a transition of editorship for “Global Perspectives.” This column will provide a retrospective of past contributions under the founding Editor, Jim Agee. It will look briefly at the landscape of libraries and library organizations worldwide from a variety of sources, and conclude with a call for future submissions, with updated and expanded parameters.
Perception And Practice Of Information Ethics By Librarians In Four Higher Institutions In Oyo State, Nigeria, John Oluwaseye Adebayo, Cln, Iyabo Mabawonku Prof.
Perception And Practice Of Information Ethics By Librarians In Four Higher Institutions In Oyo State, Nigeria, John Oluwaseye Adebayo, Cln, Iyabo Mabawonku Prof.
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
This study was designed to investigate the perception and practice of Information Ethics by librarians in four higher institutions in Oyo State, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted with population size consisted of 47 librarians under population of the study; total enumeration sampling technique was used. Questionnaire and interview for four (4) Senior Librarians were the instruments adopted for data collection. Out of 47 copies of the questionnaire that were distributed, 46 were returned, and considered suitable for data analysis. Three research questions with one null hypothesis (tested at 0.05 level of significance) were formulated for this study. SPSS output …
Exploring Information Literacy Abroad: Librarians And International Service Learning, Jessica C. Mcintosh
Exploring Information Literacy Abroad: Librarians And International Service Learning, Jessica C. Mcintosh
Library Faculty & Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Digitize Your To-Do List, Rachel S. Evans
Digitize Your To-Do List, Rachel S. Evans
Presentations
This lightning talk will revolve around the Kanban method as a successful project management method. KanbanFlow.com will be introduced as a user-friendly tool for implementing Kanban in the workplace to improve performance outcomes and deal with shifting and measuring priorities. A comparison will be made of digital versus paper to-do lists for librarians and library staff. Features of this free web-based application will be covered including: collaboration between team members, Pomodoro time-tracking, dates and deadlines, recurring tasks, sub-tasks, and digital board customization.
Proud To Be A Librarian, Ying Chen
Proud To Be A Librarian, Ying Chen
The Southeastern Librarian
Years have passed since that day. I left the college and assumed a new position in a different city. Yet the memory of his visit and our conversation replays in my mind often. This experience granted me a better understanding of my job: I am not just an information keeper, I am a life transformer. And so are you. Be proud to be a librarian!
The Mentor: What Do You Need From A Mentor?, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes
The Mentor: What Do You Need From A Mentor?, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes
Library Faculty Publications and Presentations
Just what does a mentor do anyway? What does it mean to mentor someone? What does it mean to have a mentor? These are questions I've struggled with over the years.
Why Is The Journal Of Critical Library And Information Studies Needed Today?, Andrew J. Lau, Alycia Sellie, Ronald E. Day
Why Is The Journal Of Critical Library And Information Studies Needed Today?, Andrew J. Lau, Alycia Sellie, Ronald E. Day
Publications and Research
The editors’ introduction to the first issue of the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, which was established in response to a perceived need in the landscape of library and information studies scholarship for an open platform and venue for critical discourse and inquiry.
Many Hats, One Head: Considering Professional Identity In Academic Library Directorship, Maura A. Smale
Many Hats, One Head: Considering Professional Identity In Academic Library Directorship, Maura A. Smale
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.