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Use Best Practices To Promote Your Library, Adeen Postar

Adeen Postar

Best Practices is a term dating back to the 1980s that was popularized by business writers, most notably Tom Peters and Robert Waterman in their bestseller In Search of Excellence: Lessons From America's Best Run Companies (1982). Essentially, this term implies success; that certain actions, attitudes, and programs are the most efficient and effective way of doing business and that the same measures can be used with successful outcomes in all similar organizations. But are there really best practices that can help enhance public relations for every type of law library? I believe that there are.

Leading From The Center Out: The Joint Library Services Leadership Team At James Madison University, K.T. L. Vaughan, Kristen S. Shuyler, Kelly N. Miller-Martin, Erika Peterson

Kristen S. Shuyler

In a system with multiple service points, how can leadership work together to keep the library as a whole relevant and central to students? James Madison University Libraries created the Joint Library Services Leadership Team, which works outside traditional departmental silos to provide coherent, consistent, and collaborative services regardless of location.

Three major service points of James Madison University Libraries, the two main library circulation/reference departments and the media resources center, have historically been both physically and philosophically separate from each other. Although the departments shared common goals of providing excellent student learning-focused services, they did not systematically work together …

The Apple Of Discord: Everyone Gets A Bite, Or, Out Of Discord Comes The Fairest Harmony, Stefanie Warlick, K.T. L. Vaughan, Kristen S. Shuyler, Erika Peterson, Kathy Clarke

Kristen S. Shuyler

When library staff create collaborative projects on their own, are these efforts discordant or harmonious? How does library leadership conduct different groups for cacophony or symphony? What management models empower library staff to continue exciting collaborative projects while learning to play together in tune?

Best Practices For Data Sharing And Deposit For Librarian Authors, Regina Fisher Raboin, T. Scott Plutchak, Lisa A. Palmer, Julie Goldman

Lisa A. Palmer

Sharing data is now encouraged by major funding agencies, and many journals require it as a prerequisite for publication. While many of the hard science journals have implemented ‘Data Deposit Requirements’ and ‘Policies’, in the Library Science literature, publishers are beginning to move titles into open access journals, but data deposit requirements are just beginning to be addressed. Librarian authors will increasingly find themselves having to comply with data sharing policies. In this webinar, we look at examples from the Journal of the Medical Library Association and the Journal of eScience Librarianship and discuss best practices in data deposit.

Getting Around To Being Strategic, Margaret Brown-Sica, Rice Majors

Rice Majors

IT strategic planning for libraries is broken down into eight one-hour steps that can be adapted to meet the planning needs of any size library IT organization, making the process more approachable by reducing the perceived amount of time involved in such a strategic process. Tips for approaching each of the eight steps are also included.

Learning From Teaching: A Dialogue Of Risk And Reflection, Anne Jumonville Graf

Anne Jumonville Graf

Librarians have not always included discussions of reflective practice as part of our formal, published literature. In fact, in 2005 John Doherty claimed that librarians are not particularly reflective practitioners in general. However, since then there have been reviews of the status of reflection practice across librarianship, calls for more critical reflective practice, examples of that practice, and a variety of models, examples, and frameworks for reflective strategies in library instruction. In this chapter, my focus is on ways that critical reflection can enhance our ability to learn through teaching, especially when our teaching practice involves valuing the voices and …

Growing Pains-From Standard Bibliography To Dynamic Web-Accessible Resource, Creating A Repository Of Popular And Scientific Writing On Roses Using Tei., Julia R. Tryon

Julia R Tryon

Twenty years ago, I started a project that I envisioned would culminate in a printed bibliography of writings on the Rose in English that would be as complete as possible—both books and articles. A bibliography on roses had been published in 1973 which focused on books and in 1984 there was a self-published title from the U.K. citing books and“significant” journal articles but which did not include the voluminous amount of articles in popular journals and newspapers. My goal was to update and expand upon what had been compiled by the earlier bibliographers. Two decades later, I have returned to …

New England Technical Services Librarians Spring 2012 Conference: Ilibrary: Digital Futures For Libraries (May 3, 2012, Worcester, Ma), Andrée J. Rathemacher, Michael A. Cerbo Ii, Julia A. Lovett

Julia Lovett

This report discusses the program of the 2012 New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) annual spring conference, held on Thursday, May 3 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, titled “iLibrary: Digital Futures for Libraries.” NETSL is a section of the New England Library Association and a regional group of the American Library Association.

Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Julia Lovett

Slides and other materials from a presentation at the conference Querying the Library: Digitization and Its Impact, sponsored by the James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College. The conference took place on May 31, 2013. A video of the presentation is available at http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/ql/2013/QTL_May31/5/.

Abstract of the presentation reads: "This panel will discuss the efforts to pass a Harvard-style Open Access Policy at URI which will enable faculty authors to retain the rights to their articles even if they subsequently sign away their copyright to a journal."

Book Review: Kentucky Hauntings: Homespun Ghost Stories & Unexplained History, Paris E. Webb

Paris Webb

Review of the book Kentucky Hauntings: Homespun Ghost Stories & Unexplained History. Brown, Roberta Simpson & Lonnie E. Brown. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8131-4320-0.

Hagerty Library Collection Development Internship, James Gross

James Gross

Collection Development Internship at the Drexel University, Hagerty Library. Summary of several collection management projects. Heavy usage of excel for data extraction. Screenshots used for visual aid.

Learning Through Interning: National Library Of Medicine® Internships, Lauren E. Robinson, Tyler Nix

Lauren E. Robinson

Controlled Vocabulary Standards For Anthropological Datasets, Celia Emmelhainz

Celia Emmelhainz

This article seeks to outline the use of controlled vocabulary standards for qualitative datasets in cultural anthropology, which are increasingly held in researcher-accessible government repositories and online digital libraries. As a humanistic science that can address almost any aspect of life with meaning to humans, cultural anthropology has proven difficult for librarians and archivists to effectively organize. Yet as anthropology moves onto the web, the challenge of organizing and curating information within the field only grows. In considering the subject classification of digital information in anthropology, I ask how we might best use controlled vocabularies for indexing digital anthropological data. …

Metadata Survey: Ead Schema Usage Review, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, INFO 653. A brief review of the EAD schema found in XML encoded finding aids, based on a limited survey. The method of user website access and the percentage of EAD schema usage is briefly reviewed at three library websites: the University of Vermont Library, the Duke University Library, and the University of Chicago Library.

Digital Libraries: Concept Map Exercise, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, INFO 653, Assignment #5, Digital Libraries: Concept Map Exercise.

Metadata Evaluation And Development: Erasmus Usage Exercise, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, INFO 653, Assignment #4, Metadata Evaluation and Development: Erasmus Usage Exercise.

Fy2011 Association Of College And Research Libraries (Acrl) Statistical Survey: University Of Rhode Island Data, Michael Vocino

michael c vocino

The main document posted here is a report generated from the online subscription service ACRLMetrics. The report contains FY2011 data as submitted by the University of Rhode Island Libraries for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2010-2011 statistical survey. It also provides additional metrics calculated by ACRL. Several files are included as supplemental content: "ACRL academic library survey -- URI FY2011 data.xlsx," the report (above) in spreadsheet format; "ACRL Statistics blank worksheet 2010-2011.pdf;" "ACRL Statistics Questionnaire 2010-11 Instructions.pdf;" "ARL Statistics FAQ August 1, 2011.pdf;" and "ACRLFY2011 questionnaire and definitions.xlsx."

Gift Books Received At Uri July 2011 To June 2012, Michael Vocino

michael c vocino

Gift books received by the University of Rhode Island Libraries from 2011-2012. Information includes date of donation, name of donor, and number of titles donated.

Fy2012 Association Of College And Research Libraries (Acrl) Statistical Survey: University Of Rhode Island Data, Michael Vocino

michael c vocino

The main document posted here is a report generated from the online subscription service ACRLMetrics. The report contains FY2012 data as submitted by the University of Rhode Island Libraries for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2011-2012 statistical survey. It also provides additional metrics calculated by ACRL. Several files are included as supplemental content: "ACRL academic library survey -- URI FY2012 data.xlsx," the report (above) in spreadsheet format; "ACRL Statistics blank worksheet 2011-12.pdf," "2012 ACRL data entry printout - URI.pdf," a printout of URI's final FY2012 data as entered in the ACRL Web-based form; "ACRL Statistics Questionnaire 2011-12 …

Gift Books Received At Uri July 2012 To June 2013, Michael Vocino

michael c vocino

Gift books received by the University of Rhode Island Libraries from 2012-2013. Information includes date of donation, name of donor, and number of titles donated.

Digital Collection Evaluation: Review Of A Digital Newspaper Collection Held By The Library Of Congress, The University Of Florida Library, And The University Of North Texas Library, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 653, Assignment #3, Digital Collection Evaluation. Brief review of three repositories, each one housing a unique digital Newspaper Collection. Repositories reviewed include: The Library of Congress, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers; The University of Florida Digital Collections, Florida Digital Newspaper Library; and The University of North Texas Library, Portal to Texas History, Texas Digital Newspaper Program.

Metadata Standards: A Review Of The Ead (Encoded Archival Description) Standard, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 653. Assignment #2: Metadata Standards, A Review of the EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Standard.

Digital Library Project: Brief Review Of The Library Of Congress, American Memory, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 653, Assignment #1, Digital Library Project: Brief Review of The Library of Congress, American Memory.

The Future Of Digital Reference Services, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 740, Professor Alison Miller. This paper will discuss how reference librarians are embracing new online reference technologies, via the synchronous as well as asynchronous delivery, as they seek new ways and methods to meet the current and future information-seeking needs, of their online users.

Library Impact Statement For Csc 423 Network Intrusion Detection And Defense, Amanda Izenstark

Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for CSC 423 Network Intrusion Detection and Defense. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.

Library Impact Statement For Csc 523 Advanced Intrusion Detection And Defense, Amanda Izenstark

Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statement for CSC 523 Advanced Intrusion Detection and Defense. No new library resources are required to support this course.

Library Impact Statement For Csc 424 Live Forensics And Incident Response, Amanda Izenstark

Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for CSC 424 Live Forensics and Incident Response. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.

Sadie, My Grandmother, Michael C. Vocino

michael c vocino

Recollections on the author's maternal grandmother.

Library Impact Statement For Bps 455 Protein Molecular Modeling, Michael Vocino

michael c vocino

Library Impact Statement for BPS 455 Protein Molecular Modeling. No new resources were required to support this course.

Library Impact Statement For Bps 555 Protein Molecular Modeling, Michael Vocino

michael c vocino

Library Impact Statement for BPS 555 Protein Molecular Modeling. No new resources were required to support this course.