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Law Library Blog (November 2022): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Law Library Blog (August 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Marc-Y Marc And The Coding Bunch, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Paul Daybell, Kurt Meyer, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

MARC records were identified, isolated from the other search results, then analyzed and individually coded. Coding identified where search terms appeared in a record, determined whether search terms were present in full or in part within those fields, and ascertained what prominent categories of fields were missing from records. Analysis of results ultimately showed that including notes and summaries into catalog records is important for content retrieval, while subject headings were not as impactful for access, but may be valuable to a subset of users who take the additional step of viewing the complete records.

Missing The Marc: Utilization Of Marc Fields In The Search Process, Liz Woolcott, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Paul Daybell

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Utah State University Cataloging and Metadata Services (CMS) unit analyzed MARC record discoverability within the libraries’ discovery layer, Encore, using web analytics, a web-scrapping tool, and a relational database to examine MARC records listed in users’ search results. MARC records were identified, isolated, and coded to pinpoint where search terms appeared, determine whether they were present in full or in part, and ascertain prominent fields not present in records. Analysis of results showed that notes and summaries were important for record retrieval and that users interacted with authorized name fields more frequently than authorized subject fields.

The Impact Of Covid-19 On The Use Of Academic Library Resources, Ruth Connell, Lisa Wallis, David Comeaux

Faculty Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted higher education, including academic libraries. This paper compares the use of library resources (including interlibrary loan, website and discovery tool pageviews, database use, patron interactions, etc.) at three university libraries before and after the pandemic. The latter part of the 2019 and 2020 spring semesters are the timeframes of focus, although two control timeframes from earlier in those semesters are used to determine how the semesters differed when the coronavirus was not a factor. The institutions experienced similar patterns of use across many metrics.

Law Library Blog (August 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Michigan In The Novel 2012-2016: A Five-Year Checklist, Robert Beasecker

Books and Contributions to Books

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Update Of The Sciaa Research Library Cataloging Project, Nena Powell Rice, Matthew Haney

Faculty & Staff Publications

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University Libraries News, Georgia Southern University Libraries

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• GIL- Find Library Catalog Getting a New Look

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Explore the New and Improved GIL-Find Catalog

Toward Augmented Document: Expressive Function Of Catalog, Caroline Courbieres, Sabine Roux, Benoît Berthou

Proceedings from the Document Academy

A library catalog constitutes a communicational tool which allows access to a collection of documents. It contributes to the circulation of knowledge by signaling and locating informational objects. This referencing consists in deconstructing/reconstructing documents according to principles of standardization: the actualized document is then decomposed into diverse characteristics. With the development of online public access catalog (OPAC), catalogs diffuse their own content beyond the documentary space that they are supposed to represent. Thus the communicational models specific to the bibliographic catalog must be deepened. If a catalog could appear as a documentary showcase, the possibility to comment on documents extends …

The Kansas Story: A Sea Of Koha Green On The Plains, Robin Hastings, Heather Braum, Harry Willems, Crystal Hutchinson Mlis, Gail Santy, Maribeth Shafer, Jason Robb, Roger Carswell

Forsyth Library Faculty Publications

Three regional systems document each massive collaboration project to provide small and rural libraries with a consortia catalog. The systems Central Kansas Library System (CKLS), Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) and Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS) narrate their system experience with creating a consortia catalog for libraries in their designated region. Their experience includes the history, the challenges and achievements and the future plans of each of the three Koha integrated library systems. All three systems currently still use this open-source software.

Chapter 04 - Onesearch, Rebecca M. Marrall

The Research Process: Strategies for Undergraduate Students

Learn how to search, retrieve results, and navigate throughout the user interface of Western Washington University Libraries’ shared catalog.

Keeping Up With New Legal Titles, Patricia Alvayay

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this book review, Patty Alvayay discusses Rethinking Library Technical Services: Redefining Our Profession for the Future by Mary Beth Weber.

How We Closed A Library And Opened Up Our Stacks: Providing Alternative Access Through Virtual Shelves, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This poster covers WSU's efforts to develop a virtual book shelf viewer modifying and adding to the Harvard Library's Stack View project. Code referenced was developed by Cole Hudson and Axa Liauw and can be found on Github.

Discovery Layers Vs. The Traditional Catalog: E-Forum Summary, Erika Johnson, Kristin E. Martin

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

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Visualizing Our Book Shelves: How We Took Harvard’S Stack View And Made It Our Own, Cole Hudson

Library Scholarly Publications

This presentation covers WSU's efforts to develop a virtual book shelf viewer modifying and adding to the Harvard Library's Stack View project. Code referenced was developed by Cole Hudson and Axa Liauw and can be found on Github.

Understanding The Catalog As A Reference Tool, Liz Woolcott

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

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Promoting Government Information: Outreach To Non-Depository Libraries, James Shaw

James B Shaw

Some of you may recall that at last year's Fall FDLP Conference, Professor Charles Seavey (University of Missouri, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies) participated in a panel presentation about the future of depository libraries, and he remarked that "any library can be a depository." In the August 2005 issue of American Libraries, Professor Seavey elaborated on his idea in an article entitled, "Documents to the People: Musings on the Past and Future of Government Information." At some risk of oversimplification, his primary point is that the era of electronic access presents a new opportunity for any library …

Discovery On A Budget: Improved Searching Without A Web-Scale Discovery Product, Chris Bulock, Lynnette Fields

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Discovery is a key component of a library's services, and user expectation are high. Even if a Web-scale discovery system is not in the cards, there is plenty a library can do to improve discovery for their users. Librarians at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have conducted a series of user studies focused on discovery tasks using the library's website and catalog. The lessons learned fro these studies have led to an ongoing redesign of the library's web-site as well as recommendations for instruction. This paper shares successful strategies for evaluating and improving discovery, no expensive software or programming skills necessary.

The Ever Changing Role Of The Cataloger And How Catalogers Manage Change, Debra G. Skinner

Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation was given during the American Library Association Annual Conference.

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: The Perplexing Problem Of Indexing Images, Lindsay L. Marlow, Amy Miller

School of Information Student Research Journal

Indexing images has always been problematic due to their richness of content and innate subjectivity. Three traditional approaches to indexing images are described and analyzed. An introduction of the contemporary use of social tagging is presented along with its limitations. Traditional practices can continue to be used as a stand-alone solution, however deficiencies limit retrieval. A collaborative technique is supported by current research and a model created by the authors for its inception is explored. CONTENTdm® is used as an example to illustrate tools that can help facilitate this process. Another potential solution discussed is the expansion of algorithms used …

Thomas James' Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis: An Early Printed Union Catalog, Richard Clement

Richard W. Clement

Thomas James (1572-1629), first Keeper of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, produced the first printed union catalog of manuscripts. The Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis (1600) covers the manuscript holdings of the colleges of the two universities at Oxford and Cambridge. James's methods in dealing systematically with each codex are illustrated by comparing the Ecloga with the 1589 shelflist of Corpus Christi Oxford, and with the 1574/75 register of Matthew Parker's library at Corpus Christi Cambridge. The elements of the Ecloga main entries are analyzed and discussed, as are the indices that provided the necessary access points to the collections.

Nextgen Acquisitions: A Paradigm Shift For A New Era, Kelly Smith, Kathryn Harnish

Kelly Smith

Current integrated library systems traditionally combine both user discovery and inventory management applications, merging very different functional needs into a single environment. As libraries look to the future, our service platforms must evolve in a way that enables both more efficient management and more effective presentation of a wide array of library resources. For many libraries, the first step in the process has been to decouple the user discovery and delivery environment, separating the needs for patron presentation from the requirements for back-office management. In this way, libraries have attempted to improve the enduser experience.

This presentation examines how new …

Nextgen Acquisitions: A Paradigm Shift For A New Era, Kelly Smith, Kathryn Harnish

Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations

Current integrated library systems traditionally combine both user discovery and inventory management applications, merging very different functional needs into a single environment. As libraries look to the future, our service platforms must evolve in a way that enables both more efficient management and more effective presentation of a wide array of library resources. For many libraries, the first step in the process has been to decouple the user discovery and delivery environment, separating the needs for patron presentation from the requirements for back-office management. In this way, libraries have attempted to improve the enduser experience.

This presentation examines how new …

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Try GIL-Find, our new alternative library catalog interface
• Book Signing with Dr. Hemchand Gossai

Creating Complex Publication Patterns In Voyager, Kelly Smith, Laura Edwards

Kelly Smith

Procedures for creating complex publication patterns in the Voyager ILS acquisitions module.

Creating Complex Publication Patterns In Voyager, Kelly Smith, Laura Edwards

Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations

Procedures for creating complex publication patterns in the Voyager ILS acquisitions module.

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• A Penny for your Thoughts...
• Linking to e-journals, the library catalog, databases, e-reserves,etc.

A Fight To The Death: Two Catalog Search Interfaces Battle It Out, Cristina Tofan, Todd King

Cristina Tofan

Our old OPAC just couldn’t keep up with the search needs of our patrons. So, we looked for something easier to use with better results. Enter Encore and WorldCat Local — not just one, but two new search interfaces. We could only keep one, so find out how our students, faculty, and staff helped decide the outcome of this epic duel.