Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Practical Approaches And Proposed Strategies For Measuring Selected Aspects Of Community-Based Broadband Deployment And Use, Lisandra R. Carmichael, Charles R. Mcclure, Lauren H. Mandel, Marcia A. Mardis

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

A series of studies of rural Florida community anchor institutions have concluded that existing national measurement practices for broadband penetration, adoption, and impact are often poorly defined, confusing, or inadequate to inform decisions about community broadband deployment and adoption. As a result, local broadband initiatives may be hindered by “measurement confusion.” This article proposes the Broadband Readiness Index (BRI) with a number of broadband readiness criteria and the Community-Based Broadband Planning, Adoption, and Deployment model (CBBP) to address this confusion and position local officials to better coordinate, deploy, and use broadband locally; demonstrate how improved high-speed broadband affects their communities …

Au Courant - September 2012, Jim Alderman

Au Courant

Newsletter of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library

Discovery Systems: The Promise And The Reality, Michael Kucsak

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

A new era of discovery systems commenced in 2008 with the release of services that aim to index and provide access to an increasingly comprehensive body of library resources. This new genre of products, including Summon from Serials Solutions, EBSCO Discovery Service, Primo Central from Ex Libris, and OCLC’s WorldCat Local, promised to revolutionize how students and researchers discover, access, and use library resources of all types. These products aim to provide a Google-like search experience for library collections without the pitfalls of federated searching and to allow librarians to focus on promoting information literacy rather than on helping users …

Surviving The Great Ts Restructure, Susan A. Massey

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

This presentation describes the reorganization of the Technical Services department in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida.

Traditions And Transitions In Batchloaded Catalog Data, Susan A. Massey

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

A Report of The ALCTS Cataloging & Metadata Management Section Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Dallas, Texas, January 2012

The ALCTS Cataloging & Metadata Management Section Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group (CCRIG) met at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas for three presentations on the topic of “Traditions and Transitions in Batchloaded Catalog Data,” followed by a panel discussion by the speakers addressing audience questions.

Analyzing Data Future Direction, Michael Kucsak

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

The implementation of the Ebsco EDS Web Scale system at the University of North Florida has dramatically increased use of online resources. As a result, the way in which the library views eResources, contracts and acquisitions as a whole is changing to a more data driven model.

The Unf Digital Commons, Jeffrey T. Bowen

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

Presentation to the Scholars Transforming Academic Research Symposium (S.T.A.R.S.) at the University of North Florida Wednesday, April 11, 2012 from 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Building 58, Student Union Ballroom, Room 3703

Report Of The Alcts Cataloging And Metadata Management Section Cataloging And Classification Research Interest Group Meeting, American Library Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, June 2011, Susan A. Massey

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

The ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group (CCRIG) met at the 2011 American Library Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans for an e-forum summary, a research presentation, and a research blitz involving seven speakers.

Au Courant - March 2012, Barbara Tuck

Au Courant

Newsletter of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library

Envisioning And Integrating New Cataloging Workflows, Susan A. Massey

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

This presentation describes the Cataloging department reorganization in the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida.

Study Group On Library Services And Space Report, Paul Mosley, Jim Alderman, Bill Eckert, Michael Kucsak, Hilary Robbeloth

Library Commons Project

The Study Group was constituted in March 2012 and charged with examining both library public services and library public spaces with the goals of developing a new service model and adapting existing library space to better serve library clientele’s needs. To those ends, the group has reviewed library use statistics, surveyed articles from the professional literature that review the experiences of other libraries, and made site visits to Florida State University and the University of Central Florida, both of which have recently developed knowledge or learning commons and reexamined their own service models.

Libanswers Transactions

Library Commons Project

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Don’T Touch That String! There Went The Databases, Dee Baldwin, Michael Kucsak, Alice Eng

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

Web discovery tools can change not only the way users search and retrieve information, but also, how libraries and librarians work with information. When the University of North Florida implemented web scale discovery tools, we discovered that the technical implementation was challenging, but the most difficult changes were related to the library culture. Our students were “early adopters” moving from over 26 different entry points to finding most library materials in one search. But our staff and faculty were more resistant to the change.

Technical challenges related to implementation included coordinating the various technology pieces to customize the search interface, …