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Open Ethos Publishing At Code4lib Journal And In The Library With The Lead Pipe, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The library world is deeply entrenched in the open ethos, yet there are few examples of library publications that engage in open editorial and peer review processes. In this article we discuss the challenges and opportunities posed by the open editorial processes used at In the Library with the Lead Pipe and Code4Lib Journal. To end, we discuss the need to grow open review and editorial processes in library and information science publications.

Troublesome Concepts And Information Literacy: Investigating Threshold Concepts For Il Instruction, Amy R. Hofer, Lori Townsend, Korey Brunetti

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Librarians regularly encounter students who struggle to understand and apply information literacy concepts. A qualitative survey administered to information literacy practitioners asked about troublesome content and analyzed results using the threshold concepts pedagogical framework first described by Jan Meyer and Ray Land. A threshold concept transforms the learner’s view of content and helps integrate previously learned material; threshold concepts are portals that, once traversed, bring insight into how to think and act like a practitioner within a discipline. This project uses the data collected to propose seven threshold concepts for information literacy.

Technology In Practice. The Diy Patron: Rethinking How We Help Those Who Don't Ask, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The article presents information on services provided by library reference desks for do-it-yourself (DYI) patrons. The author looks at online instructional content, how-to tutorials, and in-person reference services. The article also discusses the importance of understanding library users' information-seeking behaviors.

The Ase Research Model: A Lightning Talk, Kimberly Willson-St. Clair

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This PowerPoint describes the Analyze, Search, Evaluate (ASE) model for building a research strategy. This pedagogical model was field tested by Dr. Melissa Gross and Dr. Don Latham in a large, IMLS funded study of Florida college students who were targeted for remedial instruction regarding research skills and information literacy. Using this method at the Portland State University Library in research classes for freshman and international students, I have found the ASE research model to be an engaging way to organize an hour library class so that students learn an efficient and easy way to construct their research strategies.

Technology In Practice. Let's #Makeithappen: What Is Stopping You From Creating Change?, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The article presents information on how librarians can get involved and create change. The author looks at the Twitter social networking service hashtag #makeithappen from librarian J.P. Porcaro, online professional development opportunities, and the future of libraries. She also discusses her experience creating the "Five Weeks to a Social Library" free online learning program.

What Do We Do And Why Do We Do It?, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The library community should develop a philosophy of librarianship. In order to do so the community should engage in a dialogue about what we do and why we do it. Our history with the idea of a philosophy of librarianship is long, yet the library community hasn’t resolved the problem of what that philosophy (or philosophies) should be. Engaging in a reflective and philosophically-based practice of librarianship (a praxis of librarianship), one that frames decision-making and library work with the question: “what we do and why we do it?” will enable the library community to have successful conversations with those …

Technology In Practice. Tools For Optimal Flow: Technology-Enabled Research Workflows, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The article presents information on technological tools for collecting and using research. The author looks at reference management software Zotero, computer program Mendeley for managing and sharing data, and Evernote software for notetaking and archiving. The article also discusses the social bookmarking websites Diigo and Instapaper.

Heard On The Net: You Can’T Always Get What You Want: Peering Into Open Access And Watching It All Come Unglued, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This column discusses the usage findings of the PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) Project and argues that librarians should start assembling tools to not only track author publishing but to also measure the impact of research.

Usability Study Of A Library’S Mobile Website: An Example From Portland State University, Kimberly D. Pendell, Michael S. Bowman

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

To discover how a newly developed library mobile website performed across a variety of devices, the authors used a hybrid field and laboratory methodology to conduct a usability test of the website. Twelve student participants were recruited and selected according to phone type. Results revealed a wide array of errors attributed to site design, wireless network connections, as well as phone hardware and software. This study provides an example methodology for testing library mobile websites, identifies issues associated with mobile websites, and provides recommendations for improving the user experience.

The Demand Driven Acquisitions Pilot Project By The Orbis Cascade Alliance: An Interview With Members Of The Demand Driven Acquisitions Implementation Team, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Portland State University collection development librarian Jill Emery talks with members of the Orbis Cascade Alliance demand driven acquisitions implementation team, EBL, and YBP Library Services about their participation in a pilot project to acquire e-books that are accessible to and jointly owned by the thirty-seven member libraries of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.

Technology In Practice. The Guide On The Side, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The article discusses the use of active learning in library online instruction through the Guide on the Side software, allowing librarians to develop tutorials for users. Developed by Leslie Sult, Mike Hagedon, and Justin Spargur, members of the scholarly publishing and data management team at the University of Arizona's library, the software enabled librarians to create a tutorial for using JSTOR, an academic journals archive system, which allows users to actively use the database.

What's In Your Filter Bubble? Or, How Has The Internet Censored You Today?, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The presentation focuses on the algorithmic filtering of patrons' online experience

Technology In Practice. Click Here To Engage, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The article presents discussion of applied librarianship with technology. Particular attention is given to ways in which librarians offering instruction session can utilize communication and presentation technology to best reach as many patrons as possible. Details are given highlighting the interest which patrons exhibit to novel technology tools, ways of using technology to foster communication with different personalities, and using the social media platform Twitter.

Hot Topics From E&Rl – Electronic Resources And Libraries Annual Conference 2012, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

A report on the 7th Annual Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference

Consensus Decision-Making And Its Possibilities In Libraries, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The article focuses on the author's view on the consensus of decision making and its effect in libraries. She notes that the concept of consensus decision-making has been permeated to American psyche due to the Occupy Wall Street movement. She mentions that she has inquired on what really is consensus decision-making in relation to its intelligibility and democratic process.

Merging Critical Thinking And Information Literacy Outcomes - Making Meaning Or Making Strategic Partnership?, Robert Schroeder

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The following book chapter will look at critical thinking, how librarians perceive its relationship to information literacy, and what useful strategies can result when these two concepts are combined. To set the stage a few of the major psychological and philosophical theories of critical thinking will be briefly noted. In order to gauge our profession's understanding of critical thinking and its relationship to information literacy, a survey of library literature will be performed. The more rigorous articles from this survey will then be discussed in order to discern the range of positions librarians have taken on the relationship of these …

Innovation On A Shoe String: High Impact Space And Technology Updates In A Low-Funding Environment, Joan Petit, Thomas Bielavitz

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Even in a low-funding and space-constrained environment, Portland State University (PSU) Library has created and renovated new technology-rich learning spaces for students. Collaboration with other campus departments and an entrepreneurial spirit were essential for many of these efforts. First, the library developed a list of desired improvements and space use ideas. Then, the library used a phased approach, taking advantage of opportunities and planning for others as possible, resulting in a series of high-impact space updates. PSU Library offers a space-planning model that allows academic libraries to be agile, entrepreneurial, and collaborative, and to improve learning spaces in a difficult …

Research Guide Technologies, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Research guides (also known as subject guides, course guides, or pathfinders) provide targeted information on a particular topic to support student or faculty research in that area. Similar instructional tools have been around since before the birth of the web, but are now almost exclusively provided by libraries online as part of the library’s web presence. Research guide software enables librarians without web design skills to quickly and easily create and update web content. The technologies for creating research guides run the gamut from proprietary and open source software specifically designed for creating guides to open source and third-party-hosted applications …

Heard On The Net: Library Resources A La Carte And Prix Fixe, Selection In The Age Of Budget Scarcity, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This column explores the question "how do we arrive at selection criteria and collection development policies that provide for both a la carte ordering and prix fixe purchasing?"

Community Archives And The Limitations Of Identity: Considering Discursive Impact On Material Needs, Cristine N. Paschild

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article examines how a postmodern-influenced discourse of identity shapes and influences critical analysis of community archives, both internally and externally, and asks if the accompanying terms of engagement shift focus, to negative effect, from the more pressing needs and challenges of these institutions and projects. Looking to archival professional literature and to a recent self-assessment of the Japanese American National Museum, the article argues that an overarching emphasis on questions of identity can distract community institutions from pragmatic evaluations of sustainable practice and can inadvertently mire archivists in a marginalizing rhetoric that blurs the issues at hand.

Er&L 2012 Offers Virtual Conference Experience, Jill Emery

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Update on Electronic Resources & Libraries 2012 Conference

Technology In Practice. Providing The Tools, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this article the author discusses the role of digital technologies in libraries in the U.S. She emphasizes the role of libraries as a resource for digital creation technologies, as many users do not have access to such technologies in their homes. Several libraries are highlighted, including the Fayetteville, New York Free Library, the Chicago, Illinois Public Library, and the Skokie, Illinois Public Library. Topics include digital media labs, 3-D printers, and software.

Participatory Technologies, Pedagogy 2.0 And Information Literacy, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Purpose: This paper seeks to explore the impact participatory technologies have had on education and the information environment in which students operate. It seeks to define a pedagogical approach that will capitalize on the benefits of participatory technologies in the classroom and applies this "pedagogy 2.0" to information literacy instruction.

Design/methodology/approach: A thorough literature review was conducted on the use of participatory technologies in education as well as theories related to collaborative learning. This review formed the basis of the proposed pedagogy 2.0 model.

Findings: Web 2.0 and the growth in use of participatory technologies has had a tremendous impact …

Supporting Omph Students And Professionals: The Case Of The Research Guide, Emily Ford, Laura Zeigen

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster showcases the research guides supporting public health students in the Oregon Master of Public Health program.