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Using Facebook To Connect With Students, Jared L. Howland Oct 2009

Using Facebook To Connect With Students, Jared L. Howland

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This poster was presented at the Library Information and Technology Association's 2009 National Forum in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Patrons Cataloging? The Role And Quality Of Patron Tagging In Item Description, William Lund, Allyson Washburn Mar 2009

Patrons Cataloging? The Role And Quality Of Patron Tagging In Item Description, William Lund, Allyson Washburn

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With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, user participation in the description and evaluation of content has come to the library. User tagging is almost a given in applications such as Del.icio.us, Flickr, and LibraryThing. The question is whether tagging provided by users with their own motivations is better in some sense then descriptions provided by professionals. Is the tagging provided by the wisdom of the crowd a better description of an item?

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Operations Research And Organizational Decision-Making In Academic Libraries, Therrin C. Dahlin Jan 1991

Operations Research And Organizational Decision-Making In Academic Libraries, Therrin C. Dahlin

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Operations research entered the library scene in the 1960s and '70s, and has attracted much interest from librarians. This paper examines the assumptions made by selected operations researchers concerning organizational decision-making in academic libraries. The assumptions then are compared to Richard L. Daft's contingency framework of organizational decision-making to determine the appropriateness of applying operations research assumptions and methods to organizational decision-making in an academic library setting. A review of the operations researchers' assumptions and Daft's framework suggests that the operations research approach may be appropriately applied to only a relatively narrow category of problems in academic libraries that match …

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