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Creating And Hosting Student-Run Research Journals: A Case Study, Adrian K. Ho Dec 2011

Creating And Hosting Student-Run Research Journals: A Case Study, Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

This case study aims to examine an academic library’s roles in facilitating the creation and hosting of open access student-run research journals. In addition to providing an online platform to host the journals, the library acquaints students with scholarly publishing, assists them in securing various resources available on campus, and offers support for content management. There are challenges and opportunities for the library as it undertakes the responsibility of hosting student journals. The article concludes with a discussion of possible topics for future research.

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Kalamazoo Latvian Association News - Dec 2011, Maira Bundza Dec 2011

Kalamazoo Latvian Association News - Dec 2011, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

The Kalamazoo Latvian community newsletter comes out in Latvian and English. This issue has an article on the future of the Latvian Center, the events that have happened during the fall, reviews of two books by local authors, a memorial for long time teacher Mirdza Paudrupe, and pictures of the youth attending the Latvian Center Garezers in Three Rivers, MI.

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Embedded Librarianship And Virtual Environments In Entrepreneurship Information Literacy A Case Study, Kelly Evans, Hal Kirkwood Nov 2011

Embedded Librarianship And Virtual Environments In Entrepreneurship Information Literacy A Case Study, Kelly Evans, Hal Kirkwood

Kelly Evans

No abstract provided.

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A Critical Review Of The Effectiveness Of Fiscal And Monetary Policies In The Pacific Island Countries (Pics) Between 1990-2010, Deogratias Harorimana Mr Oct 2011

A Critical Review Of The Effectiveness Of Fiscal And Monetary Policies In The Pacific Island Countries (Pics) Between 1990-2010, Deogratias Harorimana Mr

Dr Deogratias Harorimana

The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the effectiveness of Fiscal and Monetary Policies in the South Pacific Island Countries. The paper tracks down the economic growth for the last 20 years between 1990-2010, and drawing from key fiscal and monetary policies in place during the time under consideration, as well as specific interventions in the region, we find that: 1) While the South Pacific Island Countries (SPICs) particularly the six major economies (Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, PNG, Samoa, Tonga) pursued fiscal and monetary policies for promoting growth and diversification of their economies, their fiscal policies relied heavily …

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Who Is Responsible For Data? An Exploratory Study Of Data Authorship, Ownership, And Responsibility, Jillian Wallis, Christine Borgman Oct 2011

Who Is Responsible For Data? An Exploratory Study Of Data Authorship, Ownership, And Responsibility, Jillian Wallis, Christine Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Data repositories rely on the deposit of materials from the communities they serve, forming a chain of stakeholders from the data creator to the repository and data user. Top-down policies that describe the responsibilities of the depositing scientists and other stakeholders are drafted accordingly. But we see very little deposit of scientific data beyond the Big Sciences or communities for whom deposit is required by publications. As part of an ongoing data practices study, we asked scientific researchers about who would be responsible for the data collected. It is clear that researchers are not talking about who is responsible for …

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Records Governance In Enterprise 2.0: Toward An Archival Understanding Of Social Media (Poster), Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luciana Duranti Oct 2011

Records Governance In Enterprise 2.0: Toward An Archival Understanding Of Social Media (Poster), Elizabeth M. Shaffer, Luciana Duranti

Elizabeth M. Shaffer

Social media are consistently evolving with the ever-increasing ability to combine tools and information to create new forms of documents that can pose challenges to traditional paradigms and raise questions of intellectual property, privacy and confidentiality, authorship and ownership.

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Extent Of Automation In South Eastern Nigerian Libraries, Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr, Ifeany Edwin Ogbo Oct 2011

Extent Of Automation In South Eastern Nigerian Libraries, Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr, Ifeany Edwin Ogbo

Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr

The paper x-rays the extent of automation in South East Nigerian libraries. Ex-post-factor research method was adopted for the study involving the study of 35 libraries in the South Eastern geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The study revealed that out of six public and five ministries of Education /Information libraries, none is automated. It also revealed that out of the 24 academic libraries, only two are automated. Based on the findings it is recommended that: all the three tiers of government should automate their government departmental libraries to ensure efficient storage, retrieval and dissemination of government information; state and federal governments …

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Filtering Out The Librarians From Web Analytics Data, M Ryan Hess Oct 2011

Filtering Out The Librarians From Web Analytics Data, M Ryan Hess

M Ryan Hess

This presentation discusses an experiment to check the accuracy of IP filters used in Google Analytics to filter out staff machines from library portal web analytics report.

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Zotero And Mendeley, Anne E. Rauh Oct 2011

Zotero And Mendeley, Anne E. Rauh

Anne Rauh

No abstract provided.

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Digitization Of The 'Finnish Folklore And Social Change In The Great Lakes Mining Region' Oral History Collection, Kent Randell Sep 2011

Digitization Of The 'Finnish Folklore And Social Change In The Great Lakes Mining Region' Oral History Collection, Kent Randell

Kent Randell

No abstract provided.

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Book Repair Basics For Libraries, Peter D. Verheyen, Marianne Hanley Sep 2011

Book Repair Basics For Libraries, Peter D. Verheyen, Marianne Hanley

Peter D Verheyen

This presentation familiarizes viewers with different aspects of circulating collections book repair for school, public, and academic library staff. It shows basic descriptions of techniques using images, and video. This presentation should not be construed as a how-to, hands-on workshop. Likewise, it is not aimed at the treatment of special collections items. Selected resources for training, both hands-on and online are provided at the end.

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Zotero And Mendeley, Anne E. Rauh Sep 2011

Zotero And Mendeley, Anne E. Rauh

Anne Rauh

No abstract provided.

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E Pluribus Unum? Saa And The Regionals, Dana C. Bell-Russel, Teresa M. Brinati, Brenda Gunn, Dennis Meissner, Michael J. Paulus Jr., Tanya Zanish-Belcher Aug 2011

E Pluribus Unum? Saa And The Regionals, Dana C. Bell-Russel, Teresa M. Brinati, Brenda Gunn, Dennis Meissner, Michael J. Paulus Jr., Tanya Zanish-Belcher

Tanya Zanish-Belcher

No abstract provided.

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Katskilu Atskanas #5, Maira Bundza Aug 2011

Katskilu Atskanas #5, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

This was the fifth of five newsletters published during the course of the Latvian Heritage Camp 3x3 in the Latvian Church Camp in Elka Park, NY. Bundza was the editor and filled in as author for many of the short articles. Sniedze Runge wrote some of the articles.

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Katskilu Atskanas #4, Maira Bundza Aug 2011

Katskilu Atskanas #4, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

This was the fourth of five newsletters published during the course of the Latvian Heritage Camp 3x3 in the Latvian Church Camp in Elka Park, NY. Bundza was the editor and filled in as author for many of the short articles. Sniedze Runge wrote some of the articles.

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Katskilu Atskanas #3, Maira Bundza Aug 2011

Katskilu Atskanas #3, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

This was the third of five newsletters published during the course of the Latvian Heritage Camp 3x3 in the Latvian Church Camp in Elka Park, NY. Bundza was the editor and filled in as author for many of the short articles. Sniedze Runge wrote some of the articles.

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Katskilu Atskanas #2, Maira Bundza Aug 2011

Katskilu Atskanas #2, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

This was the second of five newsletters published during the course of the Latvian Heritage Camp 3x3 in the Latvian Church Camp in Elka Park, NY. Bundza was the editor and filled in as author for many of the short articles. Sniedze Runge wrote some of the articles.

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Katskilu Atskanas #1, Maira Bundza Aug 2011

Katskilu Atskanas #1, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

This was the first of five newsletters published during the course of the Latvian Heritage Camp 3x3 in the Latvian Church Camp in Elka Park, NY. Bundza was the editor and filled in as author for many of the short articles. Sniedze Runge wrote some of the articles.

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Garezera Skaidas #3, Maira Bundza Aug 2011

Garezera Skaidas #3, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

This was the third of three newsletters published during the course of the Latvian Heritage Camp 3x3 in the Latvian Center Garezers, Three Rivers, MI. Bundza was the editor and author of most of the articles.

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Garezera Skaidas #2, Maira Bundza Aug 2011

Garezera Skaidas #2, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

This was the second of three newsletters published during the course of the Latvian Heritage Camp 3x3 in the Latvian Center Garezers, Three Rivers, MI. Bundza was the editor and author of most of the articles.

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Garezera Skaidas #1, Maira Bundza Aug 2011

Garezera Skaidas #1, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

This was the first of three newsletters published during the course of the Latvian Heritage Camp 3x3 in the Latvian Center Garezers, Three Rivers, MI. Bundza was the editor and author of most of the articles.

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The Influence Of Effects And Phenomena On Citations: A Comparative Analysis Of Four Citation Perspectives, Qiang Wu, Dietmar Wolfram Jul 2011

The Influence Of Effects And Phenomena On Citations: A Comparative Analysis Of Four Citation Perspectives, Qiang Wu, Dietmar Wolfram

Dietmar Wolfram

This article defines different perspectives for citations and introduces four concepts: Self-expected Citations, Received Citations, Expected Citations, and Deserved Citations. When comparing permutations of these four classes of perspectives, there are up to 145 kinds of equality/inequality relations. From these numerous relations, we analyze the difference between the Matthew Effect and the Matthew Phenomenon. We provide a precise definition and point out that many previous empirical research studies on the Matthew Effect based on citations belong primarily to the Matthew Phenomenon, and not the true meaning of the Matthew Effect. Due to the difficulty in determining the Deserved Citations, the …

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Generation And Dissemination Of Local Content Using Ict For Sustainable Development, Helen N. Eke Miss Jul 2011

Generation And Dissemination Of Local Content Using Ict For Sustainable Development, Helen N. Eke Miss

Helen Nneka Eke

The paper discusses the report of a project carried out in the South Eastern Nigeria on the generation and dissemination of local content from the area using Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The project was undertaken by a group of researchers to capture, preserve and disseminate some cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge that are possessed by local people and especially the elderly ones and which is trying to go into extinct because of the carriers of these information and knowledge are fast dying away. The researchers adopted a survey design for the study and five areas of the people’s cultural …

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Kalamazoo Latvian Association News - July 2011, Maira Bundza Jul 2011

Kalamazoo Latvian Association News - July 2011, Maira Bundza

Maira Bundza

The Kalamazoo Latvian community newsletter comes out in Latvian and English. This issue has an article about the future of the Latvian Center, reports on recent events at the center, including the Latvian school play and graduation, and lists this year's high school and college graduates.

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An Empirical Study Of The Impact Of Nla Conference Attendance On Librarians' Professional Development, Helen N. Eke Miss Jul 2011

An Empirical Study Of The Impact Of Nla Conference Attendance On Librarians' Professional Development, Helen N. Eke Miss

Helen Nneka Eke

Purpose: The paper examined and discussed the impact of Nigerian Library Association (NLA) conference attendance on the professional development of librarians in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: To capture the salient points relating to the study, data was collected using the tool of questionnaire. A total of 200 self-administered copies of questionnaire were shared among attendees of the 48th National Conference/AGM of the Nigerian Library Association held at International Conference Centre Abuja, from 18th – 23rd July 2010 conference. Research questions formed the basis of data analysis. Results were deduced by compiling percentages and frequencies; Means and standard deviation, where applicable. Findings: main …

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The Adoption Of Ict For Library And Information Services, Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr, Obinna Paul Anyanwu, Mary Oga, Ijeoma I. Benard Jul 2011

The Adoption Of Ict For Library And Information Services, Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr, Obinna Paul Anyanwu, Mary Oga, Ijeoma I. Benard

Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr

The paper presents the adoption and use of ICT in library and information services in Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) Library. The historical development of the ICT Unit of the Library, the structural organization, the ICT facilities, hardware and software available. the offline and online databases and services available as well as the automation process involved vvere all discussed. The challenges towards' the provision of effective and efficient ICT based services in the library including those of funding, ICT policies, environmental challenges etc and the prospects including a tremendous increase in the number of lCT experts at all levels; …

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E-Learning As A Panacea To Frustrating Struggle For Limited Admission Space In Nigerian Higher Institutions: Issues And Prospects., Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr Jul 2011

E-Learning As A Panacea To Frustrating Struggle For Limited Admission Space In Nigerian Higher Institutions: Issues And Prospects., Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr

Chinwe Veronica Anunobi Dr

The exponential population increase in the Country is not without consequential effect on secondary schoolleavers jostling for limited admission space in Nigerian institutions of higher learning. Every academic year, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), rolls out frightening number of candidates desiring to enter Nigerian universities. These universities have limited resources to admit up to fifty percent of the candidates. The result is frustrated secondary school leavers who continue to apply yearly for admission. Consequently, examination malpractice becomes the norm. Measures were taken to ameliorate the problem including sandwich, continuing and distance education programmes. These modes of education are …

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Data Sharing By Scientists: Practices And Perceptions, Carol Tenopir, Suzie Allard, Kimberly L. Douglass, Arsev Umur Aydinoglu, Lei Wu, Eleanor Read, Maribeth Manoff, Mike Frame Jun 2011

Data Sharing By Scientists: Practices And Perceptions, Carol Tenopir, Suzie Allard, Kimberly L. Douglass, Arsev Umur Aydinoglu, Lei Wu, Eleanor Read, Maribeth Manoff, Mike Frame

Kimberly L Douglass

Background: Scientific research in the 21st century is more data intensive and collaborative than in the past. It is important to study the data practices of researchers – data accessibility, discovery, re-use, preservation and, particularly, data sharing. Data sharing is a valuable part of the scientific method allowing for verification of results and extending research from prior results. Methodology/Principal Findings: A total of 1329 scientists participated in this survey exploring current data sharing practices and perceptions of the barriers and enablers of data sharing. Scientists do not make their data electronically available to others for various reasons, including insufficient time …

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The Year In Review: Best Practices For Embedded Librarians, Amy York Jun 2011

The Year In Review: Best Practices For Embedded Librarians, Amy York

Amy York

No abstract provided.

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Making Decisions: Using Electronic Data Collection To Re-Envision Reference Services At The Usf Tampa Libraries, Lily Todorinova, Barbara Lewis, Andy Huse, Matt Torrence Jun 2011

Making Decisions: Using Electronic Data Collection To Re-Envision Reference Services At The Usf Tampa Libraries, Lily Todorinova, Barbara Lewis, Andy Huse, Matt Torrence

Lily Todorinova

Declining reference statistics, diminishing human resources, and the desire to be more proactive and embedded in academic depart- ments, prompted the University of South Florida Library to create a taskforce for re-envisioning reference services. The taskforce was charged with examining the staffing patterns at the desk and developing recommendations to give librarians greater flexibility and to better respond to the information-seeking needs of users. These recommendations were based on statistics of desk usage, collected with the newly adapted online tool Desk Tracker, and structured interviews with library administrators. The taskforce was interested in how these stakeholders use quantitative data in …

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