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A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing: Using Humor In Library Instruction, Linda Sizemore, Ashley Cole
A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing: Using Humor In Library Instruction, Linda Sizemore, Ashley Cole
Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations
This interactive presentation will describe the biology behind humor; when to use humor; and the importance of it in communicating information literacy to students, faculty, and EVERYONE. As facilitators of learning, librarians can use humor as a teaching tool to reduce library anxiety and to increase creative thinking. Participants will learn techniques and share methods in order to gain an understanding that humor is a skill that must be cultivated. “Wit punctures, humor pictures.”
Gist: Joining Ill, Acquisitions, And Collection Development At Eku, Kelly Smith
Gist: Joining Ill, Acquisitions, And Collection Development At Eku, Kelly Smith
Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations
For libraries who embrace patron-driven acquisitions, the workflows of ILL, Acquisitions, and Collection Development are becoming more interdependent. Workflows that are traditionally siloed in different systems impede the efficient provision of library materials. The Getting It System Toolkit for ILLiad (http://www.gistlibrary.org/) provides an elegant solution to this problem.
Publishing Open Access E-Journals: Leveraging An Outreach Opportunity, Laura Edwards, Linda Sizemore, Kelly Smith
Publishing Open Access E-Journals: Leveraging An Outreach Opportunity, Laura Edwards, Linda Sizemore, Kelly Smith
Library Faculty and Staff Papers and Presentations
Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Libraries began exploring the institutional repository (IR) landscape in 2009 with the intention of publishing electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), journals, special collections, images, videos, sound files, or anything else that would fit a need for us. The hosted systems we examined were effective as either platforms for displaying special collections or platforms for managing publishing processes. However, we didn’t find a system that did both of those things well.