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Hagerty Library Collection Development Internship, James Gross Dec 2014

Hagerty Library Collection Development Internship, James Gross

James Gross

Collection Development Internship at the Drexel University, Hagerty Library. Summary of several collection management projects. Heavy usage of excel for data extraction. Screenshots used for visual aid.


2013-12-12 Aaf 100 What's Culture Got To Do With It?, Michael Vocino Dec 2014

2013-12-12 Aaf 100 What's Culture Got To Do With It?, Michael Vocino

Library Impact Statements

This is the Library Impact Statement for AAF 100: What's culture got to do with it? No new library resources are needed to support this course.


Editorial Staff And State Representatives Oct 2014

Editorial Staff And State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

Listing of editorial board for The Southeaster Librarian and current state SELA representatives.


Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions Oct 2014

Guidelines For Submission And Author Instructions

The Southeastern Librarian

Guidelines for article submissions to The Southeasters Librarian.


Book Review: In Remembrance Of Emmett Till: Regional Stories And Media Responses To The Black Freedom Struggle, Peter R. Dean Oct 2014

Book Review: In Remembrance Of Emmett Till: Regional Stories And Media Responses To The Black Freedom Struggle, Peter R. Dean

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book In Remembrance of Emmett Till. Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle by Mace, Darryl. Lexington, Kentucky. The University Press of Kentucky, 2014, ISBN: 978-0-8131-4536-5 (Hardcover).


Book Review: Duncan Hines: How A Traveling Salesman Became The Most Trusted Name In Food, Karen J. Cook Oct 2014

Book Review: Duncan Hines: How A Traveling Salesman Became The Most Trusted Name In Food, Karen J. Cook

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Duncan Hines: How a Traveling Salesman Became the Most Trusted Name in Food by Hatchett, Louis. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8131-4459-7 (pbk.: alk. paper); ISBN 978-0-8131-4484-9 (pdf); ISBN 978-0-8131-4483-2 (epub).


Book Review: The Market Preparation Of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History Of Innovation In The Lowcountry Rice Kingdom, Carol Walker Jordan Oct 2014

Book Review: The Market Preparation Of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History Of Innovation In The Lowcountry Rice Kingdom, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History of Innovation in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom by Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr., and William Robert Judd. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61117-351-2.


Book Review: River Of Hope: Black Politics And The Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865 To 1954, Carol Walker Jordan Oct 2014

Book Review: River Of Hope: Black Politics And The Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865 To 1954, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865 to 1954 by Elizabeth Gritter. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8131-4450-4.


Book Review: Bearwallow: A Personal History Of A Mountain Homeland, Kathelene Mccarty Smith Oct 2014

Book Review: Bearwallow: A Personal History Of A Mountain Homeland, Kathelene Mccarty Smith

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland by Jeremy B. Jones. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2014. ISBN 978-0-89587-624-9.


Book Review: Southern Women Novelists And The Civil Ware: Trauma And Collective Memory In The American Literacy Tradition Since 1861, Carol Walker Jordan Oct 2014

Book Review: Southern Women Novelists And The Civil Ware: Trauma And Collective Memory In The American Literacy Tradition Since 1861, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Review of the book Southern Women Novelists and the Civil War: Trauma and Collective Memory in the American Literary Tradition since 1861 by Sharon Talley. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2014. ISBN 1-62190-013-4.


Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher Oct 2014

Open Access And The Institutional Repository, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Over the past year, the University of Rhode Island (URI) has taken some steps towards shifting the default to Open Access for both faculty scholarship and student work. First and foremost, in March 2013, the URI Faculty Senate passed a Harvard-style Open Access mandate. And in February 2013, the Library and the Graduate School began making electronic dissertations and theses openly available through URI’s institutional repository. In this presentation, we will define Open Access policies and discuss why they are important. We will give an overview of our experiences with Open Access advocacy, implementation of policies, and next steps.


The Southeastern Librarian V 62, No. 3 (Fall 2014) Complete Issue Oct 2014

The Southeastern Librarian V 62, No. 3 (Fall 2014) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, vol. 62, no. 3.


Reference Databases Usage Statistics 2013-2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii, Sarah Bannister Sep 2014

Reference Databases Usage Statistics 2013-2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii, Sarah Bannister

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the use of online reference databases at the University of Rhode Island during the period from July 2013 through June 2014. Includes COUNTER-compliant data on sessions, searches, turnaways, full text articles downloaded, and other metrics.


Learning Through Interning: National Library Of Medicine® Internships, Lauren E. Robinson, Tyler Nix Sep 2014

Learning Through Interning: National Library Of Medicine® Internships, Lauren E. Robinson, Tyler Nix

Lauren E. Robinson

Fieldwork can help students experience real library settings and develop a professional identity. The benefits to libraries include additional skilled help for programs and projects, developing recruits, and energizing seasoned professionals through opportunities for co-learning and mentoring.


Refworks Usage Statistics Through June 2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher Sep 2014

Refworks Usage Statistics Through June 2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

RefWorks is a subscription-based, online software product that helps researchers save, organize, and format bibliographic citations. This report provides monthly statistics on the usage of RefWorks by the University of Rhode Island community from 2002 through June 2014. Data provided includes: user type summary, focus area summary, references created per month, accounts created per month, all user accounts by user type, all user accounts by focus area, last quarter number of accounts by user type, reference type detail, all references by focus area, last quarter references by focus area, last quarter references by user type, all references by user type, …


Fy2014 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (Ipeds) Academic Libraries Survey: University Of Rhode Island Data, Andrée J. Rathemacher Sep 2014

Fy2014 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (Ipeds) Academic Libraries Survey: University Of Rhode Island Data, Andrée J. Rathemacher

University Libraries Reports & Statistics

The main document posted here is a PDF of a spreadsheet containing data for the Academic Libraries section of the annual IPEDS survey, as well as the methodology for collecting that data. The document contains FY2014 data as submitted by the University of Rhode Island Libraries to the Office of Institutional Research in FY15.

Supplemental files consist of the spreadsheet in Excel format and a PDF printout of the blank form and survey instructions from the IPEDS website.


Acquisitions Unit Annual Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher Sep 2014

Acquisitions Unit Annual Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual Report of the Acquisitions Unit, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island for FY14. Covers personnel, work flow, special projects, and serial, monograph, and e-resource acquisitions. Supplemental files include data on library materials expenditures by a number of variables as well as important working documents from the year.


Metadata & Cataloging Unit Statistics 2013-2014, Amar K. Lahiri Sep 2014

Metadata & Cataloging Unit Statistics 2013-2014, Amar K. Lahiri

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual productivity statistics from the Metadata & Cataloging Unit of the University of Rhode Island Library for 2013-2014. Includes total number of copy-cataloged records and original catalog records created. Also includes bibliographic and item records created, modified, and deleted in the local Innovative Interfaces library system.


Cataloging Online Usage Statistics For F/Y 2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii Sep 2014

Cataloging Online Usage Statistics For F/Y 2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Monthly productivity and collection statistics for the Cataloging Unit, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island. Data for fiscal year includes the number of exported records, authority work and number of searches that were performed using OCLC's WorldCat online service.


Journal Usage Report For Fiscal Year 2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii Sep 2014

Journal Usage Report For Fiscal Year 2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Journal usage for the University Libraries are listed alphabetically by authority title. The report includes the usage statistics taken from each vendor and incorporated in Serials Solutions 360 Counter.

The report is broken down monthly for fiscal year 2014 and shows each journal's usage per month and the total usage for the year..


Electronic Journals Overlap Analysis 2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii Sep 2014

Electronic Journals Overlap Analysis 2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Overlap analysis for the University of Rhode Island's electronic journals are complied alphabetically by database name. The report shows the number or titles that are exclusive to that database as compiled by Serials Solutions.

The table located under the report gives a brief explanation of the headings used in the analysis.


Gift Books Received At Uri July 2013 To June 2014, Michael Vocino Sep 2014

Gift Books Received At Uri July 2013 To June 2014, Michael Vocino

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Gift books received by the University of Rhode Island Libraries from 2013-2014. Information includes date of donation, name of donor, and number of titles donated. During the year a total of 5,021 books and 104 DVDs were received.


Acrl Peer Comparison For University Of Rhode Island Libraries, 2009-2013, Andrée J. Rathemacher Aug 2014

Acrl Peer Comparison For University Of Rhode Island Libraries, 2009-2013, Andrée J. Rathemacher

University Libraries Reports & Statistics

Comparison of the University of Rhode Island Libraries with peer institutions (as defined by the University's Office of Institutional Research). Data used are from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Statistical Survey from the years 2009-2013. Metrics compared are: total library expenditures, total library materials expenditures, ongoing resource purchases, one-time resource purchases, salaries & wages professional staff, salaries & wages support staff, professional staff (fte), support staff (fte), student headcount, total library expenditures per student, and total library materials expenditures per student.


Serials Solutions 360 Link Referring Sources Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher Aug 2014

Serials Solutions 360 Link Referring Sources Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics for 2013-2014 on the number of OpenURL requests made to the "Serials Solutions 360 Link" OpenURL link resolver (at http://zu4tq4pb5v.search.serialssolutions.com/) for items held by the University of Rhode Island Libraries.

Information provided includes Referring Source ID, total Number of Requests for the year, and %Total (Number of Requests).

Note: "36520" = EBSCOhost


Serials Solutions Search Type Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher Aug 2014

Serials Solutions Search Type Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the total number of "Browse Searches," "Titles Searches," and "Other Searches" of Serials Solutions tools at the University of Rhode Island Libraries by month for 2013-2014. Shows how many times the A-Z full text electronic journal list (at http://zu4tq4pb5v.search.serialssolutions.com/) was browsed by alphabet or subject and searched by journal title or ISSN. Also indicates how many Serials Solutions searches originated from OpenURL links ("360 Link") and the number of clicks from the 856 field of Serials Solutions-generated MARC records ("360 MARC Updates").


Serials Solutions Subject Search Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher Aug 2014

Serials Solutions Subject Search Report 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the total number of Serials Solutions subject searches at the University of Rhode Island Libraries by month for 2013-2014. Shows how many times the A-Z full text electronic journal list (at http://zu4tq4pb5v.search.serialssolutions.com/) was browsed by specific subjects.


Serials Solutions Click-Through Statistics By Provider And Database 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher Aug 2014

Serials Solutions Click-Through Statistics By Provider And Database 2013-2014, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the total number of database and journal-level clicks, by provider and database, of Serials Solutions tools at the University of Rhode Island Libraries by month for 2013-2014. Clicks may have originated from the A-Z full text electronic journal list (at http://zu4tq4pb5v.search.serialssolutions.com/), from OpenURL links ("360 Link"), or the 856 fields of Serials Solutions-generated MARC records ("360 MARC Updates").


Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - August 2014, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark Aug 2014

Instruction @ The Uri Libraries - August 2014, Mary C. Macdonald, Amanda Izenstark

Instruction @ the URI Libraries

No abstract provided.


Perspectives On Knowledge: An Analysis Of Libraries In Visakhapatnam, India, Rebecca Strein Aug 2014

Perspectives On Knowledge: An Analysis Of Libraries In Visakhapatnam, India, Rebecca Strein

Library Research Grants

India is a country of extremes: from the sweltering humidity of the southern coast to the frigid temperatures of the Himalayas, from intense poverty to lavish wealth, from a culture steeped in tradition to an economy driven by modern technology. Visakhapatnam provides an interesting window into the conflict of modern versus traditional. Not only can this be seen in its rapidly growing metropolitan landscape, but when one looks deeper it is also reflected in the attitudes of people. While there are a variety of ways to understand the interplay between traditional and modern thinking, studying how people view, value and …


Editorial Staff & State Representatives Jul 2014

Editorial Staff & State Representatives

The Southeastern Librarian

Listing of editorial board for The Southeaster Librarian and current state SELA representatives.