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E-Book Is Not A Four-Letter Word, Jamie G. Hazlitt, Jason Mitchell

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

As the landscape of e-book publishers, platforms, and acquisition models continues to shift and expand, librarians and staff working in collection development and acquisitions do their best to stay on top of ever-changing decision-points and workflows.

At the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University, twenty librarian-liaisons are also expected to stay informed of new or changing options when it comes time to select a format for monographs in their subject areas. But selection is a secondary responsibility for most of our liaisons, and information about changes in our e-book collection development shared via email or even through semi-regular …

A Change Is Gonna Come: Renewing Information Workers' Commitment To Social Justice, Rhonda Rosen, Elisa Acosta, Aisha Conner-Gaten, Desirae Zingarelli-Sweet

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

Libraries have always tried to uphold the Library Bill of Rights but are we just a neutral bridge to information or something more? In an era increasingly defined by socioeconomic and educational inequalities, resurgence of white supremacy, and “fake news”, we as information workers must challenge how we have understood our roles in the library. In response to this charge, the William H. Hannon Library staff development committee created and facilitated a day-long examination of social justice for librarians and library staff at Loyola Marymount University. Our presentation will reflect on this day including the development of materials and active …

2018 Ajcu Virtual Reference (Vr) Project: Deans And Directors Report, Alexander Justice

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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Digital Scholarship Training For Liaison Librarians, Scott Mandernack

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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What Is Cora: Community Of Online Research Assignment?, Susan Gardner Archambualt

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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Digital Scholarship Collaborations, Scott Mandernack

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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Digital Humanities And The Fordham University Library: The Latest..., Linda Loschiavo

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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Keynote - State Of The Art: Libraries & Digital Humanities, Right Now, Miriam Posner

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

Miriam Posner is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Information. She’s also a digital humanist with interests in labor, race, feminism, and the history and philosophy of data. As a digital humanist, she is particularly interested in the visualization of large bodies of data from cultural heritage institutions, and the application of digital methods to the analysis of images and video. A film, media, and American studies scholar by training, she frequently writes on the application of digital methods to the humanities. She is at work on two projects: the first on what “data” might mean for humanistic …

New Jobs For Librarians, Marianne Ryan

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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Video At Fordham: Dvd To Kanopy, Linda Loschiavo

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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Post Learning Commons And Drexel Library Saint Joseph’S University: Renovation Of Library Instruction Lab, Anne Krakow

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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Administrative Support For Librarian Research: Lessons Learned From The Institute For Research Design In Librarianship (Irdl), Kristine Brancolini

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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Service Learning, Information Literacy, And Libraries, Jennifer Nutefall

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

Jennifer Nutefall is the ACRL/IS Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award winner.

Aligning Our Books To Our Patrons, Rice Majors, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Erika Johnson

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

Rice Majors is the Associate University Librarian for Collections & Scholarly Communication at Santa Clara University. In that role, he does research on the collection performance and especially the performance of print monographs, looking at the comparative performance of print monographs in different academic disciplines and with different collection development strategies at different academic institutions. He has also published on the comparative user experiences of catalog discovery layers.

Glenn Johnson-Grau is Head of Acquisitions & Collection Development at Loyola Marymount University where he manages library acquisitions for books, periodicals, media, and electronic resources. His interests include consortial collaboration on print …