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An Evaluation Of A Collaborative, Blended Learning Course For Staff At Monash University Library, Steven Yates, Lisa Smith

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Monash University Library contributes to learning and teaching within the curriculum through its information research and learning skills programs. The Library is aligned with the University’s digital education strategic goals; and thus considers the development and delivery of e-learning resources for blended and online learning environments an important strategic undertaking. With complex and dispersed Library, faculty and cross-campus activities, increasing e-learning staff development opportunities is challenging. This paper reports on the second iteration of a blended learning staff development course designed and conducted by the Library. A pragmatic approach was taken, using predominantly social constructivist learning and a mixed methods …

Library Building Renovations – Crucial Collaborations, Jc Henning

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper shares how important cross-sectional collaboration is to ensuring the successful planning of academic library buildings and facilities. The focus is on the nature of collaboration with internal stakeholders in the various stages of the process. It highlights the purpose of the collaboration in and at each stage, lists the relevant stakeholders and their roles, highlights the challenges and ultimately concludes with the benefits of the collaboration.

The specific relationships and agreements with internal stakeholders such as library staff, students, academics, Information and Communication Technology, Procurement and University Estates are presented. The paper briefly refers to collaboration with external …

“Just Because You Have A License Doesn’T Mean You Know How To Drive!” Tackling The Gap Between Lis Qualification And Professional Capacity, Sagren Moodley, Patricia Gierke, Pam Govender, David Thomas

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The role of the Staff Training and Development Committee of the Durban University of Technology Library is to facilitate both general and specific on-the-job-training for all library staff. The members of this Committee have been involved in training and development of library staff; LIS students and also other library professionals for many years. This exposure has highlighted a number of challenges both within the DUT Library and the LIS sector workplace, generally.

One of major concerns is that the gap between academic qualification and professional skills needed in the workplace is increasing; this can be attributed to the pace at …

Making The Link: The Library’S Role In Facilitating Research Collaboration, Lucia Schoombee, Pieter Du Plessis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Collaboration is emerging as an important factor in the advancement of science and scientific output. Paying heed to this development, libraries face the challenge of providing services to facilitate collaboration amongst researchers which will ultimately result in increased research output.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the opportunity for, and realisation of, library services which facilitate research collaboration as a means of addressing institutional goals to increase research output at Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service (SULIS).

Design/methodology/approach—The paper describes services and solutions explored by SULIS to support the growing trend of research collaboration. The paper looks …

Why I Don't Use The Library, Johannes C. Cronje

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

I am a user. I was your user. Now I am just a user - of information. You never see me, you never hear from me, yet I am there. Am I there because of you, or am I there in spite of you? I am a rated researcher. I am a prolific supervisor of postgraduate students. I am a contemporary academic. Yet you never see me in the library. It is because of you - but are you to be thanked, or to be blamed?

This talk will take a light-hearted look at the way in which contemporary information …

University Libraries And Public Libraries: Collaborate To Provide Access To Information For All, Maria Heijne

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

University libraries all over the world have managed to acquire access to large databases of scientific information. And many have set up repositories as ‘green road open access’ to assure free access to their own published academic output. And in order to pave the way for ‘golden road open access’ in the longer term.

How could these efforts also be profitable for public libraries? Many of them are targeting their services to new user groups. Like professionals in many disciplines, who would be very interested to be able to get access to academic information via the public library?

And even …

Power And Politics In A Changing Scholarly Communication Landscape, Laura Czerniewicz

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Scholarship in transition: mapping the changing ecology

The entire scholarship ecology has been changing shape as scholarly practices become digitally-mediated as a norm, and as openness in the higher education terrain becomes more mainstream. Every dimension of traditional scholarly cycles are affected: the conceptualisation of research, data collection and data analysis, the publishing and sharing of findings, as well as the translation of findings through teaching and engaged scholarship. In a context where communication is visible, content now intrinsically includes communication; expectations are for two-way interaction, new relationships are formed and old ones change shape with emergent roles and activities …

Collaboration Through Partnership At Unisa Library: Extending Library Services To Students Wherever They Are.., Buhle Mbambo-Thata

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

UNISA Library service is a network of libraries that spreads across all provinces of South Africa, and a campus in Akaki, Ethiopia. The vision of UNISA “Towards the Africa UNISA the African University in service to humanity” inspires the UNISA Library services to go beyond the network of UNISA libraries, reaching students wherever they are. In line with UNISA motto “learn wherever you are”, UNISA library services responded by extending its services to students so that they can learn wherever they were with both digital and print content. The library has set up tears of collaboration that extends …

How Effective National And Transnational Collaborations Are Managed:, Siv Vangen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Irresistable: How An Ir (Institutional Repository) Can Improve Library Collections While Preserving The Past, Monica Brooks, David Evans, Tim Tamminga, Jingping Zhang, Gretchen Beach, Nat Debruin, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Paris E. Webb

MU IR Day: April 11, 2013

Marshall University’s IR team will discuss the creation, progress, and benefits of the Marshall Digital Scholar, an online institutional repository. There will be time for libraries, large and small, to ask questions about digital collecting and digital projects.

Getting Faculty Excited About Your Ir…Really? Really!, Tim Tamminga

MU IR Day: April 11, 2013

Why do some repository managers seem to find it so easy to engage their faculty? What are the services and features that make an IR compelling to faculty? Tim Tamminga of bepress has spoken with numerous institutions about their faculty engagement strategies. In this presentation, he will share vignettes of successful faculty engagement from libraries at institutions of all different types and sizes. In addition, Tim will share successful IR talking points for getting your faculty’s attention.

Introduction To Marshall Digital Scholar/Everything You Thought You Knew About Copyright, Jingping Zhang, Monica Brooks, Paris E. Webb, Larry Sheret

MU IR Day: April 11, 2013

Copyright Primer: demystifying the law and best practices for librarians. Ignorance of the law is no longer acceptable and individuals can now be assessed astronomically high statutory damages per infringement. Join us for a frank and informative discussion regarding current copyright law and application in your library when working with digital publisher content. We don’t pretend to have all the answers but our team will share our MDS workflow for securing permissions for inclusion in the institutional repository for public access

Anthropology Research Project: Through The Portal To The World Exciting Research, Melanie Johnson

Undergraduate Research Conference

The idea of creating a webpage as a resource for anthropology developed over several years as anthropology professors saw their students struggling to do research. The need for another resource was clear. As an anthropology student, I went through the same classes and struggled in the same areas as other students.

Finding A Virtual Trail: Investigative Research On The Web, Suzanne R. Graham

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Provides tips and resources for finding information about people and businesses on the Internet. Focuses on finding vital data, asset information, and criminal history.

Rolling In The Deep, Dark Web: Advanced Internet Searching, Anne Burnett

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Shares effective search strategies to improve search engine results and discusses efforts to capture and index more of the deep web for retrieval.

Crowdsourcing Transcriptions Of Archival Materials, Aaron G. Noll

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

Crowdsourcing is a method that has been effectively used to pool the knowledge and skills of large numbers of online volunteers for the creation of information resources utilized by historians, genealogists, and scientists. In recent years, archivists have begun to crowdsource the transcription of their handwritten records. Transcription of such records has traditionally been completed by professional transcribers who are skilled in reading multiple handwriting styles, knowledgeable about the creators and historical context of the records, and can interpret varying record formats and genres. However, increasingly limited resources of time and money have made traditional transcription more difficult to accomplish. …

Born Digital: Event-Driven Archives, Vincent Capone

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

The growth of the internet has brought numerous tools and opportunities for archivists to both enhance their collections and reach out to potential patrons. Archives across the globe have begun immense digitization efforts to bring collections into the digital age and make them accessible to a broader audience. But what challenges face new archives whose collections are born-digital? How do these archives prove that they are indeed an archival facility and not simply a memory institution? These questions have risen around numerous digital archives born in the past decade to document and commemorate social events and tragic disasters, including the …

The Moving Targets Of Teaching And Technology: Virtual Reference As Information Literacy Intermediary, Melanie Mills, Jennifer Robinson

Technology in Education Symposium (TIES)

Libraries have been moving traditional services to the digital environment for some time now; first, with a measure of reluctance and now with enthusiasm (Anderson 2011, 290). But is the act of migrating library services to online platforms, in and of itself, enough? Have we sufficiently addressed the challenges and fully realized the opportunities that technology affords? Using virtual reference as a case study, we will explore the pedagogical role of academic librarians in higher education. In particular, we will attempt to address the following questions: What can virtual reference teach us about our role as teachers? Is it possible …

Purdue E-Pubs: Free Online Access To Transportation Research, Charles Watkinson, David Scherer

Purdue Road School

Purdue e-Pubs is a free service provided by the Purdue Libraries offering access to some of the best transportation research. This session reviews the partnership with JTRP/INDOT to archive and disseminate technical reports, Purdue Road School presentations, and affiliated reports.

Partner Your Way To Success: Advancing Consortia Opportunities In The Volunteer State, Theresa Liedtka, Deanne Luck, Mary Ellen Pozzebon

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Conference Program [2013], Georgia International Conference On Information Literacy

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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