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Hagerty Library Collection Development Internship, James Gross

James Gross

Collection Development Internship at the Drexel University, Hagerty Library. Summary of several collection management projects. Heavy usage of excel for data extraction. Screenshots used for visual aid.

Utilizing Ir Content Discovery Streams, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

Institutional repositories (IRs) host an abundance of unique and valued digital content. The premise of garnering scholarly and local collection materials is to engage them for visibility and accessibility. As an additional tool to assist in the process of creating an infrastructure for reachable content, the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway tool enables academic libraries to target individual repository collections to minimally harvest the metadata and be visible through WorldCat.org and OAIster. Collection items display their metadata while available full-text deposits from the Gateway create links to expose an IR’s record and the object itself that could include an article or …

The Future Of Digital Reference Services, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 740, Professor Alison Miller. This paper will discuss how reference librarians are embracing new online reference technologies, via the synchronous as well as asynchronous delivery, as they seek new ways and methods to meet the current and future information-seeking needs, of their online users.

New E-Resources At The University Libraries, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

LibGuide providing a list of electronic resources purchased by the University of Rhode Island libraries in recent months.

And They Were There: Reports Of Meetings — 30th Annual Charleston Conference. Developing An E-Book Acquisition Strategy That Works, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Brief summary of a session at the 30th Annual Charleston Conference, held in Charleston, S.C. in November 2010.

And They Were There: Reports Of Meetings — 30th Annual Charleston Conference. Patron-Driven Acquisition Of Monographs: Results And Implications, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Brief summary of a session at the 30th Annual Charleston Conference, held in Charleston, S.C. in November 2010.

Weeding Or "Collection Refreshment", Brian Gallagher, Andrée Rathemacher, Loraine Winthrop

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Powerpoint presentation slides for the session "Weeding or 'Collection Refreshment'" at the ACRL New England Chapter Access Services Interest Group program, The Many Hats of Access Services. The program took place on October 28, 2010 at The University of Massachusetts Boston in Boston, MA.

Technical Services' Trip To The Strand, Joanna Burkhardt, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Technical Services' Trip to the Strand," given to the University of Rhode Island Library Faculty Development Committee on September 27, 2010.

Lis Open Access E-Journal -Where Are You?, Izabella Taler

Publications and Research

Access to published information is of interest to many users. Library and information science (LIS) professionals are especially interested in gaining access and guiding users to all available information. Though they are often dependent on traditional subscription-based library resources, moving away from the costly ones and replacing them with usage of available open access sources, presents practitioners with a significant budget consideration in today's shrinking economy. This paper examines the availability of current LIS open access e-journals; their presence in well- and less-well known abstracting and indexing sources, their inclusion in standard library bibliographic tools as well as coverage by …

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.

Business Databases On The Web: Report On Business Librarians' Spring Meeting, Andrée Rathemacher, Carol West

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Report on a program of the Business Librarians' Interest Group of ACRL/New England Chapter about Web-based business databases, held on May 21, 1998.

The Fifth Grade Student As An Active Participant In The Selection Of School Library Books, Catherine Spada Mcleod

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine if fifth grade students could be consistent and productive participants in the process of selecting books for a school library. Forty-six students completed a Reading Interest Inventory and participated in a book selection activity.

Chi-square test results did not support the hypothesis that there would be no significant difference between the results of these two selection activities. Student perceptions of their involvement in this process were also included.