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(R)Evolution In The Information Industry: What The Information Industry Can Learn From The Music Industry, Amy M. Elliott

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

A failure to adapt to and adopt new and changing technology caused the music industry to crash, a fate that the information industry currently faces. This proposal is an overview of the music industry's crash, as a result of changing technology, and the lessons that the information industry can learn from the music industry's mistakes in order to avoid its own crash now that technology allows for quicker, easier, and cheaper publication. In the 80s & 90s record companies refused to effectively adapt to and adopt the new technologies of CDs, MP3s, and digital recording. This resulted in a slow …

An Alternative To Recording Hash Marks, Tracy Bicknell-Holmes

Tracy Bicknell-Holmes

Picture this: you just completed a 30-minute transaction where you helped a patron identify several relevant resources to answer their question, coached them in how to use the resources and helped them with several catalog searches. Basking in the glow of the patron’s enthusiastic praises, you record the transaction with a single hash mark on your statistics page. Were you tempted to put down more than on has mark to better represent the transaction? Are you looking for a better way to document the breadth and depth of the services you offer? This session will go over a few ideas …

Scholarworks: Showcasing Faculty Research While Promoting Open Access, Michelle Armstrong

Michelle Armstrong

Recently, Boise State’s academic leadership began exploring betters ways to disseminate the research produced by the university. As a part of this process, the idea of creating a research distribution strategy began to be outlined. One of the first components of this strategy was the development of ScholarWorks, an open access institutional repository. ScholarWorks consists of five key services: *Identifying and making available via the ScholarWorks web site documents and files produced by the faculty, research groups, and students of Boise State University. *Creation of Selected Works pages which highlight the scholarly accomplishments of each individual faculty member. *Distribution of …

Assess, Improve, And Share: Using Libqual+Tm To Provide A Quick And Easy Assessment For Accreditors, Administrators, And Users, Eric Forte

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Assessment in academic libraries is more important than ever as we strive to satisfy users, administrators and accreditation agencies, and present data to inform ongoing and future strategic directions. LibQUAL+TM yields a substantive set of quantitative and qualitative data that is relatively fast and easy to analyze, and is especially useful when significant skills and time to conduct meaningful assessment may not be present, such as in smaller academic libraries. Communicating the results and responses of assessment to stakeholders is a vital aspect of assessment and may in itself be indicative of the likelihood to enact positive change based on …

Making Your Library More Delicious, Ellie Dworak

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Sometimes there are too many new words floating around. And sometimes, the same old words have new, perplexing meanings. So it is with "social bookmarking" and "delicious." I thought I had the bookmarking thing down—I save things that I like so that I can get back to them again, right? And I know what it means to be social—that’s what I do on Saturday night after I’ve recovered from the work week. But what are the two of them put together? And what is this thing called "Delicious?" This column will cover those topics and give you a toolkit for …

Counseling And Therapy In Video, Memo Cordova, Ellie Dworak

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Counseling and Therapy in Video (CTiV) offers two models––purchase or license. The outright purchase varies, but ranges from $10,400 to $35,000, depending on annual materials budget and FTE; the annual Web Access Fee costs $250. Subscription options range from $1,500 to $3,600 per year depending on number of concurrent users, with $3,600 being the unlimited price option. Discounts are offered for consortial purchases, and a variety of package pricing options are available.

What Is Working Today: Success Stories In Marketing, Rights Management, And More, Heather Leary, Allyson Mower, Michelle Armstrong

Michelle Armstrong

This panel session was a discussion of success stories by various Institutional Repository Coordinators in their daily work with marketing, copyright clearance, workflow, distinctions between the Digital Library and Institutional Repositories, and more. A complete video of this presentation can be found at the conference web site.

Librarian Impressions, Amy E. Vecchione, Sara Seely

Amy E. Vecchione

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Idaho Participation In Naco: The Effect On Idaho Corporate Name Authority Control, Cheri Folkner, Barbara Glackin

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2005 five Idaho institutions joined the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging in order to expand the underlying data that help library users find and identify resources and to improve cataloging efficiencies within the state. The objective of this study was to determine what effect this participation by Idaho institutions in the NACO program had on the authority control of Idaho agencies and other Idaho corporate entities. Data analysis of Idaho corporate name authority records showed this participation significantly increased authority control for these entities. In less than three years, Idaho institutions created more …

Corralling Digital Collections From Across The Region: A Survey Of Digital Collections In The Pacific Northwest, Amy E. Vecchione, Rick Stoddart, Erin Passehl

Amy E. Vecchione

Digital collections exist at all types of institutions throughout the Northwest. Wrangling these online resources all into one place is quite a challenge. This poster will raise awareness of and highlight digital collections both big and small throughout the region. The range of collections spans from historical documents detailing local histories to the digital repositories of official government business to photographs and objects documenting Northwest culture (music, art, environment). Librarians and teachers will learn what collections are freely available to the public, relavant to the reference desk and classroom, and meaninful to patrons and students. Libraries, archives, and special collections …

Beyond The Blue: Creating Digital Collections At Boise State University, Erin Passehl

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Beyond The Institutional Repository: Campus Research Distribution Strategies, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The idea that universities and libraries ought to be more involved in developing a university's research distribution policy and developing strategies for the distribution of research and scholarship is one that is sparking a lot of interest among provosts and other university administrators. The February 2009 report by the AAU, ARL, CNI, and NASULGC, ”The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship--A Call to Action” has been a particularly significant influence.

Institutional repositories provide an important infrastructure for developing research distribution strategies, but many other aspects such as scholarly communication issues, copyright issues, campus publishing policies and strategies, …

Information Technology Infrastructure Library Problem Management Practices In Higher Education: A Maturity Model Approach, Peter Allyn Jurhs

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

This study addresses the movement from a traditional to an ITSM approach for Help Desk services in Higher Education. The central goal of the study was the development of a Problem Management Maturity Model. The Problem Management Maturity Model was constructed by reviewing the Information Technology Infrastructure Library Problem Management literature for core components to include in the model. The data collected from surveys of Help Desk managers was used to place Higher Education institutions on the specific level of the Problem Management Maturity Model. Several different hypotheses about predictors for Problem Management maturity were tested but none proved to …

Beyond The University: The Ir And Research Distribution Strategies, Marilyn K. Moody

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Universities are realizing the importance of developing research distribution strategies that allow their research and scholarship to be broadly disseminated. Using the research distribution strategies model as a framework provides the following strengths:

•Emphasizes the campus mission, vision, priorities, and strategic plan.

•Provides a far-reaching framework that supports a broad range of individual strategies.

•Shifts the focus of efforts to institutional and faculty priorities of research and scholarship.

•Emphasizes direct benefits to faculty and students.

•Fits the changing publishing and scholarly communication environment.

This presentation describes the role of the institutional repository in carrying out research distribution strategies. It describes …

Planning, Organizing, And Hosting A Workshop: It’S All In The Details, Barbara C. Glackin, Cheri A. Folkner

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

A library training workshop is an effective way to teach and expand staff skills and, in the process, create interest in new library-related procedures. Hosting a workshop presents an opportunity to cultivate shared knowledge internally, and inviting outside participation provides a forum for strengthening external relationships and exchanging ideas. This article offers a detailed look at organizing a workshop—from budgeting and selecting a trainer to registering participants and making local arrangements. Additionally, it offers practical guidance for successfully planning and organizing a training workshop that will be a rewarding experience for participants, trainer, and host.

Keepass = Password Miracle, Amy E. Vecchione

Amy E. Vecchione

No abstract provided.