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Streaming Video Resources For Teaching, Learning, And Research, Julie A. Decesare

Julie A DeCesare

In less than 10 years the availability of digitally converted or born digital video, has grown exponentially. Libraries and librarians are constantly navigating, and helping their patrons navigate, this shift from analog to digital. For access to video, our libraries are challenged by an individual consumer marketplace, where institutional access is often limited and expensive. Due to limitations of streaming content, licensing and copyright issues for use in learning management systems and public performance screenings, and time and budgetary issues surrounding the conversion of analog to digital formats, public and educational institutions are still very reliant on physical formats. Patron …

We’Re All On This Cloud Together: A Look At Five Innovative, Patron-Centered Projects At Providence College, Julie A. Decesare, Julie Kliever, Mark Caprio, Hailie Posey

Julie A DeCesare

iHelp: The Support for Technology and Learning Implementation Team (aka iHelp) is a collaboration with IT, Academic Media Services, Library, and the Instructional Technology Development. With multiple representatives from each department, the team’s charge is to create a one-stop digital “help” page for PC students and faculty, as well as streamline the physical services of four separate departments and cultures to better assist the community at Providence College in their technology needs.

The 2020 Project: The provost of Providence College asked the Library+Commons to compile, curate, and present scholarly materials on the future of higher education for the Academic Affairs …

Navigating Multimedia – Streaming Video Beyond Youtube: Pop Culture Edition, Julie A. Decesare

Julie A DeCesare

The Internet has quickly become a resource for multimedia and video content, especially in popular culture research. Search engines have tools to help mine for visual content, but finding videos content creates different challenges in comparison to text. This presentation will provide tips on searching for multimedia content, as well as, a showcase of some innovative video collections, initiatives, and resources important to popular culture research.

Lending Ipads 101: Steps To Loan From Your Library, Julie A. Decesare, Hailie Posey, Christopher Bellotti

Julie A DeCesare

The Phillips Memorial Library staff demonstrates, step-by-step, how to develop an iPad lending program at your library.

The central goal of our iPad lending program is to provide access to iPads as teaching, learning and research tools for the Providence College community. The iPad lending program is intended to teach and facilitate for our patrons the effective use of iPads and iOS mobile technologies and their applications and to foster a greater understanding of how these and similar mobile technologies can enhance teaching, learning, and research.

In our presentation, we will cover the initial roll out of the iPad lending …

Providence College Library+Commons Promotional Branding Material: Library+Commons Wordle, D. Russell Bailey

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A PDF file containg a WORDLE graphic of Library+Commons concepts.

Providence College Library+Commons Promotional Branding Material: Library+Commons Brochure, D. Russell Bailey

Library Commons Basics

A two-sided handout describing the features of the Library+Commons at Providence College.

Providence College Library+Commons Promotional Branding Material: Library+Commons Graphics, D. Russell Bailey, Carol Wiseman, Leslie Lanzieri, Laura Bucci

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A PDF file containing Library+Commons images and grapics used at Providence College.

U.S. Influences On Korean Education: Understructure, Imprint And Overlay, D. Russell Bailey

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A sociohistorical analysis of American influence on Korean education philosophy and structures. The intent of this work is to "provide a frame of reference for knowledge transfer", categorize the influences, and subsequently critique them based on their substance and integrity.