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Increasing Accessibility To Library Resources And Services By Adding Closed Captioning And Transcripts To Youtube Videos, Barbara M. Pope, Gloria Creed-Dikeogu

Faculty Submissions

Accessibility to library resources and services in academic libraries is fundamental to

serving the discovery and scholarship needs of all students and faculty, whether they have disabilities or not. Equitable access in higher education can affect student grades and retention, but accessibility touches many different areas in library services, including making the physical building accessible, as well as instructional materials, the library’s website, Libguides, and library resources to those with vision, physical, and cognitive disabilities. Accessibility is vital for students with disabilities to obtain a college degree and complies with federal law. However, it also improves access to higher education …

Lessons We Learned In Moving Traditional Library Services To Synchronous And Asynchronous Delivery Online And Curbside, Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

It has long been a librarian role to provide access to books, serials, and media, as well as library instruction to support learning and access to information, whether in a K-12 school, college or university, or public library. Some materials and services, such as library instruction, have traditionally been available in the library only, but the world as we know is changing. Higher education’s movement towards online and hybrid learning has caused academic librarians to move their instruction online also. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic caused libraries nationwide to shut down temporarily, while they identified and served their patrons’ needs. …

Adventures In Rightsizing : Enhancing Discovery And Research With Open Access Journals In The University Library, Barbara M. Pope

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Academic libraries have long had print journals to support the university’s discovery and research needs. However, academic libraries are challenged with needs for relevant content, cost control, and space availability, and some have downsized their print journal collections as a result. Many academic libraries are replacing or supplementing print journal subscriptions with online subscriptions and open access journals. Pittsburg State University’s (PSU) Axe Library faces the challenge of providing access to print and online journals in order to support the university’s needs and stay on budget. To that end, PSU began rightsizing its print journal collection in 2016. In 2017, …

Rightsizing Open Access Journals Project - List Of Open Access Journals Added Or Updated In 2017 With The Effect On Usage Thru Mid-2019 (Data File), Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

Academic libraries have long had print journal collections to support the university’s discovery and research needs. However, they are also continually challenged with needs for relevant content, cost control, and space availability; some academic libraries have downsized their print journal collections as a result. Many academic libraries are replacing some print journal subscriptions with online subscriptions and supplementing with open access journals. Pittsburg State University’s (PSU) Axe Library faces the challenge of providing journal access in order to support the university’s needs and stay on budget. To that end, PSU drastically weeded its print journals in 2016 and later began …

The Future Of Open Access Journals In Academic Libraries: A Survey On Current Practices And A Blueprint For Collection Development (Survey Data), Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

Print journals collection development is a long-standing academic library role, whose support of university curriculum and research is essential. However, academic libraries have weathered difficult collection development decisions due to costs and strained budgets. As technology has given rise to online journals and space is reallocated, libraries have shifted focus to online journals. In addition, some academic libraries select open access journals to supplement subscriptions, but lack criteria. Furthermore, academic libraries are challenged by some open access journals’ predatory practices, unreliable access, and lacking peer review. This article explores academic libraries’ open access journals collection development and provides a blueprint.

Rightsizing Open Access Journals In Academic Libraries: Enhancing The Discovery And Research Experience (Poster Presentation), Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

Print journals collection development has long been an academic librarian role. However, academic libraries are continuously challenged with cost increases, space problems, and the need for relevant collections to support their universities. As a result, academic library print journal collections have declined and online journals, including open access, have taken their place. PSU’s Axe Library faces the challenge of balancing its print and online journal collections to support the university’s discovery and research needs and stay on budget. To that end, the library began rightsizing its print journals in 2016, but later began rightsizing open access journals after seeing high …

Responding To The Need For Change Through Strategic Collection Development, Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

Is your library’s print serials collection irrelevant and little used? Have you been given a mandate to change? Has your library’s budget been cut while you must provide access to relevant serials and databases?

In June of 2013, Axe Library had a change of leadership and at the same time, staff were given a mandate to change by university administration with no idea of what that meant. In addition, the library faced a crippling budget shortfall that meant subscription cuts were inevitable. As a result, staff came to realize that the status quo of doing their jobs as they knew …

Using A 21st Century Tool To Support Discovery & Research With Library Resources, Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

Learn how you can use LibGuides to point your students to discipline specific databases and resources in order to help them to use good resources in doing research. Specifically, LibGuides can point to subscription and open access databases, online journals, websites, uploaded documents, and YouTube videos, among other things.

Improving The Visibility, Promotion, And Accessibility Of Library Resources Via A Library Liaison Program : A Poster Session, Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

Your library’s online resources present a myriad of choices which faculty and students must navigate to find information, and despite instruction and reference assistance they may go unused. But a successful liaison program can greatly improve both resource usage and library relations within your academic community. Come to this poster presentation and learn about PSU Library’s implementation and continual improvement of its liaison program and see how to easily and cost-effectively market your resources so that students and faculty will use them.

Using Library E-Resources In The Classroom, Barbara M. Pope

Faculty Submissions

This is a presentation about library resources and how to use them in the classroom to support discovery and scholarship. This included adding links for e-resources into Angel in order to facilitate off-campus access to the resources.