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Maine Shared Collections Strategy Advisory Board Update Report, May 2014, Deborah Rollins, Clem Guthro, Barbara Mcdade, Matthew Revitt

Matthew I Revitt

Under this three-year project, funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), libraries will collaborate to make decisions about the storage, retention, and preservation of print materials (both books and journals) as well as look for ways to integrate digital editions into a state-wide catalog. This will help alleviate space concerns while ensuring that users continue to have equal or greater access to the information. The project’s goals are: To develop a strategy for a statewide, multi-type library program for managing, storing and preserving print collections among public and private institutions to achieve greater efficiencies and …

New Workflows For Research Publications And Repository At Smu, Pin Pin Yeo

YEO Pin Pin

The Singapore Management University started implementing a new solution for Integrated Research Information System (IRIS) in April 2014. Project background and some success factors is covered. IRIS would replace existing silo in-house systems. The key objective of IRIS is to have one system that takes care of ethics, research project management, grant management, publications and reporting. During the IRIS project implementation, the tasks performed included mapping of existing fields to the new IRIS and loading of existing data to IRIS test system. New workflows and some re-configuration of the default system were proposed.

The Life Of Pi: A Paper Born In Smu: Skit On Publishing, Open Access, Research Data, Pin Pin Yeo

YEO Pin Pin

The SMU librarians performed a skit in celebration of Open Access Week. The skit entitled "The Life of Pi: A Paper Born in SMU" tells the story of an original manuscript’s journey to get accepted in a journal, finally getting published in an open access journal and depositing an appropriate version in the institutional repository. The Library also wanted the research data to be deposited. Done with Singapore flavour using some Singlish, the skit was performed on 28 October at a function for faculty in the Li Ka Shing Library at the Singapore Management University. Cast: Rajendra Munoo, Tamera Hanken, …

Visionaries, Architects And Pioneers: Conceptualising Smu, Pin Pin Yeo, Patricia Meyer

YEO Pin Pin

The Singapore Management University (SMU) Library was tasked with documenting the early history of SMU by the chairman of its board of trustees. An oral history project to interview the pioneers involved in the formation of the university began in 2011. The project team included the Library, the Information Technology department, and a researcher/interviewer who was familiar with SMU. It was a steep learning curve for the team. As they conducted and processed the interviews, they learned about and made decisions on interviewing, recording, transcribing, storage, website design, discoverability, usability, and sustainability. The resulting oral history website presents the interviews …

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure

Gayle Schaub

Creating A Culture Of Meaningful Evaluation In Public Libraries: Moving Beyond Quantitative Metrics, Bill Irwin, Paul St-Pierre

Bill Irwin

The current state of practice sees public libraries, like all public institutions, enduring funding challenges within the dominant political-economic environment, which is shaped by the tenets of new public management and the neoliberal audit society. Libraries, feeling threatened and unsure about their future stability, seek new ways to demonstrate their value. However, they face institutional cultural constraints when attempting to introduce new assessment methods to meet this challenge. The new dynamics require them to go beyond output measures (counts). With research findings supported by survey and interview data from Ontario public libraries, and in agreement with the current literature on …

Measure For Measure: Using Collaborative Assessment To Build Stronger Information Literacy Skills, Susan Archambault

Susan Gardner Archambault

This paper will present a case study of how Loyola Marymount University (LMU) evaluated the information literacy component across 72 required Rhetorical Arts course sections taken by 1272 freshmen in Spring 2014. Rhetorical Arts is designed to teach students the time- honored tradition of the “good person writing and speaking well for the public good.” The course requirements (as dictated by a common syllabus) include one face-to-face librarian-led workshop, and coursework requiring students to develop a research topic, create a research diary, and create an annotated bibliography. Supporting material for students created by the library to enhance or supplement the …

Career Q&A: A Librarian's Real-Life, Practical Guide To Managing A Successful Career, By Susanne Markgren And Tiffany Eatman Allen, Information Today, 2013. Isbn: 978-1-57387-479-3., Elizabeth Parang

Elizabeth Parang

Streamlined Request Services: The Integration Of Ils, Ill And Consortia Borrowing Systems, Gan Ye, Sally Bryant

Gan Ye

No American Customers Satisfaction Index (Acsi) Database Review, Marc Vinyard

Marc Vinyard

"How Did We Do?": Evaluating The Instruction Program With A Senior Survey, Heather Jagman, Terry Taylor

Heather Jagman

Library instruction programs often center around reaching first year students in a required course. Predictable contact with a student pool of this size is not only an excellent foundation for consistent delivery of information literacy instruction, it can also be a valuable component of an assessment plan. Frequently, assessment focuses on learning outcomes of instruction sessions. How else might we examine the impact of instruction through our students? DePaul's Library surveyed seniors in capstone courses university-wide to gauge their perceptions of the instruction they had received over their years at the university. Their responses provided information about the reach of …

"How Did We Do?": Evaluating The Instruction Program With A Senior Survey.", Terry Taylor, Heather Jagman

Heather Jagman

No abstract provided.

Using Existing Resources To Enhance Blackboard Courses: Copyright And Access Issues, Melissa Koenig, Heather Jagman

Heather Jagman

No abstract provided.

Financial Literacy Across The Curriculum (And Beyond): Opportunities For Academic Libraries, Heather Jagman, Krystal Lewis, Brent Nunn, Scott Walter

Heather Jagman

Provides an introduction to financial literacy programs in the library and in other academic and co-curriculum programs at DePaul University.

Library As Publisher: A New Initiative For Rusa?, Elizabeth Boatright, Crystal Boyce, Sarah Espinosa, Angela Kent, Rebecca Marrall

Crystal Boyce

Tapping Into The Skills Of School Librarians, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The article focuses on the role of school librarians in evaluating the teacher's effectiveness. It states that librarians has knowledge about various areas other than library including information literacy, media literacy and digital literacy. It further presents various scenarios that can be used for analyzing the performance of librarians including formal observation, self-evaluation and portfolio.

Mentoring Through Collaborative Partnerships Until The End Of Time, Frances Reeve, Audrey Church

Frances M. Reeve

The authors offer insights on mentoring through collaborative partnerships based on personal experience. According to them, as school librarians, their relationship with their students can be described as a lifelong partnership of learning. Their graduate students under their university's School Library Media Preparation program are nontraditional adult learners.

Mentoring Through Collaborative Partnerships Until The End Of Time, Frances Reeve, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The authors offer insights on mentoring through collaborative partnerships based on personal experience. According to them, as school librarians, their relationship with their students can be described as a lifelong partnership of learning. Their graduate students under their university's School Library Media Preparation program are nontraditional adult learners.

Catch Them (Preservice Teachers) While You Can!, Audrey Church

Audrey P. Church

The article addresses a university school library instructor's approach, which features a meeting with preservice teachers early in the sequence of coursework. The majority of preservice teachers are not learning in their teacher preparation programs about the benefits of collaborative partnerships with teacher-librarians.

Competing Standards In The Education Of School Librarians, Audrey Church, Gail Dickinson, Nancy Everhart, Jody Howard

Audrey P. Church

Education for school librarians traditionally blends elements from the fields of LIS and education. A thorough preparation in both professions is necessary since school librarians hold state teaching certification in K-12 library media. A variety of standards from professional organizations guide school librarians in performing their multi-faceted roles, and accordingly inform the curricula of school librarian preparation programs. However, the plethora of standards may actually make it more difficult to determine what standards to include in LIS curricula, and when to include them in educating future school librarians. The implications of competitive aspects of inclusion of each of these standards …

Guest Editors' Column: The Solo Librarian, Audrey Church, Frances Reeve

Audrey P. Church

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the guest editor discusses the various stories of solo school librarians in the U.S.

Ieee Istas13- People As Sensors: The Social Implications Of Living In A Smart World, Alexander Hayes, Katina Michael, Nick Rheinberger

Alexander Hayes Mr.

What is the technological trajectory of people wearing sensors? What are the benefits, risks and costs? What is the vibe going to be like at ISTAS13 with people like Marvin Minsky and Ray Kurzweil attending? What do you hope to gain from the meeting? Can we foresee a time that all glasses will be embedded with sensors? What are the implications? E.g. in the higher education sector? What about the gathering of evidence by law enforcement? What is point of eye?

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans For Librarians, Gayle Schaub, Patricia Bravender, Hazel Mcclure

Gayle Schaub

Learning From Distance Faculty: A Faculty Needs Assessment At The University Of Wyoming, Cassandra Kvenild, Melissa Bowles-Terry

Cass Kvenild

Distance educators have special library needs. This article discusses the results of a library needs assessment of distance instructors at the University of Wyoming. Access to resources, use of library instructional services, barriers to distance library use, and perceived gaps in service are all addressed. Follow-up actions, based on survey results, are also discussed.

Connect, Explore, Soar: Innovative Technologies And Services In Library Learning Commons, Lisandra R. Carmichael, Cat Silvers, Paul Mosley, Michael Kucsak, Maria Atilano

Paul Mosley

Digital Commons @ Colby: Best Practices For Undergraduate Research, Susan Cole, Martin Kelly

Martin F Kelly III (Marty Kelly)

Colby College's contribution to the bepress sponsored webinar. From bepress' description:

Undergraduate research initiatives are cropping up at institutions across the country, highlighting the need for undergraduate publication venues. Colleges and universities are finding that publishing undergraduate work not only completes the research cycle for emerging scholars; it also showcases the quality of an institution’s student work to prospective students and their parents, as well as to prospective faculty members.

At Colby College, Suzi Cole, Scholarly Resources & Services, Sciences Librarian, and Martin Kelly, Assistant Director for Digital Collections, collaborate with the Environmental Studies program to publish the Colby Environmental …

It Takes A University To Build A Library, Dane Ward

Dane Ward

Academic libraries are rapidly changing, but the process requires campus-wide involvement. It will take a university community to shape a future library that meets the specific institutional needs of learning and research.. This transition is not just about libraries. It is about how colleges and universities come together to solve a collective challenge.

Library Discussion Panel Part I, Lowell Walters, Carl Merat, Gregory Smith, Abigail Sattler, Randy Miller

Gregory A. Smith

No abstract provided.

Librarians And Nvivo: Supporting Your Campus Researchers And Engaging In Your Own Research, Too!, Amanda Swygart-Hobaugh

Amanda "Mandy" J. Swygart-Hobaugh

Library Director As Politician, Filippa Anzalone

Filippa Marullo Anzalone

No abstract provided.