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Ms 241 Guide To The Thomas D. Dow, Dds Papers (1884-1944), Thomas D. Dow (1876-1960)

Manuscript Finding Aids

This collection contains materials related to Thomas D. Dow's collecting of books and journals on dentistry. Correspondence and book lists make up the bulk of the materials, which date from 1884-1944. See more at MS 241.

Measuring The Value Of Professional Indexing, Philip Hider, Pru Mitchell, Robert Parkes

Pru Mitchell

This study provides both a quantitative estimate and qualitative analysis of the additional ‘retrieval power’ that professionally assigned subject indexing affords users of a typical database in the field of education. A full version of Informit’s A+ Education database and one stripped of its subject indexing were searched by four research assistants tasked with compiling exhaustive bibliographies on forty-eight topics. The searchers were then surveyed about their use of the two databases, while their bibliographies and search logs were also examined. A two-way ANOVA model was constructed to estimate the percentage of additional resources found by the searchers on the …

Measuring The Value Of Professional Indexing, Philip Hider, Pru Mitchell, Robert Parkes

Information Management

This study provides both a quantitative estimate and qualitative analysis of the additional ‘retrieval power’ that professionally assigned subject indexing affords users of a typical database in the field of education. A full version of Informit’s A+ Education database and one stripped of its subject indexing were searched by four research assistants tasked with compiling exhaustive bibliographies on forty-eight topics. The searchers were then surveyed about their use of the two databases, while their bibliographies and search logs were also examined. A two-way ANOVA model was constructed to estimate the percentage of additional resources found by the searchers on the …

Sexual Minority Health: A Bibliography And Preliminary Study Of The Book Literature, Sharon A. Weiner

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The literature on the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersexual (LGBT) people appears in many types of resources and disciplines. To begin to address the need for relevant, easily accessible information for LGBT people and health care providers, this study identified popular and scholarly books published in the past 10 years and analyzed topics; number of books published per year; more prolific authors; and primary publishers. The results indicated that a relatively small number of books were published (521) by a wide range of publishers/self-publishers. Most were about mental health, relationships, or family and 24% were personal accounts.

Citation Apps For Mobile Devices, Mary Van Ullen, Jane Kessler

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the accuracy and functionality of a selection of basic Android and iOS apps for mobile devices designed to generate bibliographic citations.

Design/methodology/approach

– A number of inexpensive or free apps were installed on several different tablets and phones. Book citations in MLA and APA format were generated and evaluated for accuracy.

Findings

– Results show that the majority of the apps tested produced unacceptably inaccurate citations, and many had limited functionality. The best of the apps tested was EasyBib.

Research limitations/implications

– There are infinite combinations of operating systems, apps, …

Linking Old Librarianship To New: Aligning 5-Steps Of The Innovator's Dna In Creating Thematic Discovery Systems For The Everglades, L. Bryan Cooper, Margarita Perez Martinez

Works of the FIU Libraries

This poster presentation from the May 2015 Florida Library Association Conference, along with the Everglades Explorer discovery portal at http://ee.fiu.edu, demonstrates how traditional bibliographic and curatorial principles can be applied to: 1) selection, cross-walking and aggregation of metadata linking end-users to wide-spread digital resources from multiple silos; 2) harvesting of select PDFs, HTML and media for web archiving and access; 3) selection of CMS domains, sub-domains and folders for targeted searching using an API.

Choosing content for this discovery portal is comparable to past scholarly practice of creating and publishing subject bibliographies, except metadata and data are housed in …

Innovative Practices For Systematic Reviews Of Literature, David P. Atkins

David P Atkins

This presentation outlines research and data management strategies in performing a systematic review of peer-reviewed journal articles across all academic disciplines. Tools discussed include Scopus and EndNote.

Citations In A Cinch: From Bibliographies To Faculty Engagement, Brianne N. Hagen

Faculty Presentations

At Hope College, faculty are overwhelmed with the sheer number of places they must submit their publication information, including the institutional repository. A new project to generate citations for faculty chairs has been undertaken with two goals in mind: 1) create bibliographies for departments to use in annual reports, and 2) establish DC as the go-to place to find out what faculty have accomplished in the last year on campus, thereby eliminating the need to submit publication information elsewhere. The goals of this poster are to show the workflow of creating citations, how I worked with bepress to get what …

Science And Technology Resources On The Internet: Biodiversity Web Resources, John Creech

Library Scholarship

Biodiversity, a contraction of the phrase "biological diversity," was first used by Walter G. Rosen during a planning meeting for the 1986 National Forum on BioDiversity held in Washington, DC, while the first appearance of the word in the print literature likely occurred with the 1988 publication of the proceedings of this conference (Hawksworth 1995). The term "biodiversity" first appeared in the Biodiversity Web Resources http://www.istl.org/12-fall/internet.html 1 of 15 3/11/14 11:26 AM BIOSIS database in 1988 with four references, but by April of 1994 the count of citations had increased to 888 (Hawksworth 1995).

Over the last decade scientists have …

Promoting Faculty Scholarship Through The University Author Recognition Bibliography At Boise State University, Michelle Armstrong, Julia Stringfellow

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

One of the most important contributions by any university is its faculty members' scholarship. Providing an interface to view the full scope of an institution's academic accomplishments is vital for promoting both the scholarship and the university at large. Because of their unique information skills and services, librarians can facilitate the discovery of this scholarship on behalf of their institutions. This article explores how Albertsons Library at Boise State University utilizes an institutional repository to produce a faculty publication bibliography. Processes for collecting academic scholarship and organizing the citations within a repository structure are also discussed. Library staff found that …

Paper Chase: Resources To Organize Your Papers And Bibliographies, Sharon Bradley

Presentations

Shares data and information management software that is freely available on the Internet for personal and professional use. Includes overviews of Zotero, Evernote, and Mendeley, which enable users to format bibliographies as well as share and save important information as documents, photographs and audio files.

Mozart: Works In English, Cheryl T. Taranto

Library Faculty Publications

This is a selected bibliography of 2009 Mozart scholarship, including books, articles, festschrift articles and essays, dissertations, and book reviews.

Christianity And Libraries: A Selective Bibliography, Gregory A. Smith

Gregory A. Smith

Provides an introduction to a searchable bibliography of 340 sources that explore various connections between Christian faith and practice, on the one hand, and the world of libraries and information, on the other. Explains the rationale for the bibliography and describes its scope and content. Provides eight tips for successful searching.

Superior Karst Management Through Superior Data Management: The Karst Information Portal, E. Spencer Fleury, George H. Veni, Todd A. Chavez, Penelope J. Boston, Diana E. Northup, H. Len Vacher, Pat Seiser

Todd A. Chavez

Effective stewardship of caves and karst areas requires access to and efficient analysis of a diverse range of information. Vital data are scattered throughout specialty mainstream journals, which even for a single project could include fields such as ecology, hydrogeology, contaminant transport, toxicology, engineering geology and law. Additionally, volumes of crucial information often lie in diffi­cult-to-find gray literature. Management recommendations and decisions should be based on assessments of state-of-the-art information, but fall short when im­portant patterns and relationships are overlooked.

The Karst Information Portal (KIP) offers a solution to these problems. Con­ceived in 2005 and launched in June 2007, KIP …

Superior Karst Management Through Superior Data Management: The Karst Information Portal, E. Spencer Fleury, George H. Veni, Todd A. Chavez, Penelope J. Boston, Diana E. Northup, H. Len Vacher, Pat Seiser

Academic Resources Faculty and Staff Publications

Effective stewardship of caves and karst areas requires access to and efficient analysis of a diverse range of information. Vital data are scattered throughout specialty mainstream journals, which even for a single project could include fields such as ecology, hydrogeology, contaminant transport, toxicology, engineering geology and law. Additionally, volumes of crucial information often lie in diffi­cult-to-find gray literature. Management recommendations and decisions should be based on assessments of state-of-the-art information, but fall short when im­portant patterns and relationships are overlooked.

The Karst Information Portal (KIP) offers a solution to these problems. Con­ceived in 2005 and launched in June 2007, KIP …

Scholarly Monographs On Rock Music: A Bibliographic Essay, Monica Berger

Publications and Research

Purpose This article is an overview of scholarly monographs on rock music from 1980 to the present. It provides an overview to the literature for practical purposes of collections development as well as giving the reader insight into key issues and trends related to a interdisciplinary topic that attracts scholars from many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Design/methodology/approach This bibliographic essay, focusing on works related to American culture and of a general nature, includes an overview and historical background; a discussion of how music and ethnomusiciological scholars approach the topic; geographic approaches; literature on four key icons (Elvis, …

Why Don’T I Fall Out When A Roller Coaster Goes Upside Down?, Susan Cole

Susan Westerberg Cole

No abstract provided.

Rachel Carson: Selected Reading List (Library Of Congress), Susan Cole

Susan Westerberg Cole

No abstract provided.

Is It Possible To Fry An Egg On The Sidewalk If It’S Hot Enough?, Susan Cole

Susan Westerberg Cole

No abstract provided.

Are Black-Eyed Peas Really Peas?, Susan Cole

Susan Westerberg Cole

No abstract provided.

How Did The Squash Get Its Name?, Susan Cole

Susan Westerberg Cole

No abstract provided.

Recapturing The Past Online, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Libraries across the US are seeing an increased amount of automated information coming through to their schools. Some of these systems carry historical information which dates back only to the early seventies and maybe a few services offer articles written in the sixties. A move to update these files to include more valuable information to students as well as teachers are being devised by database producers.

Guides To Developing Service-Learning Programs, Gail Klosterman

Bibliographies

This document lists those guides in our collection which are most pertinent to service-learning. Each citation provides bibliographic information, an indication of the type of guide, a program grade level, and the source or sources where the guide can be obtained. If an abstract was available from the ERIC database or the author it is included. The next edition of this document will include a greater number of abstracts as our staff continues to abstract and index materials. The guides included in this document meet the following criteria:

1. NSLCC has a copy of the resource on hand for reference by …

Disabled Does Not Mean "Not Able": A List Of Books On People Who Triumphed Over Their Illnesses And Disabilities, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

This annotated booklist offers guidance on locating biographical information about people who overcame, adapted to, or triumphed over illnesses and/or disabilities.

Creating A Traditional Reference Tool In The Age Of Electronics: The Changing Art Of Bibliography Preparation, Antoinette Paris Powell

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Bibliographies are still a convenient, compact format for retrospective information on a topic. Modern technology does not diminish the need for comprehensive bibliOgraphies, although the creation of a bibliography can be made easier by putting some of the technology to work. The intellectual effort remains, and so does the laborious task of verification, but the mechanics of producing such a work can be streamlined. A word processor can replace the beleaguered secretary who must type and retype the effort; a database management program can aid in the restructuring of the bibliography; and the commercial databases can provide access to collections …

Youth And Jobs: A Bibliography Of Publications, 1980-1986, With Selected Annotations, James E. Blackwell, William J. Stracqualursi

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

This working bibliography of publications on youth employment and unemployment covers the period between 1980 and mid-1986. It is designed to be of assistance to researchers seeking a reference tool that may facilitate their research and/or expedite efforts to review recent literature on the complex subject of youth employment, unemployment and outreach initiatives intended to address the problem.

The areas encompassed by this document attest to the magnitude and scope of the problem of moving young people into the labor market. Assuming a need to be able to work through the maze of studies on youth and work, a plan …

H.W. Wilson: Online At Last!, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Reports on the decision of the H.W. Wilson Co. to provide online access to all of its indexes and catalogs. Testing of the system; Indexes included; Reliance of the company on controlled vocabulary and use of authority files; Multidatabase searching capability; Search protocols; Print out options.

Notebook - August 1970, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Newsletter - Notebook

Editor's Page.....p. i
An Annotated Bibliography of Sources Pertaining to the Indian and Colonial Archeology of South Carolina.....p. 1