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Geo, Audio, Video, Photo: How Digital Convergence In Mobile Devices Facilitates Participatory Culture In Libraries, Peta J. Hopkins, Joanna Hare, Jessie Donaghey, Wendy Abbott
Geo, Audio, Video, Photo: How Digital Convergence In Mobile Devices Facilitates Participatory Culture In Libraries, Peta J. Hopkins, Joanna Hare, Jessie Donaghey, Wendy Abbott
Peta Hopkins
Libraries are often hailed as the cultural and learning hub of their communities. To deepen community engagement and social inclusion, libraries are adopting new technologies to facilitate a participatory and learning culture. With market saturation of smartphones and tablets and their associated apps, new affordances for content creation, curation and sharing show great potential to enhance participatory culture. The typical smartphone or tablet now incorporates digital technologies such as geo-location, audio, video, photo and web technologies. Bringing these technologies into a single device has enabled the development of apps such as Instagram, HistoryPin and SoundCloud. It has also changed the …
Geo, Audio, Video, Photo: How Digital Convergence In Mobile Devices Facilitates Participatory Culture In Libraries, Peta J. Hopkins, Joanna Hare, Jessie Donaghey, Wendy Abbott
Geo, Audio, Video, Photo: How Digital Convergence In Mobile Devices Facilitates Participatory Culture In Libraries, Peta J. Hopkins, Joanna Hare, Jessie Donaghey, Wendy Abbott
Jessie Donaghey
Libraries are often hailed as the cultural and learning hub of their communities. To deepen community engagement and social inclusion, libraries are adopting new technologies to facilitate a participatory and learning culture. With market saturation of smartphones and tablets and their associated apps, new affordances for content creation, curation and sharing show great potential to enhance participatory culture. The typical smartphone or tablet now incorporates digital technologies such as geo-location, audio, video, photo and web technologies. Bringing these technologies into a single device has enabled the development of apps such as Instagram, HistoryPin and SoundCloud. It has also changed the …
How The Usage Of It Is Effecting Academic Libraries, Mohammed J. Sarwar
How The Usage Of It Is Effecting Academic Libraries, Mohammed J. Sarwar
Mohammed J Sarwar
The purpose of this treatise is to determine how information technology is affecting the usage of services in the academic library. Various studies suggest that there has been a decline in usage of traditional face-to-face reference services. The majority of the college students prefer to use the Web instead of frequenting the library. Librarians and educators are concerned that these students are developing poor research skills if they only use the internet for research. Many of them are not familiar with the best electronic resources. Librarians may have less reference work but they will need to offer instruction on using …
Marketing In The Field Of Information Disciplines: Research Trends In Latin America (1985-2012), Carlos Luis González-Valiente
Marketing In The Field Of Information Disciplines: Research Trends In Latin America (1985-2012), Carlos Luis González-Valiente
Carlos Luis González-Valiente
This study seeks to clarify research trends related to marketing in the field of information disciplines from Latin American scientific production. As a reference source, we used the electronic journals indexed in the Latindex Directory. Some bibliometric indicators were applied to 108 documents; these indicators were as follows: productivity by year, journals, authors, language, and finally term cooccurrence analysis. It was evident that the highest rate of productivity was found in Brazilian journals and authors, and in the Portuguese language. The four main clusters in term co-occurrence analysis in the most relevant topics were as follows: marketing of the information …
Getting (And Keeping!) A Graduate Assistantship At U Of I, School Of Information Sciences, Aisha Conner-Gaten
Getting (And Keeping!) A Graduate Assistantship At U Of I, School Of Information Sciences, Aisha Conner-Gaten
Aisha Conner-Gaten
Gazing Into The Crystal Ball: Using Scenarios For Future Visioning Of A Distance Learning Library Service, Anne Marie Casey, Jon E. Cawthorne, Kathleen Citro
Gazing Into The Crystal Ball: Using Scenarios For Future Visioning Of A Distance Learning Library Service, Anne Marie Casey, Jon E. Cawthorne, Kathleen Citro
Anne Marie Casey
This article describes the use of scenarios as a tool to assist a large distance learning library service in its strategic planning. Through a description of the scenario process from beginning to end, the authors detail the steps that the library director and the consultant took initially; their missteps; and the successful conclusion. This study of the journey through the scenario process to a new strategic plan should prove useful to library administrators interested in exploring new ways to plan for uncertain futures.
Hospitality And Tourism Journal Matrix, Susan W. Arendt, Swathi Ravichandran, Eric A. Brown
Hospitality And Tourism Journal Matrix, Susan W. Arendt, Swathi Ravichandran, Eric A. Brown
Eric A. Brown
Ease in locating hospitality and tourism journals is of interest to hospitality and tourism professionals, graduate students, researchers, and scholars. At present, there is no one location with concise information regarding hospitality and tourism journal descriptions, editors, and contact information. The matrix that follows contains a compiled list of hospitality and tourism journals along with pertinent journal information.
Faculty Status, Tenure, And Professional Identity: A Pilot Study Of Academic Librarians In New England, Shin Freedman
Faculty Status, Tenure, And Professional Identity: A Pilot Study Of Academic Librarians In New England, Shin Freedman
Shin Freedman
Marketing An Established Institutional Repository: Marquette Libraries’ Research Stewardship Survey, Rose Fortier, Emily Laws
Marketing An Established Institutional Repository: Marquette Libraries’ Research Stewardship Survey, Rose Fortier, Emily Laws
Rose Fortier
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of Marquette University Libraries’ survey measuring faculty knowledge and attitudes about the institution’s repository, for the purposes of creating a marketing plan for the institutional repository (IR). Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a quantitative approach through the use of a survey. Findings Like many other endeavors to measure faculty engagement with the IR, the investigators discovered that faculty knowledge of the IR is not universal. Moreover, the perceived values and motivators for faculty use of the IR were also not surprising, with faculty viewing online dissemination of their work to …
Marketing The Ir: Strategies From The Marquette Survey, Rose Fortier
Marketing The Ir: Strategies From The Marquette Survey, Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
Marquette University’s institutional repository, e-Publications@Marquette, was established in 2008 for the deposit of faculty publications and research. Despite active participation by some faculty, universal participation remains an elusive goal. During the spring of 2013, faculty participation and needs were assessed via survey and compared to the IR’s capabilities in addressing those needs. Based upon the assessment survey and the IR’s available resources, a marketing plan and promotional strategies were created. The presentation will include analysis of the survey results and how they informed the creation of a marketing plan. Details of the marketing plan will be discussed as well as …
Catching Their Attention: Slide Shows As Outreach, Elizabeth Ramsey
Catching Their Attention: Slide Shows As Outreach, Elizabeth Ramsey
Elizabeth Ramsey
Albertsons Library at Boise State University has found slide shows to be an essential and easy to manage component in its outreach efforts and branding strategy. The slide shows run continually on a TV monitor in the library lobby as well as on all the computers in the library labs. This presentation focuses on the strategies used in the selection of topics, images and text, presenting examples of some of the most popular slides used at Albertsons Libraries categorized under recommended best practices.
Library Outreach Through Digital Exhibits, Gwyneth H. Crowley, Lori Bronars, Mark Saba
Library Outreach Through Digital Exhibits, Gwyneth H. Crowley, Lori Bronars, Mark Saba
Gwyneth H. Crowley
J.P. Morgan Research Database Review, Marc Vinyard
J.P. Morgan Research Database Review, Marc Vinyard
Marc Vinyard
One Model For Creating A Career Ladder For Library Support Staff, Jane Fama, Elaine Russo Martin
One Model For Creating A Career Ladder For Library Support Staff, Jane Fama, Elaine Russo Martin
Jane Fama
This article describes a unique career ladder model for library support staff. Major components include a promotion in place opportunity based on specified achievement levels, competencies, cross training, and measurable evaluation. The authors discuss the background, development, and program description of the career ladder model.
Impostor Phenomenon: Alive And Well Among Library Leaders, Elizabeth Martin
Impostor Phenomenon: Alive And Well Among Library Leaders, Elizabeth Martin
Elizabeth Martin
Experimenting In An Ipad Sandbox, Liz Thompson, Jamie Calcagno-Roach, Jennifer Keach, Mark Lane, Jonathan Paulo, Cindi Sandridge
Experimenting In An Ipad Sandbox, Liz Thompson, Jamie Calcagno-Roach, Jennifer Keach, Mark Lane, Jonathan Paulo, Cindi Sandridge
Jennifer A Keach
Many people use personal mobile devices, but what are the advantages to educational and organizational use? The JMU Libraries and Educational Technologies (L&ET) faculty and staff experimented with mobile devices using a Sandbox format. From program structure and budgeting to sample group demonstrations and assessment, get a practical look at the planning necessary to implement a technology Sandbox. This results of the JMU L&ET technology Sandbox was presented at the 2012 VLA Annual Conference in the VLACRL poster session.
James P. Loughlin Papers, 1965-1979: A Finding Aid, Kristine M. Reinhard
James P. Loughlin Papers, 1965-1979: A Finding Aid, Kristine M. Reinhard
Kristine M. Sjostedt
The James P. Loughlin Papers chronicles Loughlin’s career as a labor union leader in Massachusetts and the role he had in locating the University of Massachusetts Medical School and its affiliated hospital in Worcester.
Risk Management Association Estatement Studies Database Review, Marc Vinyard
Risk Management Association Estatement Studies Database Review, Marc Vinyard
Marc Vinyard
Conscientious Conservation: Global Collaboration, Leadership Development, And 21st Century Fundraising, Maria Gonzalez
Conscientious Conservation: Global Collaboration, Leadership Development, And 21st Century Fundraising, Maria Gonzalez
Maria E Gonzalez
No abstract provided.