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Collection Development and Management

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2019

Information literacy

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Ischool Student Research Journal, Vol.9, Iss.2 Dec 2019

Ischool Student Research Journal, Vol.9, Iss.2

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Challenging Girlhood, Mary Ann Harlan Jun 2019

Challenging Girlhood, Mary Ann Harlan

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Taking A (Cognitive) Load Off- Improving User Experience In Libguides, Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Jennifer Masunaga Mar 2019

Taking A (Cognitive) Load Off- Improving User Experience In Libguides, Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Jennifer Masunaga

Jennifer Masunaga

Lengthy descriptions of research databases can unintentionally cause extraneous cognitive load at a moment when a student researcher is already taxed. Furthermore, publisher descriptions of databases often don’t conform to students’ mental models. To address this problem, librarians at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) combined data from established LibGuides best practices and student vocabulary mined from chat reference transcripts to design a new formula for database descriptions in LibGuides.

Recognizing that online users naturally “skim” websites, the new descriptions are broken down into shorter chunks of information with separate headings for “subjects,” “description,” and “contents.” The subjects are based on the …

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The Value Of Standards For Teaching, Research, And Facilities Use At Princeton And Purdue, Anya C. Bartelmann, Margaret Phillips Jan 2019

The Value Of Standards For Teaching, Research, And Facilities Use At Princeton And Purdue, Anya C. Bartelmann, Margaret Phillips

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

This PowerPoint presentation was delivered as part of the 2019 ASME Library Advisory Board Annual Meeting.

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