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On With The Show! Open Access Publishing As A Local Production, Janelle Wertzberger
On With The Show! Open Access Publishing As A Local Production, Janelle Wertzberger
Janelle Wertzberger
What do I need to know to launch an institutional repository at my school or continue growing the one I already have? How do I talk to my provost, faculty, administration, and library staff about the IR? Where will funding and staffing come from and how do I ensure their stability? Most institutional repository managers have likely asked themselves these questions at some point, and while the answers vary from institution to institution, many widely applicable best practices have still emerged. A successful institutional repository manager has to be a jack-of-all-trades: someone who has a vision for the services the …
Incorporating Usability Into The Database Review Process: New Lessons And Possibilities, Ilana R. Barnes
Incorporating Usability Into The Database Review Process: New Lessons And Possibilities, Ilana R. Barnes
Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations
The objective of this study is to examine the impact of incorporating user experience study methods into library database purchase and renewal. In the summer of 2013, Purdue libraries introduced a modified standard usability concept (heuristic evaluation, or expert review) into an existing yearly electronic resource evaluation process. Every year librarians already evaluated electronic resources in the collection using a set of parameters including usage statistics but never explicitly included database usability. Introducing more user experience parameters into process allows librarians to record usability errors to be communicated back to database vendors or to be considered for database renewal and …
Back To The Classics: A Library Leader’S Basic Management Bookshelf, Jennifer A. Bartlett
Back To The Classics: A Library Leader’S Basic Management Bookshelf, Jennifer A. Bartlett
Library Faculty and Staff Publications
This New and Noteworthy book review column summarizes four general "classic" management titles which may be useful to library leaders and managers.
Security Management For Prevention Of Book Thefts In University Libraries. A Case Study Of Benue State University Library, Nigeria, Philip Usman Akor Dr
Security Management For Prevention Of Book Thefts In University Libraries. A Case Study Of Benue State University Library, Nigeria, Philip Usman Akor Dr
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
ABSTRACT
This paper examines the security management for prevention of book thefts in University libraries with Benue State University Library, Makurdi. Benue State. Nigeria serving as a case study. The aim of the study was to identify the causes of book thefts and mutilation in University libraries and how to curb and preserve the continuous use of this information resources in the library. The survey research method was employed. Questionnaire are the main instrument for data collection. Frequency, tables, percentages is the main statistical tools used for data analysis. Results of the analysis showed that the university library books are …
Is It Really Time To Replace Your Ils With A Next-Generation Option?, Keith Kelley, Carrie C. Leatherman, Geraldine Rinna
Is It Really Time To Replace Your Ils With A Next-Generation Option?, Keith Kelley, Carrie C. Leatherman, Geraldine Rinna
University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications
A claimed benefit of the emerging next-generation, cloud-based systems is to give libraries new efficiencies, allowing them to do more with less. And we can hardly wait. But we suspect that they are not there yet.
Paying It Forward, Giving It Back: The Dynamics Of Mentoring, Jennifer A. Bartlett
Paying It Forward, Giving It Back: The Dynamics Of Mentoring, Jennifer A. Bartlett
Library Faculty and Staff Publications
This "New and Noteworthy" column focuses on selected recent literature concerning career mentoring in libraries.
Review Of How To Manage Processing In Archives And Special Collections, Jillian Cuellar
Review Of How To Manage Processing In Archives And Special Collections, Jillian Cuellar
Journal of Western Archives
Learning to process archival collections as an intern or student processor constitutes many archivists’ first practical understanding of the archival enterprise. Though this experience is an excellent hands-on opportunity for many nascent archivists to sharpen their project management skills, it does not fully prepare them to manage an archival processing program. Few students in archival graduate programs receive in-depth management training, leaving many to learn effective management techniques without formal guidance. With How to Manage Processing in Archives and Special Collections, Pam Hackbart-Dean and Elizabeth Slomba set out to offer archivists a comprehensive, practical toolbox for managing a processing …
Connecting Diversity To Management: Further Insights, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou
Connecting Diversity To Management: Further Insights, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou
La Loria Konata
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 …
“Because I’M Good Enough. I’M Smart Enough And Doggone It, People Like Me!”: Identifying And Overcoming Impostor Phenomenon In Library Managers, Elizabeth Martin
“Because I’M Good Enough. I’M Smart Enough And Doggone It, People Like Me!”: Identifying And Overcoming Impostor Phenomenon In Library Managers, Elizabeth Martin
Elizabeth Martin
A Year From Now You Will Wish You Had Started Today - Redefining Strategy And Organization For Library Automation And Content, Daniel Forsman
A Year From Now You Will Wish You Had Started Today - Redefining Strategy And Organization For Library Automation And Content, Daniel Forsman
Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences
There is a need for a new breed of organization and strategy in a changed landscape for library systems, acquisitions and discovery. This paper presents Chalmers library re-organization and strategic viewpoint on library systems, acquisitions, collection development and development methodology based on a complete overhaul of those areas to prepare us for a changed paradigm of how library systems and media is delivered to our organization and users.
Software and Data as a Service has changed the infrastructure for library automation and content delivery. Media and systems are merging in the Cloud, with vendor promise of lower total cost of …
Data Information Literacy: Multiple Paths To A Single Goal, Megan R. Sapp Nelson
Data Information Literacy: Multiple Paths To A Single Goal, Megan R. Sapp Nelson
Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations
This lightning talk presentation briefly covers each DIL team's experience working with a specific discipline and their response to identified data management/curation needs.
Running To Stand Still: The Challenge Of Keeping Up With Library Trends, Jennifer A. Bartlett
Running To Stand Still: The Challenge Of Keeping Up With Library Trends, Jennifer A. Bartlett
Library Faculty and Staff Publications
New and Noteworthy review column focusing on keeping up with library and information science news and trends.
Seen It All, Heard It All, Done It All. Is It All Worth It?, Julie Lim
Seen It All, Heard It All, Done It All. Is It All Worth It?, Julie Lim
Publications and Research
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Developing An Understanding Of Data Management Education: A Report From The Data Information Literacy Project, Jake Carlson, Lisa Johnston, Brian Westra, Mason Nichols
Developing An Understanding Of Data Management Education: A Report From The Data Information Literacy Project, Jake Carlson, Lisa Johnston, Brian Westra, Mason Nichols
Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations
This paper describes the initial results from the Data Information Literacy (DIL) project designed to identify the educational needs of graduate students across a variety of science disciplines and respond with effective educational interventions to meet those needs. The DIL project consists of five teams in disparate disciplines from four academic institutions in the United States. The project teams include a data librarian, a subject-specialist librarian, and a faculty member representing a disciplinary group of students. Interviews of the students and faculty members present a detailed snapshot of graduate student needs in data management education. Following our study, educational programs …
Data Information Literacy: Multiple Paths To A Single Goal, Jake Carlson, Sarah Wright, Brian Westra, Jon Jeffryes
Data Information Literacy: Multiple Paths To A Single Goal, Jake Carlson, Sarah Wright, Brian Westra, Jon Jeffryes
Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations
The Institute of Museum and Library Services funded a two-year project for five teams (each made up of two librarians, one of whom specialized in data services, and a faculty researcher) from four institutions (Purdue University, University of Oregon, University of Minnesota, and Cornell University) to examine the data information literacy needs of graduate student researchers. After identifying the needs of their audience each team developed a tailored approach to bring instruction to their respective graduate students. The involvement of a faculty researcher in each team and pre-instruction interviews of graduate students ensured that the program developed was indeed relevant …
Assessment Strategies For Cataloging Managers (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge
Assessment Strategies For Cataloging Managers (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
Qualitative assessment activities, when conducted regularly and methodically, can help managers and administrators understand the impact and value of the work that we do for our customers. Are we meeting our customers' needs? Are there services that we could provide but currently do not? What are our customers’ priorities? Are we responsive to their questions and issues? Are we working as effectively as we can? This webinar will explore the use of customer service surveys, focus groups, quality initiatives, benchmarking, and other methods to evaluate and assess the work that we do.
Technical Services Assessment In Pennsylvania Academic Libraries (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge
Technical Services Assessment In Pennsylvania Academic Libraries (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
Academic libraries regularly conduct assessment of library services through the use of rubrics or assessment tools such as LibQual™. Technical services activities are frequently assessed; however, the assessment is typically limited to the evaluation of specific processes. This study was designed to explore assessment activities in Pennsylvania’s academic libraries. The author designed a survey to investigate whether technical services activities are assessed, how they are assessed, who is responsible for assessment of technical services, how the results of assessment activities are shared with others, and how those results are used to improve services or for other purposes.
Management As Sine Qua Non To Productivity In Any Organisations, A Study Of Public Libraries In Niger State, Nigeria., Olatokunbo C. Okiki
Management As Sine Qua Non To Productivity In Any Organisations, A Study Of Public Libraries In Niger State, Nigeria., Olatokunbo C. Okiki
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The study examimed effective management as the basic and indispensable condition that must be met for enhanced productivity in any organisations with specific reference to public libraries in Niger State, Nigeria. Survey research design was used for the study . Total enumeration technique was used to cover all the 77 librarians that were found in the five public libraries in Niger State used for the study. The libraries used for the study are those located in: Minna, Kotangora, Bida, Lapai and New Bussa. The data gathered were analysed with simple descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentages. Part of the …
The Poor Administrator And You, Jeffrey A. Franks
The Poor Administrator And You, Jeffrey A. Franks
Jeffrey A Franks