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Scholarworks At Wmu: Overview For Friends Of The Libraries, Maira Bundza

ScholarWorks Repository Information

An overview of ScholarWorks, the scholarly institutional repository for Western Michigan University begun in 2011. Faculty work, student work, journals, events and conferences, newsletters, and other projects are in the repository and have been downloaded close to half a million times.

Is It Really Time To Replace Your Ils With A Next-Generation Option?, Keith Kelley, Carrie C. Leatherman, Geraldine Rinna

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

A claimed benefit of the emerging next-generation, cloud-based systems is to give libraries new efficiencies, allowing them to do more with less. And we can hardly wait. But we suspect that they are not there yet.

Assessing The Effectiveness Of Online Information Literacy Tutorials For Millennial Undergraduates, Dianna E. Sachs, Kathleen Langan, Carrie C. Leatherman, Jennifer L. Walters

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

This article reports on the findings of a study that evaluated the effectiveness of redesigning online information literacy tutorials in order to meet the learning needs and preferences of Millennial students. Using both quantitative and qualitative measures, this study compared two different online tutorials – a static, HTML-based tutorial and a dynamic, interactive, audio/video tutorial. This study found that, contrary to generalizations made in the library and education literature, Millennial students learned equally well from both tutorials. However, students expressed a much higher level of satisfaction from the tutorial designed to be “Millennial friendly.”

Scholarworks At Wmu For Faculty, Maira Bundza

ScholarWorks Repository Information

This poster was created for a New Faculty Open House at Waldo Library on September 26, 2013. It describes how ScholarWorks at WMU can support faculty by helping promote and disseminate research, offering a platform for a journal or conference, etc.

Institutional Repositories For Business, Maira Bundza

ScholarWorks Repository Information

This was presented tot a meeting of the Michigan Association for Business Librarians held at Western Michigan University on August 1, 2013. ScholarWorks was used as an example how an institutional repository can support the academic work of a business college.

Scholarworks At Wmu: Western's Scholarly Repository For Faculty Senate, Maira Bundza

ScholarWorks Repository Information

This was a presentation given at the May 16, 2013 Faculty Senate meeting to a representative from each department and administrators on the progress of the scholarly institutional repository at Western Michigan University. The focus was on ways the faculty could take advantage of the repository.

Quid Tum?, Jim Dexheimer

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

Remarks at a Retirement Reception, December 2011. Published posthumously.

Shedding Light On Hidden Collections, Marianne Swierenga, Sheila A. Bair

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Gatherings No. 47 Fall 2012/Spring 2013, Friends Of The University Libraries

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

Complete issue of Gatherings No. 47.

James Dexheimer, 1951 – 2012, Sharon Carlson

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Open Access Publishing, Maira Bundza

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.

Books Beyond The Library Walls, Maria A. Perez-Stable

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.

Scholarworks For Dissertations And Theses, Maira Bundza

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief introduction to dissertations and theses in ScholarWorks presented at Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.

Beyond Jstor (For The Social Sciences And Education), Maria A. Perez-Stable

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.

Advancing Your Research Skills For The Digital Age: A Workshop For Graduate Students And Faculty Researchers (Schedule Of Sessions), Graduate College, University Libraries

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Schedule of sessions for the graduate workshop "Advancing Your Research Skills for the digital Age."

Digital Portfolios: Creating Your Selectedworks™ Profile, Lisa Marie Kruse

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Presentation from the "Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age: A Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Researchers." Basic step-by-step instructions for creating your profile. Presentation highlighted advantages of having a digital portfolio and discussed ways of posting published work while honoring copyright.

Presentation repeated by Kent Craig February 17, 2015.

Inspiring Results: Designing Innovative Instruction Using Faculty Feedback On Technology Use And Attitudes Toward Library Research Instruction, Maria A. Perez-Stable, Dianna E. Sachs, Patricia F. Vander Meer

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

The importance of information literacy (IL) at the college level is well documented. Like many other institutions, Western Michigan University (WMU) has come to recognize the value of IL, after years of deliberate and steady promotion of its benefits to the WMU community by the University Libraries. A crucial question that has emerged as part of the Libraries’ strategic plan to meet the University’s IL needs is this: What are the best ways to deliver library instruction to address the needs of today’s students and faculty, keeping in mind emerging and changing technologies to which faculty and students relate?

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Making Your Publications Count!, Michele Behr, Maira Bundza

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.

Textbook Alternatives: Options For Students And Faculty, Michele D. Behr

Academic Leadership Academy

The issue of course textbooks continues to be a challenge at WMU as well as in all of higher education. For students the primary concern is textbook prices. Students often spend several hundred dollars per semester for required textbooks, at a time when tuition and other costs of attending college are increasing as well. Faculty are of course sensitive to student concerns and frustrations about textbook prices, but may be unaware of other options to cover the same content. Currently there is a movement toward Open Educational Resources (OER) which is a way to provide open access to high quality …

Census Data Resources, Michael Mcdonnell

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.

Patent Searching, Michael Mcdonnell

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.

Beyond Web Of Science (For The Sciences), Carrie Leatherman

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers. Presentation and additional file is available here for download (see bottom of page for additional file).

Digital Scholarship, Kate Langan, Sue Steuer

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.

Developing A Premodern Manuscript Application Profile Using Dublin Core, Sheila A. Bair, Susan M.B. Steuer

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Librarians and catalogers, particularly at small repositories, often do not have the training or access to experts to fully describe a medieval manuscript for cataloging, much less digital access. But some descriptions must be available to attract researchers to work with the materials, which are often considered institutional treasures. Approaching manuscripts can be daunting for metadata specialists and catalogers. The Dublin Core Premodern Manuscripts Application Profile (PMAP), currently under development, is designed to be an educational and simple tool for medievalists with little knowledge of metadata and librarians with little knowledge of manuscript studies to facilitate discovery of manuscripts in …

Mapping Services, Jason Glatz

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

No abstract provided.

Opening PandoraʼS Stream: Piping Music Into The Information Literacy Classroom, Kathleen Langan, Dianna E. Sachs

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Although it is well known that music can affect cognitive processes, little research has been conducted examining the influence of background music on students in information literacy classrooms. In 2010, librarians at Western Michigan University investigated the effect of background music on student engagement and retention of information literacy concepts. This article examines the theory and practical applications of background music to improve a classroom atmosphere and its impact on students’ learning. Results from this qualitative and quantitative study indicate positive correlations between background music and student comfort, confidence, and retention. DOI: 10.1080/15228959.2013.785876

Congressional Sources, Michael Mcdonnell

Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age

Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.