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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Policies Governing Use Of Computing Technology In Academic Libraries, Jason Vaughan
Policies Governing Use Of Computing Technology In Academic Libraries, Jason Vaughan
Library Faculty Publications
The networked computing environment is a vital resource for academic libraries. Ever-increasing use dictates the prudence of having a comprehensive computer-use policy in force. Universities often have an overarching policy or policies governing the general use of computing technology that helps to safeguard the university equipment, software, and network against inappropriate use. Libraries often benefit from having an adjunct policy that works to emphasize the existence and important points of higher-level policies, while also providing a local context for systems and policies pertinent to the library in particular. Having computer-use policies at the university and library level helps provide a …
University Library Partnerships: Promoting Economic Development, J. Cory Tucker
University Library Partnerships: Promoting Economic Development, J. Cory Tucker
Library Faculty Publications
The article discusses an innovative partnership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The collaborative project involves the UNLV Libraries and the Nevada Small Business Development Center, which is affiliated with the College of Business. The partnership was created to assist the University's goal of promoting economic development in the Las Vegas and Southern Nevada region.
19th Annual Conference Reports, Strategy Sessions. Working Collaboratively With Vendors To Create To Products You Want: Smooth Sailing Ahead, Andrée Rathemacher
19th Annual Conference Reports, Strategy Sessions. Working Collaboratively With Vendors To Create To Products You Want: Smooth Sailing Ahead, Andrée Rathemacher
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
Summary of a "Strategy Session" at the 19th Annual North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Conference, held in Milwaukee, Wis. in June 2004. Available: http://tigerprints.clemson.edu/nasig/vol19/iss3/1/.
Information Literacy: Time For A Comprehensive Plan, Joanna M. Burkhardt, Mary C. Macdonald, Barbara Kenney, Jim Kinnie, Andrée J. Rathemacher
Information Literacy: Time For A Comprehensive Plan, Joanna M. Burkhardt, Mary C. Macdonald, Barbara Kenney, Jim Kinnie, Andrée J. Rathemacher
Technical Services Faculty Presentations
Press release from the American Library Association announcing pre-conference, "Information Literacy: Time for a Comprehensive Plan," to be held at the 2004 ALA Conference in Orlando, Florida on July 25, 2004.
"Using a workbook created by the preconference presenters, participants will be guided through the process of creating a comprehensive information literacy plan, and will learn how to identify and apply essential elements in constructing a successful long-term plan. Participants will leave the session with an outline and draft plan for their home institutions."
A Library’S Integrated Online Library System: System Assessment And New Hardware Implementation, Jason Vaughan
A Library’S Integrated Online Library System: System Assessment And New Hardware Implementation, Jason Vaughan
Library Faculty Publications
For more than a decade, a consortium of academic libraries in southern Nevada has shared a central integrated online library system (IOLS), Innovative Interfaces’ Innopac (Innovative when referring to the vendor, Innopac when referring to the software). At present, this consortium includes the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) (both the main university library system and the UNLV law library), the Community College of Southern Nevada, Nevada State College, and the Desert Research Institute. The last central-site server was purchased and installed in 1997. In the four intervening years, tremendous growth occurred with the system, necessitating a hardware upgrade. Prior …
Developing A Digital Archive With Limited Resources, Greg Sennema
Developing A Digital Archive With Limited Resources, Greg Sennema
University Faculty Publications and Creative Works
This article describes how a small liberal arts college library created a digital library using existing staff and financial resources. The Hekman Digital Archive (HDA) was created using a digital media archive module of the library's integrated library system, and is maintained by one library staff member with the help of numerous student assistants.
Strategies For Planning And Promoting Library Services To New Users, Deborah H. Charbonneau, Carrie F. Croatt-Moore, Laventra E. Danquah
Strategies For Planning And Promoting Library Services To New Users, Deborah H. Charbonneau, Carrie F. Croatt-Moore, Laventra E. Danquah
Library Scholarly Publications
A team of academic librarians is using a set of common strategies – assessment, advocacy and advertisement - to develop and enhance health information services and programs to an urban campus community and beyond. As a means of meeting the challenge of disseminating and promoting a large number of new information resources and skills to current library patrons and to new user populations, these strategies inform a refocused program for on-site library instruction, a current health information outreach initiative and planning for a new health outreach initiative. By sharing the methods and results of these strategies in consort with a …
The Libraries Role In The Reinvention Of Undergraduate Education, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
The Libraries Role In The Reinvention Of Undergraduate Education, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Presentations
Shifting Library Culture:
- Traditional Model
- New Model
Some In-house Strategies:
- focus on instruction as related to collections
- redefine role of liaison
- clarify expectations — link to performance review
- provide professional development
- build prestige (rewards) around instruction
- emphasize faculty voices
University Library Acquires Full Text Electronic Journal List, Andrée Rathemacher
University Library Acquires Full Text Electronic Journal List, Andrée Rathemacher
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
Brief article on the University of Rhode Island Library's implementation of an A to Z list of the library's full-text electronic journals using Serials Solutions.
Getting Down To Business: Library Staff Training, J. Cory Tucker
Getting Down To Business: Library Staff Training, J. Cory Tucker
Library Faculty Publications
Develops a model for a library staff training program for business reference. The program identifies core business reference competencies for library staff and uses performance measure standards to meet Reference and User Services Association guidelines. Provides a training program that offers insight into the information-seeking habits of business students, general knowledge of the business discipline and assistance in identifying appropriate library resources. Covers all aspects of establishing a training program including planning, implementation and assessment. Effective training programs covering business and other disciplines provide library staff with an opportunity for professional development and give the library an avenue to improve …
Library Offers New Databases, Peter Larsen, Andrée Rathemacher
Library Offers New Databases, Peter Larsen, Andrée Rathemacher
Technical Services Department Faculty Publications
Brief article on new databases available through the University Libraries in fall 2004.
Tenure-Track Or Tenure Trap?, Christopher W. Nolan
Tenure-Track Or Tenure Trap?, Christopher W. Nolan
Library Faculty Research
When looking at articles written about academic library issues, a reader quickly notices that discussions of faculty status and tenure for librarians have occupied a prominent place. Should librarians be considered faculty when they work for colleges or universities? If so, should they be offered tenure? And if they are offered the chance to achieve tenure, how should they be evaluated? Or are faculty status and tenure things that are irrelevant to the pursuit of librarianship and unnecessary diversions from what we should be most concerned about? These questions have been answered differently at different institutions. When considering a position …
An Academic Library Partnership In The Indian Ocean Region, Julia Gross, Aminath Riyaz
An Academic Library Partnership In The Indian Ocean Region, Julia Gross, Aminath Riyaz
Research outputs pre 2011
The emergence of a global marketplace in education offers valuable partnership opportunities. Libraries in small developing countries often do not have a critical mass of library professionals to share knowledge and to provide advice and collegial support. This case study describes a World Bank funded “Link Institution Arrangement”, which established a library partnership between an academic library in Western Australia and one in the Republic of Maldives. The authors describe the state of libraries and the emerging library profession in the Maldives. They also reveal ways in which the partners explored development issues facing an isolated academic library, shared knowledge …