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Institutional Repositories For Data Management, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

• Introduction to Institutional Repositories (IRs) / NSUWorks • Big Data in IRs • IRs - Options & Examples • DEEPEND Project Demo

Nclex Readiness-Remediation Across The Curriculum: Begin With The End In Mind, Beth L. Kaskel Dr., Nila Reimer, Cheryl Lynn Rockwell, Becky A. Salmon

Nila Reimer

Nursing faculty are sometimes challenged when leading students to successful completion of nursing exams including the NCLEX. It is essential that faculty identify specific learning barriers for students who are challenged with nursing exams. Nursing faculty have reported various methods of remediation to enhance students’ readiness for taking nursing exams in preparation for the NCLEX. Although test review sessions, guided imagery, and assessments of learning styles are common strategies reported by faculty to provide remediation for students who are preparing for nursing exams, the literature reveals minimal evidence to support these strategies. Nursing faculty at IPFW have expanded on common …

Content Curation: Academic Outreach Opportunities Beyond The Institutional Repository, Crystal L. Renfro

Crystal L Renfro

Academic librarians and Archivists have been active ly involved with Data Curation and Digital Curation activities for many years, and institutional repositories for academic scholarship are well established.

Content Curation, on the other hand, serves a very different purpose in the academic research process, providing a way to create new value and organization from the current influx of information from the myrad of sources available to the contemporary researcher today. Join the author of the popular website Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians as she presents techniques and applications offering new avenues of scholarship and community building for research …

Branching Out: Consolidating An Interlibrary Loan Department Across Multiple Campuses With Illiad, Ashley T. Hoffman, Rosemary Humphrey, Caralia Gallagher

Ashley T. Hoffman

Interlibrary Loan departments are no stranger to collaboration between campuses. Therefore, when the consolidation of the two institutions of Kennesaw State University and Southern Polytechnic State University was announced, their respective interlibrary loan departments rose to the challenge with - if not enthusiasm - optimism and the willingness to try new ideas and strategies to merge the two units. This presentation will cover the alternatives considered, strategies chosen, and the implementation process undertaken to create a unified interlibrary loan department across two campuses and four libraries using Atlas' ILLiad software. We will cover not only policy decisions but workflow procedures …

Knowledge Mapping Tools: Visualizing Research, Crystal L. Renfro, Elisabeth Shields

Crystal L Renfro

Big Data In Nsuworks, Michele Gibney, Keri Baker

Michele Gibney

Join librarians Michele Gibney and Keri Baker as they present an ongoing NSU project storing all of its big data research utilizing NSUWorks, our institutional repository.

Promoting Yourself, Promoting Your Research, Becka Rich, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

NSU librarians are offering this workshop for you to learn the ins and outs of promoting yourself and your research on SSRN, NSUWorks, SelectedWorks, and social networks like ResearchGate.

Leveraging Human Capital Through Engaged Leadership, David Cooke

David Cooke

A leader needs to decide who they are, what they represent and what they are building. Research shows that there are considerable benefits as regards inspiring loyalty to a company when the leader truly cares about their staff, their customers and their community.

Building Social Capital, David Cooke

David Cooke

Many companies have realised that there are significant benefits in conducting their business in a manner that benefits society.

Managing E-Book Patron-Driven Acquisitions, Rusty Tryon

Rusty Tryon

No abstract provided.

Measuring Success: Research Online At The University Of Wollongong, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

With nearly 50,000 submissions and ten million downloads, University of Wollongong’s Research Online repository is one of the largest in the world and continues to grow. As such, it is considered an incredibly successful initiative--, but how does Michael measure success beyond number of objects and downloads? He’ll discuss how his goals and measures of success have changed over time, as well as some of his strategies for sharing successes across and beyond campus.

Place-Based Policy And Collaborative Urban Governance: A Discursive Localism Approach, Neil Bradford

Neil Bradford

No abstract provided.

Guerilla Publishing, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

The University of Wollongong Archives contains collections which have relevance to the subject of feminism in Austrlalia. Two examples are given - the records of New Opportunities for Women (NOW) 1965-70 set up by Carmelita Steinke, and the archive of artist and filmmaker Mary Callaghan.

Get Published In An Academic Journal - And Then Let Everyone Else Know, Susan Berkman, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

Hear how you can find opportunities to publish your research in academic journals using Cabell’s. Learn more about NSUWorks, an open access Institutional Repository that brings all of our faculty’s, students’ and staff’s research publications together and expands the reach of your scholarly communications.

What Are They Learning? Assessing Theatre/Dance Performance Experiences, Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Meg Schriffen

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

The model of assessment will demonstrate how to align the assessment of production activity with learning goals set by accrediting bodies, the institution, the department, and the specific program. This alignment insures that measurement of student learning is standardized across the students’ entire experience in the program (courses, performances, rehearsals, technical preparations, etc.) Examples of indirect and direct measurement instruments will be presented.

What Are They Learning? Assessing Theatre/Dance Performance Experiences, Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Meg Schriffen

Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Ph.D.

The model of assessment will demonstrate how to align the assessment of production activity with learning goals set by accrediting bodies, the institution, the department, and the specific program. This alignment insures that measurement of student learning is standardized across the students’ entire experience in the program (courses, performances, rehearsals, technical preparations, etc.) Examples of indirect and direct measurement instruments will be presented.