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Volume 40, Number 4, December 2020 Olac Newsletter, Laura Kane Mcelfresh, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano
Volume 40, Number 4, December 2020 Olac Newsletter, Laura Kane Mcelfresh, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano
OLAC Newsletters
Digitized December 2020 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.
Volume 40, Number 3, September 2020 Olac Newsletter, Laura Kane Mcelfresh, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano
Volume 40, Number 3, September 2020 Olac Newsletter, Laura Kane Mcelfresh, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano
OLAC Newsletters
Digitized September 2020 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.
Print Media Representation Of Nigerian Women In The News: A Study Of Four Selected National Newspapers, Aladi Alice Jonah, Okoro M. Nnanyelugo
Print Media Representation Of Nigerian Women In The News: A Study Of Four Selected National Newspapers, Aladi Alice Jonah, Okoro M. Nnanyelugo
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
This study investigated newspaper representation of women in the news. A total of four newspapers were studied. They are Vanguard, The Punch, The Guardian and ThisDay. The duration for the study was three years (January 1st, 2015 to December 31st, 2017). The study was guided by three objectives and two hypotheses. Content analysis was used for the study with the code sheet as the instrument for data collection. Simple percentages were used to answer the research questions while the chi-square test of independence was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed …
Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections In Social Media, Alexander C. Nwala
Bootstrapping Web Archive Collections From Micro-Collections In Social Media, Alexander C. Nwala
Computer Science Theses & Dissertations
In a Web plagued by disappearing resources, Web archive collections provide a valuable means of preserving Web resources important to the study of past events. These archived collections start with seed URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) hand-selected by curators. Curators produce high quality seeds by removing non-relevant URIs and adding URIs from credible and authoritative sources, but this ability comes at a cost: it is time consuming to collect these seeds. The result of this is a shortage of curators, a lack of Web archive collections for various important news events, and a need for an automatic system for generating seeds. …
Volume 40, Number 2, June 2020 Olac Newsletter, Marcia Barrett, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano
Volume 40, Number 2, June 2020 Olac Newsletter, Marcia Barrett, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano
OLAC Newsletters
Digitized June 2020 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.
Volume 40, Number 1, March 2020 Olac Newsletter, Marcia Barrett, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano
Volume 40, Number 1, March 2020 Olac Newsletter, Marcia Barrett, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano
OLAC Newsletters
Digitized March 2020 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.
Fighting Infobesity: Creating A Healthy News Diet, Aisha Conner-Gaten, Jennifer Masunaga, Elisa Acosta
Fighting Infobesity: Creating A Healthy News Diet, Aisha Conner-Gaten, Jennifer Masunaga, Elisa Acosta
LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations
We live in a continuous news culture where the average consumer must learn how to deal with information overload. We have plenty of information, but not all of it contributes to a healthy, balanced news diet. In addition to snacking on morning news and grabbing afternoon sound bites, there’s misinformation and fake news, packaged and sold in confusing ways. How can we get the news we need to become informed and engaged? In this activity, students are tasked with (a) placing a range of media sources on a grid whose axes are reliability and type of sources, and (b) articulating …
Georgia Library Association - Technical Services Interest Group, Linh Uong, Rachel S. Evans, Rebecca Hunnicutt
Georgia Library Association - Technical Services Interest Group, Linh Uong, Rachel S. Evans, Rebecca Hunnicutt
Articles, Chapters and Online Publications
News article highlighting the activities of the Georgia Library Association Technical Services Interest Group in spring 2020.