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2015-02 Library Impact Statement For Edc 661 Language And Thinking In Schools, Mona Niedbala Feb 2015

2015-02 Library Impact Statement For Edc 661 Language And Thinking In Schools, Mona Niedbala

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for EDC 661 Language and Thinking in Schools. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Mona Niedbala. Requesting faculty: Pat Cordiero.


2015-02 Library Impact Statement For Edc 681 Culture And Discourse In Education, Mona Niedbala Feb 2015

2015-02 Library Impact Statement For Edc 681 Culture And Discourse In Education, Mona Niedbala

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for EDC 681 Culture and Discourse. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Mona Niedbala. Requesting faculty: Geri August.


2015-02 Library Impact Statement For Edc 670 Theory Construction, Mona Niedbala Feb 2015

2015-02 Library Impact Statement For Edc 670 Theory Construction, Mona Niedbala

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course request for EDC 670 Theory Construction. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Mona Niedbala. Requesting faculty: C. David Brell.


Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Kirstin Duffin Jan 2015

Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Kirstin Duffin

Steve Brantley

Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly communication are creating significant demands on scholars. Today’s scholars must wrestle with meeting funder mandates for providing public access to their research, managing and preserving raw data, establishing/publishing open access journals, understanding the difference between “green OA” and “gold OA,” navigating the complicated issues around copyright and intellectual property, avoiding potentially predatory publishers, adapting their tenure plans to OA, and discovering increasing amounts of OA resources for their research and their curricular materials. These demands present an opportunity and a need for librarians to step …


Introduction To Academic E-Books, Judith M. Nixon, Robert S. Freeman, Suzanne M. Ward Jan 2015

Introduction To Academic E-Books, Judith M. Nixon, Robert S. Freeman, Suzanne M. Ward

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

With so many advantages, it seems logical that librarians would be eager to switch from purchasing books in print to embrace the electronic format. However the transition to e-books in academic libraries has not been a smooth or quick one and the reasons are myriad and complicated. Aware that this is still a time of transition and that there are many issues surrounding the e-book, the editors set out to present the state of e-books in academic libraries today. They invited knowledgeable publishers and librarians to write about the current challenges, successes, and trends. In addition, there is a section …


Resources For College Libraries (Rcl), Christina Miller Jan 2015

Resources For College Libraries (Rcl), Christina Miller

Publications and Research

Resources for College Libraries (RCL) is a subscription bibliographic database produced by Bowker (a ProQuest affiliate), Choice, and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Primarily a collection development tool, the database provides titles of print and electronic books, Web sites, and databases deemed essential by subject specialists for four- and two-year college and vocational and technical school library collections. This resource is a seminal tool for library collection development, maintenance, and assessment.