Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

The Effect Of U.S. University Students' Problematic Internet Use On Family Relationships: A Mixed-Methods Investigation, Susan Snyder, Wen Li, Jennifer E. O'Brien, Matthew O. Howard

SW Publications

This is the first study to investigate how college students in the U.S. with problematic Internet use perceive the role the Internet plays within their families of origin. The sample included 27 U.S. university students who self-identified as excessive Internet users. Participants reported spending more than 25 hours a week on the Internet on non-school or non-work-related activities and reported Internet-associated health and/or psychosocial problems. This study provides descriptive statistics from participants' completion of two problematic Internet use measures (i.e., Young's Diagnostic Questionnaire and the Compulsive Internet Use Scale) and reports findings from four focus groups. Three themes emerged from …

Emerging From The Project! Evolving Views Of Emory's Library Use System, Susan Bailey, Megan Slemons

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Beginning in 2014, Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library initiated a project to connect entry card swipe data to demographic data within a locally created system . The system provides data visualizations as well as file export functionality. This project has involved developing a process for collecting and analyzing the data and presenting the results it in a way that can enable data-driven decision making.

Re-Zoning Your Library Through Data-Driven Space Allocations, Robert Fox, Bruce Keisling

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

How can you use assessment data to "re-zone" your library's spaces to meet the shifting needs for collections, users, library personnel, campus partners, and institutional priorities? Learn how one library built an assessment program that has informed past and ongoing space reallocations while also seeking to optimize the human and financial resources that are needed to successfully complete and maintain the projects.

Getting To Culture: Strategies For Creating A Culture Of Assessment, Maurini Strub, Samantha Mcclellan

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Crucial to gathering data that supports desired organizational changes is ensuring stakeholder buy-in and the creation of meaningful spaces for feedback. This presentation will focus on mapping strategies used in the corporate world in feedback spaces to create a culture of assessment.

Seeing Is Believing: Conducting Observational Studies To Evaluate Space And Service Design, Joyce Chapman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

This talk discusses how Duke Libraries staff have integrated observational data assessment into space and service design over the past year using the open-source, mobile, assessment tool Suma to collect and analyze a variety of data sources.

Assessment Data: Building Blocks For Strong Libraries And Successful Accreditation Reports, Kathryn Crowe, Crystal Baird

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Want to learn how to leverage your assessment program for accreditation and develop effective compliance reports for your library? Join this interactive session from a librarian and institutional effectiveness professional from an accrediting agency and an assessment librarian who authored a library’s accreditation documents.

Baking A Cake With No Recipe: Mixing Methods For Discovery Layer Assessment, Ebony Magnus, Hui Hua Chua

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

In August 2014, Michigan State University Libraries implemented Summon and a team of librarians from various units was assembled to assess the usage and usability of the discovery layer. Bringing unique perspectives and experiences, the team employed a range of methodologies including text analysis, quantitative analysis, usability testing, and web analytics. This presentation will: review the methodologies and tools that were used; consider the importance of examining the results of each method in concert; and also share findings from the first year of data collection and analysis.

Community Efforts To Develop Best Practices In Digital Library Assessment: One Year Of Progress, Joyce Chapman

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

In 2014 the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Assessment Interest Group developed a Digital Library Assessment Framework and began engaging the community in the development of best practices and guidelines around digital library assessment. This presentation will address the progress of the interest group in its first year. We will provide background information on the DLF Assessment Interest Group, outline the collaborative methods used to document common practices and to develop best practices, and solicit audience feedback on the group’s methodology and results to date.

Finding The Missing Piece: Communicating Library Value To Complete The Assessment Puzzle, Amanda B. Albert

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Library assessment is like putting together a puzzle with many pieces, and some of these pieces can be forgotten or even lost. This presentation provides attendees with the missing puzzle piece they need to begin using their assessment data to actively engage stakeholders through library value conversations. The presenter will establish the importance of communicating assessment findings and library impact to stakeholders, and arm attendees with effective communication tools and strategies for communicating library value at their institution.

Defendable, Persuasive, And Insightful Budget Analysis Methods, Brian Keith

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

As universities adopt budgeting models and concepts borrowed from business, libraries are pressured to assess and justify their budgets using the most persuasive and defendable methods possible. Attendees will learn innovative assessment techniques which allow for a rational examination of library funding across institutions. The numerous approaches, including linear regression (with results with high correlation coefficients), can be readily replicated and allow libraries to assess the resources of their system in comparison to demand indicators for their university.

Wrangling The Megalith: Mapping The Data Ecosystem Of The Harvard Library, Mark Shelton

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Understanding how to map a library's data ecosystem is critical to helping manage the variety of data sources that describe the library and its work. Mapping the kinds of data, its source, and the people involved is only the beginning, yet the challenges faced can offer opportunities when it comes to supporting strategic planning.

Participatory User Experience At The Michigan State University Libraries, Ebony Magnus

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Participatory design is an excellent way to engage the user, increase sense of ownership, and complete projects that might not otherwise fit into a busy librarian’s schedule. In spring 2015, the User Experience team at Michigan State University Libraries had the good fortune of partnering with undergraduates to work on two space-related projects. This presentation will consider the benefits of engaging student stakeholders as design consultants, and presenters will share the impressive results of the two student-led user experience projects.

Design Thinking: An Unexpected Path To Innovation And Problem Solving, Christine Quirion, Cassandra Silvia

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

During our recent renovation planning process, the MIT Libraries was offered the opportunity to act as client for an MIT Sloan School of Management student seminar. The library provided a problem statement, and within two and a half days, five student teams learned and applied a business approach to design thinking to develop solutions for the library, presenting results to faculty and library administrators at the end. These results were contrasted with data gathered from traditional assessment tools, indicating areas for further study or exploration and key principles to fold into the schematic design process.

Developing (Good) Practices: A Survey Of The Library Assessment Programs In Arl Libraries, Regina Mays, Michelle Brannen, Sojourna Cunningham

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Explore the results of a recent survey of ARL Library assessment practitioners about the structure and procedures of their individual assessment programs. Join in a spirited discussion of suggested “good” practices for the future of this growing field.

Give E-Resources A Chance: A Collaborative Approach To Collection Assessment, Amanda Binder, Liz Siler

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Learn how subject librarians can work together with electronic resource librarians and department faculty to assess the use and value of subject-specific electronic resources to promote resource awareness, prevent the cancellation of valuable resources, and make room for other important resources.

Space Assessment: How They Use It, What They Want, Sara Dewaay

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Getting student input on the library space can be a multi-layered effort. Come hear about the methods used to get an understanding of use patterns, as well as the students' desires for a small branch library, as we work to transition towards a flexible space.

Metrics With Meaning: How Can We Effect Change To Library Assessment Metrics Used By Non-Library Organizations, Lisa Horowitz, Kirsten Kinsley, Zsuzsa Koltay, Zoltán Szentkirályi

Southeastern Library Assessment Conference

Many library metrics and statistics that are gathered regularly by accreditation agencies, publishers, and other entities to inform stakeholders have stagnated and are no longer effective in illustrating library value. In this talk, we will highlight measures collected by accreditation agencies and publishers that are not effective, and then describe potential ways to have short-term and long-term impact on changing these national metrics so that they better represent libraries of the 21st century.

Tobacco And Alcohol Excise Taxes For Improving Public Health And Revenue Outcomes: Marrying Sin And Virtue?, Richard M. Bird

ICEPP Working Papers

Excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco have long been a dependable and significant revenue source in many countries. More recently, considerable attention has been paid to the way in which such taxes may also be used to attain public health objectives by reducing the consumption of products with adverse health and social impacts. Some have gone further and argued that explicitly earmarking excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco to finance public health expenditures – marrying sin and virtue as it were – will both make increasing such taxes more politically acceptable and provide the funding needed to increase such expenditures, …

Daily Activity Space And Exposure: A Comparative Study Of Hong Kong’S Public And Private Housing Residents‘ Segregation In Daily Life, Donggen Wang, Fei Li

USI Publications

Differences in individuals' exposure to social/physical environment in daily life or activity–space segregation have aroused renewed interests in socio-spatial separation in geography and urban studies. However, there are not many empirical studies that comprehensively assess activity–space segregation perhaps due to the scarcity of detailed data to define and characterize activity space. This paper aims to help fill in this gap by contributing an empirical study in Hong Kong. We compare the daily life experiences of public and private housing residents in terms of activity space and exposure to people in their daily life. We find that inhabitants of public housing …

"Dear Diary, I Think I'M Gay...Lgbtq Youth And Information Access Across The Decades", Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

University Library Faculty Publications

This poster presented the library research instruction activities for a Georgia State University SOCI 3356 Queer Identities “Decades Paper” class assignment. For this assignment, students assume the imaginary identity of a teen/young adult “coming out” into a lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans/queer (LGBT/Q) sexual/gender identity during an assigned decade between the 1950s and the present. As this identity, they seek information sources from their decade appropriate/accessible to a teen/young adult and (1) write diary entries about how they, in this imaginary identity, responded to the information they found, and (2) reflect on their experience and what they learned from the exercise – relating the …

Patterns Of Inhalant Use Among Incarcerated Youth, Susan Snyder, Matthew O. Howard

SW Publications

Inhalant use is especially prevalent among antisocial youth and can have serious health consequences. However, the extant literature has not investigated how use of various inhalants may co-occur among incarcerated youth. This study begins to address this gap in the literature by using latent class analyses to form distinct typologies of inhalant use. Study participants were residents (N = 723) of 27 Missouri Division of Youth Services facilities. Interviews assessed psychiatric symptoms, antisocial traits, delinquency, trauma, suicidality, and substance use behaviors. The mean age of the mostly male, ethnically diverse sample was 15.5 (S.D. = 1.2) years old. The study …

Assessment And Weeding Of A Clinical Hiv/Aids Collection In An Academic Library: A Case Study, Sharon Leslie, Ida Martinez

University Library Faculty Publications

Maintaining a clinical HIV/AIDS section in an academic library collection that is both current and historically significant for research is essential. This article reports on a collection management project that was undertaken to weed HIV/AIDS books in targeted clinical areas of an academic library using a timeline model developed by Ondrusek (2001) as a supplement to traditional weeding methods. The combination proved effective for identifying clinical materials that were outdated and needed to be deaccessioned while maintaining historically relevant materials in these areas.

Disruption Of White Matter Integrity In Adult Survivors Of Childhood Brain Tumors: Correlates With Long-Term Intellectual Outcomes, Tricia Z. King, Liya Wang, Hui Mao

Psychology Faculty Publications

Background

Although chemotherapy and radiation treatment have contributed to increased survivorship, treatment-induced brain injury has been a concern when examining long-term intellectual outcomes of survivors. Specifically, disruption of brain white matter integrity and its relationship to intellectual outcomes in adult survivors of childhood brain tumors needs to be better understood.

Methods

Fifty-four participants underwent diffusion tensor imaging in addition to structural MRI and an intelligence test (IQ). Voxel-wise group comparisons of fractional anisotropy calculated from DTI data were performed using Tract Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) on 27 survivors (14 treated with radiation with and without chemotherapy and 13 treated without …

School Engagement Among Lgbtq High School Students: The Roles Of Safe Adults And Gay-Straight Alliance Characteristics, Kristie L. Seelman, Nicholas Forge, N. Eugene Walls, Nadine Bridges

SW Publications

Student school engagement, or the person-environment fit between a student and the student’s school, is a construct that has received increasing attention in the school psychology literature in recent years. However, little research has examined this construct among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) students or analyzed whether factors such as access to safe adults, the presence of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), characteristics of a GSA, or personal involvement in a GSA may connect to engagement. The current study used sequential multiple regression to examine data from a sample of LGBTQ high school students (N = 152) from …

Observing Juneteenth, Jill Anderson

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Cumulative Neurological Factors Associated With Long-Term Outcomes In Adult Survivors Of Childhood Brain Tumors, Tricia Z. King, Sabrina Na

Psychology Faculty Publications

Prior research has demonstrated the reliability and validity of the Neurological Predictor Scale (NPS) in relation to childhood brain tumor survivor outcomes; however, its use has not been examined in adult long-term survivors. The current study examines the concurrent validity of the NPS with long-term intellectual and adaptive outcomes in adult survivors of childhood brain tumors relative to individual variables alone. A total of 68 adult survivors of childhood brain tumors (M = 24 years old, SD = 4) almost 16 years post diagnosis (SD = 6) completed intellectual evaluations using the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI). Survivors' adaptive …

Multidimensional Frequency Domain Analysis Of Full-Volume Fmri Reveals Significant Effects Of Age, Gender, And Mental Illness On The Spatiotemporal Organization Of Resting-State Brain Activity, Robyn L. Miller, Erik B. Erhardt, Oktay Agcaoglu, Elena A. Allen, Andrew M. Michael, Jessica Turner, Juan Bustillo, Judith M. Ford, Daniel H. Mathalon, Theo G. M. Van Erp, Steven G. Potkin, Adrian Preda, Godfrey Pearlson, Vince D. Calhoun

Psychology Faculty Publications

Clinical research employing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is often conducted within the connectionist paradigm, focusing on patterns of connectivity between voxels, regions of interest (ROIs) or spatially distributed functional networks. Connectivity-based analyses are concerned with pairwise correlations of the temporal activation associated with restrictions of the whole-brain hemodynamic signal to locations of a priori interest. There is a more abstract question however that such spatially granular correlation-based approaches do not elucidate: Are the broad spatiotemporal organizing principles of brains in certain populations distinguishable from those of others? Global patterns (in space and time) of hemodynamic activation are rarely scrutinized …

International Debt Forgiveness: Who Getspicked And Its Effect On The Tax Effort Ofdeveloping Countries, Leanora Alecia Brown, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

ICEPP Working Papers

We explore whether the expectation of debt forgiveness discourages developing countries from attaining sustainable fiscal independence through improving their tax effort. While the international financial community advises poor countries to improve revenue mobilization, the same international community routinely bail-out poor countries that fail to meet their loan repayment obligations. The act of bailing-out creates an expectation about receiving debt forgiveness time and again in the future. The key prediction of our theoretical framework is that in the presence of debt forgiveness, countries’ tax efforts will decline and more so the higher the intensity of the bailouts. We test this using …

New Digital Collection: Works Progress Administration Maps Of Atlanta, Kathryn Michaelis

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Tracing A History Of Atlanta’S Public Transit, Joseph Hurley

Selections from the University Library Blog

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