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Universities Should Rethink The Publishing Model, Linda L. Phillips

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In response to Chronicle of Higher Education article ("Documents Show U. of Missouri Press Suffered Years of Mixed Signals, Aug 3, 2012, pp. A-16-17) letter advocates for universities to develop business models to protect their investments in scholarly publishing.

How To Create A Great Video Tutorial (Pre Conference Workshop), Michelle Brannen, Alan H. Wallace

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This pre-conference will cover the basics of planning, editing and publishing a video tutorial or tour. The presenters will cover the basics of creating a high quality product. We will discuss and demonstrate audio recording. Attendees will be given video samples to practice hands on editing with iMovie software. At the end of the workshop, students should be comfortable with the process and motivated to plan and produce their own videos.

Cognitions, Emotions, And Applications: Participants’ Experiences Of Learning About Strengths In An Academic Library, Allison Sharp, Jeanine Williamson

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University Libraries, 2012-2014: Transformation, Visibility, Innovation, Linda L. Phillips

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This presentation summarizes strategic directions of the University of Tennessee Libraries for 2012-2014. As all of higher education experiences profound change, research Libraries witness transformation in the tools, resources, and formats available to scholars—along with evolving academic cultures. Library planning embraces research library trends and plans for UTK's VOL Vision Journey to the Top 25. The University Libraries are central to achieving VOL Vision goals.

Aserl Spring 2011 Membership Meeting Update: Best Practices For Resource Sharing, David P. Atkins

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: A working group of ASERL librarians designed a survey to assess resource sharing issues and identify best practices. The results will assist ASERL in identifying programming and project areas to support resource sharing. The survey will also produce ILL and resource sharing benchmarks useful for future planning and assessment. The survey inquires into fundamental resource sharing outputs, networks, and technologies. To measure current best practices, the survey also incorporates Rethinking Resource Sharing "STARS" A Checklist Interlibrary Loan Assessment, devised by ALA/RUSA/STARS.

Tenn-Share Statewide Library Courier Survey, David P. Atkins

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This is a interlibrary loan shipping and courier needs assessment survey of the Tenn-Share Library Consortium. The results will assist Tenn-Share in exploring shipping options for libraries across Tennessee. Participants will be asked to answer questions related to their institutions’ interlibrary services and resource sharing operations. The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete. There are no foreseen risks to participating in this project. Information in the responses will be kept confidential and data will be stored securely by the Principal Investigator (PI). Data will be reported in aggregate form to the Tenn-Share membership, and in subsequent presentations and …

Making Instruction Mobile, Allison S. Bolorizadeh, Thura Mack, Rabia Gibbs, Michelle Brannen

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Preliminary Executive Summary: Aserl Interlibrary Loan Needs Assessment And Best Practices Survey, David P. Atkins

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A working group of ASERL librarians designed a survey to assess resource sharing issues and identify best practices. The results will assist ASERL in identifying programming and project areas to support resource sharing. The survey will also produce ILL and resource sharing benchmarks useful for future planning and assessment. The survey inquires into fundamental resource sharing outputs, networks, and technologies. To measure current best practices, the survey also incorporates Rethinking Resource Sharing "STARS" A Checklist Interlibrary Loan Assessment, devised by ALA/RUSA/STARS.

Too Good To Be True?: Implementing The Open-Source Program Zotero At A University Library, Peter Fernandez

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Presented at the American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference

With the release of the 2.0 Beta, Zotero has taken powerful personal bibliographic management software to the next level, making the open-source program a legitimate alternative to for-profit products such as RefWorks and EndNote. It utilizes a simple iTunes™–like interface within the Firefox web browser that gives users the ability to easily download and manipulate bibliographic information with a single click from most popular websites and databases. For more advanced users, Zotero has the potential to be a powerful information management system that incorporates the best features of Web 2.0. The …

Digital Showcase In The Library: How Trace Enhances Ut's Virtual Library, Piper F. Mullins

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UT’s Virtual Library Steering Committee is charged to enhance the library’s virtual presence through efficient searching capabilities, interactive features, archiving services, tools for discovery and delivery of scholarly resources, and new technologies that advance and scale services. Trace supports all of these enhancements as UT’s digital showcase. Trace is an evolving concept defined by and for UT’s user communities to promote local and global research. Its services are collaborative, discoverable, contextual, and scale from a single item to data sets in multiple formats. As Trace nears the end of its first year, we’re excited to offer more contributions to the …

Privacy And Generation Y: Applying Library Values To Social Networking Sites, Peter Fernandez

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Librarians face many challenges when dealing with issues of privacy within the mediated space of social networking sites. Conceptually, social networking sites differ from libraries on privacy as a value. Research about Generation Y students, the primary clientele of undergraduate libraries, can inform librarians’ relationship to this important emerging technology. Five recommendations assist librarians in expanding their traditional commitment to privacy into the realm of social networking sites.

Presentation On The Pigeon River Recovery Project: 2001 To 2010, Pendergrass Library

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Promotional poster for Presentation on the Pigeon River Recovery Project: 2001 to 2010

Introduction To Selectedworks: Training Slides, Linda Phillips

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This is a set of slides used for orientation to SelectedWorks with the University of Tennessee College of Nursing on February 12, 2010.

The University Of Tennessee Libraries Newfound Press Scholarly Publishing Demonstration, Linda Phillips

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Launched in 2005, the University of Tennessee Newfound Press demonstrates open access; ensures quality through peer review; encourages innovative approaches to the creation and dissemination of scholarly and specialized work; seeks content with narrow focus or innovative format unlikely to be published by a market-driven press; helps authors of specialized content disseminate their work; and experiments with new forms of publication. This presentation describes the reasons for starting Newfound Press; offers highlights from the business plan; and discusses the convergence of Newfound Press with other campus publishing, including the digital showcase and archive, Trace (operates on the bepress Digital Commons …

Coming Home: Scholarly Publishing Returns To The University, Linda L. Phillips

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For more than two decades visionary university administrators and librarians have urged the scholarly community to recognize the value of its intellectual capital beyond promotion, tenure, and academic prominence. Publishing in its broadest sense encompasses the production and dissemination of information for public access; scholarly publishing includes peer-reviewed literature in books and journals, as well as conference papers, technical reports, working papers, data sets and emerging forms of scholarship presented in numerous multimedia formats. Today’s academic publishing environment is a complex amalgam of technological capability, economic realities, and emerging social networking practices pushing the boundaries of the traditional scholarly publishing …

The Amazing J. Lawrence Cook Of Tennessee, Alan H. Wallace

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From the SEMLA report of the conference: Alan Wallace of the University of Tennessee gave a presentation on "The Amazing J. Lawrence Cook of Tennessee" that encouraged attendees to broaden their thoughts on the nature of artistic creation and recorded music. J. Lawrence Cook was a composer and arranger who throughout the course of his life created between 15,000 to 20,000 piano rolls for player pianos. Wallace discussed how the piano roll was the most common medium for recording and replaying music in an era before the widespread use of the phonograph and argued that the jazz music Cook cut …

Selector As Entrepreneur (Panel Presentation For New Selectors And Selecting In New Subjects: Meeting The Challenges), Linda L. Phillips

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Collection building in the digital age aims to create a collection of "freely accessible, integrated, and comprehensive record of serious scholarship and knowledge." Library collections are broadly defined as all the resources libraries make available to users—items purchased, locally created or reformatted digital materials, subject guides, social networking tools, and content freely accessible in digital collections around the world. New selectors must master several enduring skills related to collection policy, management of print and digital resources, budget management, and liaison with clientele. An entrepreneurial approach to collection building and liaison requires an understanding of the digital library context and diverse …

Walking The Walk: A Path To Support Open Access Publishing [Poster], Linda L. Phillips, Donna Braquet

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Scholarly communication is the lifeblood of universities. Threats to the free flow of research and ideas continue to jeopardize the entire academy; however administrators, scholars, and librarians are now pursuing options to reclaim research produced in the academy's domain. One way to do this is with Open Access. Open Access has been a topic of interest and intense depabe for academic librarians. Ways to create awareness about and encourage publication in Open Access journals have been discussed at library conferences for the better part of the decade. But what is the next step? What happens when the library's promotion pays …

University Of Tennessee Libraries Website Focus Groups 2009, Debbie Valine

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In June 2009 the UT Libraries conducted focus groups with graduate students, undergraduate students, and faculty. The purpose of the focus groups was to help guide implementation of the Primo search and delivery platform and associated redesign of the Libraries' website. The objectives of the focus groups were to gather information to help the design team determine: what information should be most prominent on the website homepage, what other design elements should be incorporated into the homepage design, and what resources do users want to search from the main search box and how should those resources be labeled?

Metadata Plus: How Libraries Assure Discovery Of Locally Created Content, Melanie Feltner-Reichert, Marie Garrett, Linda L. Phillips

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This presentation offers a simple illustration of the ways html code, metadata tagging and other strategies enable content discovery. It contains examples that can be understood by anyone familiar with a bibliographic record. Librarians who grasp these concepts will be well-prepared to convince faculty that the library is both a safe and sustainable archive for their work, and that placing content with the library is more likely to lead to its discovery than any personal web space.

Egovernment & Icts: An Examination Of Spain’S Information Infrastructure, Kynita Stringer-Stanback

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This paper was presented at the iConference in Chapel Hill on February 9, 2009. The paper examines the Information Infrastructure of Spain.

“Marketing Music Library Services Through Video Infomercial And Resource Guides (Poster Session)”, Alan H. Wallace, M Nathalie Hristov

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Review Of When We Were Young; New Perspectives On The Art Of The Child, Jennifer Benedetto Beals

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Review Of Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context And Critique, Jennifer Benedetto Beals

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Review Of Franz Kline 1910-1962, Jennifer Benedetto Beals

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Images Of The Great Smoky Mountains: The Albert "Dutch" Roth Photograph Collection, Ken Wise

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Book Reviews: A History Of The Tennessee Supreme Court, Cathy Cochran

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The Center For Children's And Young Adult Literature: A Partnership For Literacy, Ken Wise

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Great Smoky Mountains Regional Collection New To Utk, Ken Wise

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Roy Fuller: A Bibliography, Steven Escar Smith

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This bibliography treats the work of the British poet, novelist, and critic Roy Fuller (1912 - 1991) from his earliest periodical appearance in the late 1920s to his posthumously published poems in 1993.