Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

In The Beginning ... There Was Netlibrary, Barbara Anderson

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

A chronicle of the growth of electronic books in the VCU Libraries collections, the challenges this format presents to cataloging and user discovery, and the approaches taken by VCU Libraries to address these challenges.

Mapping The Literature Of Allied Health: Healthcare Chaplaincy, Emily Johnson, Diane Dodd Mccue, Alexander Tartaglia, Jennifer A. Mcdaniel

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

OBJECTIVE: This study examined citation patterns and indexing coverage from 2008 to 2010 to determine (1) the core literature of health care chaplaincy and (2) the resources providing optimum coverage for the literature.

METHODS: Citations from three source journals (2008-2010 inclusive) were collected and analyzed according to the protocol created for the Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Professions Project. An analysis of indexing coverage by five databases was conducted. A secondary analysis of self-citations by source journals was also conducted.

RESULTS: The 3 source journals--Chaplaincy Today, the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, and the Journal of Pastoral Care and …

Sins Of A Nation, Margaret T. Kidd

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This article explores how Methodist clergy in Virginia tended to the spiritual needs of their congregations in the context of war. It also discusses the way that clergy worked to make their ideas on the war and its progression known through newspapers, sermons, addresses, and government-recognized days of fasting and prayer. As the largest religious denomination in the South during the war the Methodist Church was in a position to not only offer support , but to shape the opinions of the Confederate people.

True Single Search: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Margaret T. Kidd

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Since the advent of Google, the trend in search engines has been to try to provide as many types of information as possible from a single location. Libraries are no exception, with discovery tools such as Primo and Summon becoming more and more popular. This presentation discusses the pros and cons of using Primo in relation to finding manuscripts and archives materials.

Pedal To The Metal: Our Year Of Dh, John Glover, Kristina Keogh

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

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Alma Openurl Migration Strategies, Jimmy Ghaphery

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

VCU Libraries fully migrated from SFX to Alma OpenURL in January 2013. This presentation will discuss the challenges and opportunities of that migration. In addition a number of local migration tools and processes will be shared that proved beneficial to VCU in efficiently making the leap from SFX to Alma OpenURL.

Prince Or Plebe?: Success At All Levels Of The Library Hierarchy, Megan Hodge

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

When one is a middle manager—someone who is not entirely on the front lines, but supervising without the authority to make changes at a system or institutional level—especially as a new professional with lots of enthusiasm and ideas, one can feel frustrated and stuck in a state of stasis. By learning how to effectively leverage the power one does have, as Niccolo Machiavelli did, one can lead from the middle to inspire subordinates, excel as an employee, and create change at the system/institutional level.

Sunday Does Not Come In Camp, Margaret T. Kidd

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This article explores how the Methodist Church tended to the spiritual needs of the soldiers in the Confederate Army. The church supplied 448 chaplains to the Army, but there were never enough to meet the needs of the troops. The church worked to mitigate this problem by establishing the Soldiers' Tract Association in 1862 and by sometimes working with churches of other denominations to support the soldiers.