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Incivility And Dysfunction In The Library Workplace: Perceptions And Feedback From The Field, Richard J. Moniz Jr. Dec 2017

Incivility And Dysfunction In The Library Workplace: Perceptions And Feedback From The Field, Richard J. Moniz Jr.

Library Staff Publications

Issues associated with lack of civility, less than ideal functionality and employees that may not self-reflect as much they should are all challenges in the modern workplace and libraries are no exception. The purpose of this study was to determine which issues associated with a lack of civility such as mobbing, bullying, workplace dysfunction, and lack of abilities regarding self-reflection were found in the library workplace and to what extent. The data represents the feedback of 4,168 library employees through a self-reporting survey instrument designed by the authors with the help of the American Library Association. Data is both quantitative …


A Palimpsest Of Diné Voices, Frances Vitali, Brian C. O'Connor Dec 2017

A Palimpsest Of Diné Voices, Frances Vitali, Brian C. O'Connor

Proceedings from the Document Academy

We use the idea of a palimpsest to probe and illuminate Hayse's model of communication as a dance - not simply the erasure of a single manuscript but the scraping away of the communication system of an entire people.

Among Navajo (Dine’), oral tradition and oral language still operates within mediated print and digital technologies as a complementarity. There is still a commitment to honoring whose voice is telling the stories in American Indian literature, for colonialist attitudes may still be coded with unchallenged stereotypes, cultural inaccuracies for readers.

Modeling the intersection of Diné culture and Anglo culture – both …


Digital And Media Literacy Com 150, Joanna Burkhardt Dec 2017

Digital And Media Literacy Com 150, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Intermediate Film Production Flm 220, Michael Vocino Nov 2017

Intermediate Film Production Flm 220, Michael Vocino

Library Impact Statements

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Graduate Certificate In Science Writing, Michael Cerbo Nov 2017

Graduate Certificate In Science Writing, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

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Leadership And Motivation Com 452, Joanna Burkhardt Oct 2017

Leadership And Motivation Com 452, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Laboratory For Leadership And Motivation Com 457, Joanna Burkhardt Oct 2017

Laboratory For Leadership And Motivation Com 457, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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History Of Film Iii Flm 206, Michael Vocino Oct 2017

History Of Film Iii Flm 206, Michael Vocino

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Strategic Sport Communication And Media Prs 360, Joanna Burkhardt Sep 2017

Strategic Sport Communication And Media Prs 360, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao Jun 2017

Improving The Cala's Social Media Experience: The First Cala Social Media Survey, Sai Deng, Melody Leung, Anlin Yang, Chenwei Zhao

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) currently uses three social media channels, CALA Facebook, WeChat, and YouTube. In order to improve their presence and better serve the CALA members, CALA's first social media survey was conducted at the end of 2016 to seek feedback from its members and friends. This poster will present the background information for the survey, its methodology, findings, recommendations and follow-up. 18 questions were compiled, added to LimeSurvey and distributed to the CALA members via its Listserv. These questions attempted to address the users' social media usage, participation level, time spent on the CALA's social media …


Chinese American Librarians Association: Embracing Diversity And Outreaching To The Global Community, Sai Deng, Ying Zhang Jun 2017

Chinese American Librarians Association: Embracing Diversity And Outreaching To The Global Community, Sai Deng, Ying Zhang

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

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Internship In Science Writing Bes 581, Michael Cerbo Apr 2017

Internship In Science Writing Bes 581, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

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Internship In Science Writing Bes 581x, Michael Cerbo Apr 2017

Internship In Science Writing Bes 581x, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Who’S Talking About Scholarly Communication? An Examination Of Gender And Behavior On The Scholcomm Listserv, Clayton Hayes, Heidi Elaine Kelly Apr 2017

Who’S Talking About Scholarly Communication? An Examination Of Gender And Behavior On The Scholcomm Listserv, Clayton Hayes, Heidi Elaine Kelly

Library Scholarly Publications

INTRODUCTION This study analyzes the gender dynamics of the American Library Association’s SCHOLCOMM listserv in order to determine the accuracy of concerns expressed by participants in early 2016 regarding an overrepresentation of male voices on the listserv. METHODS Utilizing the SCHOLCOMM listserv archive, openly available online, the authors analyzed metadata related to individual messages in order to create a comprehensive list of participants, which was then analyzed to determine gender identity. The authors utilized this information to correlate the frequency of new messages and replies sent to the list with the gender identity of participants. RESULTS While men represented 35% …


Media Industry History And Practice Flm/Com 417, Joanna Burkhardt Apr 2017

Media Industry History And Practice Flm/Com 417, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research (Final Report), Alanna Miller Apr 2017

Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research (Final Report), Alanna Miller

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

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Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research, Alanna Miller Apr 2017

Using Information Literacy To Cultivate Scientific Literacy In Communication Research, Alanna Miller

Chesnutt Fellows Information Literacy Projects

No abstract provided.


Practicum In Public Relations Prs 490, Joanna Burkhardt Mar 2017

Practicum In Public Relations Prs 490, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Inukshuks: A Librarian's Narrative, Junli Diao Feb 2017

Inukshuks: A Librarian's Narrative, Junli Diao

Publications and Research

The article offers the author's insights on the Inukshuks, landmarks in the shape of human beings built with rocks by Inuit people, in Newfoundland and Labrador. Topics mentioned include the Inukshuks that are considered signs of humanity to show the direction for lost or new travelers, his librarian job at College of the North Atlantic, and the library work management. Also mentioned are the workflow management, his career development, and the importance communication in librarians.


Communication Through Social Technologies: A Study Of Israeli Women, Jeretta Horn Nord 405-747-0320, Dafni Biran Achituv, Joanna Paliszkiewicz Jan 2017

Communication Through Social Technologies: A Study Of Israeli Women, Jeretta Horn Nord 405-747-0320, Dafni Biran Achituv, Joanna Paliszkiewicz

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Social technologies have changed the way we communicate allowing users to interact, share knowledge, reach out to friends and family, keep up with the news, and even promote and support a business. A study of Israeli women was conducted to determine how social technologies platforms — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Google+ — are used and the benefits realized. Women worldwide face challenges including economic, educational, health, and political. Israel women, like women in every other country in the world, are challenged with gender inequity. Do women who use social technologies believe that these platforms provide empowerment leading to greater …


Job Searches In Liaison Departments: Opportunities For Outreach And Inreach, John Glover Jan 2017

Job Searches In Liaison Departments: Opportunities For Outreach And Inreach, John Glover

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Liaison librarians are uniquely positioned to provide a library introduction to job candidates in their liaison departments. This outreach identifies important resources that might attract candidates, showcases the library to them and to liaison departments, and helps to solidify a library or library system's suite of offerings to a discipline.


Communicating Library Impact On Retention: A Framework For Developing Reciprocal Value Propositions, Adam Murray, Ashley P. Ireland Dec 2016

Communicating Library Impact On Retention: A Framework For Developing Reciprocal Value Propositions, Adam Murray, Ashley P. Ireland

Ashley Ireland

This article explores the trends identified in a survey of library directors on efforts to document and communicate library contributions to student retention.  Library deans/directors have little in the way of communication methods for sharing library impact on retention.  Methods that are used tend to be unidirectional in nature.  Based on these results, this article also presents a framework of stakeholder markets and examples of reciprocal value propositions library leaders could develop around library contributions to retention efforts. This in turn can assist with advocacy and the communication of academic library value to university leaders and other higher education stakeholders.