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The Literature Review: A Learning Tool, Olga Koz Mar 2020

The Literature Review: A Learning Tool, Olga Koz

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

Literature reviews are the source of constant stress among doctoral and master level students and, at the same time, the most popular assignment among instructors. After teaching numerous workshops, webinars, Literature Review Bootcamps, and co-teaching “literature review modules,” I decided to create an interactive web-based learning tool, the Literature Review Design (LRD).

You are welcome to use it before the workshop. Access URL:http://libguides.kennesaw.edu/LRDesign

During this workshop, I will share with you the information about the tool and demonstrate how it was used as a complementary learning aid to scaffold instruction and within the KSU Interactive Research Method Lab. You …


Professional Development Opportunities For Graduate Students: The Launch Of A Speaker Series, Kara Flynn, Lori Birrell Mar 2020

Professional Development Opportunities For Graduate Students: The Launch Of A Speaker Series, Kara Flynn, Lori Birrell

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

Eager to provide graduate students the opportunity to develop themselves professionally, University Libraries in partnership with the Graduate School and International Education initiated a graduate student speaker series in 2018. The series, now in its second year, provides graduate students a forum in which to present their research- whether a finished product or work in progress- to the university community. To be eligible to speak in the series, each student must have used resources from the Special Collections Division as part of their work. This initiative highlights the research graduate students are engaged in, and draws attention to the university’s …


Librarian At The Colloquium: Delivering Unique Library Content For Phd Students, Susan Franzen Mar 2020

Librarian At The Colloquium: Delivering Unique Library Content For Phd Students, Susan Franzen

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

PhD students have unique needs and require different resources and services from the library than undergraduates, which is especially true of professionals in a nursing program. As clinicians, many do not have experience with the research and writing intensive requirements of a doctoral degree. The majority have not taken classes for years, and their master’s degrees were more hands-on, clinically-based. They often do not feel confident in their ability to search the literature, read closely, or write expansively. A unique avenue through which to meet their needs and share library resources is a PhD colloquium course.

Students take the colloquium …


Developing The Community Of Researchers: A Role Of An Academic Librarian, Olga Koz Mar 2020

Developing The Community Of Researchers: A Role Of An Academic Librarian, Olga Koz

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

When instructors and researchers work together to support the entire research lifecycle, amazing things happen! Find out how the Research Consortium at the KSU College of Education is combining the skills of the librarian and faculty members to foster the scholar identity, research skills, and scholarly communication competencies of researchers. Through a Research Consortium, we are developing collaborative research models, tools, and resources that support everyone, from doctoral students to teachers - scholars in the field.

The presenter, an academic librarian and a member of the KSU College of Education Research Consortium, will describe examples of how a productive alliance …


Graduate Outreach Services: Perspectives From Two University Library Programs, Corinne Bishop Edd, Nashieli Marcano Phd Mar 2018

Graduate Outreach Services: Perspectives From Two University Library Programs, Corinne Bishop Edd, Nashieli Marcano Phd

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

This session highlights graduate outreach services at the University of Central Florida and Clemson University libraries and compares institutional program approaches, outreach strategies, and the research needs of student populations in the Social Sciences and Engineering.

The presenters coordinate graduate outreach services at their institutions, and the first part of the presentation will include a discussion of each institution’s service model and each librarian’s role. Details about collaborations with campus partners and networking, f2f workshops and use of online platforms (Canvas LMS) to promote services, recruiting outreach advocates, and marketing programs will also be discussed.

The second part of the …


Data Management And The Ir: A Collaborative Approach, Josh Cromwell Jun 2016

Data Management And The Ir: A Collaborative Approach, Josh Cromwell

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2016

As researchers seek to find ways to manage and openly share their data in compliance with grant requirements, many libraries have developed new services to support these researchers. In this session, we will discuss some of the different strategies that libraries are using to support data management, as well as the role that the IR may (or may not) play in these programs. While there is certainly not a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to library-led data initiatives, this conversation will allow participants to share ideas and workflows that will hopefully provide all attendees with new concepts to apply either …


I'M An Archivist Not A Digital Mastermind!: Tips And Tools For Archival Digitization, Michele Gibney, Gena Meroth Jun 2016

I'M An Archivist Not A Digital Mastermind!: Tips And Tools For Archival Digitization, Michele Gibney, Gena Meroth

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2016

Archives are no longer closed departments, hoarding their treasures from the world. Archival staff have had to adapt and take advantage of new technologies to disseminate collections to broader audiences. We will showcase four digitized archival collections from Nova Southeastern University’s Archives:

  1. A chronology using the third party app, TimelineJS
  2. An Archives/graduate student collaboration of “Looking Into The Past” photos using geolocational information on Google Maps
  3. A donated collection of underwater slide photography with digitization and taxonomic identification efforts by staff at the NSU Oceanographic Center Library
  4. An Oral Histories project using Kaltura Video Platform

Potential learning outcomes for attendees: …


Preparing Your Digital Commons Metadata To Be Harvested Into The Oai: A Best Practice, Marielle Veve Jun 2016

Preparing Your Digital Commons Metadata To Be Harvested Into The Oai: A Best Practice, Marielle Veve

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2016

The following presentation offer best practices and guidelines on how to prepare your Digital Commons’ descriptive metadata to be harvested and displayed into the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

Attendants will learn how to: 1) customize a metadata upload form in Digital Commons to display specific metadata fields, 2) choose the most appropriate schema to display metadata for particular collections, and 3) map the metadata to the appropriate BePress proprietary schema elements that can display correctly into the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) for harvesting purposes.


Four Years Of Digital Initiatives: Defining Success Among Undergraduates, Anne A. Salter Jun 2016

Four Years Of Digital Initiatives: Defining Success Among Undergraduates, Anne A. Salter

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2016

A Journal of Undergraduate Research is an important and significant means of supporting student initiatives. From art work to honors thesis the range of possibilities are endless. What motivates students to submit their work; what defines success to a student who seeks publication. These themes will be discussed as well as examples of student success in publishing and examples of how being published helped them achieve graduate school initiatives.


Measuring The Impact Of The Repository And Sharing That Information With Shareholders, Aaron Doran Jun 2016

Measuring The Impact Of The Repository And Sharing That Information With Shareholders, Aaron Doran

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group 2016

Measuring the Impact of the Repository and Sharing that Information with Stakeholders


Workshops Toolkit: Tailoring Learning To Schedules And Needs, Zachary W. Elder Apr 2016

Workshops Toolkit: Tailoring Learning To Schedules And Needs, Zachary W. Elder

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

George Washington University Libraries were tasked with transforming support for graduate students while taking into account increasing numbers of online students, off-campus programs, and students working full-time. In addition, due to librarian turnover and other factors, we needed to accomplish our goal with a reduced workforce and without reducing services and instruction to our undergraduate population. Our solution focuses our graduate instruction on in-person workshops and digital objects (research guides and “How-Do-I?” videos), along with a “toolkit” with scripts, handouts, presentations, and outlines so that, while one librarian may be the expert (e.g. citation management), any librarian can have the …


Etds And The Landscape Of Open Access Publishing, Gail Mcmillan Apr 2016

Etds And The Landscape Of Open Access Publishing, Gail Mcmillan

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

Countering anecdotal evidence and calming fears about publicly accessible ETDs—electronic theses and dissertations, McMillan will present a variety of perspectives based on current data. She has led international surveys and gathered data from publishers and journal editors about their policies regarding ETDs. To these she will add data about ETD initiatives based on graduate school and university library activities.


The Borg Revisited: Why Big Data Matters, David Evans Apr 2016

The Borg Revisited: Why Big Data Matters, David Evans

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

The Library System at Kennesaw State University has attempted to replicate the Library Cube initiated at the University of Wollongong (Cox and Jantti).The Library Cube is based on a multidimensional data warehouse that joins library usage data and student demographic data and students' GPA.


Naked And Afraid: Or, Giving Graduate Students The Clothes And Confidence For Data-Analysis Success, Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D. Apr 2016

Naked And Afraid: Or, Giving Graduate Students The Clothes And Confidence For Data-Analysis Success, Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

Abstract:

While masters- and doctoral-level graduate students in the social sciences are likely to have past undergraduate experience in doing secondary research such as literature reviews, they often have minimal to no experience in collecting and/or analyzing data (be it quantitative or qualitative in nature), a requisite for their completing theses or dissertations. Likewise, they are likely to be crunched for time and money resources that prohibits ambitious collections of new data, and thus they need guidance in finding existing data and accessible research software/tools for their original analyses. This presentation will give an overview of the specialized services I, …


Unique Library Services For Graduate Students: Support Throughout The Graduate Lifecycle, Susan Smith, Erin M. O'Toole, Rebecca Barham Apr 2016

Unique Library Services For Graduate Students: Support Throughout The Graduate Lifecycle, Susan Smith, Erin M. O'Toole, Rebecca Barham

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

In response to changing needs of graduate students, the University of North Texas Libraries have created unique services, spaces, and instruction. The transformation began with the recent creation of the Library Research Support Services (LRSS) department, a department focused on serving graduate students. The department quickly identified needs that fell into two categories: everyday needs and academic lifecycle needs. Everyday needs of graduate students include quiet study and writing space, writing assistance, and research assistance. Academic lifecycle needs are different, as needs vary depending on where a student is in the cycle: new graduate student, graduate student completing coursework, graduate …


Transforming Services: A Year Of Investigating User-Centered Marketing Strategies And Information Literacy Programming For Graduate Students, Lisa M. Martin, Porcia N. Vaughn Apr 2016

Transforming Services: A Year Of Investigating User-Centered Marketing Strategies And Information Literacy Programming For Graduate Students, Lisa M. Martin, Porcia N. Vaughn

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

The University of Houston (UH) is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university that strives to serve more than 7,000 graduate and professional students. Graduate students have been historically underserved by the UH Libraries, however, in recent years the Libraries have made expanding services to graduate students a strategic initiative. UH Library administration has designated targeting specific user groups, including graduate students, with revitalized marketing and innovative programing a high priority.

Two project teams were established within the Liaison Services Department to investigate the role of liaison services in graduate education. Project Team 1 investigated best practices for marketing existing …


Branching Out: Consolidating An Interlibrary Loan Department Across Multiple Campuses With Illiad, Ashley T. Hoffman, Rosemary Humphrey, Caralia Gallagher Oct 2015

Branching Out: Consolidating An Interlibrary Loan Department Across Multiple Campuses With Illiad, Ashley T. Hoffman, Rosemary Humphrey, Caralia Gallagher

Ashley T. Hoffman

Interlibrary Loan departments are no stranger to collaboration between campuses. Therefore, when the consolidation of the two institutions of Kennesaw State University and Southern Polytechnic State University was announced, their respective interlibrary loan departments rose to the challenge with - if not enthusiasm - optimism and the willingness to try new ideas and strategies to merge the two units. This presentation will cover the alternatives considered, strategies chosen, and the implementation process undertaken to create a unified interlibrary loan department across two campuses and four libraries using Atlas' ILLiad software. We will cover not only policy decisions but workflow procedures …


Gil Express & Ill: Odd Couple Or Match Made In Heaven?, Ashley T. Hoffman, Kiara Bynum, Monica Mclaurin May 2014

Gil Express & Ill: Odd Couple Or Match Made In Heaven?, Ashley T. Hoffman, Kiara Bynum, Monica Mclaurin

Ashley T. Hoffman

Since its creation in 2004, GIL Express has attempted to supplement traditional ILL services by providing a faster avenue for patrons to request and receive books. However, operating similar services from two different departments can lead to confusion for patrons and headaches for staff. For this project, we will analyze the methods employed by other schools in the USG system to improve the coordination of GIL Express and ILL services. We will present our findings as well as evaluate alternative solutions to streamline the process for both patrons and staff.


5 New Librarians + 4 New Parapro + 1 New Brainstorming Tool = 6 Thinking Hats And Tutus In The Library, Linda M. Golian-Lui, Jennifer Sutcliffe, Ariel Turner, Hyun Chu Kim, Alan Lebish, Eli Arnold, Sandra Barclay Oct 2013

5 New Librarians + 4 New Parapro + 1 New Brainstorming Tool = 6 Thinking Hats And Tutus In The Library, Linda M. Golian-Lui, Jennifer Sutcliffe, Ariel Turner, Hyun Chu Kim, Alan Lebish, Eli Arnold, Sandra Barclay

Linda M. Golian-Lui

No abstract is currently available.


Six Thinking Hats In The Library, Sandra Barclay, Linda M. Golian-Lui, Ariel Turner Jun 2013

Six Thinking Hats In The Library, Sandra Barclay, Linda M. Golian-Lui, Ariel Turner

Linda M. Golian-Lui

No abstract is currently available.


Cert Presentation For Sturgis Library, Cheryl Stiles Feb 2013

Cert Presentation For Sturgis Library, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

No abstract provided.


Library As Partner: Ir Collaborations On Campus And In The Community, David Evans Jan 2013

Library As Partner: Ir Collaborations On Campus And In The Community, David Evans

David Evans

Libraries are forming strategic partnerships on and off campus - with faculty, research institutes, community organizations, and scholarly associations. Repositories are playing a key role in facilitating these new relationships by enabling libraries to offer new and valuable services to these constituencies. This presentation describes the ways that the Sturgis Library at Kennesaw State University has used both journal and conference publishing services to foster these partnerships.


Give The Patrons What They Want -- Even If You Don't Have It Yet!, Ashley T. Hoffman, Ana Guimaraes Jan 2013

Give The Patrons What They Want -- Even If You Don't Have It Yet!, Ashley T. Hoffman, Ana Guimaraes

Ashley T. Hoffman

In the fall of 2013 Sturgis Library began investigating new collection development methods for serving the needs of students and faculty at Kennesaw State University (KSU), with the intent to enhance both collection and service excellence. One area targeted for improvement beginning in FY2013- 2014 was interlibrary loan service. With over 10,000 borrowing requests in FY 2011 -2012, Library Administration engaged the newly hired Collection Development Librarian and the ILL Paraprofessional to begin investigating and implementing a robust electronic book DDA (Demand Driven Acquisitions) program in conjunction with a PDA (Patron Driven Acquisitions) program. This presentation will highlight the process …


Using An Ir To Enhance The Undergraduate Experience, David Evans, Laura Burtle Jun 2011

Using An Ir To Enhance The Undergraduate Experience, David Evans, Laura Burtle

David Evans

In this session, our keynote speaker, David Evans, Assistant Vice President for Library Services at Kennesaw State University, will provide a senior administrator’s viewpoint on the role of IR’s in the undergraduate experience. Laura Burtle, Associate Dean and University Librarian for Learning and Technology Initiatives at Georgia State University, will share a first-hand account of how Institutional Repositories are being used to publish and promote student journals, theses, and other undergraduate research. David Stout, Sales Director for Digital Commons, will emcee the event.


Underfunded And Understaffed: A Ground-Level View Of Ir Creation In Difficult Times, John Davison Mar 2011

Underfunded And Understaffed: A Ground-Level View Of Ir Creation In Difficult Times, John Davison

Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice: Institutional Repositories as Publishers

A discussion of the creation of OhioLINK, the institutional repository system for the Ohio University system.

More information at http://drc.ohiolink.edu/


Refworks For Coles Dba, Cheryl Stiles Mar 2011

Refworks For Coles Dba, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

No abstract provided.


Cos Funding Opportunities Overview, Cheryl Stiles Jan 2011

Cos Funding Opportunities Overview, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

No abstract provided.


Freedom To Write: Red Clay Conference Presentation, Cheryl Stiles Nov 2010

Freedom To Write: Red Clay Conference Presentation, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

No abstract provided.


Refworks Redux, Cheryl Stiles Jan 2010

Refworks Redux, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

RefWorks presentation, English Hour, 4/13/2010


Refworks For Faculty And Graduate Students, Cheryl Stiles Jan 2010

Refworks For Faculty And Graduate Students, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

No abstract provided.