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“Fun With Plastic Sheeting:" Strengthening Your Emergency Preparedness, Chris Sharpe, Sandra Barclay Mar 2015

“Fun With Plastic Sheeting:" Strengthening Your Emergency Preparedness, Chris Sharpe, Sandra Barclay

Chris Sharpe

Learn how to better prepare your library and library staff for emergencies and disasters by using active training exercises, examining your emergency documents annually, and individually joining local community emergency groups. Learn to prepare fun and quick, but important, staff exercises; sources for enhancing your existing emergency documents; and how community based emergency organizations can provide further training and more opportunities to serve the community.


Your Library @ Home: Document Delivery For The Online Learner, Ashley T. Hoffman, Kiara Bynum Oct 2013

Your Library @ Home: Document Delivery For The Online Learner, Ashley T. Hoffman, Kiara Bynum

Ashley T. Hoffman

Kennesaw State University has a growing number of distance education degree programs, and a growing number of online learners as a result. Since these students either rarely or never come to campus, they are unable to take advantage of many of KSU’s library resources. To accommodate the research needs of distance education students, KSU’s Interlibrary Loan department looked to implement a document delivery program to connect online learners with the print materials they would otherwise be unable to access. This poster outlines the research conducted, including a survey of the policies of comparable institutions, as well as the proposed policy …


Ilibraries: Maintaining Relevancy In A Mobile World, Ariel K. Turner Jan 2013

Ilibraries: Maintaining Relevancy In A Mobile World, Ariel K. Turner

Ariel K Turner

Though the wealth of opportunities mobile technologies provide to libraries is widely acknowledged, some libraries continue to experience challenges when incorporating these technologies. These challenges include technological illiteracy, prohibitive cost, and the effect of these technologies on the traditional library environment. An examination of a variety of current literature and studies related to the incorporation of mobile technologies is necessary to determine how best to tackle these challenges, and suggests several methods of incorporating mobile technologies into academic libraries. Such methods include exploring technical blogs or classes, learning from technologically savvy peers, including tablets or other mobile devices in the …


Information And Resources For International Policy Students, Chris Sharpe Aug 2011

Information And Resources For International Policy Students, Chris Sharpe

Chris Sharpe

A guide on international policy resources at Kennesaw State University Sturgis library. It was created for the online graduate students of the International Policy Management program.


Overwhelmed By Research, Cheryl Stiles Jan 2010

Overwhelmed By Research, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

Poster design and production by Cheryl Stiles.


Hopkins-Stricken: Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Selective Bibliography, Cheryl Stiles Jan 2010

Hopkins-Stricken: Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Selective Bibliography, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

No abstract provided.


Freedom To Write: The Best Free Web Resources For Writers, Cheryl Stiles Jan 2010

Freedom To Write: The Best Free Web Resources For Writers, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

Forthcoming presentation for the Red Clay Writers Conference on Saturday, November 6, 2010.


Thinking Style Differences Among Academic Librarians, Linda M. Golian-Lui Jan 1998

Thinking Style Differences Among Academic Librarians, Linda M. Golian-Lui

Linda M. Golian-Lui

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether differences in thinking styles exist between senior level library administrators working in public and technical service areas in libraries with an institutional membership in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). To facilitate this investigation, the Inquiry Mode Questionnaire (InQ) and a demographic data form were distributed in a nation-wide survey. The study achieved an 80.3% (106) return rate, with a total of 97 surveys used for data analysis. The literature review is organized in three segments: definitional dilemma, theoretical framework, and review of previous research. The definitional dilemma addressed issues concerning …