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The Life Of A Wiki: How Georgia State University Library's Wiki Enhances Content Currency And Employee Collaboration, Sarah Steiner, Joel Glogowski
The Life Of A Wiki: How Georgia State University Library's Wiki Enhances Content Currency And Employee Collaboration, Sarah Steiner, Joel Glogowski
University Library Faculty Publications
In recent years, the ease of use and collaborative nature of the wiki has made it a popular tool in many libraries. Georgia State University Library has hosted an internal wiki since 2003, and since its inception it has been utilized in many different and innovative ways. This article will provide an overview of some of the more interesting uses of the GSU Library wiki, specifically, its life as a reference guide, training manual, committee meeting and planning ground, home for material price quotes, and finally, as a place for entertaining work-related content.
Presentation - Getting Their Hands Dirty: Collaborating To Engage Undergraduates In Learning, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
Presentation - Getting Their Hands Dirty: Collaborating To Engage Undergraduates In Learning, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
University Library Faculty Publications
Presentation on collaboration with Dr. Hannah Britton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, on the redesign of her Women and Politics course toward achieving an articulated pedagogical aim of shifting from “providing instruction” to “producing learning” via engaging students’ in original research/analysis.
Academic Librarians, Professional Literature, And New Technologies: A Survey, Skye Hardesty, Tammy Sugarman
Academic Librarians, Professional Literature, And New Technologies: A Survey, Skye Hardesty, Tammy Sugarman
University Library Faculty Publications
Keeping abreast of professional literature and the latest trends is critical for academic librarians to be successful, but in a time of information glut, are librarians achieving this? Over seven hundred academic librarians responded to this survey and inform us about their use of both traditional methods and new technologies to stay current.
Information Literacy And Information Seeking Behavior Among Business Majors, Casey Long, Milind Shrikhande
Information Literacy And Information Seeking Behavior Among Business Majors, Casey Long, Milind Shrikhande
University Library Faculty Publications
The current generation of college students has used the Internet to access information since the early 1990s. No assessment of information use, quality, variety, and reliability of information generally occurs at both the student and faculty level. In this paper we use a package of teaching methods targeted towards improving information-seeking behavior among graduate and undergraduate business majors. The effectiveness of the teaching package is assessed through an evaluation of student term-papers and quality of resources used. We find that the package of teaching methods implemented does result in significant improvement in information seeking behavior, especially among undergraduate business majors.
Connecting Diversity To Management: Further Insights, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou
Connecting Diversity To Management: Further Insights, La Loria Konata, Tim Zou
University Library Faculty Publications
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 …
Global Evolution: A Chronological Annotated Bibliography Of International Students In U.S. Academic Libraries, Kaetrena D. Davis
Global Evolution: A Chronological Annotated Bibliography Of International Students In U.S. Academic Libraries, Kaetrena D. Davis
University Library Faculty Publications
This chronological, annotated bibliography shows the evolution of the issues concerning undergraduate and graduate international students in American academic libraries and contains many possible guidelines and ideas for meeting the basic and advanced information needs of an increasingly diverse patron group.
Book Review - "Pigs And Raunch: 21st-Century Feminism?", Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
Book Review - "Pigs And Raunch: 21st-Century Feminism?", Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
University Library Faculty Publications
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Bright Idea: Connecting To Users With Facebook, Cliff Landis
Bright Idea: Connecting To Users With Facebook, Cliff Landis
University Library Faculty Publications
The author relates his decision to establish an Ask a Librarian social networking group for students at Valdosta State University in Georgia. One of the appeals of social networking Web sites to users is the variety of services in one interface. He discovered that many students are using the Facebook site while researching. He recommends the creation of individual accounts because Facebook discourages institute-wide accounts.
“Send Me A Nice Little Letter All To Myself”: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’S Fan Mail And Antebellum Poetic Culture, Jill E. Anderson
“Send Me A Nice Little Letter All To Myself”: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’S Fan Mail And Antebellum Poetic Culture, Jill E. Anderson
University Library Faculty Publications
This paper examines fan mail written to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow during the 1840s and 1850s, as he made the transition from emerging poet to being one of the best-known and most influential American poets of his time. Longfellow’s admirers wrote him letters praising his poetry, but also making requests for tokens of his presence and esteem: handwritten lines of his poetry, pencils, portraits, locks of hair, and in one case, his daughter’s hand in marriage. Claiming to “know” Longfellow through his poetry, admirers often also identified themselves as being in “debt” to Longfellow for his beautiful poetry, and sought …