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Geo, Audio, Video, Photo: How Digital Convergence In Mobile Devices Facilitates Participatory Culture In Libraries, Peta Hopkins, Joanna Hare, Jessie Donaghey, Wendy Abbott
Geo, Audio, Video, Photo: How Digital Convergence In Mobile Devices Facilitates Participatory Culture In Libraries, Peta Hopkins, Joanna Hare, Jessie Donaghey, Wendy Abbott
Wendy Abbott
Libraries are often hailed as the cultural and learning hub of their communities. To deepen community engagement and social inclusion, libraries are adopting new technologies to facilitate a participatory and learning culture. With market saturation of smartphones and tablets and their associated apps, new affordances for content creation, curation and sharing show great potential to enhance participatory culture. The typical smartphone or tablet now incorporates digital technologies such as geo-location, audio, video, photo and web technologies. Bringing these technologies into a single device has enabled the development of apps such as Instagram, HistoryPin and SoundCloud. It has also changed the …
Marc Edit Demo, Robert Bothmann
Marc Edit Demo, Robert Bothmann
Bobby Bothmann
Have you heard of MARC Edit and wondered what all the fuss is about? Do you have some bibliographic record changes in your catalog you want to fix, but you don’t have global change privileges? Do you have some bibliographic records in Aleph you want to bring up to current standards? Are you getting collection set or vendor MARC files you wish you could massage or modify before you import them into Aleph? This session will provide some case studies with walk through demonstrations addressing some of the questions posed in this description.
What A Queer Idea: Lgbt Resources For Your Library, Robert Bothmann, Rachel Wexelbaum, Heather Tompkins, Jennifer Hootman, Danya Leebaw, Karen Hogan
What A Queer Idea: Lgbt Resources For Your Library, Robert Bothmann, Rachel Wexelbaum, Heather Tompkins, Jennifer Hootman, Danya Leebaw, Karen Hogan
Bobby Bothmann
No abstract provided.
Rda: Doa Or A-Ok? A Town Hall Debate, Sarah Quimby, Stephen Hearn, Chris Goetz, Robert Bothmann
Rda: Doa Or A-Ok? A Town Hall Debate, Sarah Quimby, Stephen Hearn, Chris Goetz, Robert Bothmann
Bobby Bothmann
No abstract provided.
Practical Strategies For Cataloging Departments, Rebecca Lubas, Robert Bothmann
Practical Strategies For Cataloging Departments, Rebecca Lubas, Robert Bothmann
Bobby Bothmann
No abstract provided.
Hitting A Moving Target: Cataloging In An Age Of Emerging Technologies, Robert Bothmann
Hitting A Moving Target: Cataloging In An Age Of Emerging Technologies, Robert Bothmann
Bobby Bothmann
Catalogers of yore could rely on the constancy of the handful of formats that were available prior to the digital revolution, knowing that when they woke up each morning a book was still paper and a motion picture was still film. Then one morning things changed and the catalogers of today's world can expect a new quirk every 2-3 months. What do you do when acquisitions gives you slotMusic or some other new-fangled medium to catalog? The PlayAway sound recordings gave you fits and just when you figure it out the PlayAway View comes along. This session will cover some …
File-90 Bib Loader, Robert Bothmann
Rare Books In Detective Fiction: Information As Object, Mary Freier
Rare Books In Detective Fiction: Information As Object, Mary Freier
Mollie Freier
Library mysteries written since 1970 often depict intrigue surrounding the theft or threatened theft of rare books. Charles Goodrum, a director of the Library of Congress, once wrote that when he decided to write a mystery novel set in a library, he spent an evening coming up with ideas for such a novel. He said that he came up with dozens, but settled on a plot about rare book theft because he thought it would be more accessible to general readers. Many other mystery writers have made the same decision. Although these mysteries are often considered library mysteries and frequently …
Raising Funds With Friends Groups, Mark Herring
Raising Funds With Friends Groups, Mark Herring
Mark Y. Herring
Here is everything you and your library need to make the most of their friends group - or to start a viable and active new group. Friends group expert Mark Herring offers step-by-step advice for how public and academic libraries can capitalize on this important asset, including establishing and organizing a steering committee, marketing and public relations, advocacy, and special events programming. Special sections focus on feasibility studies, establishing perpetual programs and legacy gifts, and establishing and utilizing a Friends' Web site for fundraising.
How To Build A Bomb & Other Ethical Issues In The Library, Kathryn Waggoner, Laurel Balkema, Lee Lebbin, Debbie Morrow, Kim Ranger
How To Build A Bomb & Other Ethical Issues In The Library, Kathryn Waggoner, Laurel Balkema, Lee Lebbin, Debbie Morrow, Kim Ranger
Kim L. Ranger
No abstract provided.
Opportunity To Read, Opportunity To Succeed: Building A Village Library In Kenya, Florence Mugambi
Opportunity To Read, Opportunity To Succeed: Building A Village Library In Kenya, Florence Mugambi
Florence N. Mugambi
No abstract provided.
Mobile Devices In The Academic Library, Beth Boatright, Shannon Johnson
Mobile Devices In The Academic Library, Beth Boatright, Shannon Johnson
Shannon F Johnson
No abstract provided.
Libguide To Dissertation And Thesis Resources, Elisabeth Shields, Mary Wilson
Libguide To Dissertation And Thesis Resources, Elisabeth Shields, Mary Wilson
Mary Wilson
This guide contains resources on how to prepare dissertations and theses. The guide is intended to help you understand from the start how to build the intellectual base and relationships that will lay the foundation for a successful dissertation or thesis. Sections include writing guides, information on literature reviews, APA style, finding other dissertations and theses, reference management software, and more.
Performance, Benchmarking And Quality Service. University Libraries In The 21st Century: Threats? Challenges?, Margie Jantti, Felicity Mcgregor
Performance, Benchmarking And Quality Service. University Libraries In The 21st Century: Threats? Challenges?, Margie Jantti, Felicity Mcgregor
Margie Jantti
No abstract provided.
Two-Tiered Reference Model Revisited After A Decade, Judith Garrison, Pamela Sandstrom
Two-Tiered Reference Model Revisited After A Decade, Judith Garrison, Pamela Sandstrom
Judith Garrison
No abstract provided.
A Social Networking Primer For Librarians, Cliff Landis
A Social Networking Primer For Librarians, Cliff Landis
Cliff Landis
Social networking is rapidly infiltrating the information environment, and it is essential that librarians understand how best to use these sites and tools with their work to better serve their users and reach people who have never before used the library. A Social Networking Primer for Librarians, part of Neal-Schuman’s The Tech Set®, gives librarians a start-to-finish guide to the basics for using and maximizing popular social networking sites in all types of libraries.
How To Build A Bomb & Other Ethical Issues In The Library, Kathryn Waggoner, Laurel Balkema, Lee Lebbin, Debbie Morrow, Kim Ranger
How To Build A Bomb & Other Ethical Issues In The Library, Kathryn Waggoner, Laurel Balkema, Lee Lebbin, Debbie Morrow, Kim Ranger
Kathryn L Waggoner
No abstract provided.