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Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Kirstin Duffin Jan 2015

Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Kirstin Duffin

Steve Brantley

Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly communication are creating significant demands on scholars. Today’s scholars must wrestle with meeting funder mandates for providing public access to their research, managing and preserving raw data, establishing/publishing open access journals, understanding the difference between “green OA” and “gold OA,” navigating the complicated issues around copyright and intellectual property, avoiding potentially predatory publishers, adapting their tenure plans to OA, and discovering increasing amounts of OA resources for their research and their curricular materials. These demands present an opportunity and a need for librarians to step …


It Takes A Library: Growing A Robust Institutional Repository In Two Years, Todd A. Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis, Ellen Corrigan, Steve Brantley Sep 2014

It Takes A Library: Growing A Robust Institutional Repository In Two Years, Todd A. Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis, Ellen Corrigan, Steve Brantley

Steve Brantley

In 2010, Booth Library began establishing an institutional repository, The Keep, an effort that involved multiple departments within the library. Potential content recruitment for the repository included large-scale digitization of archival materials and migration of previously created digital collections. Creation of the repository resulted in increased accessibility, better presentation of content that had existed on outmoded legacy Web platforms, and the rescue of damaged content that had been disintegrating on other digital storage formats. By utilizing personnel across many departments and incorporating content from the Archives and Digital Collections areas, Booth Library has developed a robust institutional repository in only …


Discovering Usability : Comparing Two Discovery Systems At One Academic Library, Mireille Djenno, Glenda Insua, Gwen M. Gregory, John Stephen Brantley Sep 2014

Discovering Usability : Comparing Two Discovery Systems At One Academic Library, Mireille Djenno, Glenda Insua, Gwen M. Gregory, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

In the spring of 2013, the University Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago was in the unique position of having access to two discovery systems, Summon and WorldCat Local, at the same time. When tasked with choosing between the two systems, librarians undertook a usability study of Summon and WorldCat Local. The goal of this study was two-fold: to test the ease-of-use of each discovery system with an eye toward identifying one tool to retain for the longer term, and to learn about the search behaviors of different types of user groups. Eighteen subjects, consisting of undergraduate students, …


Approval Plans, Discipline Change, And The Importance Of Human Mediated Book Selection, John Steven Brantley Mar 2010

Approval Plans, Discipline Change, And The Importance Of Human Mediated Book Selection, John Steven Brantley

Steve Brantley

This study examines holdings of 21 members of the Association of Research Libraries for books reviewed in American Historical Review. The study asserts that approval plans are inadequate for collecting from small publishers or from scholarship that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Although approval plans increase efficiency in collection development, the need for expert selection cannot be overstated. Results indicated that small publisher’s books were less likely to be in libraries than university press publisher’s books, and that history monographs are frequently classified outside disciplinary boundaries, and are therefore invisible to approval plans that define disciplines based on classification systems.


Exploring Library 2.0 On The Social Web, Steve Brantley Jan 2010

Exploring Library 2.0 On The Social Web, Steve Brantley

Steve Brantley

Library 2.0 literature has described many of the possibilities Web 2.0 technologies offer libraries. Case studies have assessed local use, but no studies have measured the Library 2.0 phenomenon by searching public social networking sites. This study used library-specific terms to search public social networking sites, blog search engines, and social bookmarking sites for activity associated with librarians and library users. Blog search data about the recentness of activity or the popularity of a blog post indicate Library 2.0 technology has many early adopters but provide less evidence of sustained use. The results follow a curve resembling the 80 / …


Usability Testing Of A Customizable Library Web Portal, John Steven Brantley, Annie Armstrong, Krystal M. Lewis Mar 2006

Usability Testing Of A Customizable Library Web Portal, John Steven Brantley, Annie Armstrong, Krystal M. Lewis

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Quick Reference Dictionary For Massage Therapy And Bodywork, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2006

Review Of Quick Reference Dictionary For Massage Therapy And Bodywork, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Tools: A Tool-By-Tool Guide To Choosing And Using 150 Home Essentials, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2006

Review Of Tools: A Tool-By-Tool Guide To Choosing And Using 150 Home Essentials, John Stephen Brantley

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Review Of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Facing Death, A Film By Stefan Haupt, John Steven Brantley Jan 2004

Review Of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Facing Death, A Film By Stefan Haupt, John Steven Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Cure: A Story Of Cancer And Politics From The Annals Of The Cold War, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2003

Review Of Cure: A Story Of Cancer And Politics From The Annals Of The Cold War, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of It's My Life, A Film By Brian Tilley, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of It's My Life, A Film By Brian Tilley, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Medicine And The German Jews: A History, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of Medicine And The German Jews: A History, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Communication Disorders In Multicultural Populations, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of Communication Disorders In Multicultural Populations, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of 6000 A Day: Account Of A Catastrophe Foretold, A Film By Philip Brooks, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of 6000 A Day: Account Of A Catastrophe Foretold, A Film By Philip Brooks, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Encyclopedia Of Motion Picture Sound, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of Encyclopedia Of Motion Picture Sound, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Running, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Running, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Gale Encyclopedia Of Alternative Medicine, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Gale Encyclopedia Of Alternative Medicine, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Encyclopedia Of The Biosphere: Humans In The Worlds Ecosystems, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Encyclopedia Of The Biosphere: Humans In The Worlds Ecosystems, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Handbook Of Hypnotic Inductions, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2001

Review Of Handbook Of Hypnotic Inductions, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Searching For Hawa's Secret, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2000

Review Of Searching For Hawa's Secret, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of City Of Plagues: Disease, Poverty And Deviance In San Francisco, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2000

Review Of City Of Plagues: Disease, Poverty And Deviance In San Francisco, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.