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Balancing Outreach And Privacy In Facebook: Five Guiding Decisions Points, Peter Fernandez Jan 2009

Balancing Outreach And Privacy In Facebook: Five Guiding Decisions Points, Peter Fernandez

UT Libraries Faculty: Peer-Reviewed Publications

The purpose of this paper is to highlight five decision points intended to serve as guideposts for librarians attempting to conceptualize their own efforts within Facebook.

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Wsuls 2009 Annual Report, Wayne State University Library System Jan 2009

Wsuls 2009 Annual Report, Wayne State University Library System

Library Publications

2009 annual report includes: A message from Dean Sandra Yee; Renovations of SLIS offices and the building of the Mazurek Educational Commons, home of the Shiffman Medical Library; SLIS is reaccredited by ALA; NMIT develops Digital Learning and Development Environment with NEH Grant; Libraries offer amnesty period for overdue books; Library System's Adopt-a-Family Program; Library Liaisons reach out to Tech Town, faculty, and graduate students; New hires Virginia Thomas, Yolanda Jones, Paul Gallagher, and Rebeca Befus; Statistics; Frederick J. and Rose Sievert Business Information Endowed Fund; Remembering Lothar Spang and Su Bardeleben.

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Encountering Values: A Revision Of Information Literacy?, Benjamin R. Harris Jan 2009

Encountering Values: A Revision Of Information Literacy?, Benjamin R. Harris

Library Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

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Buy Low, Sell High, Get In Now: Low‐Stakes/Low‐Investment Information Literacy Initiatives Pay Off Big, Steven Hoover, Jeremy W. Donald, David Wilson Jan 2009

Buy Low, Sell High, Get In Now: Low‐Stakes/Low‐Investment Information Literacy Initiatives Pay Off Big, Steven Hoover, Jeremy W. Donald, David Wilson

Library Faculty Research

Become familiar with the concept of low stakes/low investment information literacy initiatives in order to communicate their potential value to faculty members, other librarians, and administrators. Recognize how collaboration between your library and other entities on campus can reinforce information literacy initiatives in order to draw upon the strengths and shared values of existing programs. Learn about successful initiatives in order to generate ideas that would be useful for your institution.

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Cultivating The Librarian Within: Effectively Lntegrating Library Lnstruction Into Freshman Composition, Jesse Ulmer, Nancy E. Fawley Jan 2009

Cultivating The Librarian Within: Effectively Lntegrating Library Lnstruction Into Freshman Composition, Jesse Ulmer, Nancy E. Fawley

Library Faculty Publications

It has become common practice for library instruction to be included in lower-level college composition courses. Students are typically required to visit the library once or twice a semester to receive instruction on how to find books and journal articles for an upcoming writing assignment that incorporates formal research. But does this current model of instruction truly address course outcomes that seek to produce students who are information literate, critical thinkers and life-long learners? Faculty who teach such courses are often reluctant to surrender precious class time to a librarian, but this paper argues that the merging of bibliographic instruction …

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Reference Classification--Is It Time To Make Some Changes?, Tina M. Neville, Deborah Boran Henry Jan 2009

Reference Classification--Is It Time To Make Some Changes?, Tina M. Neville, Deborah Boran Henry

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

In 2005, the authors tested the consistency and ease-of-use of a skill/strategy-based reference question classification system published by Warner in 2001. Results of that test indicated that the Warner system was a significant improvement over the resource-based traditional system. In this study, reference librarians from other institutions were invited to compare the technologysensitive Warner system to the traditional Katz classification system. The results of this larger test mirror the findings of the original study. Overall, classification was more consistent using the Warner system.

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