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10-2020 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services

Library Services Newsletters

Minnesota State University, Mankato, Library Services Newsletter for October 2020.

Automating Collection Analysis Data Visualization In Jupyter Notebook: What's Possible And Why Would You Do It, Pat Lienemann, Luwis A.R.R. Andradi, Nat Gustafson-Sundell, Evan Rusch

Library Services Publications

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Data visualizations help librarians see through the clutter of collection analysis metrics, and can be very useful for outreach to academic partners. Automating the production of data visualizations in Jupyter Notebook from standardized data inputs enables us to produce more reports for more academic departments, which increases our impact.

02-2020 Newsletter, Minnesota State Univeristy, Mankato. Library Services

Library Services Newsletters

Minnesota State University, Mankato, Library Services Newsletter for February 2020.

Latinx – African American Relations: Understanding The Perceptions Of Faculty, Administrators And Students In Two College Campuses, Nadarajan Sethuraju, Luis A. Posas

Sociology Department Publications

This study examines the relationship between Latinxs and African Americans in two mid-size colleges located in the southwestern region of the United States. An empirical study was conducted including students, faculty, and administrators using a survey as the main methodological technique. Guided by the group position model advocated by Herber Blumer, this study found evidence for the prevalence of intra-group associations and group competition for access to resources. In this regard, the study documents the existing perception that African Americans have better access to resources in the two college campuses which supports the zero-sum hypothesis favoring members of this group. …

10 Strategies For Engaging Learners With Social Media, Carrie Lewis Miller, Michael Manderfeld, Elizabeth Harsma

Online Teaching Resources

This document outlines 10 strategies for engaging learners with social media. This is not a how-to document; we simply describe some of the types of activities and strategies that may be useful in your course.