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Literati By Credo, Larry Sheret Oct 2013

Literati By Credo, Larry Sheret

Larry Sheret

Literati by Credo (Academic and Public) is an online product featuring a superb and growing reference database of more than 600 subject encyclopedias and dictionaries, marketing and information literacy tutorials, and assessments. All of this is folded into one seamlessly integrated platform with the value added functionality of XML and completely customizable features (such as are available in LibGuides) as well as API connectors to open search a library’s other holdings. Active customer support and services offer solutions tailored to help libraries achieve their unique mission and programming needs.


Irresistable: How An Ir (Institutional Repository) Can Improve Library Collections While Preserving The Past, Monica Brooks, David Evans, Tim Tamminga, Jingping Zhang, Gretchen Beach, Nat Debruin, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Paris E. Webb Oct 2013

Irresistable: How An Ir (Institutional Repository) Can Improve Library Collections While Preserving The Past, Monica Brooks, David Evans, Tim Tamminga, Jingping Zhang, Gretchen Beach, Nat Debruin, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Paris E. Webb

Larry Sheret

Marshall University’s IR team will discuss the creation, progress, and benefits of the Marshall Digital Scholar, an online institutional repository. There will be time for libraries, large and small, to ask questions about digital collecting and digital projects.


Information Literacy Assessment: Keep It Simple, Keep It Going, Larry Sheret, John A. Steele Oct 2013

Information Literacy Assessment: Keep It Simple, Keep It Going, Larry Sheret, John A. Steele

Larry Sheret

Is it possible to administer an information literacy assessment in only a few classes that would provide essential, adequate, data from semester to semester? In a college with a student body of about 2,000, would it be possible to obtain actionable assessment results if only 150 to 200 students were assessed each semester? This article is the result of the creation and implementation of the information literacy assessment that was launched in the fall of 2009 by Savage Library at Western State College of Colorado (WSC). WSC changed its name to Western State Colorado University on August 1, 2012. The …