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Resource Discovery Services: An Overreaching Overview, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Checking Out Things At The Library – Including These Myths, Meg K. Scharf

UCF Forum

It is wonderful to work at our university: It’s vibrant, it’s a beautiful place, and people on campus are fascinating.

Romancing The Conference: Proposals That Get An "I Do!", Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

A History And Analysis Of Cala's Social Media, Sai Deng, Xiao Hu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Under the rapid development of social media and social networking sites, a number of social media channels have been deeply integrated into people's professional and private lives. The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), started its social media presence in 2012 with Facebook, and then expanded to YouTube and WeChat. While CALA's Facebook and YouTube channel are more public and social platforms for its news, announcements and documents, its WeChat group is more of an informal space for sharing news and embarking discussions. This poster will look into the various aspects of these social media channels and provide statistical and textual …

Social Media For Librarians And Users, A Global Perspective, Sai Deng, Ying Zhang, Jing Xu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Social media has increasingly become an integral part of our personal and professional lives worldwide, and it revolutionizes how we communicate and share information. Libraries and librarians are early adopters and proponents for the use of social media. In countries such as China, social media has gained momentum in the recent years, and particularly in colleges and libraries.

This poster first investigates social media's presences and applications especially in university libraries in the U.S. and in China. The two countries use different social media apps such as WeChat, Facebook, Twitter, Weibo and Blog. It then focuses on a case study …

E-Resources Pain Management, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

E-Resources Pain Management, Athena Hoeppner

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Metadata Services In The Context Of Digital Humanities, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Part II of the University of Central Florida Libraries hosted research lifecycle session at THATCamp Florida 2016. The Research Lifecycle at UCF presents a unified model of campus-wide support and services available to UCF researchers. This model was designed by the UCF Libraries’ Research Lifecycle Committee with inspiration from OpenWetWare’s Research Cycle. This presentation aims to explore the services and resources that UCF Libraries currently provides to researchers, while exploring how digital humanities research, specifically, can utilize such tools.

Metadata Guide For Stars, Sai Deng, Peter Spyers-Duran

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.

The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Psychology, Spring 2016, Carrie Moran

Libraries' Newsletters

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The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Women's & Gender Studies, Spring 2016, Carrie Moran

Libraries' Newsletters

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Preparing For Linked Data In Digital Repositories, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This program will present the experiment of adding linked data values to the digital collections at the University of Central Florida Libraries in its digital repository and institutional repository (IR). Working with the Digital Initiatives and some faculty members, the Metadata Librarian in Technical Services has been adding Library of Congress linked data and Virtual Internarial Authority File data to the library's collections in CONTENTdm and its Digital Commons based IR. While these systems haven't been designed or updated to fully accommodate linked data yet, to add linked data values to the collection fields in these systems is preparing for …

The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Social Work, Spring 2016, Carrie Moran

Libraries' Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Summary: We Mean Business: A Bi Session For Business Case Analysis Students, Meg K. Scharf

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A brief summary of an article that appeared in Research Strategies, volume 9, no.2, Spring 1990. The journal ceased publication, and permission to digitize this print-only publication was refused. The summary was created for the repository to recall this article and this highly successful project. 585 UCF College of Business students participated in instruction and online searching over the course of one year.

An Investigation Of Information Literacy Of International Graduate Students: Skills, Challenges, And Needs, Yousef Ayoub

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Information literacy at higher education institutions is an important issue at the local and national levels. In 2000, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) created a set of information literacy standards and asked academic institutions to incorporate them into their college curricula (ACRL, 2000). The ACRL states that, to be considered information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and be able to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information (ACRL, 2000). Academic institutions follow these standards to teach their students information literacy skills and assist them to become lifelong learners. Library …