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Ebook Lending Platforms, John Novak
Ebook Lending Platforms, John Novak
Library Faculty Publications
For the purposes of this article, the definition of an eBook lending platform is one that contains eBooks from multiple publishers that patrons may browse and checkout. Though these platforms have eBooks that allow for multiple and simultaneous users, in general they have a one-book, one-user model. Details about the major eBook lending platforms for academic libraries, eBook lending platform characteristics, why and how an academic library would license one, and finally what the future of this rapidly changing environment may hold are explained in this article.
Exposing Missing Links: From Contentdm Digital Collections To The Linked Open Data Cloud, Silvia B. Southwick
Exposing Missing Links: From Contentdm Digital Collections To The Linked Open Data Cloud, Silvia B. Southwick
Library Faculty Presentations
Agenda
- Linked Data basic concepts
- UNLV Linked Data project
- Technologies
- Transforming metadata into linked data
- Next steps
Navigating The Flow Of Value-Streams To The Seas Of Collection Management, Acquisitions, And Preservation, Greg W. Voelker, Richard J. W. Zwiercan, Michael Frazier
Navigating The Flow Of Value-Streams To The Seas Of Collection Management, Acquisitions, And Preservation, Greg W. Voelker, Richard J. W. Zwiercan, Michael Frazier
Library Faculty Presentations
Discusses the background, goals, achievements, focus, and criteria of Collection Management, Acquisitions, and Preservation.
Creating A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Agenda, Patricia A. Iannuzzi, Chris Heavey
Creating A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Agenda, Patricia A. Iannuzzi, Chris Heavey
Library Faculty Presentations
Information literacy stands beside critical thinking and oral and written communication as fundamental proficiencies required for academic, professional, and personal success. These lifelong learning abilities overlap and intersect in many ways and far beyond library communities. Higher education associations, regional and disciplinary accreditation bodies, and even employers are demanding evidence that students graduate with these skills. Yet colleges and universities struggle with articulating the desired learning outcome in specific ways that align with assessment practices and the collection of evidence of student achievement. Engaging faculty in rethinking curriculum beyond their courses, and even beyond their major, to create a coherent …
Concentration On The Las Vegas Strip: An Exploration Of The Impacts, David G. Schwartz
Concentration On The Las Vegas Strip: An Exploration Of The Impacts, David G. Schwartz
Library Faculty Publications
Looking at two snapshots, albeit from a distance, gives an overview of how concentrated the gaming industry in Nevada has become:
- In 1998, 23 publicly held corporations owned 65 casinos that grossed more than $12 million that year from gaming. These casinos grossed 75.48% of the state’s total gaming revenue that fiscal year.
- In 2012, 22 publicly held corporations owned 70 casinos that grossed more than $12 million that year from gambling, pulling in 78.0% of that state’s total gaming revenue that fiscal year.
Attesting To Unique Attractions: The Significance Of The President's Commission On Organized Crime (1984-1986) Gambling Hearings, David G. Schwartz
Attesting To Unique Attractions: The Significance Of The President's Commission On Organized Crime (1984-1986) Gambling Hearings, David G. Schwartz
Library Faculty Publications
The federal government has had a curious relationship with gambling. For much of its history, the national public policy towards gambling was simple: prohibition, despite the audacity of a few laggard states in experimenting with legalization schemes. Towards the end of the twentieth century, however, the national policy shifted, at first to tolerance of legal gambling to endorsement of it. The five primary federal studies of gambling conducted in the twentieth century—the Kefauver Committee (1950–2), the President’s Crime Commission (1967), the Commission to Review the National Policy on Gambling (1974–6), the President’s Commission on Organized Crime (1984–6), and the National …
Not Just For Geeks: A Practical Approach To Linked Data For Digital Collections Managers, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Not Just For Geeks: A Practical Approach To Linked Data For Digital Collections Managers, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Library Faculty Presentations
As digital library managers, we know our collections contain rich metadata, but data (or metadata) are encapsulated in these records and are accessible to users only when records containing them are retrieved in a search. This approach for managing data, although a common practice that extends far beyond digital collections, creates silos of data. Data associated with records is isolated and does not directly link to related data existing in other records. These silos hide valuable relationships among data, leaving to users the task of discovering these hidden connections.
Join other digital library managers at this workshop designed to provide …
Libraries As Partners Around The University Table, Bonnie J. Smith, Maria A. Jankowska, Marianne A. Buehler
Libraries As Partners Around The University Table, Bonnie J. Smith, Maria A. Jankowska, Marianne A. Buehler
Library Faculty Presentations
Agenda
Introduction - the need for the study
Research Questions
Research Method
Main Findings
Developing A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Agenda, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Developing A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Agenda, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Presentations
No abstract provided.
Career Information Literacy For Students’ Interview Success, Amanda Cox, Lateka Grays
Career Information Literacy For Students’ Interview Success, Amanda Cox, Lateka Grays
Library Faculty Presentations
Cross Campus Relationship Building
• Seek unique opportunities
• Cross-promotion opportunities
• Problem Solving
• Appreciation by leadership
Expanding Library Support Of Faculty Research: Exploring Readiness, Jeanne M. Brown, J. Cory Tucker
Expanding Library Support Of Faculty Research: Exploring Readiness, Jeanne M. Brown, J. Cory Tucker
Library Faculty Publications
The changing research and information environment requires a reexamination of library support for research. This study considers research-related attitudes and practices to identify elements indicating readiness or resistance to expanding the library’s role in research support. A survey of faculty conducted at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) finds that although a high percentage of faculty rate the library as important or very important to research productivity, perceived importance of specific support functions drops markedly, except for functions related to buying or providing access to resources.
Flip This Class: Using A Flipped Classroom Approach To Teach Information Literacy, Nancy E. Fawley
Flip This Class: Using A Flipped Classroom Approach To Teach Information Literacy, Nancy E. Fawley
Library Faculty Presentations
What is a flipped classroom?
- Pedagogical model that reverses lecture and homework
- Students view or listen to lecture material on their own time, while class time is spent reviewing and applying what they learned
- Combines synchronous and asynchronous learning
- Students are not passive participants in the classroom
- Focus is on “just-in-time” instruction
- Promotes better student-teacher (or librarian) interaction
Survival Of The Fittest: The Evolving Nature Of Metadata Creation For Digital Collections, Silvia B. Southwick, Amy Hunsaker
Survival Of The Fittest: The Evolving Nature Of Metadata Creation For Digital Collections, Silvia B. Southwick, Amy Hunsaker
Library Faculty Presentations
The evolving nature of metadata is exemplified through a pictorial timeline that expands over a decade, identifying the development of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries digital collections, the context of their development, and the various factors that emerged later on that have influenced revisions of metadata decisions.
Collaborative K‐12 Outreach: K‐12 Stem And Beyond, Susan Wainscott, Fred Rauber, Xan Goodman, Samantha Godbey
Collaborative K‐12 Outreach: K‐12 Stem And Beyond, Susan Wainscott, Fred Rauber, Xan Goodman, Samantha Godbey
American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Conference
Libraries' Rebel STEM Objectives
- Build personal connections with students and teachers
- Galvanize students’ interest in STEM
- Teach information literacy skills
Scientific Publishing: Where Are We, And Where Are We Going? From An Academic Library’S Point Of View, Marianne A. Buehler
Scientific Publishing: Where Are We, And Where Are We Going? From An Academic Library’S Point Of View, Marianne A. Buehler
American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Conference
Academic Library Collection Development Situation
- Mid-1980s -- current: Escalating journal subscription costs.
- 2000: Enter a new paradigm: The institutional repository
- Open access to research university repositories.
- Faculty article deposits: goal to enable open scholarship—a winding road…
- ~2008: E-serials’ cuts, book purchasing cuts, flat budgets.
Using An Information Literacy Rubric To Evaluate Student Annotated Bibliographies, Erin E. Rinto
Using An Information Literacy Rubric To Evaluate Student Annotated Bibliographies, Erin E. Rinto
Scholarship Colloquium
Results of a study of student annotated bibliographies from English 102 students.
Survival Of The Fittest The Evolution Of Metadata In Digital Collections, Silvia B. Southwick, Amy Hunsaker
Survival Of The Fittest The Evolution Of Metadata In Digital Collections, Silvia B. Southwick, Amy Hunsaker
Scholarship Colloquium
There is a common misconception that metadata creation for digital collections is performed in a single step by subject experts. Once the metadata record is created it is believed that the record remains mostly unchanged. Our experience demonstrates that designing and implementing digital collections is a learning process. Various elements in the environment may prompt us to review our metadata and make changes that affect all collections. We will provide you with a few examples.
Information Literacy Skills Assessment And Curriculum Analysis In Teacher Education Programs: Establishing A Conceptual Framework, Samantha Godbey, Jennifer L. Fabbi
Information Literacy Skills Assessment And Curriculum Analysis In Teacher Education Programs: Establishing A Conceptual Framework, Samantha Godbey, Jennifer L. Fabbi
Scholarship Colloquium
The iSkills assessment is an hour-long, web-based simulation developed by ETS to measure ICT literacy skills of students from grades 10 through adulthood. In this study, the authors will compare the assessment scores of students majoring in teacher education (with junior-year status) at an urban commuter campus (UNLV) and a traditional residential campus (BYU). Controlling for demographic factors and GPA, the authors will focus on curricular elements in the respective teacher education programs that may contribute to the college students' test scores. Surveys and follow-up focus groups will focus on the relative value of information literacy as a skill set …
Streaming Media Hosting Provided By Libraries, Cyrus Ford Zarganj
Streaming Media Hosting Provided By Libraries, Cyrus Ford Zarganj
Scholarship Colloquium
Describes the different kinds of streaming media and things libraries should keep in mind about them.
The Well‐Rounded Archivist: A Unlv University Archivist Perspective, Tom D. Sommer
The Well‐Rounded Archivist: A Unlv University Archivist Perspective, Tom D. Sommer
Library Faculty Presentations
I’m going to be focusing on three main themes today:
- The first theme will be “Being a University Archivist.”
- Next will be the things that I “Wish I had Known.”
- Lastly, I’m going to provide you a series of thoughts and feelings that center around my “Advice for New Archivists.”
Transforming Digital Collections Into Linked Data: The Rise Of Missing Links, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Transforming Digital Collections Into Linked Data: The Rise Of Missing Links, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Library Faculty Presentations
Goals
- Study the feasibility of developing a common process that would allow the conversion of our collection records into linked data preserving their original expressivity and richness
- Publish data from our collections in the Linked Open Data Cloud to improve discover-ability and connections with other related data sets on the Web
Serving Those Who Serve: Outreach And Instruction For Student Cadets And Veterans, Nancy E. Fawley, Nikki Kyrsak
Serving Those Who Serve: Outreach And Instruction For Student Cadets And Veterans, Nancy E. Fawley, Nikki Kyrsak
Library Faculty Publications
Student cadets and veterans new to college have unique academic needs, and the abrupt switch from civilian to Corps life for new students at a military university can be challenging. Likewise, transitioning from military life to civilian life as a veteran student can be overwhelming. The libraries at Norwich University and The University of Alabama are supporting programs to assist new students in the transition from civilian to Corps life and from military to civilian life, respectively. While these students are at different stages of their military careers, cadets and veterans have common attributes that inform library support and instruction, …
At The Nexus Of Scholarly Communication And Information Literacy, Marianne A. Buehler, Anne E. Zald
At The Nexus Of Scholarly Communication And Information Literacy, Marianne A. Buehler, Anne E. Zald
Library Faculty Publications
Introduction
Graduate students embarking upon a new phase in their educational careers may not realize the range of expectations, particularly the cocurricular or extracurricular expectation to participate in the scholarly communication process. Unforeseen faculty expectations may include a requirement to publish or copublish an article in order to pass a graduate course or to engage in grant-funded research that will result in conference presentations or publications. Learning about the publication process provides a key transitional experience between the independent intellectual endeavor of conducting research for course assignments and the social dynamics of being a professional researcher or scholar, interacting with …
Linkedin As An Information Source For Human Resources, Competitive Intelligence, Nancy E. Fawley
Linkedin As An Information Source For Human Resources, Competitive Intelligence, Nancy E. Fawley
Library Faculty Publications
LinkedIn, the online professional network, provides people with the opportunity to interact with other professionals in their fields, locate potential employers through company pages and employees, and participate in forums relevant to their professions.
“Seeing” The Elephant: Assessing The Impact Of Library-Composition Program Collaboration On First-Year Student Learning, Erin E. Rinto
“Seeing” The Elephant: Assessing The Impact Of Library-Composition Program Collaboration On First-Year Student Learning, Erin E. Rinto
Library Faculty Presentations
Though university libraries and composition programs have historically collaborative relationships, these partnerships can take a variety of formats, including single course period library sessions, teaching-the-teachers, and librarian-driven assignment models. A hybrid of these collaborative approaches was implemented Fall 2012 at UNLV in an effort to provide first-year composition students with a more systematic information literacy experience in the required ENG 102 course. A two-pronged assessment method was used to evaluate the impact of the collaboration for both first-year student learning as well as to implement programmatic change.
Collaboration As An Essential Tool In Information Literacy Education 9-16: Context, Qualities And Implications, Samantha Godbey
Collaboration As An Essential Tool In Information Literacy Education 9-16: Context, Qualities And Implications, Samantha Godbey
Library Faculty Publications
The proliferation of electronic content and the development of new technologies are causing fundamental changes to the processes of reading and research, leaving many librarians curious and concerned about the future of the profession. In the midst of this transitional period, contemporary school librarians continue to face the challenges of limited funding and high expectations. Education and library funding continues to be cut, yet school librarians are tasked with coordinating efforts to educate children in information literacy so that they are educated consumers of information. Information literacy, the ability to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to …
Info Lit 2.0 Or Deja Vu?, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Info Lit 2.0 Or Deja Vu?, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Publications
In 1999, ACRL convened a national task force to draft Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. ACRL has recently launched a revision to those standards. The original standards were influential because they helped advance a national need in higher education at the time: a shift to outcomes based learning. Thirteen years later, information literacy stands alongside oral and written communication, critical thinking and ethical reasoning as learning outcomes broadly acknowledged as needing to be integrated, with disciplinary content, into the curriculum. This author believes that, in contrast to the first process, the current recommendations for revision are focused on …
Vendor Of The Month: A Marketing Collaboration, Lateka Grays, J. Cory Tucker
Vendor Of The Month: A Marketing Collaboration, Lateka Grays, J. Cory Tucker
Library Faculty Publications
Marketing library resources remains an important issue despite library reductions in staff and collections budgets. In order to maintain or expand marketing programs, libraries could do well tapping into the expertise available through the vendors supplying resources to libraries. A case study of a library marketing program called, “Vendor of the Month,” at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas explains the collaboration between the library and its vendors to increase awareness and use of selected electronic resources.
Developing And Applying An Information Literacy Rubric To Student Annotated Bibliographies, Erin E. Rinto
Developing And Applying An Information Literacy Rubric To Student Annotated Bibliographies, Erin E. Rinto
Library Faculty Publications
Objective – This study demonstrates one method of developing and applying rubrics to student writing in order to gather evidence of how students utilize information literacy skills in the context of an authentic assessment activity. The process of creating a rubric, training scorers to use the rubric, collecting annotated bibliographies, applying the rubric to student work, and the results of the rubric assessment are described. Implications for information literacy instruction are also discussed.
Methods – The focus of this study was the English 102 (ENG 102) course, a required research-based writing course that partners the instructors with the university librarians …