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Developing Effective Scholarly Communication Advocates: The Experiences Of Three University Librarians In Developing Scholarly Communication Programs, Sara N. Fuchs Nov 2007

Developing Effective Scholarly Communication Advocates: The Experiences Of Three University Librarians In Developing Scholarly Communication Programs, Sara N. Fuchs

University Library Faculty Presentations

Libraries are broadening their involvement in the scholarly communication process by advocating author rights and open-access publishing, as well as providing researchers with digital services, such as institutional repositories and e-publishing programs. Academic librarians are in a good position to help raise awareness on their campuses of important scholarly communication training and outreach programs. By training those who work most closely with faculty, libraries are more likely to develop effective scholarly communication advocates. Thus prepared, librarians and library staff can better inform faculty members about their individual and collective options regarding scholarly communication issues.


November/December 2007, Stall Times Nov 2007

November/December 2007, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.


Teaching Anxiety In Academic Librarians: Challenges To Instruction, Kaetrena D. Davis Oct 2007

Teaching Anxiety In Academic Librarians: Challenges To Instruction, Kaetrena D. Davis

University Library Faculty Presentations

ACRL's implementation of Information Literacy Standards and the integration of academic librarians into content-based, credit-bearing courses mean that academic librarians are increasingly being called upon to teach on a long-term basis. Dealing with the real and perceived challenges of preparing for the classroom environment can be distressing. If you deal with teaching anxiety, you'll be interested in the results this study.


The Life Of A Wiki: How Georgia State University Library's Wiki Enhances Content Currency And Employee Collaboration, Sarah Steiner, Joel Glogowski Oct 2007

The Life Of A Wiki: How Georgia State University Library's Wiki Enhances Content Currency And Employee Collaboration, Sarah Steiner, Joel Glogowski

University Library Faculty Publications

In recent years, the ease of use and collaborative nature of the wiki has made it a popular tool in many libraries. Georgia State University Library has hosted an internal wiki since 2003, and since its inception it has been utilized in many different and innovative ways. This article will provide an overview of some of the more interesting uses of the GSU Library wiki, specifically, its life as a reference guide, training manual, committee meeting and planning ground, home for material price quotes, and finally, as a place for entertaining work-related content.


Presentation - Getting Their Hands Dirty: Collaborating To Engage Undergraduates In Learning, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D. Oct 2007

Presentation - Getting Their Hands Dirty: Collaborating To Engage Undergraduates In Learning, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

University Library Faculty Publications

Presentation on collaboration with Dr. Hannah Britton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, on the redesign of her Women and Politics course toward achieving an articulated pedagogical aim of shifting from “providing instruction” to “producing learning” via engaging students’ in original research/analysis.


Middle East Film And Mass Media Sources, Jason Schultz Sep 2007

Middle East Film And Mass Media Sources, Jason Schultz

University Library Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.


August/September 2007, Stall Times Aug 2007

August/September 2007, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.


June 2007, Stall Times Jun 2007

June 2007, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.


Derailing Anxiety In Academic Library Instruction, Kaetrena D. Davis Apr 2007

Derailing Anxiety In Academic Library Instruction, Kaetrena D. Davis

University Library Faculty Presentations

What We’ll Cover • What is Teaching Anxiety? • Why study Teaching Anxiety (TA)? • Methodology and details of the study • Results of the study • Emerging solutions to TA in librarians • Discussion: your experiences & comments


April/May 2007, Stall Times Apr 2007

April/May 2007, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.


E-Book Evolution: The New Chapter Of Electronic Resources, Bonnie Tijerina, Tammy Sugarman, Heather King Mar 2007

E-Book Evolution: The New Chapter Of Electronic Resources, Bonnie Tijerina, Tammy Sugarman, Heather King

University Library Faculty Presentations

Panelists discuss several aspects of the electronic book environment: the evolution and current incarnations of e-books, user perceptions, marketing, and how the current access, cost, and use models of e-books affect how libraries develop collections. Presentation includes video clips from interviews with Georgia State University students. Note: File may take a few minutes to download. Within the presentation, click on the blue boxes to view the video clips embedded in the presentation.


Academic Librarians, Professional Literature, And New Technologies: A Survey, Skye Hardesty, Tammy Sugarman Mar 2007

Academic Librarians, Professional Literature, And New Technologies: A Survey, Skye Hardesty, Tammy Sugarman

University Library Faculty Publications

Keeping abreast of professional literature and the latest trends is critical for academic librarians to be successful, but in a time of information glut, are librarians achieving this? Over seven hundred academic librarians responded to this survey and inform us about their use of both traditional methods and new technologies to stay current.


March 2007, Stall Times Mar 2007

March 2007, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.


Information Literacy And Information Seeking Behavior Among Business Majors, Casey Long, Milind Shrikhande Feb 2007

Information Literacy And Information Seeking Behavior Among Business Majors, Casey Long, Milind Shrikhande

University Library Faculty Publications

The current generation of college students has used the Internet to access information since the early 1990s. No assessment of information use, quality, variety, and reliability of information generally occurs at both the student and faculty level. In this paper we use a package of teaching methods targeted towards improving information-seeking behavior among graduate and undergraduate business majors. The effectiveness of the teaching package is assessed through an evaluation of student term-papers and quality of resources used. We find that the package of teaching methods implemented does result in significant improvement in information seeking behavior, especially among undergraduate business majors.


Connecting Diversity To Management: Further Insights, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou Feb 2007

Connecting Diversity To Management: Further Insights, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou

University Library Faculty Publications

It has long been noted that libraries need more diversity in the professional ranks. This situation is now critical with baby boomers soon to retire leaving millennials, who are more racially and ethnically diverse, as the next majority population. The profession will need to recruit a more significant number of millennials to the profession if libraries are to resemble the communities they serve. To get an idea of the current status of management diversity in libraries, managers/supervisors of ARL libraries-in states that contain the highest number of minorities in population-were randomly selected for a survey. Participants in ARL's LCDP were …


February 2007, Stall Times Feb 2007

February 2007, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.


Global Evolution: A Chronological Annotated Bibliography Of International Students In U.S. Academic Libraries, Kaetrena D. Davis Jan 2007

Global Evolution: A Chronological Annotated Bibliography Of International Students In U.S. Academic Libraries, Kaetrena D. Davis

University Library Faculty Publications

This chronological, annotated bibliography shows the evolution of the issues concerning undergraduate and graduate international students in American academic libraries and contains many possible guidelines and ideas for meeting the basic and advanced information needs of an increasingly diverse patron group.


Bright Idea: Connecting To Users With Facebook, Cliff Landis Jan 2007

Bright Idea: Connecting To Users With Facebook, Cliff Landis

University Library Faculty Publications

The author relates his decision to establish an Ask a Librarian social networking group for students at Valdosta State University in Georgia. One of the appeals of social networking Web sites to users is the variety of services in one interface. He discovered that many students are using the Facebook site while researching. He recommends the creation of individual accounts because Facebook discourages institute-wide accounts.


“Send Me A Nice Little Letter All To Myself”: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’S Fan Mail And Antebellum Poetic Culture, Jill E. Anderson Jan 2007

“Send Me A Nice Little Letter All To Myself”: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’S Fan Mail And Antebellum Poetic Culture, Jill E. Anderson

University Library Faculty Publications

This paper examines fan mail written to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow during the 1840s and 1850s, as he made the transition from emerging poet to being one of the best-known and most influential American poets of his time. Longfellow’s admirers wrote him letters praising his poetry, but also making requests for tokens of his presence and esteem: handwritten lines of his poetry, pencils, portraits, locks of hair, and in one case, his daughter’s hand in marriage. Claiming to “know” Longfellow through his poetry, admirers often also identified themselves as being in “debt” to Longfellow for his beautiful poetry, and sought …


January 2007, Stall Times Jan 2007

January 2007, Stall Times

University Library Stall Times

No abstract provided.