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Reflecting On Student Mental Health: Creating A Meditation Room In A Small College Library, Peter Bremer
Reflecting On Student Mental Health: Creating A Meditation Room In A Small College Library, Peter Bremer
Library Publications
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Staffing With Students: Digitizing Campus Newspapers With Student Volunteers At The University Of Minnesota, Morris, Naomi Skulan
Staffing With Students: Digitizing Campus Newspapers With Student Volunteers At The University Of Minnesota, Morris, Naomi Skulan
Library Publications
The purpose of this paper is to examine the advantages and disadvantages to primarily utilizing undergraduate student volunteers for a long-term digitization project and to discuss methods to mitigate the disadvantages of student volunteer work.
Games People Play, Peter Bremer
Games People Play, Peter Bremer
Library Publications
An academic and public library collaborate on a tabletop gaming event for the whole community.
Supporting Sixth Grade History Projects, Peter Bremer
Supporting Sixth Grade History Projects, Peter Bremer
Library Publications
A small academic library supports elementary school history projects by coordinating local resource presentations with a public library and historical society as well as offering individualized research sessions.
Asking The Big Questions, Peter Bremer, Leann Dean
Asking The Big Questions, Peter Bremer, Leann Dean
Library Publications
Information is provided on the discussion titled "Open House in the Ivory Tower: Public Programming at an Academic Library” at Briggs Library at the University of Minnesota, Morris (UMM) in Morris, Minnesota. Topics, including library outreach to college students, collaboration with organizations and diversity of library users, are discussed.
Accessibility Of Vendor-Created Video Tutorials For People With Disabilities, Joanne Oud
Accessibility Of Vendor-Created Video Tutorials For People With Disabilities, Joanne Oud
Library Publications
Many video, screencast, webinar, or interactive tutorials are created and provided by vendors for use by libraries to instruct users in database searching. This study investigates whether these vendor-created database tutorials are accessible for people with disabilities to see whether librarians can use these tutorials instead of creating them in-house. Findings on accessibility were mixed. Positive accessibility features and common accessibility problems are described, with recommendations on how to maximize accessibility.
Reading Trends And College-Age Students: The Research, The Issues, And The Role Of Libraries, Pauline Dewan
Reading Trends And College-Age Students: The Research, The Issues, And The Role Of Libraries, Pauline Dewan
Library Publications
With the increasing virtualization of resources, reference service and instruction, college students have fewer reasons to visit the academic library, a place they believe lacks relevance in their lives. This article explores the idea of revitalizing academic libraries by reconsidering the place of pleasure reading in them. Considerable research has been conducted on reading in the last quarter century. Reading serves a host of essential functions, far more than we have ever guessed. The first part of this paper looks at the social, psychological, moral, emotional, and cognitive role it plays in our lives. The second half examines readers’ advisory …
Rolling The Dice In An Academic Library, Peter Bremer, Jayne Blodgett
Rolling The Dice In An Academic Library, Peter Bremer, Jayne Blodgett
Library Publications
Discusses game nights at an academic library.
Managing In-Kind Gifts With Gist’S Gifts And Deselection Manager, Michelle Emanuel
Managing In-Kind Gifts With Gist’S Gifts And Deselection Manager, Michelle Emanuel
Library Publications
Unsolicited gifts exacerbate existing space issues and backlogs, staff workflows, and collection policies. As the scope and needs of libraries continually change, the positions that might have typically managed these donations, such as gift librarians or paraprofessional staff, are no longer automatically replaced as they become vacant. In the University of Mississippi Libraries, recent technological developments such as the Getting It Started Toolkit (GIST) Gift Deselection Manager (GDM) have helped to streamline workflow by generating data that can be shared with subject librarians as well as administration.
Reading Matters In The Academic Library: Taking The Lead From Public Librarians, Pauline Dewan
Reading Matters In The Academic Library: Taking The Lead From Public Librarians, Pauline Dewan
Library Publications
With the increasing virtualization of resources, reference service, and instruction, college students have fewer reasons to visit the academic library, a place they believe lacks relevance in their lives. This article explores the idea of revitalizing academic libraries by reconsidering the place of pleasure reading in them. Considerable research has been conducted on reading in the last quarter century. Reading serves a host of essential functions, far more than we have ever guessed. The first part of this paper looks at the social, psychological, moral, emotional, and cognitive role it plays in our lives. The second half examines readers’ advisory …
Using Screencasting To Promote Database Trials And Library Resources, Michelle Emanuel
Using Screencasting To Promote Database Trials And Library Resources, Michelle Emanuel
Library Publications
At the University of Mississippi, screencasting was used to promote a database trial to the ARTStor Digital Library. Using Jing, a free product used for recording and posting screencasts, and a Snowball USB microphone, 11 videos averaging 3 minutes in length were posted to an online topic guide. Screencasting was used as a quick, creative, and cost-effective marketing strategy to appeal to multiple stakeholders. The short videos, focused in content and message, were an effective tool to push patrons to the database trial.
How Well Do Ontario Library Web Sites Meet New Accessibility Requirements?, Joanne Oud
How Well Do Ontario Library Web Sites Meet New Accessibility Requirements?, Joanne Oud
Library Publications
New changes to Ontario law will require library web sites to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). This study evaluates 64 Ontario university, college, and public library web sites to see how well they comply with WCAG 2.0 guidelines at present. An average of 14.75 accessibility problems were found per web page. The most common problems included invalid html, poor color contrast, incorrect form controls and labels, missing alt text, bad link text, improper use of headings, using html to format pages, using absolute units of measure, and issues with tables and embedded objects.
Why Your Academic Library Needs A Popular Reading Collection Now More Than Ever, Pauline Dewan
Why Your Academic Library Needs A Popular Reading Collection Now More Than Ever, Pauline Dewan
Library Publications
Do popular reading materials belong in college and university libraries? Although some librarians think not, others believe there are compelling reasons for including them. The trend towards user-focused libraries, the importance of attracting patrons to libraries in the age of the Internet, and, most importantly, the need to promote literacy at a time when it has reached its lowest levels are all reasons why academic librarians are reconsidering their ideas about popular reading materials. Librarians who decide to implement a leisure reading collection should consider a number of key issues.
Managing The Reference Desk Online, Greg Sennema
Managing The Reference Desk Online, Greg Sennema
Library Publications
Communication between reference librarians is vital for the provision of enhanced reference services. This article discusses the creation and application of three Web-based tools that allow librarians to offer quick answers to questions posed on the library’s e-mail reference service, to easily share news and ideas with each other between reference desk shifts, and to be actively involved in the scheduling of reference desk shifts.