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Making The Most Of Sushi In Alma: Tips For Smooth Maintenance And Reporting, Marie Day, Laura Beane

Faculty and Research Publications

SUSHI is a widely used protocol in academic libraries. This article discusses maintaining SUSHI vendor accounts in Alma, troubleshooting irregularities, and finding technical support. This article also includes sample analyses for the ACRL survey 60B Digital/Electronic Circulation or Usage and 63 E-serials Usage using COUNTER 5 reports.

Korean Immigrants’ Perceptions Of Library Services And Library Multicultural Programs For Asian Communities Before And During Covid-19, Yanghee Kim, Hyun Chu Leah Kim, Jihye Kim

Faculty and Research Publications

This study explored 141 Korean immigrant parents’ use of local libraries to enhance their families’ social and cultural capital and adjust to the host country. We searched resources in Korean, and multicultural programs planned for the public and immigrants, Asian immigrants in particular, at two libraries before and during COVID-19. Parents reported dissatisfaction with library services because of language barriers (38%) and the lack of Korean resources (38%) and cultural programs (25%). Except for 18 books and 24 e-resources, no library resources in Korean were published after 2008. Before COVID-19, one multicultural program was offered for children. At Branches B …

Playing Matchmaker: Connecting Subvention-Funded Authors With Our Institutional Repository, Chelsee Dickson, Rachel Schrauben Yeates

Faculty and Research Publications

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The Impact Of The Interim Leadership Experience On Library Middle Managers, Ashley T. Hoffman, Amy E. G. Barker

Faculty and Research Publications

Serving in an interim leadership role can be a great way to gain experience, but can also be stressful, negative, or traumatic for interim library leaders at the middle management level. In this exploratory mixed-methods study, researchers conducted a national survey and semistructured interviews of interim middle managers from public and academic libraries to explore the personal and professional impact of their interim role and recommend ways to improve the interim experience. The study revealed effects on individual well-being such as increased stress, but also increased confidence and positive career outcomes, particularly for librarians with a prior interest in leadership.

Open Access Publishing Biases Oer, Chelsee Dickson, Christina Holm

Open Educational Resource Collection

Academic publishing processes are shaped by the ways in which scholars within the field review and evaluate the work of their peers. In an ideal world, these methods would simply promote the publication of the best forms of research without prejudice or subjectivity. In reality, issues such as Knobloch-Westerwick, Glynn, and Huge’s Matilda effect, Merton’s Matthew effect, Blank’s institution bias, and Robert’s and Verhoef’s gender bias shape the ways that scholarly inquiry are evaluated.

Knowing that the peer review process can introduce issues of bias, what then of other aspects of the publishing cycle? For example, what of the subvention …

Forecasting Database Usage During The Height Of Covid-19, Chris Sharpe, David Evans

Faculty and Research Publications

As with other catastrophic events, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted higher education and library services. The authors examine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on usage of health databases in 2020. They use time series analysis to create a forecast based on previous years’ activities, and then compare it with actual database usage during the pandemic. The results show an initial increase in searches for the first full month of the pandemic, but then match the expected forecast data and decrease during summer and early fall months. The authors conclude that time series analysis is a useful tool for understanding the …

Material Format Preference Of Music Faculty At Kennesaw State University, A. Carey Huddlestun

Faculty and Research Publications

Historically, collection development has focused on what material to purchase. However, with the maturation of web-based music audio databases, web-based video databases, online music scores, electronic books and reference material, and commercial audio/visual streaming services, the format of material is also now an important collection consideration. Faced with difficult collection development decisions due to the Performing Arts Library’s (PAL) limited space being filled beyond capacity with physical material, PAL librarians at Kennesaw State University (KSU) sought to discover the material and format preference of music faculty. This was done to see if faculty would use digital material, requiring no physical …

Stall Street Journal | June/July 2021, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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Stall Street Journal | May 2021, Jennifer Jacobs

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Stall Street Journal | April 2021, Jennifer Jacobs

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Stall Street Journal | February 2021, Jennifer Jacobs

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Stall Street Journal | January 2021, Jennifer Jacobs

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Stall Street Journal | December 2020, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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Stall Street Journal | November 2020, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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Stall Street Journal | Oct. 2020, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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Constitution Con, Samantha Reardon, Elizabeth Friedly

Research Guides & Subject Bibliographies

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Stall Street Journal | September 2020, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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Stall Street Journal | August 2020, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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Revitalizing Your Library Faculty Governance: Five Tips To Increase Involvement, Ashley T. Hoffman

Faculty and Research Publications

If you’re an academic librarian with faculty status, you know that this status comes with an equal portion of benefit and burden. Some of the benefits are academic freedom, support for scholarship, and elevated status on campus (though not necessarily higher pay). Some library faculty are even eligible for tenure (though at my institution, Kennesaw State University, we are not). On the flipside of these benefits are a few things I would consider burdens, such as tedious annual reviews and extensive service requirements. Library faculty governance, I would argue, falls somewhere in between a benefit and a burden.

Stall Street Journal | March 2020, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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Academic Librarian Burnout Dataset, Barbara Wood, Ana Guimaraes, Christina Holm, Sherrill Hayes, Kyle Brooks

Datasets

In the Spring of 2018, the authors administered the highly validated and reliable Copenhagen Burnout Inventory work-related sub-scale to 1,628 academic librarians employed within the United States. Academic librarians reported a total work-related burnout score of 49.6. Overall, female participants who were 35–44 years of age reported the highest levels of work-related burnout with males and older individuals reporting the lowest levels of work-related burnout. This study also revealed some interesting information about non-binary/third-gender librarians that suggests further research is warranted.

Academic Librarian Burnout: A Survey Using The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (Cbi), Barbara Wood, Ana Guimaraes, Christina Holm, Sherrill Hayes, Kyle Brooks

Faculty and Research Publications

In the Spring of 2018, the authors administered the highly validated and reliable Copenhagen Burnout Inventory work-related sub-scale to 1,628 academic librarians employed within the United States. Academic librarians reported a total work-related burnout score of 49.6. Overall, female participants who were 35–44 years of age reported the highest levels of work-related burnout with males and older individuals reporting the lowest levels of work-related burnout. This study also revealed some interesting information about non-binary/third-gender librarians that suggests further research is warranted.

Stall Street Journal | Feb 2020, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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0401 Collection Development Monthly January 2020 Pdf, Sam Reardon

Collection Development Unit

Pdf version of the KSU Library System CD Unit January 2020 Newsletter

2021-2024 Ksu Library System Strategic Plan, Manda Sexton

Library Reports and Surveys

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Stall Street Journal | Jan 2020, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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The Thinker | Dec 2019, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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The Thinker | November 2019, Jennifer Jacobs

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The Thinker | October 2019, Jennifer Jacobs

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The Thinker | September 2019, Jennifer Jacobs

Library Newsletters

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