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Best Practices For Hiring Academic Librarians With Faculty Status And Rank, Christopher Shaffer
Best Practices For Hiring Academic Librarians With Faculty Status And Rank, Christopher Shaffer
The Southeastern Librarian
When library school students graduate, their primary goal frequently is to find a job; they may have a preference for a position as a public librarian, academic librarian, or school media specialist, but most important is finding gainful employment in order to put food on the table. The person responsible for hiring academic librarians must attempt to discern, based on a résumé and a relatively brief personal interview whether a candidate is capable of performing the basic tasks of being a librarian, interacting with faculty, guiding students, and performing their duties as a member of the academy. To make the …
Perceptions Of Beauty Among Female Chinese Students In The United States And China, Carly R. Staley, Ginny Qin Zhan
Perceptions Of Beauty Among Female Chinese Students In The United States And China, Carly R. Staley, Ginny Qin Zhan
The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research
This pilot study compared the perceptions of beauty among Chinese women who were exchange students in the United States with Chinese women who were students in their homeland. We interviewed 19 women in China and 19 women in the United States to determine differences in responses. In accordance with the sociocultural approach and the social comparison approach, we expected Chinese women in the United States to have a be more acculturate, more frequently conclude that American women were more beautiful than Chinese women, be more likely than those studying in China to report body dissatisfaction, be more likely to dislike …
Using An Ir To Enhance The Undergraduate Experience, David Evans, Laura Burtle
Using An Ir To Enhance The Undergraduate Experience, David Evans, Laura Burtle
David Evans
In this session, our keynote speaker, David Evans, Assistant Vice President for Library Services at Kennesaw State University, will provide a senior administrator’s viewpoint on the role of IR’s in the undergraduate experience. Laura Burtle, Associate Dean and University Librarian for Learning and Technology Initiatives at Georgia State University, will share a first-hand account of how Institutional Repositories are being used to publish and promote student journals, theses, and other undergraduate research. David Stout, Sales Director for Digital Commons, will emcee the event.
2011 - The Sixteenth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars
2011 - The Sixteenth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars
Symposium of Student Scholars Program Books
The full program book from the Sixteenth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 26, 2011. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.
Of Fairs And Festivals: Librarians Teach Thematic First-Year Seminars, Donna Braquet, Micheline Westfall
Of Fairs And Festivals: Librarians Teach Thematic First-Year Seminars, Donna Braquet, Micheline Westfall
The Southeastern Librarian
For almost a century, library skills instruction by academic librarians has been a vital component of university programs created to help first-year students adapt to the social and academic environment of college life (Walter, 2004). Asretention of first-year students has become a strategic goal for universities, a variety of firstyear experience (FYE) programs have been developed over the last decade to address this goal. For many academic librarians, the FYE programs have resulted in an increased collaboration with faculty (Walter, 2004). This collaboration ranges from assisting faculty with incorporating information literacy skills within classroom instruction to embedding librarians within classes …
Consortia Efforts: The Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal, Laura Burtle
Consortia Efforts: The Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal, Laura Burtle
Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers
A presentation on CAA Undergraduate Research Journal, housed at Georgia State's institutional repository.
More information at http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/caaurj
Georgia Knowledge Repository: Potential For The State, Marlee Givens
Georgia Knowledge Repository: Potential For The State, Marlee Givens
Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers
A presentation on the Georgia Knowledge Repository, a search engine of Georgia-based institutional repositories.
More information at http://www.library.gatech.edu/gkr/
Illuminating Undergraduate Scholarship And Creative Activity: The Illinois Wesleyan Experience, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Illuminating Undergraduate Scholarship And Creative Activity: The Illinois Wesleyan Experience, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers
A presentation on undergraduate research and its incorporation into the Illinois Wesleyan institutional repository.
More information at http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/
Underfunded And Understaffed: A Ground-Level View Of Ir Creation In Difficult Times, John Davison
Underfunded And Understaffed: A Ground-Level View Of Ir Creation In Difficult Times, John Davison
Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers
A discussion of the creation of OhioLINK, the institutional repository system for the Ohio University system.
More information at http://drc.ohiolink.edu/
The Social Production Of Knowledge In The 21st Century: Undergraduate Research In Scholarly Communication, Geri Bunker Ingram
The Social Production Of Knowledge In The 21st Century: Undergraduate Research In Scholarly Communication, Geri Bunker Ingram
Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers
A presentation on undergraduate research at various universities, and its collection into OCLC.
http://www.oclc.org/gateway/
Student Scholarly Publishing: Obstacles And Opportunities, Tim Tamminga
Student Scholarly Publishing: Obstacles And Opportunities, Tim Tamminga
Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers
A presentation on the institutional repository system powered by Berkeley Electronic Press.
More information at http://www.bepress.com/ir/