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2010

Brigham Young University

Library and Information Science

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Bridging The Gap: Self-Directed Staff Technology Training, Quinn Galbraith, Kayla L. Quinney, Sara D. Smith Dec 2010

Bridging The Gap: Self-Directed Staff Technology Training, Quinn Galbraith, Kayla L. Quinney, Sara D. Smith

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Undergraduates, as members of the Millennial Generation, are proficient in Web 2.0 technology and expect to apply these technologies to their coursework—including scholarly research. To remain relevant, academic libraries need to provide the technology that student patrons expect, and academic librarians need to learn and use these technologies themselves. Because leaders at the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University (HBLL) perceived a gap in technology use between students and their staff and faculty, they developed and implemented the Technology Challenge, a self-directed technology training program that rewarded employees for exploring technology daily. The purpose of this paper is …

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20th Century American Leaders Database, Leticia Camacho Nov 2010

20th Century American Leaders Database, Leticia Camacho

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This free database, compiled by the Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative, identifies 20th-century leaders who had a great impact on business and society, and it provides data useful in educating future leaders. The database features short profiles of 1,000 CEOs and founders of US-based companies.

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Entrepreneur, Leticia Camacho Jul 2010

Entrepreneur, Leticia Camacho

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Launched by Entrepreneur Media, a leading publisher of entrepreneurship magazines and books, Entrepreneur contains original content and current, relevant resources related to starting and running a small business. The main page contains many links from tabs at the top of the page and also from a topic menu along the left side.

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Shelf-Ready: Is It Worth The Money?, Jared L. Howland, Rebecca Schroeder May 2010

Shelf-Ready: Is It Worth The Money?, Jared L. Howland, Rebecca Schroeder

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PDF of Powerpoint Presentation. This presentation was given at the Utah Library Association's Annual Conference in St. George, Utah.

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Redundant Journal Access: Why Pay More Than Once?, Jared L. Howland Feb 2010

Redundant Journal Access: Why Pay More Than Once?, Jared L. Howland

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PDF of Powerpoint Presentation on journal access. This presentation was given at the Electronic Resources and Libraries 2010 Conference in Austin, Texas.

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How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison To Library Databases, Jared L. Howland Feb 2010

How Scholarly Is Google Scholar? A Comparison To Library Databases, Jared L. Howland

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PDF of Powerpoint Presentation. This presentation was given at the Norwegian National Library Conference in Oslo, Norway. It discusses the similarities and differences between library databases and Google Scholar.

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Planning An Information Commons, Michael J. Whitchurch Jan 2010

Planning An Information Commons, Michael J. Whitchurch

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Of the steps in implementing an information commons, one of the most important is the planning phase. In order for the planning and implementation to be a success, buy-in and support from library users and administrators is essential. The result of the planning process is a detailed planning document which will influence the success of the commons. The document should include plans for policy changes, space for the commons, staffing issues, and assessments, both before and after implementation. Even with all the planning completed, an evaluation of the viability of and desirability for a commons should determine whether a commons …

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Evaluating Models Of Latent Document Semantics In The Presence Of Ocr Errors, Daniel D. Walker, William B. Lund, Eric K. Ringger Jan 2010

Evaluating Models Of Latent Document Semantics In The Presence Of Ocr Errors, Daniel D. Walker, William B. Lund, Eric K. Ringger

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Models of latent document semantics such as the mixture of multinomials model and Latent Dirichlet Allocation have received substantial attention for their ability to discover topical semantics in large collections of text. In an effort to apply such models to noisy optical character recognition (OCR) text output, we endeavor to understand the effect that character-level noise can have on unsupervised topic modeling. We show the effects both with document-level topic analysis (document clustering) and with word-level topic analysis (LDA) on both synthetic and real-world OCR data. As expected, experimental results show that performance declines as word error rates increase. Common …

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Moving Authority Control From Manual To Automated, Shannon Hoffman Jan 2010

Moving Authority Control From Manual To Automated, Shannon Hoffman

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Authority control is very expensive; however, a controlled vocabulary is important for the users of a library catalog. Ways must be found to do authority control faster, cheaper, and better if we are to maintain a high-quality library catalog.

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A Review Of “The Wall Street Primer: The Players, Deals, And Mechanics Of The U.S. Securities Market”, Leticia Camacho Jan 2010

A Review Of “The Wall Street Primer: The Players, Deals, And Mechanics Of The U.S. Securities Market”, Leticia Camacho

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Wall Street Primer provides a good insight into the world of Wall Street: the environment, the functions, operations, and the professionals or “players.” It was written by Jason A. Pedersen, a former investment banker and securities lawyer.

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